German Untranslatable Words
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Why Germans Can Say Things No One Else Can
A set of 20 cards featuring the best of the German language's extraordinary range of compound words.
We are all hugely dependent on language to help us express what we truly think and feel. However, some languages are better than others at crisply naming important sensations, and therefore allowing us to express ourselves more fully. Germans in particular have been geniuses in inventing 'compound' words that elegantly articulate emotions or experiences that we all know, but that other languages require whole clumsy sentences or phrases to express.
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