Look-alike Spanish/English cognates are exceptionally useful to teachers and students of Spanish and English for three reasons: (1) their similar spellings and pronunciations provide an easily accessible vocabulary in the new language; (2) the contrast between them facilitates an understanding of the phonetics of the language to be acquired; and (3) the number of lexical similarities between the languages provides beginning students of either with an encouraging appreciation of the affinity between them. THE DICTIONARY OF SPANISH/ENGLISH LOOK-ALIKE COGNATES; ARRANGED GRAMMATICALLY AND PHONETICALLY is an attempt to provide students of both languages with an extensive, organized collection of look-alike cognates. Los cognados analogos espanoles-ingleses son excepcionalmente utiles para profesores y estudiantes del espanol y del ingles por lo siguiente: (1) sus parecidos ortograficos y sus pronunciaciones similares proporcionan un vocabulario facil de adquirir. (2) su contraste facilita el entendimiento de la fonetica entre los idiomas. (3) las abundantes semejanzas lexicas proporcionan a los estudiantes principiantes de ambos idiomas un alentador aprecio de la afinidad que existe entre ellos. es una tentativa de darles a estudiantes de ambos idiomas una extensa y organizada coleccion de cognados analogos.

The Spanish language has numerous words that are similar in appearance to English words but have different meanings. These false cognates can have vastly different meanings from the English words they resemble, or may only differ in nuance. This dictionary covers Spanish false cognates.

El Diccionario de uso del español de María Moliner define "falso amigo" como "Palabra o expresión de una lengua extranjera que, por ser muy similar a otra de la lengua propia, puede ser interpretada incorrectamente". En una época como la nuestra, en la que el español vive en contacto permanente con el inglés, un diccionario como el de Marcial Prado (especialista en este campo y autor también de The NTC's Dictionary of Spanish False Cognates) es una guía segura para los hispanohablantes que leen, trabajan o estudian en inglés. Diccionario de consulta muy recomendable para periodistas, traductores y lingüistas.

1100 English-Spanish Cognates This book is intended to explain the usage of 1100 cognates existing between English and Spanish to students of Spanish as a second language or to Spanish native speakers who want to acquire, refresh or improve their knowledge on this topic. Through my experience, I was able to identify a practical and an efficient way to learn vocabulary in both languages by using these words which are homonyms, homophones or have some similarity. For each of the 1100 words, its definition, and examples are included in the two languages. That means, there will be 1100 examples in Spanish with their 1100 counterparts in English to clearly learn how to properly use them in a variety of contexts in several fields. In addition, and as a bonus, there will be the option to get access to the audio pronunciations of each of the 1100 words from our website. This is a magnificent opportunity to master these terms, their meanings as well as their practical and varied examples. With that being said, let’s get started!

The Legacy Edition: This Dictionary has 7800 entries and 12,000 definitions. It lists all words that students ordinarily shouldn't be expected to know (abadejo codfish; zaquizamí garret), and some that maybe they should know but don't (padecer to suffer; raposa fox), and sometimes it gives definitions for more common words, just in case (manera way; nobleza nobility). The first mention is listed with a part and chapter number (i.e., [II16] = Part II, Chapter 16). Words from preliminary parts of the book are so identified as well (i.e., [prII] = Cervantes Prologue to Part II). Since it is not likely that you'll be doing very much with these initial sections, words that are first introduced in the preliminary parts are also listed in the margins of the main body of the text the first time they appear there. Adjectives are listed in masculine singular, even though they may not show that from in the text. Verbs are generally listed in their infinitive form, although some present and past participles are also listed, and some stranger, older forms are listed as they appear (trujeron, veredes) and variant infinitives are also listed (escrebir, esgremir). Many times in this dictionary lists cognates, sometimes identical cognates, that are not given in the margins (náusea nausea; noble noble), just in case students are curious if Cervantes used a certain word or not. Grammatical words (el, las, mi, muy) are mostly not listed, and neither are ordinary definitions of very common words (libro and decir, for example, are nowhere to be found). Sometimes when a common word has an uncommon meaning, only this definition is listed even though the word in its everyday meaning is seen many times (the only definition for malo for example, is devil). -- Amazon.