![]() ![]() The feeling of intense longing for a person or place you love but is now lost. Are there other foreign phrases or words I haven’t listed that have stayed with you? Let me know in the comments. I included some extra notes about certain words at the bottom. Some of these have to do with the love of another person while others are more abstract. These experiences are all so different yet are based on similar themes of needing human connection and attempting to understand the world around us. ![]() The words I’ve shared with you today touch on a variety of experiences we deal with – having a crush, lost love, yearning for someone, friendship, sex, heartbreak. We have several words to describe love in English yet still, there are some shades within the spectrum of that emotion we haven’t been able to capture in our own language. Love is a complex emotion that has many subtleties. I was going through my document of foreign words last night and I thought how lovely it is the way we can express and communicate the same universal feeling of love in so many different ways. ![]() Way better than just calling someone your boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife. The Ticos often call their significant other “media naranja” which means “the other half of their orange.” I really love that. I think one of my favorite phrases I learned was when I spent time in Costa Rica. Every time I stumble upon a foreign word or phrase untranslatable in English I save it in a special document to look back on when I want to feel inspired. Language is so beautiful to me. I love learning words from other cultures and discovering how we share our thoughts and emotions. ![]()
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