For someone used to be always in control, shaping situations and people, not being able to speak the language is an extremely intense experience.
How can I put it for you to be able to understand…….it’s like having your hands tied when you are expected to chop down trees….like a bicycle rider that cannot use his feet….that sort of thing.
You get to see how much language and verbal communication means in the relationship between humans…..how important is to be able to talk to others so as to be able to connect and relate.
By intense experience I mean mostly a hopeless frustration, a constant annoyance at having to use an intermediate language to communicate…….and even more annoying for me, a person that has speech as the main mean of expression…..
Many times I feel totally handicapped.
But…….and here is the interesting part of this experience…..you realize that in human relationships there is something many times more powerful than speech, and that is……….. body language.
You get to realize that no matter what language we speak, the truly subtle is still transmitted through the face and body movements, breaking the barriers of vocabulary and pronunciation.
No matter if you are from Asia, Latin America, Europe of South Pole…..the rules of non verbal expression are the same……the feelings are the same…..both the basics and the complex is expressed in the same way…..
….in the end......it is not easy at all to interact with others if you do not speak the language, but oh how important it is to be able to understand from people more than what they are saying, and reading into what they are actually thinking……
…….for that…….you do not need to say or understand anything verbal.
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