I can see the problem in the picture of a local council building. The local councils in London allow sub standard flat roof homes - when the annual rainfall is getting worse.
Flat Rooftops And Rainfall
The flat rooves leak and make mouldy housing. The sick people are draining the NHS.
Landlords and householders are bankrupt fixing leaking rooftops. So rents rise.
Most adult English speakers already know these words. It is amusing to note how many words you already know of another language. I teach English, so for the benefit of children and people whose first language is not English, such as Chinese speakers, I have added some handy translations.
casa - house
macho - strong man, strong not just physically but verbally
poncho - cape without arms
sombrero - hat with a big brim worn in hot countries such as Mexico and Spain
villa - large house, often with grounds, elegant and grand
Rarer but well known words
albino
armada
armadillo
mosquito
Wine Words In Spanish
From wine, my husband knows
vino for wine,
blanco for white,
tinto for red like tinted (rosso is Italian).
Useful Websites on Spanish
https://springlanguages.com/learn-spanish/spanish-words-used-in-english
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English - Spanish - Italian
art - arte - arte
bank - Spanish el banco - Italian la banca
book - libro - libro (memory aid: library book)
centre (center in the usa) - (el) centro in Spanish - (il) centro in Italian
coast - costa (as in Costa Brava) - costa
if - si (Spanish, without an accent)
minute - minuto - minuto
music - musica - musica (in Spanish la musica is music but el musico is a musician)
no - no - no
note - nota - nota
one - uno - uno
problem - problema - problema
serious (adjective) - serio/seria - serio/seria
shy - timido/timida - timido/timida
stop - stop - stop (road traffic sign)
theatre - teatro - teatro
valley - valle - valle
The same in Spanish and Italian
song - canto - canto (like the English word cantor meaning singer)
AI / Google search
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https://lingo-apps.com/same-words-spanish-italian/
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Many words are almost the same in English, Spanish and Italian. This makes it easy to translate back into English, but harder to remember the foreign words. In Wikipedia you can find lists of words. You can also look at Wikipedia in another language and note mentally or write or type a copy of words which are the same as English.
English - Spanish - Italian (reminders)
and - y - e (The Spanish is y, like the y sound in mañana)
cost - costo - AI found me this from Collins dictionary
"cost" is costo or coste in Spanish, and costo in Italian. Both languages use these terms to represent expense or price. Common related phrases include "¿Cuánto cuesta?" (Spanish) and "Quanto costa?" (Italian) for "How much does it cost?
One thing I kept muddling was which word ended in o and which in a in quanto costa. Then I remembered that they are different, different endings. oh no what a cost ah. quanto costa.
explore - explora
shop - |Spanish tienda (where you tender money to buy) - Italian negozio (where you negotiate or bargain)
market in English is mercado in Spanish, mercato in Italian.
Yes - si - yes in both Italian and Spanish. But having an accent on the i makes a difference, meaning YES! Without the accent, in Spanish si means if.
supermarket in English is supermercado in Spanish, supermercato in Italian
duolingo
translation
wikipedia
Wikipedia en español
Wikipedia in italiano
https://italian.joyoflanguages.com/podcast/Si-in-Italian
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I learned Italian one year, Spanish the next. I am now keeping up my Italian using Duolingo, but get confused. When reading either, I find it easy to translate back into English. But going the other way, from English, how do I remember which is which? I made a list in an A5 size notebook.
At the top of each page I listed words which are the same in all three languages. I then looked them up in google and AI.
The technical term is perfect cognates, words which have the same spelling and meaning. Here they are in alphabetical order. You can also find lists in Wikipedia
agenda - agenda - agenda
arena - arena - arena
banana - banana - banana
bar - bar - bar
blog - blog - blog
diva - diva - diva
gas - gas - gas
hotel - hotel - hotel
idea - idea - idea
Internet - internet - internet
judo - judo - judo
karaoke - karaoke - karaoke
ketchup - ketchup - ketchup
no - no - no
opera - opera - opera
or - o - o
patio - patio - patio
piano - piano - piano
pizza - pizza - pizza
puzzle - puzzle - puzzle
radio - radio - radio
solo - solo - solo
stop - stop - stop
taxi - taxi - taxi
video - video - video
yes - si - si
cognates, loan words
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Spanish is one of the easiest languages, as well as requiring the least number of hours to learn. But you find more Italian restaurants and food. Pizza, Prosecco, spagetti, Ferrero Rocher.
I learned Italian for a year on Duolingo. Then I switched to Spanish. But I had started to forget the Italian. Should I go back to learning Italian? Duolingo offered me Italian for Spanish speakers and Spanish for Italian speakers. Since I am learning Spanish now, I chose Italian for Spanish speakers. Here are some handy words in both languages.
gracias - grazie - thank you
uno does tres - uno due tre - one two three
Perfecto - perfetto - perfect
por favor - per favore - please
Yo soy de - io sono di - I am from
Thank you - gracias - grazie
you're welcome - de nada - prego
good evening - - buenas noches - buonasera
where is the toilet - donde esta el bano - dove il bagno
