Let's start with the easy ones.
16 words.
SPANISH - ENGLISH
Many Spanish words look like shortened versions of English words.
alarma - alarm (clock's alarm)
amigos - friends (like our English word amiable)
ayer - yesterday (both languages have the letters ye, also er) ayer yesterday
dia - day
clase - class (ese classe - that class)
comun - common
cultural - cultural
democracia - democracy
los documentos - documents
es - it is
la fruta - the fruit
libro de texto - textbook , libro like the English word library
nacional - national
el problema - the problem
tarde - late - like the English word tardy
taxi - taxi
(in Spanish you have to use the, but in English we also use the a lot. Indians say I go to office which is a translation from their language, maybe Hindi, but in English we would say, I go to the office, because it is a specific office. A or an, means any, one of that type. The, or that or this, a specific one.)
Translating from Spanish to English is easy. But what about English to Spanish. Sixteen words. Let's start with the easy ones.
1 Taxi - taxi - the same.
2 cultural - cultural
Add the letter a to
3 alarm = alarma
4 Problem - problema
5 fruit - fruta - add the vowel a and drop the vowel i
6 day - dia - I find it easier to remember buenos dias, so from that I get the singular dia, changing the y to i, again simplifying the English
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