I think that after word choice/natural usage, emotional expressiveness is the hardest thing to pick up as a foreign language learner. I feel like it isn’t taught in any kind of useful way and very difficult to correct/change once habits set in.
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Replying to @alinajaf
The necessity of being performatively angry in Japanese is something that was in none of my textbooks but happens in life, and that’s always a weird interaction for me.
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Replying to @patio11
I think that what seems performative to us as second language learners is just raw anger in natives. It’s hard I guess to learn to express those raw emotions through language as an adult.
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Oh yeah, I mean from my perspective as the second language speaker it’s “Darn it, novel linguistic task occurring under conditions of stress where I need an unsympathetic audience to have a very tight bead on my intent to harm their interests.”
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