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The project involves the composition of an English-Italian 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, some Italian words that begin with the letter "s" are derived from Latin words with the prefix "ex-": Italian "svegliare" ("to wake up") comes from Latin "ex-" + "vigilare" ("to be awake, alert, vigilant"). By showing the common roots of English and Latin, the English student can learn Italian vocabulary more easily.
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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