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True and False Cognates
True and False Cognates
Revolver: As its form suggests, this is a verb, in this case meaning to turn
over, to revolve, or otherwise to cause disorder. The Spanish word for
"revolver" is close, however: revólver.
Suceso ___event______________________________________________________
Carpeta__folder______________________________________________________
Campo ____field____________________________________________________
Molestar ____annoying___________________________________________________
Emocional ___emotional___________________________________________________
Lentes _lenses________________________________________________________
Bomberos__firemen____________________________________________________
Preservativos __condoms_________________________________________________
Éxito__success_________________________________________________________
Casualidad___coincidence___________________________________________________
Embarazada___pregnant__________________________________________________
Constipado ___stomachache__________________________________________________
Librería___book store_____________________________________________________
Realizar___do_____________________________________________________
Gangas____sales_____________________________________________________
Lectura___reading______________________________________________________
Recordar_____remember__________________________________________________
Carta____letter______________________________________________________
A lot of False Friends
When I was 9, I didn’t like college because I had a lot of false friends.
It was a very bad experience because I started getting constipated
from the morning due to the cold and nobody offered me a single
tissue.
Later during the break, I introduced a coin into the snack machine
and nothing came out. My friends saw me and started molesting me
because they thought that I was stupid. In that moment I recorded
that inside my carpet I had some more coins and suddenly I saw a
card from my grandma, I was suppressed and then I read it. It was
very nice and sweet! …and also it contained some dinner to buy
books in the library, I took some books and when I was going to pay,
they told me I was the costumer 10.000! it was a happy casualty.
I went to a restaurant for lunch and suddenly there were some gangs
of cake, so I bought all of my favorite flavors because everything was
very cheap. I was so emotional!
In the class of history we had a lecture comprehension of a text but it
was difficult. Later an important thing success: the teacher couldn’t
arrive because she was embarrassed; therefore we were free to
realize other activities. We were very excited.
That was a long time ago, actually I’m at the university and I really
like it, because it’s different than studying at school, because I have
real friends that help me to be better…