High School Spanish Missed This: The Power of Twin Words When I first lived in Costa Rica, I stumbled onto something that high school and university Spanish classes somehow skipped over completely: Cognates—or what we like to call Twin Words here at LIOTA. Discovering that thousands of English words share identical or near-identical roots in Spanish was a total lightbulb moment. It instantly unlocked vocabulary without the boring rote memorization. How about you? When did you first realize how powerful Twin Words/Cognates are for accelerating fluency? Drop your story in the comments! #SkoolLiota #SkoolLanguage #SkoolEnglish #SkoolInglés