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Language interference and false cognates for spanish speakers learning english

I`doing a work about this, but is very hard for me to find a real defenition about language interference and false cognates for spanish people who are learning english.
I need to know what is language interference in lexical level? and what is the meaning of false cognates?
  

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Language interference at a lexical level are any words or phrases (lexes) in L1 which cause problems in learning or using the L2. html "]A Spanish-English Website[/url]: 'Falsos Amigos - False Cognates One of the great things about learning Spanish or English is that many words have the same roots in the Romance languages and English. However, there are also a great many falsos amigos, or false cognates, which look similar but are in fact very different.

— Mister Micawber

  • Language interference at a lexical level are any words or phrases (lexes) in L1 which cause problems in learning or using the L2.
  • html "]A Spanish-English Website[/url]: 'Falsos Amigos - False Cognates One of the great things about learning Spanish or English is that many words have the same roots in the Romance languages and English.
  • However, there are also a great many falsos amigos, or false cognates, which look similar but are in fact very different.
  • This is one of the biggest pitfalls for students of Spanish.
  • There are also semi-false cognates: words that can only sometimes be translated by the similar word in the other language.
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Language interference at a lexical level are any words or phrases (lexes) in L1 which cause problems in learning or using the L2.


Regarding false cognates, here is an excerpt rom [url="http://spanish.allinfo-about.com/vocabulary/vo-falsosamigos.html"]A Spanish-English Websit
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