Read this poem with cognate that rhymes in Italian, translated by !
and... A Short-Short Lesson, part II
To speak Spanish and English is of great importancia It's a tool, it's a supplement, it's a new accesorio For my book, as an exercise which is muy creativo I just sit and I write, I forget my dieta I go into a trance, it's a type of hipnosis It is great, it is cool, it is really glorioso How much can I teach with this method gimnástico? The words that I've chosen are very didáctico Wow! Read "A Cognate Fanatico" in Italian!
It is something you need in any circunstancia.
I've a method that shows there's a great abundancia
Spanish words that you know each and every instancia.
For the student and teacher it is obligatorio.
"Toussier's Cognate Words" - like a word directorio
Great for students of languages, level introductorio.
I've a way to teach endings that is recreativo
Best of all, it is good, it is quite positivo
It gets right to the point, to the class objetivo.
and before I know how, I become a poeta.
First I flip, then I flop, then I double pirueta
I write poems galore, I'm a poet atleta !
Then the words just come out, like a super osmosis.
It's just crazy, I know, it's a poet psicosis
What a change this has been, such a metamorfosis!
I just cannot believe I am so ingenioso !
Best of all, it is fun, it's a feeling curioso
It's a game that I do, not at all laborioso.
It's never been tried in the world escolástico.
A heck of a lot, I am quite optimístico.
They'll love it for sure in the classroom linguístico.
It's a way to learn Spanish that is quite automático.
Some say I'm a genius, some say I'm lunático
But they're wrong, I'm only A Cognate Fanático!
© copyright 1987, Ellis Toussier-Ades Bigio-Antebi
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There are more than 7000 words in English with Latin roots. These words are known as "cognates". The terrific thing about cognates is that you don't have to know any Latin in order to be able to use them instantly in Spanish or French or Portuguese or Italian. As I have written in my book, "Toussier's Cognate Words," all you have to do is learn a rule to translate the word intuitively, according to the ending in English. You can learn these rules very, very easily, because all the words in English that follow the rule rhyme with all the other words with the same ending... and they usuallly have the same ending in the foreign language! For example:
...orio / ...oire / ...orio / ...orio
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It's a tool, it's a supplement,
Isn't that amazing? Now... As an excercise, YOU re-write this stanza, rhyming in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, using the table above. Verbs are probably some of the most useful words to learn in a foreign language, and there are several hundred cognate verbs in English... so you can learn them quickly in Spanish, French, Italian, or Portuguese. Here is a rule that will give you about 150 verbs: ...izar / ...iser / ...izare / ...izar
In this way, using just 20 different rules which are shown
in my book,
"Toussier's Cognate Words"
you could learn about 4500 words in any of the above languages
in less than one hour !!!
Isn't that amazing?
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