The many similitudes (similarities) between Spanish and English are due to Guillermo el Bastardo (William the Bastard).
Guillermo became better known for his deeds than his illegitimate birth after 1066AD. Since then, he’s been known as Guillermo el Conquistador(William the Conqueror).
His Norman invasion of Britain on October 14, 1066, saw French become the official language of schools and law courts. And the conquerors imposed the language on the conquered people.
It stayed that way for the next 300 years.
As a result, to this day, thousands of words from the French language are part of everyday English.
French and Spanish are both romance languages, so the left-over French words are a lot like Spanish words.
There are literally thousands of words that you, as an English speaker, will instantly recognize in Spanish. Por ejemplo:
Universidad
Problema
Constitución
Instante
Aniversario
The great thing about these Instant Spanish Words is that simple patterns let you change English words into Spanish.
On the link below, you’ll find 6 easy patterns that give you 1066 Instant Spanish words you can use right away.
Click here for 1066 Instant Spanish Words.
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I chose to read this post because I teach English to Spanish people here in Zaragoza, Spain. I can use information from it to help me better explain the “why” to my students who ask (mainly the Advanced ones). A most informative post.
Hello,as a venezuelan spanish speaker i know that we have and use so many anglo words in our day by day conversations,but many people doesnt know it..use it whitout knowleged,sometimes speak just repeating as parrots cause the tv shows and movies slang..so you know we have a great variety of differents languages words usefull.
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It is also important to keep in mind that some words are “false friends.”
For example, inversión means investment, rather than inversion. Compromiso means commitment, not compromise.
Also many Spanish words differ significantly from other Romance languages (French, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Galician) due to Arabic and African influences especially during the Islamic empire rule. For example, card is carte in French, carta in Portuguese, Galician, Italian and Catalan, but it’s inexplicably tarjeta in Castellano.
But at the same time, noticing the pattern is very helpful. Once you know comunidad is community, you will know libertad is liberty. -ity becomes -ad.
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Would love to learn a few words as we vacation in Mexico
Ropa is not rope. sopa is not soap. And butter is meant ta kill ya.
I do not like the writing of the first paragraph. It seems as if his birth had taken place after 1066.
We have been traveling to Mexico from the US since 1995. We retired here in June 2013. The BEST way to learn Spanish is to have friends which do not speak your language. It is called “Submersion” and forces you to learn to survive.
And, yes, English was created from the diversion of many euro languages, primarily from Germanic and Romance languages. The conquerors directly influenced the creation of the English language.
Hi, my email hasn’t yet received the 1066 words…?
Very interesting, I have already noticed those similitudes, i just did not know their origin.
Those words are known as cognates. They enable learners of either English or Spanish to understand the target language better,
I would like to learn Spanish, I traveled 3 Central and 7 South American country’s in the last 5 months it would of been so nice to know the language
Latin/400 + years of romanisation can have something to do with it.
This will help me.
I’d love to learn Spanish
Click here for 1066 Instant Spanish Words. ??? Will I get these words in a following mailing?
Yes.
All romance languages has been deeply influenced by Latin, the language of ancient Rome.
i would like to know more please
Because French was forced on Anglo-Saxons (named for two Germanic tribes that had conquered most of the British Isles), English ended up with multiple words for the same thing. The Germanic word is often monosyllabic while the Latinate (from French) word is often polysyllabic. This caused a problem for me when I was teaching ESL to speakers of French and Spanish. They had vocabulary books that taught the bigger, Latinate words, all of which were similar enough to French and Spanish words that my students already understood and could use them. But these target words were couched in sentences full of smaller, Germanic English words. These were the words my students needed to learn, but they far outnumbered the Latinate words and were never targeted or defined.
Yeah seems helpful. Keep me in mind.lj
You are completely ignororing the fact that England, or Britannia, was a colony of the Roman Empire in the 1st century….and therefore left it’s language “latin” in its culture. Since the Romans conquered most of Europe, their language was enbeded in most European languages at their roots…Spanish does not sound like English, Spanish is a complete language, English is a mix of different languages, including gailic, germánic, Norse, french and latín.
Por que no hay traducción al español?
amazing!!! imagine now with the relation US/CUBA, everybody is going to share this vocabulary, in order to visit their old Spanish friends. Aleluya!!!
This is not true, the anglosaxons always forget that Great Britan was part of the Roman Empire, for at least 300 years so latin was part of the british culture before William.
Even the Gaelic word for water, uisce, is similar to the Spanish word for water.
Loan words are only one of the similarities between English and Spanish. In many if not most instances, sentences are constructed in similar fashion, much more so than between some other languages. For example, to learn German, an English speaker needs to think in German, not just substitute words. This is less true for Spanish, even though German is considered more closely related to English than is Spanish.
Hi,
I find your article most interesting but for the illustration. The scene I believe is the battle of Gerberoy, during the first Norman rebellion, fought between Prince Robert and his father King William (Conqueror). The illustration depicts William unhorsed and on the ground with Prince Robert standing over him but stupidly the artist has drawn Robert’s kite shield upside down.
For more info on this period read my novel, BELLÊME The Norman Warrior on sale on amazon websites world wide.
Cheers,
R.
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Latin was the roman language of britain and played a mayor part on the local languages after rome left. William the Conqueror just added more influence to the already existing lating in britain…
I’ll like to have more information please. Thank you.
Thanks for the tips!
That is not the only explanation. A thousand years before that, the Romans were in England.
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This is true. I first noticed it on the CNN headlines tape at the bottom
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Thank you very much for the lists of words similar to English,with different endings
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