Why doesnt idiom work? How would you say idiom in spanish then ?( according to google still idioma, but google obviously isnt all encompassing..)
a note though, language and idiom is not the same thing, in english that is. Idiom is more the use of the language. You can have a big vocabulary but still not be fluent in a language. Like you could have learned the dictionary by heart, but if you have never actually heard someone speak it, or reads books, you are not gonna know the expressions. Like the "by heart" you can't literally translate that. (in most languages anyway, I dont know them all, the closest in my language is "out of your head/by head")
a note though, language and idiom is not the same thing, in english that is. Idiom is more the use of the language. You can have a big vocabulary but still not be fluent in a language. Like you could have learned the dictionary by heart, but if you have never actually heard someone speak it, or reads books, you are not gonna know the expressions. Like the "by heart" you can't literally translate that. (in most languages anyway, I dont know them all, the closest in my language is "out of your head/by head")