Foreign Language

To dream of a foreign language represents a mindset that you don't understand. Feeling alienated, anxious, or helpless because you can't understand others. Difficulty understanding a new type of situation, social atmosphere, or business environment. Feeling that others are not making themselves clear to you. Someone may have an idea or belief system that you don't subscribe to. Feeling excluded or "apart" from something.

Negatively, a foreign language may reflect feelings about the culture of other people's friends and family that you don't like.

To dream of studying a foreign language represents your attempt to understand the behavior of a person or situation that is currently unfamiliar to you. Learning to "speak someone else's language" in order to solve a problem.

Language

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Sign Language

To dream of sign language represents feelings about expressing yourself through signaling of capability because nobody cares about listening to or understanding anything you talk about unless they see what's happening through actions. Situations where you do not like why people are not understanding or listening to anything you are doing without seeing you make something happen. The significance of non-verbal communication and the importance of actions over words. Feelings about communicating with people not being possible unless there is communication with actions that prove things are possible. Situations where nobody is listening to anything you are doing unless you make actions or gestures to convey meaning or intent. A scenario in your waking life where verbal communication feels ineffective or ignored, and where actions are the primary means of expressing sincerity, ability, or intentions. A situation where you feel that you must 'show rather than tell' to make your point understood.

Example: A young woman dreamed of using sign language to communicate with an elderly woman about having seen a lot of movies, but not wanting the woman to reveal any details of a new movie because she hadn't seen it yet. In waking life, she was a freshman in college and trying to make a decision about pursuing a major in film. She feared that she wouldn't succeed in this major and that it would be a big mistake and a waste of time. In this case, the sign language may have reflected her feelings about her doing things related to enrollment in the film major in order to look serious about it while nobody she talked to seemed to understand her film class interest unless she was talking about taking action to enroll.