The challenge of cognates

The challenge of cognates ...

... easy to write, hard to pronounce!

Guess the meaning and

The challenge of

cognates

LinkedUp Project: Creating a Language Learning Skills Continuum

What is a cognate: Linguistics . descended from the same

language or form: such cognate languages as French and Spanish.

Romance Family = French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

Germanic =German, English, Dutch

1. geografía (Spanish)

2. cyclisme (French)

3. Garten (German)

4. musica (Italian)

5. abril (Spanish)

6. actrice (French)

7. Fußball (German)

8. cioccolato (Italian)

Can you use your language learning skills to work out the meanings of the foreign words below?

- geography

- cycling

-garden

-music

-April

-actress

-football

-chocolate

How close were you?

Which criteria did you use when deciding how to deduce the meaning of the words. (semantics)

Filing cabinet of patterns in other languages.

Context (pragmatics)

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•agent•rugby•prince•télévision•police•chocolat•dragon

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•Winter•Spanien•Hand•Hause•Februar•Juli•Mathe

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•inteligente•julio•diccionario•geografía•garaje•ciclismo•tranquila

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How close were you?

Which criteria did you use when deciding how to pronounce the words.

= sound inventory = looking for patterns of sound in other languages. (phonemes)

Syllables What are syllables?

- sound units in words

If intonation is the rythm of music what are syllables in sound production?

- melody

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Let‘s break the following words down into syllables.

•a.gent•rug.by•pr.ince•tél.é.vi.sion•po.lice•cho.co.lat•dra.gon Image from www.pdclipart.org

Let‘s break the following words down into syllables.

•Win.ter•Span.i.en•Hand•Hau.se•Feb.ru.ar•Ju.li•Ma.the

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•in.tel.i.gen.te•jul.io•dic.cion.a.rio•ge.og.ra.fía•g.ar.aje•cic.lis.mo•tran.qui.la

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Project Produce your own pod cast or PPT

slide show to illustrate what phonology is:

Phonology = the sound system of a language

Intonation = rythmn Tone – Chinese 4 tones