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| laina Newbie Scotland Joined 6874 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes | Message 9 of 54 01 February 2006 at 2:02pm | IP Logged |
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I'm not so much wondering why to learn Romanian because I think it's quite a beautiful language. I started learning it a short while ago and I find it to be a language which sounds nice and feels even nicer when you speak the words.
What I did want to ask though, is if anyone knows of a decent course for Romanian. At the moment I have a "Teach Yourself" course. I always find this series very informative but a bit hard going. Any better ideas? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7018 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 54 01 February 2006 at 4:37pm | IP Logged |
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I can only think of Colloquial Romanian and Assimil's Le Roumain sans peine (if your French is up to it).
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| laina Newbie Scotland Joined 6874 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes | Message 11 of 54 02 February 2006 at 2:46am | IP Logged |
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I haven't tried Assimil before, but maybe I'll give it a go then.
To add to the list of reasons to learn Romanian: The music of Maria Tanase, a singer with a beautiful and mysterious voice. A band called Transylvania Phoenix also have some songs worth listening to. These are not really so modern but there seems to be quite a bit of interesting music from over there. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| SteveP Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6841 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English*, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian | Message 12 of 54 07 March 2006 at 10:24am | IP Logged |
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Personally I am learning Romanian because I am living ther at the moment. I am also learning Hungarian, which I prefer because it is more interesting, but which is also much more challenging.
If you learn most of the more common Slavic-derived words and a few other non-French (oops I meant "Latin) derived words then you will quite easily be able to follow subtitled Romanian TV channels and films. Finding good Romanian films made in the Romanian language will be much more difficult though. The film industry in Romania is very poor and almost everything on TV comes from abroad, mostly from the US. Domestically produced shows tend to be studio based variety shows which are all "prost" (stupid/simple) or else news and dull political talk shows where the real issues of a corrupt gangster elite holding most political power are avoided... There is some interesting cultural stuff in Romanian from between the two world wars (when it isn't cringe-inducingly nationalistic and anti-semitic) but little since then. Romanians cherish a lot of absurd national(istic) myths and have streets named after their WW2 dictator and other unsavoury types. To be honest I wouldn't bother learning their language if I didn't have to. It shouldn't take too long though if you know other Romance languages, and the Russian will actually help (e.g. carrot is "morcov" in Romanian!) Hope this negativity helps your decision. La revedere ! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sapedro Triglot Senior Member Portugal descredito.blogspot. Joined 7121 days ago 216 posts - 219 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, French Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Greek | Message 13 of 54 08 March 2006 at 5:19am | IP Logged |
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Teach Yourself Romanian is BAD !
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| Paula Tetraglot Newbie Romania Joined 6835 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English, GermanC2, Norwegian Studies: Danish | Message 14 of 54 19 March 2006 at 5:19am | IP Logged |
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My native language is Romanian and I can help you if you want to. I could name you some Romanian bands, but I don't know what kind of music you prefer. There are also a few ( rather "few" than " a few") good Romanian films , try "Moartea domnului Lazarescu". It is true , Romanian is very similar to Italian , I've never studied Italian but when I speak with an Italian I am able to understand aproximately 65% of what he is saying. I must admit, our TV stations are pretty crappy, but you can also find some good shows, try TVR Cultural.
Oh yes, Vladimir is not a Romanian name(it is Russian) , Vlad is. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7147 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 15 of 54 19 March 2006 at 9:35am | IP Logged |
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For those interested in Romanian and seeking more extensive materials than Teach Yourself Romanian and the like, there's the book Spoken Romanian, by Spoken Languages Services, which has six cassette tapes and is arranged with dialogues and then drills, a bit like the FSI courses but rather substantially shorter. Here's the Spoken Languages Services site:
http://www.spokenlanguage.com/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Eriol Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6869 days ago 118 posts - 130 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Portuguese | Message 16 of 54 31 July 2006 at 11:10am | IP Logged |
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Since there have been complaints about the availability of Romanian resources in the past, I thought I'd post my latest find:
For some reason I was aimlessly surfing around at http://www.franklang.ru/ and stumbled on the link to Limba Romana which has quite a lot of learning material aimed mostly at Russian speakers. I had a short peek at "Manual 3" which is a complete beginners course with audio and help texts in both Russian and English. A further link lead to http://cnt.dnt.md/romint/undp/index.php which is a mostly monolingual course with audio. There are some vocabulary lists in Russian, Ukrainian, Gaugaz and Bulgarian though. (I wonder how many native speakers of Gaugaz we have on the forum? Let's see some hands!) I'm not 100% sure about the legality of the Limba Romana site, but I didn't see any obvious copyrights on the material. Oh, and all of these are resources from Moldova. I don't know enough about the language to tell if that makes any difference for learners of "romanian" Romanian... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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