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Learn words that are identical in Spanish and English from Spanish teacher Andrea Cukier in this Howcast video.
There are many words that have the same spelling and meaning in English and in Spanish, and the pronunciation, of course, is very different.
Listen to this: 'actor', is an 'actor'. Actor, banana. motor, regular, radio, piano, artificial, sociable, hotel, hospital.
And remember the H is mute, right? So it's not 'hotel', it's 'hotel'.
Probable, chocolate, tropical. And there are many more words like that.
See if you can say some of them, pronouncing them in Spanish: actor, banana, motor, regular, radio, piano, artificial, sociable, hotel, hospital, probable, chocolate, tropical.