Spanish Words That Don’t Translate to English and English Words That Don’t Translate to Spanish

In the latest episode of the Flama series “Joanna Rants“, host Joanna Hausmannn ponders the various words that exist in the Spanish language, but not in the English language as well as the reverse.

Why is there only one word in English for love? What is Spanish for Awkward? Joanna is here to break down some Spanish and English words that are difficult to translate and what it means about the culture they belong in. Also, there’s some talk about abuelas using kitten slippers so there’s that…

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