Take the 2-minute tour ×  Why in some essays or articles there
are words in author's native language?  (In other words, the
essay is in English and there are some Spanish word spread out
in whole essay)  Does it necessarily mean targeted audience is
Spanish people or there is something else behind?  share|improve
this question I think this is difficult to answer without
knowing details about the work in question. Can you elucidate?
–  Neil Fein Apr 4 '13 at 1:58  3 Answers 3  In many cases, the
intent is to add a foreign flavor or a realistic touch to the
narrative. In other cases, the foreign word may be difficult to
translate; or might not be specific enough in translation; or
the author or translator may not have realized that a particular
word was not an English word.  For example, in the books of
Chinua Achebe (where words from Igbo, a Nigerian language,
appear occasionally) ogene is used for one kind of big drum, and
Ikolo for another, larger, drum. This is an instance where
translation would lose speci