I've been learning Japanese for a long time as well, and I often hear this response by folks saying there's "no equivalent in Japanese" (aka the reverse). Trut

I've been learning Japanese for a long time as well, and I often hear this response by folks saying there's "no equivalent in Japanese" (aka the reverse). Truth is you can communicate it, it's just communicated differently. Folks like to pretend there are mystical properties to a language, but reality isn't like that.