The School of Life Untranslatable Words Cards

These ‘untranslatable’ cards are a collection of words from the world’s languages that imply feelings greater than our own language can produce in one word. Each word comes with a complementary image. For instance:

SAUDADE (PORTUGUESE) – A bitter-sweet melancholic yearning for something beautiful that is now gone: perhaps a love affair, a childhood home, a flourishing business. There is pain yet also a pleasure that such loveliness once graced our lives.
JAYUS (INDONESIAN) – A lame joke that nonetheless elicits good-natured amusement – rather than irritation – at its sheer innocent silliness. The ability to treat an idiotic remark as a Jayus is a sign of our wisdom and kindness; evidence that we can accept that our minds are low as well as high.

Brand: The School of Life

The School of Life is an educational company with a mission to help you understand yourself better, and their eclectic and contemporary product range has been designed around this aim. The School of Life’s ideas fall into six key categories – self-knowledge, relationships, work, calm, sociability, and leisure and culture – and these ideas are shared through the organisation’s various channels. In addition to books, games, homeware and curiose, The School of Life offer online classes and courses, a library of eBooks and a YouTube channel, all based around their philosophy of life. So, what might start as a gift to yourself or another, could blossom into an enjoyable journey down a path of self-discovery and wellbeing.

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