i think the reason that listening to people speak a language that you don’t is so pretty is because you don’t have to focus on processing the words that they’re saying, on stringing their syllables into sentences and formulating a reply. you can just focus on their voice, the cadence of it, the rise and fall. you can just listen to it, let it wrap around you. and it’s so amazing - they have access to this entire other world that you are only just able to glimpse into because of people like them, who live in that world and yours, at once. that’s beautiful.