After you click the "Start" button you will be presented with words. If you think, that a word is real press "R" on your keyboard, if it is imaginary - press "I". Alternatively, if your keyboard is not available, you may use corresponding buttons, that will be available on the page. However, for the sake of experiment accuracy it is recommended to use the keyboard.

Experiment Over!
The following table shows your results.

English word	German cognate	decision time (ms)	status	user answer	English word	German cognate	decision time (ms)	status	user answer
milk	Milch		real		stril	-		imaginary
cow	Kuh		real		brost	-		imaginary
sedo	-		imaginary		present	-		real
door	-		real		bata	-		imaginary
mokap	-		imaginary		water	Wasser		real
chair	-		imaginary		snow	Schnee		real
jacket	Jacke		real		livek	-		imaginary
kiye	-		imaginary		market	Markt		real
street	Strasse		real		pen	-		real
tree	-		real		earth	Erde		real

Normally it would take you less time to make a decision about a word if you also know its cognate (equivalent) in another language. So you may say that knowledge of a foreign language may help you to process your native language faster. Want to know how that may be possible?

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