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This week in the Members Academy, we practised describing a process about recycling drink cartons like this one:

(Image from https://renewable-carbon.eu/news/bio-based-beverage-cartons/)

I noticed some students writing 'fabric' for 'factory', so I did some research. It's a false friend for many languages!:

Afrikaans - fabriek

Albanian - fabrikë

Basque - fabrika

Catalan - fàbrica

Corsican - fabbrica

Danish - fabrik

Dutch - fabriek

Esperanto - fabriko

Filipino - pabrika

German - Fabrik

Indonesian - pabrik

Latvian - fabrika

Luxembourgish - Fabréck

Maltese - fabbrika

Norwegian - fabrikk

Polish - fabryka

Portuguese - fabrică

Spanish - fábrica

Swedish - fabrik

Turkish - fabrika