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English term or phrase:
struck a personal chord
English answer:
made him feel personally touched/affected
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Alexandre Reis
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Khaled Hosseini worked as a medical internist at Kaiser Hospital in Mountain View, California for several years before publishing The Kite Runner.[3][6][7] In 1999, he learned through a news report that the Taliban had banned kite flying in Afghanistan,[8] a restriction he found particularly cruel.[9] The news "struck a personal chord" for him, as he had grown up with the sport while living in Afghanistan.
Fonte: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner
Fonte: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner
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Peter Simon
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Native in: Hungarian (Variant: Hungary) 
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Works in: English to Hungarian, Hungarian to English, Dutch to Hungarian, and 2 more.
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made him feel personally touched/affected
that is, evoked personal memories, or created an emotional response, evoked something relevant to his personal experience etc.
Example sentence:
the issue of food safety strikes a chord with almost everyone [With figurative reference to the emotions being the ‘strings’ of the mind visualized as a musical instrument]
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Jack Doughty
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Stephanie Ezrol
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P.L.F. Persio
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Thank you, missdutch
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Tina Vonhof (X)
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Thank you, Tina
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acetran
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George Rabel
TRANSLATIONS THAT READ LIKE ORIGINALS
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
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affected him in a personal way
It means that the news affected him in a personal level, beyond the general, because of his own experiences with flying kites, and the memories it brought.
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Jean-Claude Gouin
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Tina Vonhof (X)
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Peter Simon
: I agree, we've said the same thing almost at the same time, but 'on a p. level', not "in" imho.
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Thank you, Peter. And you're right about the grammar
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