. To say 'one,' say ' uno' ('OO-no,' same as the name of the card game, rhymes with 'Juno'). To say 'two,' say ' dos' (like a 'dose' of medicine). To say 'three,' say ' tres' (like 'tress' except that the ' is pronounced with a flap of the tongue against the roof of the mouth). To say 'four,' say ' cuatro' ('KWAH-tro,' but again the ' r' has a distinctive sound that is unlike English's). To say 'five,' say ' cinco' ('SINK-oh').

To say 'six,' say ' seis' ('SAYSS,' rhymes with 'trace'). To say 'seven,' say 'siete' (roughly 'SYET-tay' with the first syllable rhyming with the Russian 'nyet'). To say 'eight,' say ' ocho' ('OH-cho,' rhymes with 'coach-oh'). To say 'nine,' say ' nueve' (roughly 'NWEHV-ay,' with the first syllable rhyming with 'Bev'). To say 'ten,' say ' diez' ('dyess,' rhymes with 'yes').

When I was reading the book I learned the following fact about English-Spanish words: After French, Latin and Old English, “Spanish is one of the most important ingredients in English vocabulary.” I knew that there were Spanish words in the English language, but I was impressed to know that Spanish was in the top influencers. And what are the reasons? The Spanish kingdom began conquering the Americas bringing new words such as plants, animals and environment adapted from indigenous languages to Spanish and then to English. For example: potato, mosquito and hurricane.

The maritime vocabulary was also well developed by Spaniards during the 1500’s, years before the British. Examples of those words are: cargo and breeze. The area today known as California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas was part of the Spanish Empire and later in the 1800’s became Mexican territory.

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For that reason, the cowboy vocabulary includes Spanish words such as: rodeo, canyon and mustang. Recently Hispanics have become the largest minority in the United States resulting in the introduction of new vocabulary about our culture. For example: fajitas, merengue and salsa. I identified some Spanish origin words that are relatively common in the English language. I grouped the words according to their similarity with Spanish and added a little history of the origin. 10 Easy English-Spanish Words You Can Add to Your Vocabulary Today Here is the first set of English-Spanish words that can be identify as easy because they kept the same spelling when passing from Spanish to English. Sony dru-810a drivers for macbook pro.

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