The main point to remember when dealing or thinking about aliens is that they are alien.
This was the theme of the SF film Arrival (2016). Nobody could translate the aliens’ weird circular language until the main linguist in the film learned how to think like them.
Great film if you like hard SF.
I tried to watch it but it was so much of a chick flick I gave up. Maybe some other time. The bit I wrote is a quote, and if some Hollywood type used it in a film, then plagiarism
Reading hard SF is so much better than the mostly lame attempts to make a movie, with the exception of Babylon 5.
Read (if you have not) Gregory Benford’s 6 volume very hard SF Galactic Center series:
In the Ocean of Night
Across the Sea of Stars
Great Sky River
Tides of Light
Furious Gulf
Sailing Bright Eternity