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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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