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
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