Perfect German with words almost identical to the English

 German - English

campen - to camp

das Ende - the end

Freitag - Friday (Fr i a in both words and the final letters g and y both have tails)

Hilfe - help (consonants H and l in both languages)

Mann - man

Park - park (noun, as shown by the capital initial letter, not the verb)

perfekt - perfect

Poster - poster (the nouns in German have capital initial letters)

Problem - problem (das Problem, the problem)

Schere - scissors (looks like shears, both German Schere and English scissors contain the initial letter s and the letters c and r) 

schneiden - to cut (Years ago my family living in Edgware in north west London used to know a lady called Mrs Schneider. It was a surname for Germans including Ashkenazi Jews who were tailors or occasionally wood cutters)

Wald - forest (I used to know a family called Waldman)

Useful Websites For German Words and German Family Names

To learn German for free allowing ads, or paid for without ads

duolingo.com

To find the origin of names

familysearch.org

en.geneanet.org

Ask Gemini

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German words which are like English

 

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Easy German-English Words

Chefin - boss

Dokument - document

frustriert - frustrated

Hunger - hunger

Job - job

Kollegin - colleague

perfekt - perfect

die Situation - the situation

stressig - stressful

und - and

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Spanish Simple Words Translated In Online Reviews, The Media And Food

Spain in the world, from Wikipedia.

 I saw several of these everyday Spanish words in clothing reviews on Temu which were translated and in Facebook. You can also translate in Google translate. Find numbers, days of the week and phrases in Wikivoyage phrasebook Spanish.

Spanish - English

NB the ending o is masculine, and the ending a is feminine. The ending e is also feminine/ El is he. Ella is she.

buena - good

calidad - quality

buena calidad - good quality

de - of (the same word as in French)

delicado - delicate

el - the (mansculine)

elegante - elegant

en - in

en las fotos - in the photos

es - (it) is

estupendamente - great

fotos - photos

las/los - the (plural)

ligero - light (first three letters are the same_#

material - material

muy - very

muy elegante - very elegant

naranja - orange

para las noches - for the nights

Noches - nights

perfecto - perfect

y - and

English - Spanish

and - y

delicate - delicado

elegant - elegante

in - en

 in the photos - en las fotos

for the nights - para las noches

good - buena

good quality - buena calidad 

ingredients - ingredientes

(it) is - es

light - ligero

material - el material

of - de

orange - naranja

perfect - perfecto

photos - fotos

quality - calidad

the - las/los (as in Los Angeles, the city in the USA, meaning the angels)

very - muy

very elegant - muy elegante 

Useful Websites for learning simple Spanish

duolingo.com

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wikivoyage phrasebook Spanish

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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)