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viernes, 28 de diciembre de 2012

MORE FALSE FRIENDS

Library:

It is a place where you can borrow books among other things not where you buy books! 

Librería is Bookshop in English.


viernes, 7 de diciembre de 2012

FALSE FRIENDS:


Topic:

Topic does not mean tópicoTopic means subject or area of conversation. Tópico in English is Cliché.

Large:

Large does not mean largoLarge means of greater than average size, extent, quantity, or amount; bigLargo means long in English.

Constipated:

Being Constipated does not mean having a cold.  It means not being able to go to the bathroom; to have difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels; difficulty in excreting!

Salad:

Salad is NOT saladosalado is savoury!

Actually:

Actually does not mean "at present". It means "in fact". 

Furthermore, it is not pronounced /áctuali/ but /ákcheli/


The number of false friends so far is limited on my blog as I'm actually only adding the ones I come across while teaching! Please feel free to add any you come across in the comment section! Thank you!