How Embarazada Can Cause Embaressment-A Lesson in Spanish Cognates
When learning a new language, it is easy to find way to make learning faster and simpler. Cognates are words that sounds, look, and mean similar things in two separate languages, however there are also false cognates that can confuse and hinder a student. One of the things that can make learning Spanish a lot easier is cognates. A cognate is a set of words that have a common origin (causing them to be be spelled/pronounced similarly) and similar meanings in two separate languages. Examples include liberal/liberal, rare/raro, or decide/decidir. However, beware of false cognates. A false cognates looks similar, but the words do not have a similar meaning. A prime example is the Spanish word embarazada . Although it looks like the word embarrassed, and it is pronounced similarly, the word means pregnant. A word of advice, know the difference in these two words before you try to explain to your future-mother-in-law that the reason that you don't talk much is because your