Abstract: Lexical units that look and/or sound similar or identical in two different languages but differ in meaning (the so-called „false friends“) inevitably create an association with the first language in the learner‘s mind. The article discusses a study conducted with Bulgarian students aged between 10 and 12 years. The students were taught 50 lexical items in Slovenian and French using a mobile educational game. They played the learning game and took a test the next day. Test results show that the false friends can cause both grammatical and semantic errors. The probability of making grammatical errors is higher than the probability of making semantic errors.
Key words: false friends, language acquisition, vocabulary acquisition, translation difficulties.
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