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Learning Spanish & Etymology Pattern-Matching for Nerds

Gota and Gout, Gutter

Gota, Spanish for “drop” comes from the Latin gutta for the same. From this root, we also get the English gout and… gutter. What is gout, after all, if not a pain that is a constant drip or a gutter, a collection of dirty water drops? The g-l sounds are consistent among all variations.

what is the etymological way to learn spanish?

Nerds love to pattern-match, to find commonalities among everything. Our approach to learning languages revolves (the same -volve- that is in “volver”, to “return”) around connecting the Spanish words to the related English words via their common etymologies – to find the linguistic patterns, because these patterns become easy triggers to remember what words mean. Want to know more? Email us and ask:
morgan@westegg.com

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