Cognates

This site was fist created as part of a project for the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association (MaFLA) to help Spanish teachers with the topic of English-Spanish cognates.

A workshop was presented at the annual meeting of MaFLA in October 2011 on this topic. See it here.

Handouts

These handouts were provided at the MaFLA workshop.

• Latin Words and Latinate English Words (PDF handout)
• Cognates: True, false, and in between (PDF handout)
• The etymological approach to learning Spanish vocabulary, short introduction by Jon Aske (PDF handout)
• The presentation slides in PDF format

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Salem State University - Language Resource Center - Cognados Site

URL: http://lrc.salemstate.edu/cognados/index.htm

Last updated: November 1, 2011