English does have a word for schadenfreude -- "schadenfreude". I'd wager it's more used by english speakers than german ones these days. Once enough people kn

English does have a word for schadenfreude -- "schadenfreude". I'd wager it's more used by english speakers than german ones these days. Once enough people know a "foreign" word and what it means, it's no longer a foreign word. Every time one of these articles is published that talk about untranslatable concepts in foreign languages, it moves them closer to being loan words, and giving us a word to convey those concepts.