False Friends

Falsche Freunde

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Introduction

Einführung

While linguists call these false cognates, false friends refer to words that sound like English words but meaning something completely different in German.

It's important to learn these well, because using them incorrectly can be embarrassing.

Vocabulary

Wortschatz

Play eventuell
maybe possibly
Play sensibel
sensitive
Play bald
soon
Play Die Billion
trillion

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