Having lived in Japan for almost 10 years, I can say there are quite a few words that do not translate as easily in English. One of my favorite's is Genki. If you look it up, is will say "Fine" on Google. But is much more than that. It often is used in context of someone who is a senior citizen, is lively, energetic and youthful.
I believe that word came up during my research, another one that almost made it to the list was Kintsugi, the art of fixing broken pottery with gold, as I'm sure you're well aware. Overall I want to say that Italian and Japanese had a lot of words that could've made it to the post but I wanted to stick to just one per country
This is a such a good article and i like the concept. I wish there were many other words, but I'm going to try and do this for Africa (*Nigeria was not included). well done, Hugo.
Having lived in Japan for almost 10 years, I can say there are quite a few words that do not translate as easily in English. One of my favorite's is Genki. If you look it up, is will say "Fine" on Google. But is much more than that. It often is used in context of someone who is a senior citizen, is lively, energetic and youthful.
I believe that word came up during my research, another one that almost made it to the list was Kintsugi, the art of fixing broken pottery with gold, as I'm sure you're well aware. Overall I want to say that Italian and Japanese had a lot of words that could've made it to the post but I wanted to stick to just one per country
This is a such a good article and i like the concept. I wish there were many other words, but I'm going to try and do this for Africa (*Nigeria was not included). well done, Hugo.
Nice! I'm sure there has to be many others but towards the end it was getting harder to not repeat countries