How to feel or invoke an emotional response with a word in a foreign language

One the the problems with speaking and hearing a foreign language is you do not feel the words like your own.  If someone says ’I love you’ it does not have the same impact perhaps.  You might accidentally say a bad word and not feel the shame or gravity of your mistake.

I am interested more in hearing than offering solutions on how to connect an emotional response to a word or expression in a foreign language. 

One idea might be meditating or using visualisation connecting foreign words with imagined or real experiences.  Or perhaps it just takes time.  I have been speaking Polish at a reasonable level for only a couple of years and still the emotional response is light with many words. Certainly on an abstract level it feels the same, but I confess to bridge the gap might take time.

Tags: emotional response, feel, foreign-language, learn, learning, words