Work with cognates
I've just picked up learning French. I memorize new words by taking a word that resembles or relates somehow to a word in another language I know and which I use frequently, for example English. E.g: bleu - blue; tricolore - three colours; nouveau correspondant - new correspondent.
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Victoria (Australia)
2006-01-17
This will work ok sometimes, but be careful of faux amis, false friends! Eg - une librairie refers to a bookstore, while library in French is une bibliothèque.
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I think words which sound similar in both French and English (or any other language) are called 'cognates.'
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