Some feelings only have a word in your first language. That’s not a gap. That’s an extra drawer.

Languages do not map cleanly onto each other, and the gaps are not failures. A word your grandmother uses for a particular kind of homesickness exists because somebody needed to name that exact thing, and having to explain it in a sentence of English does not make it less real. Two vocabularies means more places to put what you feel.

Teach one of those words to a friend this week, with the story of when it is used. Keep using it in your own head, even in English sentences. Precision about your own feelings is worth more than tidiness.