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You'd like to sleep here, wouldn't you? TRAGALUZ in English is SKYLIGHT.  Like that, no space in between. Also known as CLARABOYA, a SKYLIGHT is an opening in the roof of a house that allows the entrance of natural light.  SKYLIGHTS vary in size depending on the amount of light you really need. Some are quite small and others as large as windows (overhead windows in this case).The pic that accompanies this article shows one of the large ones and as you can see the visual impact makes them quite desirable for those who value the aesthetic aspect of their homes. The only problem is that, unlike regular windows, SKYLIGHTS  are not meant to be "closed" so unless you really need one in a certain part of your house do not become a fan of SKYLIGHTS just yet.

The translation is definitely not CASUALIDAD. Casualidad is Chance or Coincidence, e.g. ¡Qué casualidad! - What a coincidence! ¡Es pura casulidad! - It's pure chance! CASUALTY means VICTIMA as in someone who got killed in a war for example or some sort of disaster. A more appropriate term is perhaps BAJA. The number of civilian CASUALTIES is enormous. - El número de BAJAS civiles es enorme. As you can see, CASUALTY can be confusing for the average English learner since it is what we know as a False Friend. A False Friend is a word that looks similar to another from a different language but does not have the same meaning just like CASUALTY that has a spelling similar to that of the Spanish term CASUALIDAD. Yet they do not have the same meaning.

Definitely not TWO BY TWO! In Spanish 2X2 is said DOS POR DOS. Literally that would be TWO BY TWO though I've had students saying TWO FOR TWO. None of those is correct. In English you don't say BY or FOR in this context. What you actually say is TWICE TWO IS TWO. If you want to say UNO POR DOS then say ONCE TWO. If you want to say 3X4, 4X4 5X7 is actually easier. Replace POR with the word TIMES as follows: 3X4=12 - three TIMES four is twelve 4x4= 16 - four TIMES four is sixteen 5x7 - five TIMES seven is forty-five.

"Admit it. I'm a better Consuegro than you." The answer is there's no word for that in English. Though of course there are CONSUEGROS and CONSUEGRAS in their culture but for some reason there is not one specific term to refer to these members of our extended families. What you can do is to introduce this person as "my son or my daughter's father / mother in law" That should be enough.

"Ants...Ants...Where are thou?" This singular animal with physical features that seem taken from other animals is called an AARDVARK. It lives in Africa and just like the famous Ant Bear from South America, it feeds on ants though it also eats other insects. Perhaps the fact that is a nocturnal animal explains why not so many people know about AARDVARKS. In the Spanish-speaking world many people mistakenly call it OSO HORMIGUERO, just like the ANT BEAR, but a more precise name would be CERDO HORMIGUERO though AARDVARKS are not really related to pigs.

Well, there are things that you will never find in any of the standard EFL books, and this is one of those. The word CERUMEN is that greenish brown secretion that appears in our internal ears. The technical word in English is precisely CERUMEN just like in Spanish but unlike Spanish there is a non-technical word for CERUMEN in English that is also more popular and commonly used: EAR WAX.   

So many sundries, so little time! SUNDRIES  is a word that refers to several objects at the same time. These objects are usually of small value, and size, which is why they are not mentioned separately but altogether under the label SUNDRIES. You can find SUNDRIES in small stores, drugstores or souvenir shops. The best possible translation I found was MISCELANEOS or OBJETOS DIVERSOS (again too diverse and cheap to be worth mentioned one by one). Those living in Guayaquil can find SUNDRIES in stores such as EL DOLARAZO or basically in any bazaar. SUNDRIES is an remarkable word because as a noun it only exists in plural form. It can be used in singular form (SUNDRY) but then is not a noun but an adjective. In that case SUNDRY means diverse, various, miscellaneous.