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Spanish False Friends & Common Mistakes: Stop Making Them - A Verified False-Friends Dictionary & Hundreds of Fix-It Exercises
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ISBN13: 9798190708561
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.28 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.28 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Some Spanish words look exactly like English words - then mean something completely different. Embarazada is not embarrassed but PREGNANT, éxito means success (not exit), ropa means clothes (not rope), and sensible means sensitive. These famous traps are called falsos amigos - false friends - and this book turns every one of them into an easy win.
Part One is a colourful, verified dictionary of false friends. Each trap word gets its own card: the English word it looks like, the meaning it does NOT have (in red), its REAL meaning (in green), an original Spanish example with the English underneath, and a memory hook to make it stick. After each theme, a choose the true meaning quiz - built straight from the dictionary - checks that it landed.
Part Two is the repair workshop: correct-it drills where a writer trusted a false friend and picked the wrong word, plus the Spanish grammar traps English speakers really fall into (ser vs estar, por vs para, surprising genders like el problema and el agua, the preterite vs the imperfect, object pronouns including se lo/se la, and the written accent that changes a word's meaning) and the tricky pairs that split one English idea in two (saber/conocer, pedir/preguntar, llevar/traer, mucho/muy). Exercises are grouped into clearly labelled sets, each opening with a worked example, and every answer is explained in full at the back.
Written for English-speaking learners of Spanish - just this book and a pencil. Every true meaning is checked against reliable dictionaries, and every corrected sentence is built from a correct one by a checked transformation, so what you learn is exactly right.
Part Two is the repair workshop: correct-it drills where a writer trusted a false friend and picked the wrong word, plus the Spanish grammar traps English speakers really fall into (ser vs estar, por vs para, surprising genders like el problema and el agua, the preterite vs the imperfect, object pronouns including se lo/se la, and the written accent that changes a word's meaning) and the tricky pairs that split one English idea in two (saber/conocer, pedir/preguntar, llevar/traer, mucho/muy). Exercises are grouped into clearly labelled sets, each opening with a worked example, and every answer is explained in full at the back.
Written for English-speaking learners of Spanish - just this book and a pencil. Every true meaning is checked against reliable dictionaries, and every corrected sentence is built from a correct one by a checked transformation, so what you learn is exactly right.
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