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Now you start on new proyecto Get a dose of intelecto You'll speak Spanish soon correcto (Or some other dialecto.) |
| For this method necesario Study short vocabulario It might help increase salario You'll be linguist honorario |
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Say it slow, with claridad You'll be glad eternidad When you speak with variedad Gives you more seguridad |
| You see, you know it, the definición You know the root, by cognición Now learn the ending by repetición Soon you'll speak by intuición! |
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It's really not so complicado All these words that I've aislado The best, the easiest, the most apropiado It's really not exagerado: Spanish words ilimitado |
| This new method atractivo Something new educativo Results are in, they're conclusivo You'll learn fast, I'm positivo |
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You don't believe? It's just promotion? Can't be so fast, such locomotion? But you see, I'm a magic marciano... Puf ! You're reading Italiano ! |
| (read cognate in Italian) Another language! It's incredíbile! ( in cre DEE bee le ) This is really impossíbile! For the teacher the soluzione ( so lu TZION ne ) A Second Language Revoluzione! |
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You want to start, you're impaciente That's very good, it's excelente! But you've already started, it's evidente This was your first lesson equivalente! |
© 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:
...idad / ...ité / ...itá / ...idade
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So we could have written the fourth verse of the above poem to
end with a cognate in Portuguese, like this:
Say it slow, with claridade (clar IDA gee)
Isn't that amazing? Now... As an excercise, YOU re-write this same stanza, rhyming in French and Italian, using the table above.
Toussier's Cognate Words, my book with 20 rules that teach 4500 words in Spanish or English in less than an hour. I have sold thousands of these books for $25. I am now offering it through the internet for $15 dollars, plus $2 shipping anywhere in the world. NOTE, Dec. 2008: I have very few books left. Once I am out, it will probably never be available in a paper edition again. I will return your money, no questions asked, if you are not happy with it, and you may keep the poem and the book!
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