11 untranslatable words from other cultures

11 prachtige, onvertaalbare woorden voor taalliefhebbers…

En ik zou er nog aan toevoegen: het Portugese woord ‘Saudade’.

Zie dit blog van Ella Frances Sanders

Rumi

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Astrid Lindgren

En barndom utan böcker, det vore ingen barndom. Det vore att vara utestängd från det förtrollade landet, där man kan hämta den sällsammaste av all glädje.

Opgroeien zonder boeken, dat zou geen opgroeien zijn. Dan zou je nooit het betoverde land kunnen binnenstappen waar je de meest bijzondere van alle soorten vreugde kunt vinden.

Roald Dahl

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years.