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If you tell me that "herramientas" is Spanish for "tools" then I will automatically say "Ah, yes, because ferrum is Latin for iron, as in ferrous, and many Latin words beginning with F become Spanish words beginning with H, as in horno which clearly is related to our English word furnace." I did that literally two minutes ago. Your eyes are not rolling as hard reading that as mine did once I'd finished thinking it, believe me.
But what I cannot do is look at the word "herramientas" without a translation and then derive that on my own.
(I have that same issue in English, but let's be honest here - I rarely come across totally unfamiliar English words in the wild, and when I do then it's usually clear from context. I'm still a little irked about the time I was reading about the blood-brain barrier and came across the word "astrocyte" and had to look it up because all I could get from that is "something star shaped in the brain". I can't quite remember what those things do. But I know they're star shaped! In the brain!)
If you tell me that "herramientas" is Spanish for "tools" then I will automatically say "Ah, yes, because ferrum is Latin for iron, as in ferrous, and many Latin words beginning with F become Spanish words beginning with H, as in horno which clearly is related to our English word furnace." I did that literally two minutes ago. Your eyes are not rolling as hard reading that as mine did once I'd finished thinking it, believe me.
But what I cannot do is look at the word "herramientas" without a translation and then derive that on my own.
(I have that same issue in English, but let's be honest here - I rarely come across totally unfamiliar English words in the wild, and when I do then it's usually clear from context. I'm still a little irked about the time I was reading about the blood-brain barrier and came across the word "astrocyte" and had to look it up because all I could get from that is "something star shaped in the brain". I can't quite remember what those things do. But I know they're star shaped! In the brain!)
