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Same Sounds + Same Meanings + Different Languages = Connection?

This entry was posted in babble, language guru, must know, quirk, serious, wanderlust and tagged Allophones, English, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Language, Languages, Languages Around the Globe, Learn Languages, Lingua Franca, Meaning, Phonemes, Portuguese, Sounds, Spanish, World Languages on October 17, 2016 by Kelly .
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Ah, the cognate. The language learner’s friend, the link between learning and limbo. There is something very reassuring about coming across a familiar word that doesn’t already taste foreign on your tongue: one less word to learn, leaving more capacity for taking on that tongue-twister you’re having trouble pronouncing in your head, let alone out(…)

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