Exploring Cognates in Spanish
Discovering Cognates in Spanish
When learning a new language, it can be helpful to look for cognates - words that are similar in two languages because they have a common origin. Spanish, being a Romance language, shares many cognates with English due to their shared Latin roots. Let's scan the following paragraph and list as many cognates as we can:
En la universidad los profesores dan conferencias a los estudiantes. Hay una conferencia universitaria muy histórica y famosa. Es famosa porque es la primera conferencia universitaria de las Américas. Y la primera conferencia que da un profesor en una universidad de América es una conferencia en español.
Cognates Found:
- Universidad - University
- Profesores - Professors
- Conferencias - Conferences
- Estudiantes - Students
- Historica - Historic
- Famosa - Famous
- Américas - Americas
- Primera - First
- Español - Spanish
Can you think of any other cognates in the paragraph?
Some additional cognates in the paragraph are:
- Conferencia - Conference
- Universitaria - University
- América - America