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)
