Calentamiento

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Calentamiento

• What do you think these words mean?
• Excelente
• Generoso
• Elefante
• Persona
• Familia
• Diferente
• Instrucciones

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What is a COGNATE?

• Examples words that are cognates
  words that are NOT
• in Spanish and English
  cognates

nouns profesor/ professor diccionario/dictionary familia/family
adjectives atlético/athletic curioso/curious
verbs adorar/ to adore admirar/ to admire
perro/ dog hermano/ brother amigo/ friend
bonita/pretty atrevido/ mischievous
hablar/ to speak ir/ to go
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Definition

• Cognate
• n. a word related to a word in another language
• Latin co (same)
• gnatus (born)

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English comes from the Germanic language
family.
Spanish comes from the Romancelanguage
family.
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So WHY are there so many cognates between
Spanish and English?
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Un poco de historia
5th century AD 3 Germanic Tribes invade Britain
Celtic speakers are pushed west and north into
modern Ireland and Scotland
The ancestor of modern English begins to form in
Britain
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Meanwhile, in France and Spain
The Romans, speaking Latin, defeated Hannibal and
conquered what is now modern Spain. Latin mixed
with the language of Hispania and became known as
Spanish.
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Meanwhile, in France and Spain
The Romans, speaking Latin, defeated Hannibal and
conquered what is now modern Spain. Latin mixed
with the language of Hispania and became known as
Spanish.
Julius Caesar led and army north into Gaul
(modern France) and instituted Latin as the major
language. Latin mixed with Gaulish and later
became known as French.
In 1066 William the Conqueror, the Duke of
Normandy, invaded and conquered England. With
him, he brought the French language.
English adopted many French words. These French
words came from Latin and therefore share the
same roots as Spanish.
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Un juego de adivinanza (a little guessing game)

• Guess what the following Spanish words mean
• experiencia
• actualmente
• ambicioso
• carpeta
• demostrar
• éxito
• recordar
• vaso
• preparar
• pie
• advertencia

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Attention!SOME words betray us!
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examples of amigos falsos
experiencia experience soportar TO PUT UP
WITH actualmente CURRENTLY ambicioso- ambitious
carpeta FOLDER demostrar to demonstrate éxito
SUCCESS recordar TO REMEMBER vaso
GLASS/CUP preparar to prepare pie
FOOT advertencia WARNING
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Definition

• Amigos Falsos (false friends)
• n. words that look like words in another
  language, but
• do not have the same meaning.
• n. words that sound the same as words in
  another
• language, but do not have the same
  meaning

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Lucky for us
There are thousands of cognates between
Spanish and English
and
amigos falsos are much less
common!