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The project involves the composition of an English-Spanish cognate lexicon. The underlying idea is to "leverage" the shared Latin heritage of English and the Romance languages so as to allow English speakers to more easily recognize foreign terms. For example, in English words that came directly from Latin the letter "f" will often correspond to Spanish "h" (refuse=rehusar [=to decline]; fumes-humo [=smoke]; fiber-hebra). By offering a robust list of these correspondences, English students of Spanish can more easily learn the foreign words and, moreover, recognize the relationship between the two languages and identify similar words when they encounter them.
I have already published one such work, an English-German lexicon that came out in 2013 (here is its Amazon page: http://tinyurl.com/msr3zw2).
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