Welcome to Vol. 33 of the Spanish Online Newsletter! Your weekly Spanish learning with mp3s, as well as links to Spanish travel spots and more. I've been busy trying to find good software for our newest site Spanishsoftware.net - if any of you have used a program that you love please let us know! I get a lot of catalogue requests, so I finally put a small one together in a little magazine called The Spanish Spot. Since last week we looked at cognates or easy words to translate, let's look at the opposite this week - false cognates! Words that aren't as easy as they look. Les deseo un fin de semana lindo a todos...

Lesson of the Week: Amigos Falsos - False Cognates

Beware of words that are not what they seem! A word that looks or sounds similar to one in English but actually has a totally different meaning is called a false cognate. Below are some of these tricky little guys.

spanish word	actual english definition	how to really say English version
actualmente	at present	actually - la verdad es que
asisistir	to attend	assist/help - ayudar
carpeta	folder	carpet - alfombra
chocar	to crash	choke - ahogar/sofocar
embarazada	pregnant	embarassed - avergonzado
éxito	success	exit - salida
largo	long	large - grande
parientes	relatives	parents - padres
realizar	to actualize	realize - darse cuenta
recordar	remember	record - grabar
sensible	sensitive	sensible - razonable, sensato
soportar	put up with	support - mantener
últimamente	lately	ultimately - al final
vaso	drinking glass	vase - jarrón

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Travel Spot of the Week

Colonia, Uruguay

This charming little town is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and just a ferry ride from the Buenos Aires. It's often used as the easiest point to renew your Visa for foreigners living in Argentina (that's why I went anyway!) With its old cars, lighthouse, & cobblestone streets, Colonia is a world apart from the hectic pace of Buenos Aires. For more pictures, click here. For more history & travel info, click here.

Spanish Learning Tool of the Week

Rosetta Stone Spanish
CD-rom for PC or Mac

I've always really liked the Rosetta Stone programs - and used the Italian one extensively before traveling to Italy. The system is almost entirely picture & audio based - forcing you to learn without thinking a lot about grammar rules. This method gets you speaking w/ a focus on pronunciation. The course is also organized to help you build your language skills in a logical progression of things you need to know. $19.99 Read More..

• Nearly 900 real-life color pictures and phrases
• Spoken by native speakers

Lesson previews, step-by-step exercises and a wide variety of tests

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