Learn English with Steve-Peppy 9-English Vocabulary

[viisaah]

heeeeeeeey steve! I heard you lived in Brazil for 10 years. that's so awesome and your portuguese's perfect. (:

Obrigada por todos os vídeos, ajudam muito! *-*

[asgaardknight]

your videos are great and they helped me a lot! I live in Costa Rica and Im going to an intervew tomorrow at Stream, I hope my pronunciation and fluency have improve watching your videos, and of course, I will continue practicing the rest of the time before my intervew! Thanks alot!

[carmencorchadoa]

thanks a lot, good explanation, you're really useful!

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

100% correct!

[MissMathLover]

So , False friends (or faux amis) are pairs of words in two languages or dialects (or letters in two alphabets) that look or sound similar, but differ in meaning

Thanks for your response

[MissMathLover]

what do false friends mean ? I get confused with the other questions from the differentLatin languages

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

false friends= false cognates

[xxxelliexxxxx]

daviderivi do u no what to pretend actually means??? in enlgish like? it means ur pretending as in its not really like for exapmle children pretend to play cook and that would mean there cooking but its not real its pretend. got it? x

[TETIRX]

¡vaya! Eres un excelente profesor.....aunque mi ingles no están bueno ; lo  aprenederé y con algunitos de tus cursos mejorare la pronunciacion. gracias de todos modos

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

you are welcome!!!

[hohayoo]

what does sensible means ?

do you mean when you said ", john is very sensible when it's comes to money"

do you mean john get "serous" when he use his money ?

i hope you help of this question . thanks for this lesson .

[inkstersco]

'Sensible' is the opposite of 'silly'.

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

good way of putting it!

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

Hi David,

Most of the other false cognates you've mentioned are very familiar to me: pretend, preservative ( hahaha).

Annoitato is new to me ! Wow !

Ciao !

[daviderivi]

Hi Steve!

I already knew these things, but I find your online classes very interesting..thanks a lot for your help.

I'm an Italian guy...

another word which is very confusing for us (I always made mistakes with it) is the English verb "to pretend".

In Italian: pretendere = to claim, to require.

In English it has a totally different meaning.

Something else:

annoyed (annoitato) in Italian means bored

And be careful with this:

"preservative" in Italian is a condom ;-)

[xnightxamex]

hahahahaha so sensible means sensitive then? woooow thats probably really confusing....very interesting.

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

I was focussing on the main ones. I know I left out a few. For sure I will add Romanian and of course Italian to the list!

Steve

[dorinioanaalexandra]

you say latin languages : french , portuguese and spanish , but there are 4 !! Romanian is a latin language also

[pulameadenume]

Romanian is also an latin language...and it has the same problem with "false friends" :).....very interesting..

[shanzy2008]

wonderful,thank you so much.

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

Thanks for the comment!

[DoubleEandD]

Você é um ótimo professor!

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

You are very welcome! BTW, all= everything in this case!

Have a great day!

Steve

[MaiconGuitarraXD]

Thanks for all... :]

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

Thanks Rendexvous! I love helping others!!!!!!!!!

[Rendexvous]

A really awesome video i've learn a lot of things with only 3 videos watched!

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

Thanks for the info. ! It just goes to show you how dynamic languages can be!

Steve

[bernardoxbm]

Interesting video! I have a remark to make concerning the french word "suppoter". This word generally means "tolérer", but you can use it to express the sense "financier" like in English. Anyway great job.

[C1rp3Di3m]

you are the best man!

I love your videos!

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

Thanks for the comment! Viva youtube!

[fernandocguedes]

Here in Brazil we call it as "Falsos Cognatos". Just helping brazilians when they search on youtube to find this great video.

Bye

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

Good idea!!!!!

Thanks!

Steve

[tnqls]

Your clear pronounciation and english accent help me to speak english more like native speakers so i keep watch your videos! Thank you very much :)

[barnehave]

Excellent videos. Love them.

Thanks from Norway.

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

Thanks! It's comments like these that make me want to make more videos!!!!

Steve

[egotka72]

Very good

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

Thanks for all your kind comments and as for the Lucky 7 participants I will be drawing the winner today as promised.

Steve

[jordanasoares]

wow!

[nadjaanica]

Nice!

[tarasbmal]

Very useful! I've already got the LIST of false friends. By the way, LIST in Russian mean leaf or sheet.

[aboubey]

Helllo Steve,

good

Abdel

[spwan3]

awesome!

[hoanghalinh]

this video is really very good!!! Thanks for informing me about the contest

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

You are very welcome!!!!

Keep going you are on your way to being entered into the Lucky 7 contest. I will be posting a video update with this week's participants like yourself at the end of this week!!!!!

Regards,

Steve

[lwaked]

Very useful! I made these mistakes several times, but now I know better! Thanks, Steve!

[oskioscar]

I don't speak French, Spanish and Portuguese, but because of you I've got known some new words from these languages:) I can learn not olny English:P :) Cool!!!

[PrivateEnglishPortal]

Thanks!!!! I will try and post some Peppy questions related to other languages!!!!!!!!

[kybernes23]

muchas gracias de verdad.

to tell you the truth i really thankyou.

the subtitles is the best

[hanspeterschwartz]

Very Good!

[lewn5]

Awesome!

[anderpedron]

great!