Cognates explained.
The longer I taught Spanish (30 years in a classroom), the more similarities I saw between it and English via the wonderful thing called a cognate. A cognate is a word in one language that is similarly, or exactly, spelled like its counterpart in another language because the two words descend linguistically from the same word parent. It also has the sam…
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