False Friends in English and Spanish:

¡Hola! It’s Brenda Romaniello here today ¿Cómo estás? Welcome to Hola Tuesday, your weekly Spanish lesson!!
I have the puuurfect intro for today’s lesson. I’m very happy this week because I’m cat sitting my best friend’s cat and she is adorable!! I’m obviously a cat person, though I equally love dogs… ok I guess I’m an animal lover in general… But, in spite of this, I don’t have any pets. The thing is I lived in an apartment for 5 years and the landlord didn’t allow us to have any pets and now that I finally have a backyard after we moved houses, we’re renovating. So, when my best amigo said he needed someone to look after Pris (the cat) while he was away, I jumped of joy and put my hand up for the task. The hardest part will be to give it back upon his return. She’s such a cutie!

Here is some quick vocabulary about pets in Spanish:
Pet = mascota
I don’t have pets = No tengo mascotas
I have pets, I have a cat and a dog = Tengo mascotas, tengo un gato y un perro
Do you have pets? = ¿Tienes mascotas?

Are you an animal lover? Are you a cat or dog person? ¿Tienes mascotas? Let me know in the comments below!

Anyways, since I’m being a good, true friend looking after my friend’s cat; today, I’d like to talk to you about another kind of friends: False friends! Sometimes certain Spanish words look and sound similar to English such as: visitar, enemigo or familia which helps a lot to guess what they mean. However, we have to be careful about false friends between English and Spanish = Falsos amigos. So, false friends are words in Spanish that look and sound similar to English, but that actually mean something completely different. Today I will share with you 3 falsos amigos that are actually very funny:

MOLESTAR
EMBARAZADO
EXCITADO

Watch today’s lesson below:

Now I would love to hear from you. Do you know any other false friends between Spanish and English? Let us know in the comments down below.
That’s all for today, I’ll see you next week on your Hola Tuesday lesson! ¡Adiós! ¡Hasta la próxima clase! Remember to sign up to your Hola Spanish FREE lesson here.