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Nelson Mandela had a famous quote about the power of speaking someone's native language:

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

The idea here is pretty straightforward: speaking to someone in a language they merely understand reaches them intellectually, but speaking in their mother tongue resonates on a deeper, emotional level. You can imagine now why songs in Hungarian resonate more to you than the ones in English.






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