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Hey everyone, Danae here with TakeLessons Live, bringing you the latest Spanish
tips right from our virtual classroom. Coming up, our Spanish teacher Katharina
is going to teach you everything you need to know about Spanish cognates and
false cognates. Be sure to hit the subscribe button to stay updated with
more Spanish lessons just like this one. -The last thing that I wanted to talk
about are those cognates or cognados in Spanish. And cognates are basically words
that are very similar or even identical in two languages and you come across
them a lot. For example we have banana and banana.
We have restaurante in Spanish and restaurant in English. So whenever you
start reading a text you will notice that a lot of them are similar or some
are even identical and it will really help you to understand texts better.
Let's talk about the near perfect cognates.
So an example would be abstraction in English. And we have abstraccion in
Spanish. Or we have action in English and accion in Spanish. And the rule for these
are all the nouns that are ending within tion they are going to be converted to
Spanish by replacing the tion with a cion. And you can see here: abstraccion,
accion, accusacion and so on. So that's rule number one that you can remember.
Then we have those in English that end with an ARY.
Anniversary, anniversario. So you have the ary endings. If you want to convert
the word to Spanish you just replace it with an ARY so adversario, anniversario,
arbitrario. You have those. Another one would be if you're going to look at
the adjectives.
We have for example academic, alcoholic, artistic, authentic. And those ending with
an IC in English can be converted to Spanish by replacing that IC with an
ICO. So academico, alcoholico, artistico. But just by looking at it, by hearing
it, you can you can build those bridges and say "okay yep." Then we have
the other ones ending with OUS.
So curious, delicious, glorious, and they can be converted to Spanish by replacing
that with an OSO. So curious - curioso. Delicious -
delicioso. Glorious - glorioso. We have those. Then the same applies for the ones
ending within CT:
abstract, act, artifact. They will be in CTO in Spanish. So abstracto, acto,
artefacto. So you see that there are a lot of rules and if you remember them you
just look at the endings and you can switch them to Spanish. Those were the
near perfect ones because you have to change something in order to make
them Spanish or English, but we also have those perfect cognates and they're
exactly the same. They're spelled the same way but they may be pronounced
differently so for example we have actor in English and actor in Spanish. Agenda
in English but agenda in Spanish. And then we have the false cognates
and it can be little bit tricky here because they sound very similar. So just
a few examples here we have the Spanish word "la advertencia" would translate to
"warning" in English but it can be confused with the word "advertisement."
"Advertencia" and "advertisement." But that would actually be "el anuncio" in
Spanish. Or we have "la apologia" can translate to "defense" in English but
"apology" in English is actually translated to "la disculpa" in Spanish.
Or "la arena" in Spanish can translate to "sand" in English but
"arena" in English means "anfiteatro" in Spanish. The same for verbs. There are
some as well, so the Spanish word "assistir" translates to "to attend" in
English but "to assist" in English is "ayudar" in Spanish and the same for
adjectives and adverbs. Maybe one more example. So we have "actual" in Spanish
translates to "current" in English but "actual" in English translates to "verdadero"
in Spanish. So there are a lot of words that work. Some don't work, so just
make sure that you know the difference. -Hey guys, thanks for watching.
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