Easy Languages: Stories of Language Learning

2: "Same Same, but Different": meet Cognates and False Friends!

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Learning a new language from scratch? You might already know thousands of words! In this episode, we show you how to improve your language awareness and possibly save months in your language journey by using this infallible trick in our tip of the week section: cognate vocabulary and how to navigate the intricacies of false friends!

Show Notes
  • Easy Languages Schools
    • Easy German Summer School
    • Easy Spanish Winter School
    • Channels celebrating a milestone
      • Easy French
      • Easy Italian
      • Easy Portuguese
      • Easy Turkish Podcast
      • Lexical Distance among the Languages of Europe (Wired)
      • Untranslatable Words (Wikipedia)
        • Fika
        • Lagom
        • Janteloven
        • Podcast Episodes
          • Easy Italian Podcast 33: Casa dolce casa!
          • Easy French Podcast 1: La Genèse d'Easy French
            • ...more
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