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Saturday, January 24, 2026

Spanish words which are easy to add

When I was a child and when I was single I admired people who spoke other languages. Now I am putting effort into learning. Any time I have a spare minute, I practise.

Notebook - cuaderno

Today's revelation is the word for notebook. Cuaderno. I struggled with this. Then I looked at the letters and noticed the letters NO at the end of cuaderNO. NOtebook.

Now I was half way there. When I saw the word cuaderno I could remember it was notebook. But how could I remember that notebook was cuaderno? I split the word into syllables. I tried cu-ad-er-no.

Starting at the end of the word, I knew it ended with NO. working backwards, it was Er - no. If you prefer, infERNO. In the middle you have ad, like add. It starts with cu, like queue, in British English. Cut. customise. By this time, I did not need any extra reminders. I now know the word cuaderno.

However, when I searched for the pronunciation, I found the word split like kwa-derno. kwa - dare - know. I only had to hear it once to remember how to say it.

I shall now add in my notebook the word cuaderno.

That is a lot of time to spend learning one word. However, if I learn only one word a day, that is 365 words a year. If I write a blog post on one word a day, I shall have learned 365 words effortlessly. If you read a blog post by me every day for a year you will have learned one word effortlessly. Let's more that up to ten words a day. 3,650 words a year!

The word is masculine, with an o ending, like the names Mario, Romeo. Plural cuadernos, like los in the name of the American city Los Angeles.

So, here are nine more words.

bailerin - dancer

(Starting ba like ballet, with an l. Try ballet dancer. BAiL daN -cER). In a dancing class. ballerina BA Ll ER IN a. Now I can look at the word bailerin and see a ballet dancer.She is doing a spin, a pirouette.