Stumbled upon this short video and thought I would share it as an appetiser to an upcoming post about the Spanish language.

It’s just famous people saying their favourite Spanish word but it made me disproportionately happy 🙂

Spanish is an incredible language. It is hard to rationally explain my emotional (and spiritual) attachment to it, but that’s what I’ll try and do in my next post: Six Spanish words that changed my faith.

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