Italian, like Spanish and Swedish, is an easy language if your first or second language is English or you learned Latin at school. Yesterday I went to an Italian restaurant, so I looked at their menu, started translating and listing the Italian words, then decided to switch from learning Spanish on Duolingo back to learning Italian, for the day. This morning on my way to exercise (swimming) I turned on the mobile phone whilst waiting for the lift and up popped the Italian, so I did another exercise. Back at my desk, after breakfast, I was too tired and lazy to start work, so I did another Italian exercise. Here are the good and confusing words I round.
Easy Italian - English
cavallo - horse (like the English word cavalry)
con - with (the same as Latin)
cugino - cousin - both Italian and English words contain the letters c, o, u, i, n. Just swap the g for an s)
fratello - brother (like fraternal, fraternity, o is masculine)
Io - I
mio - my (The Italian is pronounced like me -oh)
nome - name (the consonants n and me are the same and the last vowel e is the same. We use no in nomenclature.
o - or (same letter starts both)
nonna - granny - often called nan or nanny in English
sinistra - left (the origin of our English word sinister)
sorella - sister (starts with the letter s, similar to sorority, a is feminine
strada - street (starts with the same three letters)
telefono - telephone
treno - train
verde - green (like the English word verdant)
English - Easy Italian
brother - fratello (like fraternal, fraternity, o is masculine)
cousin - cugino - both Italian and English words contain the letters c, o, u, i, n. Just swap the g for an s)
granny - nonna often called nan or nanny in English
green - verde (like the English word verdant)
horse - cavallo (like the English word cavalry) - cavallo
I - Io
left - sinistra
my - mio (The Italian is pronounced like me -oh)
name - nome - (the consonants n and me are the same and the last vowel e is the same. We use no in nomenclature.
or - o (same letter starts both)
sister - sorella (starts with the letter s, similar to sorority, a is feminine
street - strada
telephone - telefono
train - treno
with - con (the same as Latin)
Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Italian_phrasebook
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