We love language, and this series features words from various languages around the world that capture universal, but complicated, human emotions or situations. It’s fun and (gasp!) educational, too!

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Today’s lesson, something of a personality test:

Ilunga (Bantu, Thsiluba, ee-LUN-ga, noun)—a person ready to forgive any abuse the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time. Identified as the world’s most difficult word to translate!

Source: BBC News