Tune in to our Spanish Podcast to learn about the mind-blowing origins of some common Spanish words.
The Spanish language is the fascinating and always-changing result of hundreds of years of peoples, cultures and languages coming together.
Sanskrit, the ancient classic language of India, is one such influence. From Sanskrit the Spanish language has indirectly adopted words like ‘naranja’, ‘ajedrez’ or ‘azúcar’ and directly embraced words like ‘avatar’, ‘nirvana’ or ‘mantra’.
Click play to hear how this ancestral language became a part of our everyday Spanish conversations:
