feeling can help you learn language.. for some reason, people say "you gotta think in the language".. oh really? maybe better to think a little about learning to feel in a language..

if you can express your feelings with language , you can use that language in real life.. you can interact with people using the language.. you can connect, emotionally, with people and language.. the language becomes really meaningful to you.. you feel it.

[edit] does it feel?

ask about anything you like: "does it feel"? is it alive? if alive, maybe every thing that feels has two basic feelings: fear and desire.. like i don't wanna die or i do wanna make babies.. or i don't like the cold; i do like the hot.. or yes or no.. or maybe simpler still:

[edit] to want

somehow someway this thing we call feeling has something to do with this thing we call wanting.. then, either you get it or you don't get it.. things that want and feel are things that can tell stories.. the simplest story maybe starts with a simplest question: who wants what?.. any story that follows has to do with what players feel:

[edit] happy

if who wants what and who gets what, then where is the problem?? who is happy.. who is glad.. who feels good..

[edit] not happy

if who wants what and who does not get what, then there is a problem.. who is not happy.. who feels bad..

[edit] feelings

from wanting, then getting or not getting, comes happy or not happy.. or feeling good or feeling not good.. from there, mixed feelings..

[edit] to learn language..

why learn thing "pencil sharpener" before you learn simple ways to express your most basic gut wtf? if you really wanna learn language, learn to listen to feelings.. learn how they're expressed in a language.. focus on your feelings and you connect with language..

[edit] feeling bad

if you feel bad when learning language, why bother? most people who study language in class learn that it feels bad so they stop.. but people are social and they like to communicate.. sad

[edit] feeling good

it feels good to be social and know how to communicate.. if you want to learn someone's language, learn how to ask questions.. the more you use the language you want, the better it feels..

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"you need to enjoy your language studies.. you need to connect emotionally with what you are learning, you need to fall in love with it. You need contexts that are pleasing, relevant and interesting.. the linguist

Emotions play an important role in motivation for complex organisms (as well as being involved in memory retrieval, learning, attention, and reasoning). They seem to be centrally involved in determining the behavioral reaction to environmental (often social) and internal events of major significance for the needs and goals of a creature (Plutchik), (Izard). For instance, a number of emotion theorists suggest that positive emotions are elicited by events that satisfy some motive.. Negative emotions motivate actions to set things right or prevent unpleasant things from actually occurring. sociable machines