Words which look and sound the same in Italian - travel words for money, shopping and finance

Every day and every year it becomes easer to learn Italian. I just walk down my local high street in London and see the word costa on the caffe. I think of the words for food and drink and place names. 

If you speak English, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese, you will have a few words from the other languages which are the same, based on, derived from the root language Latin. Spanish is the simplest language. After learning one other language, learning the third one is easier. You know you can learn another language. You recognise vaculary and grammar. The fourth language is easier still. And so on The more languages you speak, the more often you meet people who can help you by speaking to you in that language. .

Americans find it easy to learn Spanish. Spanish is the easiest language. Wikipedia tells you how many hours it takes to learn each language. Language schools know this. Charities and the military which send staff abroad will send their employees on courses, and the time and cost of each course is known. 

You can travel to a country to practise speaking and listening and reading. But we are lucky nowadys. We can do it all on the intnet. Here's a little lesson for today.

 Italian - English

arrivo - I arrive

autobus - bus

bolleta - bill 

costo - cost

credito - credit

finanza - finance

(un) gatto - a cat

maggioranza - majority

molta - a lot of (like multitude)

molte ore - many hours

offerta - offer 

ora - hour/time

posto - place

risorsa - resource

ristorante - restaurant

servizio - service

studiare - to study

ufficio - office

English - Italian

(I) arrive - arrivo

bill - bolleta (I remember the bill would have bowled me over, like a bad letter)

bus - autobus

(a) cat - (un) gatto (c and g sound similar)

cost - costo

credit - credito

finance - finanza

hour - ora

a lot of - molto, molte (reminine plural)

majority - maggioranza 

offer - offerta

office - ufficio

place - posto (I think, his place is at his post)

restaurant - ristorante

resource - risorsa

service - servizio (pronounced sair- vit- see- oh - play the sound in an online dictionary)

(to) study - studiare

time - ora

Useful Websites

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Translate google

wikivoyage phrasebook Italian

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