Switching English words in to French or Spanish

There are several families of words that can be switched from English into French or Spanish and in 90% of the cases you have the same word, easily translated. There are of course exceptions to these rules and words like this are called ‘false friends’.

An easy family to translate into Spanish or French from English is the family of words ending in the letters -ion. Like organization, termination, etc. To make it a French word it you just say it with a French accent.

Easy.

To make it a Spanish word, change the letter ‘t’ to the letter ‘c’ and pronounce it accordingly. The letter ‘i’ also takes an accent so that organization becomes organizacíon

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