Medical transport specialist Nathan Rotenberg possess Advanced Communications Specialist certification through IAMTCS. When not managing transport requests for the PennSTAR Flight medical transportation program, Nathan Rotenberg studies Spanish.
Due to similar Latin roots, Spanish and English contain thousands of words that possess the same meaning in both languages. These words are known as cognates. Identifying cognates can help accelerate an English speaker’s comprehension of Spanish.
Many cognates can be recognized by their endings. For example, many English words that end in “ant” have a Spanish equivalent ending in “ante.” The word pairs important/importante and instant/instante fall into this category. Another cognate rule dictates that English words ending in "ary" will usually end in "ario" in Spanish. Some examples of this are the pairs diary/diario and salary/salario. Spanish words ending in “al” are nearly identical to their English counterparts. The words abdominal, accidental, and digital have the same meaning and spelling in both languages.
Due to similar Latin roots, Spanish and English contain thousands of words that possess the same meaning in both languages. These words are known as cognates. Identifying cognates can help accelerate an English speaker’s comprehension of Spanish.
Many cognates can be recognized by their endings. For example, many English words that end in “ant” have a Spanish equivalent ending in “ante.” The word pairs important/importante and instant/instante fall into this category. Another cognate rule dictates that English words ending in "ary" will usually end in "ario" in Spanish. Some examples of this are the pairs diary/diario and salary/salario. Spanish words ending in “al” are nearly identical to their English counterparts. The words abdominal, accidental, and digital have the same meaning and spelling in both languages.
