False Friends Can Be a Real Challenge for Language Learners

False friends are words in different languages that look or sound similar, but have different meanings. Think about the english word embarrassed and the spanish word embarrazada. Embarrazada actually means pregnant. Noisome sounds like it should mean noisy, loud or something sim however, noisome is actually related to the word annoy instead of noise. Suffrage looks like the word suffer, but it has a very different meaning. It actually means the right to vote.