It's easy to read and it just makes more sense when someone only knows English.

I could show this to my 80 year old grandmother and have her understand what it does with minimal help on my part.

    word_list = ["hat", "dog", "cat"]
    for word in word_list:
        print(word)

The same example in Java isn't extremely hard to understand, but it definitely is a decent jump in complexity from the almost plain English syntax of Python.

    String[] word_list = {"hat", "dog", "cat"}
    for(int i=0; i < word_list.length; i++){
        System.out.println(word_list[i]);
    }

EDIT: Forgot about Java's foreach operator, but even so with java you then have to explain what String[] means and the keyword "in" makes for an easier read than (String string: strings) and System.out.println vs print

    String[] word_list = {"hat", "dog", "cat"}
    for(String word: wordlist){
        System.out.println(word);
    }