Italian words which are spelled the same or almost the same as English

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Exactly the same 

Italian - English

film - film

radio - radio

Nearly the same

Italian - English 

articolo - article

banane - bananas

costi - costs

fama - fame

mi - me

oceano - ocean

opinione - opinion

parte - part

vulcano - volcano

I was using Duolingo daily and made my own lists of words which were identical. I also listed those which were similar. I made a third list of those which consufingly sounded similar to an English word but were something different. 

Then I looked online and found the tehnical term cognates, meaning sharing the same root. Think of the word con, with, co, together, and nate and nativity, birth. Natural.

Useful Websites

https://www.parlaitaliano.co.uk/50-italian-cognates-to-supercharge-your-learning/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Italian_origin

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