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- You'll find that you will be able to recognize quite a lot of words in Spanish already, because 20% are very similar to English
This is from some material I made for teaching Spanish speakers English.
- Remember pronouciation is different as Spanish has completely regular pronouciation and look for the patterns in Spanish like "a" at the end if feminine words and "o" or "e" at the end of masculine words and "tion" becoming "cíon"
Stew Green

List of Words the same in Spanish and English

written same no accent
 actor  color  gas  material   area  conclusion   consul
 animal  doctor  general  motor    bus  religion melon
 auto  familiar  hospital   original
 capital  personal  hotel  simple one consonant
 central  probable  humor  terrible  antenna  intelligible impossible  possible
 cereal  regular  idea  total annual  occasion intellectual  professional
 chocolate   similar   usual commercial  official
taxi  radio alcohol
no vowel at end in English f=ph
 list  liquid  cost restaurant  phrase  physical   telephone 
 map  porter  part music j=x
 problem  product  press  rob  execute  exercise   example  fix
car
end vowel changes to "e" ia, io -> e
 cause   practice  favorite  tube  absence  difference   distance  service
 figure   rose  minute  use  experience  notice  justice  guarantee
 medicine   state  note  style   police   commerce  silence
to move adhesive
o,u -> ou t -> th
 hour  mountain  announce  soup  author authority  sympathy 
 court  announce  sound  found theatre  theory
 course
c or qu = k or ck z ->ce
 frank  sack  park  attack  commence  race  force
ia,ia -> y i -> y
 company  family  history  style  mystery  system
 secretary   remedy  territory rhythm
other
 automobile   special  question type  cigar school  college  university
 origin bank  bicycle   to catch towel  cocaine   heroin  marijuana 
cigarette  to paint   to count  train  air force castle  fort  miltary
tomato potato motorbike  spagetti to constuct  to cut centre
banana  television  hamburger  vinegar vacation equal president
imported fom other languages
pasta folder  fax bus ferryboat
Some of the first words you need.
English Spanish understand  basic conversation 
hello etc hi, how are, fine bye name my your his
I, you, we, they he, she, it her its  our  their 
yes good no bad married brothers and sisters 
children how old
numbers 1  basic verbs classroom words personal  question words
help want learn class mother do
to be give start class room  father  does
the walk stop teacher  brother  what
a like _ing student   sister  how long
from drink ed pen son   how much
not eat  was pencil  daughter  how
human have got were eraser  who
girl go sleep chair where
boy see please table  today  which
man look thankyou book  yesterday 
woman watch not paper  tomorrow  happy
men come from do not white board  now sad
women shower sleep folder hot
excuse me wash work  speak short forms cold
sorry clean live say here basketball
don't  buy talk  there
understand sell  make talk to  this
dog teach  do repeat  that
cat difficult have got tell me  these
fruit  easy  have a  listen  those
food  big  think write
happy  small  know  look
sad  cheap  know about be quiet !
husband  expensive  sorry
wife  _er read aloud 
single  more how do you say
married _est think
water   fast sit down
bread  quick show me
 milk  slow please repeat that
beer  interesting 
to sort boring
 sort church pray
altar priest
work my work
God
sing
job