Spanish Cognates

I'm brought to tears...great translation Drom.Can I borrow it for another thread?

Of course you can, Panz .

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32433&start=10&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

Wonderful, Panz; I'm glad that you liked the translation and that the slang was right (I was always more into Literary Spanish, ballads rather than barricades.) I'm going over there to add my views.

Very moving.

It helps give me some small insight into mis nuevos amigos y neighbors.

Conosco a dos mas last noche, Jose Moreno y su hermano Jose Moreno, quien viven con a sus primoso, Jose Moreno. Ellos todos tienen different middle nombres. Ellos donde de Central America.

Yo tengo muy respect para los por que ellos son trabajarando (?) y ellos take care of each other y son la familia buena.

Es muy dificil, el life ellos viven, so far donde de home.

Ellos tienen muy bueno manners.

I have a lot to learn. Last night I started a Berlitz book on Spanish and am encouraged that the pronunciation and grammar, etc will start coming together more quickly now.

I also picked up a book with a more classical approach to learning languages.

And I have a CD rom I'm trying to get to work. Trouble with the registration with McGraw Hill.

I am very serious about learning el espanol. I hope to be able hablar en espanol muy bueno by February, pero tengo mucho estudiar.

Si, hay que estudiar. Pero mas importante es visitar y charlar con Hispanos. Asi es mas facil aprender.

Hi, dupre - if you don't mind, here are some ways to improve what you posted - I don't want to be condescending, I just want to help out.

Muy = very (used to describe adjectives and adverbs)
Mucho = much/many (used to describe nouns)

Bueno = good (adjective used to describe nouns)
Bien = well (adverb used to describe verbs)

Thus

Yo tengo mucho respecto
Ojala (I hope) poder (to be able) estudiar espanol muy bien

middle = media (not sure about the term "middle names" though)
they are from = son de (ala Los dos (the both of them) son de Centro America)
respect = respecto
know = conozco (still pronounced the same as "conosco")
working = trabajando (with a participle ending in -ando or -iendo, you use estar rather than ser - thus estan trabajando)
each other = los dos (if there are two)
take care of/help = ayudar (ellos ayudan los dos)
life = vida

You cannot say "I have much to study" in Spanish in the same words that you say it in English. "To study" in that sense is not an infinitive, and the sense is more like "I need to study much". You could say that as neccesito estudiar mucho, or tengo que (tener+que = "have to") estudiar mucho, or tengo mucho para ("for" or "in order to", or "by" or in this case, "to") estudiar.

You seem to be doing a pretty good job for the most part though - good luck on your quest!

Good pointers, Rufio .

Adnominal - adnominal
Adobe - adobe
Adoctrinación- indoctrination
Adcotrinar - to indoctrinate
Adolescencia - adolescence
Adolescente - adolescent
Adopción - adoption
Adoptar - to adopt
Adoptivo - adoptive

Adorable =- adorable
Adoración = adoration, worship
Adorar -to adore
Adornar- to adorn
Adorno - adornment

Adquirir - to acquire (as well as adopt, purchase, etc.)
Adquisición - acquisition
Adquisidor - acquirer
Adquisitivo - acquisitive
Adquisitidad - acquisitiveness
Adrenalina - adrenalin
Adular - adulate, to flatter

Adulada - flattery
Adulador - adulator, panderer
Adulteración - adulteration
Adulterado - adulterated
Adulterar - to adulterate (and also 'to commit adultery')
Adulterino - adulterous (and 'counterfeit')
Adulterio - adultery
Adventicio - adventitious

Adverbial - Adverbial
Adverbialización- adverbialization
Adverbialmente - adverbially
Adverbo - adverb
Adversario - adversary, oppontent
Adversativo - adversative
Adversidad - adversity

Adverso - adverse, also oppostie
Advocar - advocate
Adyacente - adjacent
Aeración - aeration
Aerobic - aerobics
Aerodinámica - aerodynamics
Aerodinámico - aerodynamic
Aerolínea - airline

Rufio, muchas gracias.

Es verdad.

Necessito mucho estudiar.

Necessito estudiar y leer y escriber y hablar y escuchar.

Mas importante, necessito alquien hacer mis palabras correcto!

Es uno thing estudiar, es otro hacer.

Ayudame usted todos usted quiere. (My attempt at "Help me all you want.")

drom_et_reve, wonderful words. Thank you!

does nayone know a cognate for the letter w?
i have a school project to maoe cgnates for every letter, but i cant find one for w cna you help me email me at [email protected]

heres a list of some real cognates http://coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/MoraModules/SpEngCognates.htm

howdy! and welcome to able2know.

my trustee friend used the dictionary and came up with

enlish: watt

en espanol: vatio

I really appreciate your words. My nuevos amigos are coming over Saturday night to teach me how to cook homemade tortillas. They have been in the U.S for about ten years, but still, do not speak much English. I will pass your list on to them.

Thanks again!

Some corrections:

Necesito estudiar mucho.
Necesito estudiar y leer y escribir y hablar y escuchar.
Más importante todavìa, necesito que alguien corrija mis palabras.
Una cosa es estudiar, otra es hacer.
Ayúdenme todo lo que ustedes quieran.

fbaezer: Many thanks. I have forgotten much of what I learned in college and high school. I'm currently working through a Berlitz approach, which so far, hasn't focused much on the more complicated constructions like relative clauses and the subjunctive, imperative, and conditional. That comes much later in the book.

I'm hoping what I learned before is somewhere floating around in my memory and can be accessed when I get to those chapters later.

In the meantime, I'm just struggling to speak on the fly ... muy mal, I might add.

So, I thank you, very much. I hope to do better, but it will take time and it will definitely take help from people like you!

Best!