Please if you鈥檙e teaching a language, translate as little as possible. Whn it鈥檚 time to share about false cognates, don鈥檛 start with the meaning we might assume (what it DOESN鈥橳 mean). Tell us what it means. Right off the bat. Provide the word or phrase in context - with visuals if possible.
So far, an Internet search hasn鈥檛 contradicted my advice, but I鈥檓 curious and open to hearing from experienced teachers. Do you address these things differently?
@tsyum and for false cognates, even better, introduce the correct way to say the thing you're going to want to say, long before telling us what the thing we probably shouldn't say means.
Like, teach "tengo calor" long before the word "caliente" to avoid the accidental "I'm horny" mistake.
And teach "tiene sentido" really early on, like the first day ("驴tiene sentido?" "s铆, tiene sentido"), so that it's automatic before they learn "hacer" and the temptation to say "hace sentido" kicks in.
@tsyum I know for sure there are common mistakes I avoided in Spanish simply because I learned the correct way to say the thing I was _more likely_ to want to say before being introduced to the words that would be needed to guess wrong.
And then I brought a bunch of that knowledge to Italian, which was really helpful.
