When you're learning a new language you try to recognize cognates for faster learning. A cognate is an easy word to remember because it looks and means the same thing as a word you already know. For example, “gratitude” in English means the same as “gratitud” in Spanish.

There are also false cognates, also called “false friends”, words that look the same as the word you already know, but they mean something completely different.

For instance, the word “actual” in English means a truly existing, real, authentic, confirmed, factual, genuine, but in Spanish the same word means something different: contemporary; common, present, ongoing, in progress.

You can speed up your English learning focusing the most frequently used false friends. You can use the known word in Spanish to learn the unknown word in English.

It makes a lot of sense to identify and focus your learning on the words you are already familiar with and use them as reference to learn new words in the new language.

In this book, you´ll find the list of the most used false friends with example phrases presented in a very simple fashion. No complications. Straight and simple.

So, don’t waste your time and energy! Focus your effort on the most important false friends to master your English!