Cognates

Cognates are words that look the same in both English and Spanish and the words have the same meaning in both languages. These are some words from the song that look the same and have the same meaning in both English and Spanish. Let's go through the words together and see if we can figure them out using the song lyrics!
  1. animals
  2. giraffe
  3. color
  4. elephant
  5. zebra
 animales
 jirafa
 color
 elefante
 cebra

There are also false cognates. False cognates are when a word looks similar in two languages, like English and Spanish, but it actually has a different meaning in both languages. Let's look at some from the song:

  1. long
  2. white
 larga
 blanca




We will see more cognates and false cognates as we continue learning Spanish!


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