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Lost in Translation

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Lost in Translation

The city that loves to be rude

By Joe Baur

Young woman walking down Myeongdong street market in Seoul, South Korea
Lost in Translation

The one question all Koreans ask

By Vivian Song
Doric, Scotland’s little-known fourth “language”, is spoken across north-east Scotland (Credit: Eduardo Fonseca Arraes/Getty Images)
Lost in Translation

The UK language with 20 words for rain

By Mike MacEacheran
Suzana Vaz: “Brazilians are warmer, loving. To speak in the diminutive is a form of affection most of the time” (Credit: Jo Holz/Alamy)
Lost in Translation

Brazil’s cute and complex small talk

By Ian Walker
Bahasa Indonesia is Indonesia’s official language
Lost in Translation

A language people don’t want to speak

By David Fettling
Writer Susannah Rigg first encountered ‘albur’, a Mexican play on words, when discussing her love of chilli (Credit: Giulio Mignani/Getty Images)
Lost in Translation

Be careful what you say in Mexico

By Susannah Rigg
Sausages are always on the menu at German beer halls, or Biergartens (Credit: Pat Behnke/Alamy)
Food & Hospitality

The nation obsessed with sausage

By Giulia Pines
Beom Lee: Korean people use ‘uri’ when something is shared by a group or community (Credit: Alain Evrard/robertharding/Getty Images)
Lost in Translation

The Asian language designed to unify

By Ann Babe
Traveller’s Rest provides lodging in the Rocklands area of the Cederberg ranges (Credit: Denby Weller)
Culture & Identity

The country with 11 official languages

By Denby Weller
Mexico City is considered one of Latin America’s most modern and cosmopolitan cities (Credit: Lucas Vallecillos/Getty Images)
Culture & Identity

The city where people don't get angry

By Megan Frye
In the late 1800s, a union of anarchist bakers in Buenos Aires used their pastries as propaganda (Credit: Dosfotos/Axiom/Alamy)
Food & Hospitality

The cakes beloved by anarchists

By Rebecca Treon
Bocce
Lost in Translation

The town that's losing its language

By Marco Ferrarese
Lunfardo is so deeply ingrained in Argentinian culture that you may not know you're hearing it (Credit: Michael S. Lewis/Getty Images)
Lost in Translation

The slang that transformed Spanish

By Bridget Gleeson
In the 1970s, Bislama became the official language of Vanuatu’s independence movement (Credit: Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Contributor/Getty Images)
Lost in Translation

The pidgin language uniting 83 islands

By Julia Hammond
DB960 A
Lost in Translation

The confusing way Mexicans tell time

By Susannah Rigg
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Lost in Translation

The revival of Europe's oldest language

By Anna Bitong