Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World Sanders Ella FrancesPevná vazba
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World Sanders Ella FrancesPevná vazba From the author of Eating the Sun, an artistic collection of more than 50…
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World Sanders Ella FrancesPevná vazba
From the author of Eating the Sun, an artistic collection of more than 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into EnglishDid you know that the Japanese language has a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Often these words provide insight into the cultures they come from, such as the Brazilian Portuguese word for running your fingers through a lover's hair, the Italian word for being moved to tears by a story, or the Swedish word for a third cup of coffee.In this clever and beautifully Or that there's a Finnish word for the distance a reindeer can travel before needing to rest?Lost in Translation brings to life more than fifty words that don't have direct English translations with charming illustrations of their tender, poignant, and humorous definitions.