Easy Podcast - The influence of Sanskrit in everyday Spanish vocabulary - Easy Español

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!