Beyond Translation



All the best hard-to-translate concepts in one wiki. I designed and built the website in React, and interviewed native speakers to help write the content. I also created some of the illustrations for the terms.

Here's some examples...

Ānanda, A sanskrit term



Toska, from Russian



Zapchajziura, from Polish



Check out the rest for yourself...

Beyond Translation — The world’s most untranslatable words.

Beyond Translation — The world’s most untranslatable words.

Beyond Translation is an exploration of concepts that don’t exist in the English language.