How amazing is French? 🥖

 Bonjour!

Every language has its exceptions when it comes to translation, today we are going to check some French words and phrases that cannot be translated into English.

• L’espirit d’escalier: This is a universal feeling, something that we all have gone through at some point in our lives. It refers to that exact moment when you are by yourself thinking about that little argument you had with someone and you finally come up with a quick remark.

• La douler exquise: This term refers to the massive pain in our hearts when we love someone that doesn't love us back. 

• Dépaysement: This means to be out of your comfort zone, and sometimes it also means to be homesick.

 

• Ratrucher: It refers to the action of leaving your dish absolutely empty, with no food left. 

• Retrouvailles: It refers to that specific moment when you get to see someone you love after a long time of not seeing them. That feeling of joy and happiness. 

• Ras-le-bol: This term refers to that feeling of "being done" with something, that time when you can't take it anymore. When you have had enough.

 

These are some of my favorite words, what do you think about them? Have you ever experienced any of them yourself?

The language of space 🚀

Привет

Did you know that Russian is considered the language of space?

Now you are probably wondering how is that so? Well, even though the operating language is English for the International Space Station (ISS); another means of travel to and from the ISS is Russian's Soyuz spacecraft which its operating language is only Russian. Consequently, learning this language is a REQUIREMENT.

Salamo Alaykom 🕊️

مرحبا

Did you know that Arabic language is at least 1500 years old? Making it the sixth most spoken language in the world!

In written Arabic, they have a different system called "Abjad" which is basically a consonant alphabet because each letter represents a consonant rather than a vowel whereas the vowels are represented with marks and not a full letter.

Let's take a look at the abjad:

A Bahá'í Glossary

Something that blew my mind about this language was that it is written from right to left which means that you also have to read it from right to left. Isn't that crazy? Books have to be read from back to front!

What an interesting language, would you like to give it a try and learn it?