Spanish words which sound similar to English

 I have been re-learning, revising, Italian which I learned two years ago on Duolingo, but using Spanish as which I have been learning for 6 months, as the instruction language. A huge number of words in Spanish sound similar to English. Once you have learned the correct translation, the Spanish words is easy to recognize.

Here are the ones I have found.

Spanish - English

acerca de - about (think of encircled by)

ahora - now (now is the hour, as the old song said, on the hour) (not to be confused with allora, Italian for now, let's go, then)

allegra/o - lively

amatista - amethyst

ascenso - ascend/rise

asi - so (ah - see, so)

borrar - delete (brush off, rub out)

clic - click

descenso - descent

describir - describe

division (accent on the o) - division

empleo - employment

escribe - write/inscribe

estado - status (in Spanish the letter e often goes before s at the start of the word, like the name of the country, Espana, escuala - school)

felicidades - congratulations (felicitations)

gramaticales - grammatical

impresionante - awesome/impressive

legas - leagues

minutos - minutes

perfecta - perfect

practicar - practise

reportar - to report

terminos - terms

utilizar - to utilize

zona - zone

verdad (Spanish)/vero (Italian) - true (like the English word verify)

 

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How To Learn The Last Letters of the Russian Cyrillic Alphabet

In the previous posts we learned the Russian or Cyrillic letters A-U (U written like a y, as in the word You).

The circle with an upright line is the F. (What the f... is this 0 with a line through it! The letter F.) 

The upside down h is a ch. Remember how you play the children's game with a church and turn it upside down.

The big W is a Sh, as in Hebrew.

The W with an extra comma is a double sound, shch.

The b with a line like a delete across the top is like the b in the English word comb, not pronounced. The reversed E is an E. Io is like YO. The reversed r is like the r in word EAR. you say IA, without pronouncing the R at the end. R is IA.

Time for a coffee break. Come back to the next post for some more Russian letters.

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Saving and Sharing Your Drawing From iPad to Phone, Laptop and Instagram

If you have created a drawing on an iPad in an Apple store, or on your own iPad, you may want to save it and transfer it to your mobile phone or laptop and then share it. How?

You can transfer it via a bluetooth connection to your phone.

I had joined Instagram on one of my devices, but had to rejoin it for the other device.

I sent my photo to a website but it arrived sideways and with the artist's signature partly missing.

Once the photo was loaded up, I could not change it. I had to delete it. Send it to my laptop. I had it in downloads. I slid it across to iPhoto. I then changed the direction, made it smaller so my signature was visible, and created more contrast.

Because I was in a workshop which was coming to an end, I had to work quickly. If I had had more time I would have achieved a better result, as you could if you spent time.

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