Funny Words You Never Learned in Class

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14/11/2016 Languages created by Pauline P.

Languages are full of surprises! You might never know what treasures you can find in a language. With our #SCwordoftheweek series, we try to dig into many languages and find the best gems and concepts with these untranslatable words. What you will find here is full of poesy, wit and clever insights about life!

Don't you know this funny feeling: You understand the concept of a foreign word but cannot find any word in your own language that translate the exact idea? If you do, welcome to the language-learner world! There are actually hundreds and thousands of those words around the planet. Find below our personal collection of funny words that are almost impossible to translate in any other language - untranslatable words - but that everyone would like to use every day!