These are just comparisons of word similarities between languages, a commonplace for linguist but so interesting to the polyglot language learner. I made these lists for me, but as I directly used html I offer them to any interested reader on earth. If you love to learn languages and want to discuss this or the way you learn them, please contact me . I speak, read and write french, english, german and spanish , and I'm learning russian and italian , which I can only read by the time I write this. As russian readers of this page are supposed to understand the latin alphabet to have a defendable interest in it, I used my own transcription of the cyrrilic.
Some words are well known as being the same in most indo-european languages.
They are the most basic, describing simple, enduring aspects of human life. These strong similarities across close and less close languages illustrate, for the language learner, the fact that the more you know, the easier it is to learn more. Or, as the economist in me would put it, the marginal cost of learning a language is declining. My own doctrine is, try to avoid them as much as you can, but never be shy of speaking a language you don't know by fear of committing errors.