Italian words which sound or look similar to English words

 Here are some of the words I have learned recently from Duolingo. I found some of them had obvious connections with similar or longer English words. When I was stumped, I asked my husband and he added a couple more useful suggestions. Notice that the Italian words usually end with a vowel, a, o, e, i. Sometimes the last consonant is dropped, leaving the Italian word ending in a vowel.

Italian - English

farmacia - pharmacy (sounds the same, ph=f) farmaci-a

dito  - finger (like digit) dit -o

ha - has (she has, consonant dropped)

lei - she (To remember the letters, like the French elle, using the letters l and e. Il is he, so you add e to get the feminine lei, and reverse the letter il for he to get lei for her, putting her letter e in the middle of the l and i. Or using the sounds to remember, I remember, 'he was ill and she lay down with him.')

Medico - doctor, in the medical profession, prescribes medicine medic-o

(le) pareti - walls (like partition, starts par, includes the letter t, Italian ends with i , i being plural like the word spaghetti)

pericolo - danger, peril, something perilous pericol -o

preferisco - I prefer (My memory aid is ,'I prefer San Francisco - preferisco San Francisco')

sei - are you? (I rmember, 'Say, are you ...?'

sforzi - effort or force - all have the letters for, in Italian add a hiss at the start and the vowel i at the end sforz - i

vivace - lively, vivacious vivac - e

English - Italian

are you? - sei

danger - pericolo

doctor - medico

effort / force - sforzi

finger - dito

has - ha

I prefer - preferisco

Pharmacy - farmacia

she - lei

vivacious - vivace

walls - paretti

Glossary (mini dictionary of words used in a document)

vowel - voiced sound, a e i o u (and sounds with added y, eg ay)

consonant - what goes with the (vowel) sound, or stops it, usually using the tongue or lips, b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p , q, r s, t v, w, x, z

e.g. Latin for for example

Useful Websites

Duolingo - Italian and other languages

Wiki - consonants

Wiki - vowels

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