This set of cards defines some of our favorite words from the world’s languages, and matches them with complementary images to bring some of our most important feelings into focus. These thought-inspiring cards make a thoughtful gift for language lovers, word nerds, and all curious individuals, encouraging us all to reflect on the splendor of vocabulary and the emotions.

How to Use the Cards

You might…

• Play a game by taking turns sharing a time you have felt or known the untranslatable word to be most true.
• Turn to these cards to find a word that speaks most powerfully to your mood.
• Sort through and select a card to send to a friend as a memento of a particular feeling you associate with them.

Example Cards

• DUENDE (Spanish): A heightened sense of emotion created by a moving piece of art.
• FORELSKET (Norwegian): The euphoric feeling at the beginning of love. We can’t believe someone so perfect has wandered into our lives. They enhance and complete us. We might report: ‘I was overpowered by forelsket as our fingers interlaced…’
• YŪGEN (Japanese): Gives a name to a mood in which one feels that the universe as a whole possesses a mysterious and elusive beauty. Moonlight, snow on distant mountains, birds flying very high in the evening sky, and watching the sun rise over the ocean all feed this sensibility.

Twenty cards in a beautiful keepsake box; some cards contain adult themes.

Dimensions: Each card: 6" x 4.1".