the actualy derive from different origin english is a germanic language like german, swedish,.... italian is a latin language like french, spanish... the main structure between those two branches of the indoeuropean languages(subdevided into several groups : germanic, latin celtic , slavic , hellenic celtic and indoiranian).. is quite similar but not enough to classify them as similar languages there is a huge difference in vocabulary and in grammar, unless you use in english its latin part as a vocabulary ,you can't even compare them

Hello Kanaria, Differences in pronunciation and tenses, similarities in sentence structure and vocabulary. Example: conversation (English) conversazione (Italian) Very similar spelling with a difference in few letters and in pronunciation.