To compile a list of some common English words that are really Spanish – either spelled exactly the same way, usually with the same meaning, or drawn from a similarly spelled Spanish term – 24 ...

Investigating 10 languages, they picked out the 10,000 most common words, then had native speakers rank these words on a nine-point happiness scale; "laughter," for instance, was rated 8.5, while ...

Morocho comes from the Quechua word muruch'u, which is a variety of hard corn. Its most common meaning in Spanish is a dark-skinned person. In some countries, it is used for people with fair skin but ...

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In our new Telegraph video series, ‘Phrases to get you furthest’, we teach you some essential sentences, fun phrases and quirky idioms from around the world.

Literally, it is ya más (already more), and is another word that came to mean the opposite of its original meaning. 5. Joder. May mean “to bother” in Costa Rica, but its official word of origin, ...