1001 Spanish Words You Already Know | Spanish Cognates

Spanish cognates are incredibly useful because you already know these words from English.
If you are learning Spanish and your first language is English, you have a huge advanced because there are thousands of these words.
In this video you'll learn:
- A definition of Spanish cognates
- The difference between perfect cognates and near-perfect cognates
- How to predict cognates in Spanish, and
- A few of the most common error with these words.
Strictly speaking, English to Spanish cognates are words that share a common etymological root word from a language such as Latin.
However, this isn't always useful because some cognates are very difficult to predict in Spanish.
Conversely, there are some words that look the same and can be used in similar contexts in both Spanish and English but they aren't technically cognates.
Instead, we can ignore the strick linguistic definition of cognates and focus our attention on the words that look the same and mean the same thing in both English and Spanish regardless of the etymology.
This can be a really powerful technique because it will allow you to communicate in Spanish quickly and accurately even if you are a beginner.
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As a native spanish speaker, I congrats you. Your pronunciation and teaching are so clean. Thanks for teach my language to the people who wanna learn it.

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Thanks for the feedback Axel!! 🙏

[@terredee]

“Clean” is the right word for Andrew’s teaching, Axel. Thank you! I agree. I appreciate how well Andrew communicates - not only proper pronunciation and repetition, but rules (and exceptions), as well as ways to think about the language so you can progress without getting hung up on literal translations or other misunderstandings. ¡Estoy enamorado de Andrew, y muy agradecido por su orientación!

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[@litoxcas]

Just a word of caution. The cognates mentioned here are adjectives and nouns, therefore the learner must pay attention to gender agreement. It is always good to learn them together with their corresponding article and/or feminine/masculine forms. For example act = EL acto and Insect = El Insecto, doctor = el doctor/la doctora, curious = curioso/curiosa. One of the most difficult things to get rid off in language learning is the gender agreement mistakes.

[@terredee]

Gender agreement mistakes - yes! I’ve been having trouble with that, and when I see the mistake it is so obvious, and I wonder why I keep doing that. I didn’t think about WHY I keep getting that wrong - maybe because English doesn’t have gendered language - but just to hear that it’s one of the hardest things to learn at least makes me feel better!

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What's even cooler is that the teacher teaches american spanish cognates in the British or maybe Australian accent.

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It almost sounds South African or New Zealand

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That's an Australian accent

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He indicated elsewhere he is from Australia or atleast lived there for some time.

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Australian

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Omg I been studying Spanish for a good while now and NEVER knew this nor taught by my teacher! Thank you!

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That's because they never start off with the similarities from the start. It's all Greek to us until we figure out on youtube the short cuts both languages share.

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There are a lot of similar words in both languages

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Thanks a lot for your logical description of cognates❤️👍

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Thank you for remaking this video, I use it in my class every year to introduce cognates. I was going to use it today and was shocked when the original was gone, but I really really like how you have reorganized everything and made it a much clearer and more useful video.

[@realfastspanish]

Thanks for the feedback Christina!! Yes, it was a video from 5 years ago and I needed to create a more up to date version. :)

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This was one of the best teaching videos! Thanks for this!

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The way you explain learning Spanish for me has been extremely helpful because I struggle with the cognates. Keep up the great work! 💕

[@realfastspanish]

Thanks for the feedback Kate, I'm glad it helped! 😀

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No sé cómo he acabado en este vídeo pero te felicito por tu pronunciación de los 2 tipos de ''r''. Para los angloparlantes suele ser misión imposible.

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Estaba por comentar lo mismo!

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[@pinay_and_languages]

I am lucky enough to have my native language (Tagalog) and my second language (English) to have a lot of "cognates" & "loan words" . Knowing these words are powerful weapons in my vocab arsenal. Thank you for the list! Muchas gracias!!

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I've constantly thought of learning Spanish and this video was so helpful, thank you!

[@staceypaws]

Wish you had a video list of all the cognate and again I'm practicing pronunciations.

[@peterzavon3012]

Another imperfect cognate system to know about involves the English word that end in "ity". The equivalent Spanish ends with "edad". Consider velocity/velocedad and the like. The word "city" is slightly different because of the shortness of the word. In sSanish it is "ciudad."

[@magnusvir117]

Thats because english is the most latinized germanic lenguage

[@cammygomez3802]

Cada día me convenzo de que no debo abandonar el idioma español. Yo quise hablar sólo inglés, pero al ver cómo otros están muy animados al aprender mi lengua materna, ya no quiero abandonar el español. Este profesor australiano de español pronuncia muy bien el español y en especial la «r» suave , porque para muchos es imposible pronunciarla. Ojalá que el español siga creciendo y llegue a los 1.000 millones de hablantes en el mundo así como el chino mandarín.

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I’m learning Spanish it’s hard, I wonder how those English speakers learn Chinese. Must be soo difficult to get that base vocabulary.

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El español es muy facil de leer porque pronunciamos cada letra escrita y las vocales siempre se pronuncian igual por eso amo mi idioma nativo

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es facil con la fonetica pero y la gramatica?

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[@realfastspanish]

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mi gustan cognados

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[@calvinwilliams1919]

Muchas gracias por este lista. It’ll be very helpful to add all of these to the word bank.

[@MrDasKlopapier]

Another easy category is words with cious that turn into uo eg. conspicuous --> conspicuo. ubicuous --> ubicuo et.

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Excellent lesson! Thank you Andrew!

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Mirar (to look at) is very similar to Mirror (French origin) the same goes for a lot of other words!

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02/11/2022 Bottle - Botella English to Spanish Cognates. It`s a good idea to make such a lesson. I liked your videos. Thank you.

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Bouteille in french and Bottiglia in Italian. Ampolla in Catalan or Garrafa in Portugues

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[@butterflybeatles]

A word in English usually has one emphasis. Thus the word "cognate" can be pronounced 'cog-nit' without losing any of the meaning - thereby placing the correct emphasis on the first vowel.

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[@cheickamadoubouare271]

Thank you for showing me the way, after that I'm going for Spanish-French cognates.

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Maybe not for you because probably you speak French, but a good way for an English speaker who wants to learn French and the words gender (not a easy task) is to learn Spanish first (gender is more predictable) and using Spanish-French cognates, usually the gender is the same in both languages

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