Cognates

Cognates

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How comfortable do you feel with identify cognates?

• I feel comfortable

• I feel comfortable, but I still need a review

• I have never heard of cognates

Cognates/Cognados:

• Words that look alike and have similar meanings in English and Spanish.

Examples:

• Spa: Popular / Eng: Popular

• Spa: Usar / Eng: to use

• Spa: Guitarra / Eng: Guitar

• Spa: Computadora / Eng: Computer

Why are cognates important?

• Recognizing cognates will help you understand what you read and will increase your vocabulary.

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False Cognates:

• There are some words that look like or are spelled like words in English; however, they have different meanings & pronunciations. These words are called false cognates or false friends

• But relax… -- Only about 10 % of Spanish words are false cognates.

Three types of Cognates:

• Exact

• Direct

• Indirect

Exact:

• Have some meaning and spelling in English

• Examples:

• chocolate, hotel, idea, piano

Direct:

• Have a direct and similar meaning and spelling to words in English.

• Example:

• declaración, libertad, familia, especial curioso

Indirect:

• Have an indirect meaning and spelling to words in English.

• Example:

• Biblioteca = Library

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Multiple Choice

Read the following sentence: El elefante es un animal inteligente.

Can you understand it?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Select

Read the sentence again:

El elefante es un animal inteligente.


Select all of the cognates:

• El

• elefante

• es un

• animal

• inteligente

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