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| Daciana Newbie United States Joined 5241 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Studies: Romanian, English* Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 1 of 6 27 July 2010 at 8:05pm | IP Logged |
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I was born in Romania, but I came to the States at 1 and a half. I'm considered a native English speaker, but I have always understood Romanian. I never really thought about learning to write or read in Romanian until a couple of years ago.
I just came back from Romania and I feel that that has been a milestone in my learning. I understand and can speak a lot more than I used to, and now I can even read some. I would like to know the forum's opinion here on what I should do to advance in my Romanian. I don't think I need to buy anything... Do I? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6379 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 6 28 July 2010 at 5:19am | IP Logged |
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Read, read, read. Simple but it should be all you need if you are already pretty comfortable speaking the language.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 6 28 July 2010 at 7:11am | IP Logged |
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The internet is full of free stuff in Romanian, including Romanian TVR - the only problem is that most Romanian internet sites are written without diacritics (with Wikipedia as a notable exception). And Google can luckily be limited to texts in Romanian. Edited by Iversen on 28 July 2010 at 7:16am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ReachingOut Pentaglot Groupie Greece Joined 5237 days ago 57 posts - 81 votes Speaks: English*, German, GreekB2, French, Romanian Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 6 28 July 2010 at 12:13pm | IP Logged |
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I have the same problem, and there doesn't seem to be lot of material for advanced learners beyond B1 level. There are a couple of sites which I have found useful with grammar, listening and reading material and exercises
http://cnt.dnt.md/romint/undp/index.php http://www.ilr.ro/apl.php?idap=12 http://granturi.ubbcluj.ro/autodidact/ro/manuale.html Dictionaries http://dexonline.ro/ http://www.wordreference.com/ The best and most complete grammar is from this site http://www.seelrc.org:8080/grammar/mainframe.jsp?nLanguageID =5 Text without diacritics really is a problem, especially for beginners and can prove to be a considerable hinderance to learning. Romanians seem to be quite lazy when it comes to using diacritics. As Newyorkeric pointed out, you need to read, read, read but also speak, listen and write as much as possible, especially write if, as you say, you already understand and speak it quite well. I correspond with a couple of Romanians on forums and social networking sites, even Skype which has really helped me to learn. Also I'm friends with a Romanian family living locally here, I spend quite a lot of time with them and we always speak in Romanian, and that is how I've now managed to advance beyond the basics. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5345 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 5 of 6 28 July 2010 at 3:36pm | IP Logged |
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Order and read real books, not internet material. And keep a dictionary by your side while you do so.
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| Daciana Newbie United States Joined 5241 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Studies: Romanian, English* Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 6 of 6 28 July 2010 at 6:42pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you for all of your suggestions, I will definitely look at through all of the websites and look for books online to help me.
Since Iversen brought up TV, does anyone know the show Te pui cu blondele? It's on Antena 1, and my dad and I watch it sometime (He translates a good chunk of it :P) You can tell that it is a Romanian game show (Compared to an English gameshow or something like that), and while watching it you can learn a lot from the trivia. I recommend watching it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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