Recognising academic English

The same advantage scales up. The core vocabulary of essays, research, law, and medicine is overwhelmingly Latin-derived.

analyze · interpret · establish · determine · significant · consequence · evidence · hypothesis · factor · concept

For most learners, academic vocabulary is the last mountain. For Spanish speakers, much of it is already familiar terrain. This does not hand them the grammar or the argument structure — but the words mostly come free. When students report understanding more of an academic text than they expected, that instinct is trustworthy; name it for them so they stop second-guessing it.