Spanish Made Easy - Unlock Your Hidden Knowledge. Part 1Posted by Nick Niesen on October 27th, 2010 You might not realize it but you already know hundreds, if not thousands, of Spanish words? In these articles we will highlight all the ways in which the English and Spanish languages share hundreds of words, words that you will be able to use every day. ?Ible And ?Able Words Any English that ends in ABLE or IBLE has a Spanish counterpart will almost always be the same. Modern Words. Languages evolve and develop as the years pass with the majority of new words that entering a language coming from the scientific or technological area (area is also an English/Spanish word). Cultural Cossover. With the advent of global communications the World is getting smaller, and as a result the cultural differences between countries too gets smaller. This leads to words crossing boundaries and being used in the everyday language of many languages, so words that have a heavy popular (popular is an English/Spanish word) cultural reference will quite often be usable. Because this crossover works both ways, without knowing it, you will have come across many Spanish words in every day use, words in place names, words from cookery etc. Words like; adios (goodbye), bandido (bandit), cabana (hut), chorizo (sausage), empanada (pastry), cerveza (beer), Navidad (Christmas), diablo (devil), junta (committee), hacienda (home), This is just the start of unlocking you hidden knowledge look out for part 2. Like it? Share it!More by this author |