Simple Spanish words for starting Spanish

 

Spanish - English 

clase - class

Espanga - Spain (notice the e before the s)

estudiante - student (notice the e before the s, likethe word for the country)

excelente - excellent

facil - easy

fantastica - fantastic - accent on first a of the Spanish word, showing emphasis

gato - cat

libro - book

la mentana (symbol above the second n) - the mountains

parque - park

preferir - to prefer

sombrero - hat

villa - house / village

English - Spanish

book - libro

cat - gato

easy - facil

excellent - excelente

fantastic -fantastica (accent on the first a)

hat - combrero

house - villa (Spanish and Italian, usually a detached house)

the ountains - la montana (symbol above the second n)

park - parque

to prefer - preferir

Spain - Espagna

student - estudiante (add e before the s like in Espagna)

Spanich is easy

Easy is facil

It's easy to order

If you want a meal

A gato is a cat

A villa is a house

If the cat is the house

There will not be a mouse.

Hola is hello

A sombrero is a hat

Adios is goodbye

How easy is that!

A book is a libro

Now I've my hat and cat

And book, goodbye

It's time to go.

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Italian words which sound or look similar to English words

 Here are some of the words I have learned recently from Duolingo. I found some of them had obvious connections with similar or longer English words. When I was stumped, I asked my husband and he added a couple more useful suggestions. Notice that the Italian words usually end with a vowel, a, o, e, i. Sometimes the last consonant is dropped, leaving the Italian word ending in a vowel.

Italian - English

farmacia - pharmacy (sounds the same, ph=f) farmaci-a

dito  - finger (like digit) dit -o

ha - has (she has, consonant dropped)

lei - she (To remember the letters, like the French elle, using the letters l and e. Il is he, so you add e to get the feminine lei, and reverse the letter il for he to get lei for her, putting her letter e in the middle of the l and i. Or using the sounds to remember, I remember, 'he was ill and she lay down with him.')

Medico - doctor, in the medical profession, prescribes medicine medic-o

(le) pareti - walls (like partition, starts par, includes the letter t, Italian ends with i , i being plural like the word spaghetti)

pericolo - danger, peril, something perilous pericol -o

preferisco - I prefer (My memory aid is ,'I prefer San Francisco - preferisco San Francisco')

sei - are you? (I rmember, 'Say, are you ...?'

sforzi - effort or force - all have the letters for, in Italian add a hiss at the start and the vowel i at the end sforz - i

vivace - lively, vivacious vivac - e

English - Italian

are you? - sei

danger - pericolo

doctor - medico

effort / force - sforzi

finger - dito

has - ha

I prefer - preferisco

Pharmacy - farmacia

she - lei

vivacious - vivace

walls - paretti

Glossary (mini dictionary of words used in a document)

vowel - voiced sound, a e i o u (and sounds with added y, eg ay)

consonant - what goes with the (vowel) sound, or stops it, usually using the tongue or lips, b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p , q, r s, t v, w, x, z

e.g. Latin for for example

Useful Websites

Duolingo - Italian and other languages

Wiki - consonants

Wiki - vowels

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