Confusing Foreign Words in German, Italian and Malay

Problem
You see word in a foreign word which looks like English but the two words are not related.

Answer
You have to learn the correct word through repetition or make aug a memory aid.

Story

Tips
German - English
Das Kapitel - the chapter (not the capital - remember the chapter is capital)

English - German
the capital - die Hauptstadt

Italian
Ricordare is not record but remember. More like recall. You could make up a memory aid sentence such as 'hard to record in your brain and remember'.

On the other hand it is easy to remember that difficile is Italian for difficult.

Malay
ayer - pronounced air means water
remember the place name Telok Ayer means water

I was about to say that water is a more common name than air (I was thinking of the English place name Virginia Water) when I thought of Buenos Aires which means good air in Spanish

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