tomasito Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 6376 days ago 21 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French
| Message 1 of 36 21 August 2007 at 11:01pm | IP Logged |
A few of my friends and I have decided to learn Romanian. I do not know anything about this language, so if anyone would maybe give me some advice about how to go about learning Romanian that would be greatly appreciated.
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arsene Hexaglot Newbie Netherlands liviuandrei.com Joined 6237 days ago 17 posts - 18 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew, Romanian*, English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian
| Message 2 of 36 28 October 2007 at 4:58pm | IP Logged |
Still need some advice?
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Dogtanian Diglot Newbie Scotland Joined 6407 days ago 33 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Russian, Greek
| Message 3 of 36 28 October 2007 at 6:49pm | IP Logged |
Romanian is possibly the language I'm most frightened to learn in case comprehension of the words destroys the beauty of the sounds. Perhaps, like French it is a language that increases in beauty the more one learns.
I'd certainly like some advice on learning this language if you're offering, I did make some attempt a couple of years ago but didn't find many materials so I gave up, at least temporarily.
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tomasito Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 6376 days ago 21 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French
| Message 4 of 36 28 October 2007 at 7:15pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the offer, but my friends backed out and I'm currently studying French quite vigorously. I don't want to attempt another language until I can speak French perfectly, so it might be a while until I get to Romanian. Thanks again, though.
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arsene Hexaglot Newbie Netherlands liviuandrei.com Joined 6237 days ago 17 posts - 18 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew, Romanian*, English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian
| Message 5 of 36 03 November 2007 at 7:30pm | IP Logged |
Dogtanian, maybe? :)
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Fraz Diglot Newbie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6632 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English, Romanian* Studies: French
| Message 6 of 36 03 November 2007 at 10:10pm | IP Logged |
He seemed to be interested so might as well post some ideas for materials. I'm curious too.
The only free book that I know of is this rather scary looking grammar:
http://www.seelrc.org/webliography/romanian.ptml
That site also has grammars of other Eastern European and Slavic languages. However it appears they are more aimed at people trying to compare grammatical features of the said languages rather than self-taught beginners.
Edited by Fraz on 03 November 2007 at 10:10pm
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Dogtanian Diglot Newbie Scotland Joined 6407 days ago 33 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Russian, Greek
| Message 7 of 36 08 November 2007 at 4:07pm | IP Logged |
Arsene, yes I'm definitely interested! Actually if you, or Fraz could give me any recommendations on Romanian music I'd be grateful, music is always a great inspiration in language learning for me.
One problem I had when trying to learn before was that I didn't know where I could lay my hands on any useful authentic resources, so any tips would be very welcome!
Thank you:)
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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 8 of 36 08 November 2007 at 5:07pm | IP Logged |
I just put a random Romanian word into Google and see what comes out, - preferably texts with diacritics, but if the subject is interesting enough I may choose to read even texts using the ghastly 'simplified' spelling that is so common on the internet. There is no shortage of books in Romanian, but they are rarely exported to other countries.
For video/audio I use the TV stations on this portal
Edited by Iversen on 10 November 2007 at 8:25am
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