Teachers, save “Untranslatable words” to assign it to your class.

We’re hugely dependent on language to express how we really feel, and yet words often feel curiously vague or frustratingly inaccurate. There are lots of moods, needs and feelings that our own language has not yet properly pinned down. The perfect word - even if it comes from abroad - can help us explain ourselves and our emotions to other people! 1. Tap to start. 2. Create a card/set of cards, as in the attached example, that defines some of our favourite words from the world's languages and marry them up with complementary images (you can get beautiful free pictures from www.unsplash.com). 3. Tap to submit. More on this topic: https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/why-germans-can-say-things-no-one-else-can/