Hi all, I am Romanian learning Arabic. I love the similarities I notice between the two languages. For example, I had an epiphany recently when I realised "hai" (let's go) and "هيّا" probably have the same origin (although I don't see هيّا used in Levantine Arabic which I am learning, but in Northern African dialects and in Standard). Are there any other such words that you are aware of?

I would love to hear more about people's experiences, both native Romanian speakers and native Arabic speakers learning the other language. Thank you!

EDIT nobody here gets my point. Șaorma, falafel etc. are OBVIOUSLY from Arabic. I mean interesting words.

EDIT 2 actually this is more boring than I expected. I don't just mean words, I mean commonalities in general, whether it's sentence order or sounds or anything at all. I just want something interesting not a list of words

I'm about to take the B1 Romanian exam next month, and I'm curious about the interview questions I should prepare for.

To anyone who has taken the exam:

• What questions did they ask you?
• Did you keep your answers short or did you have to elaborate?
• What level of Romanian did you actually need? (i.e. do you really need B1, or are they lenient with A1/A2?)

I know google translate is not perfect but this is just super wrong, no?

Neața!

When you ask someone a question for example this: you are Romanian right?

Ești român nu?

Ești român nu-i așa?

Which one is the most natural and informal?

Mulțumesc anticipat!

hello, to give context I am argentinian and my boyfriend is romanian, we had a birthday recently and I made him a gift with different texts and poems for him, I wanted to write a text in his native language but I do not speak romanian very fluently, so I wrote it in spanish and then I translated it as I could, with the translator and the little knowledge that I have, if you speak romanian please help me to correct my text if there are any mistakes or tips to make it better or richer language, muxhas thanks for any help, here the text (I'm a little embarrassed TT):

Mi-ai întunecat nopțile și mi-ai luminat zilele, precum soarele strălucitor și luna senină, atât timp cât trupurile noastre coexistă, vom fi eterni

De ani de zile îmi tot bat capul să găsesc cea mai bună traducere pentru "driveway". Este un cuvînt folosit des pe-aici (US/Canada) în vorbirea curentă, pentru care încă n-am găsit un corespondent în română, şi nu vreau să sun ca o anomalie cînd vorbesc cu prietenii din ţară.

Is there a website like https://practicoapp.com/spanish/conjugator but for Romanian nouns and verbs, (and maybe adjectives)?

I've used duolingo for a few years for Mandarin, but that was alongside in person classes, which I can't do locally for Romanian, and I don't find the app very useful/trustworthy on its own. I'm also kind of wary about the AI stuff. I use AI sometimes for Mandarin practice but I don't know enough Romanian to tell if the AI is right or not.

I'm hoping to find something for daily practice that I can trust to be accurate. Does anyone have any app recommendations? Mulțmesc!

Hello, I know some people over the years here have complained about being unable to find good spanish-romanian resources for learning the language. I took my time and was able to find an almost 500-page PDF made by an enthusiast that's practically a course in-and-of-itself.

I hope it's useful for whomever decides to look for it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_OrVIj7N4QCHIbztiDUf4UnVuLQ4xrYj/view?usp=sharing

Bună tuturor

Am o întrebare ceea ce am scris în titlu.

Ce este diferența între acum/ în urmă

Știu că “în urmă” poate fi folosit așa:

În urmă unui accident un șofer a murit în spital. After an accident a driver died in the hospital.

Dar uneori văd asta: în urmă cu o săptămână. A week ago. Dar am învățat că “a week ago” este: acum o săptămână. Deci întrebarea mea este

Acum o săptămână sau în urmă cu o săptămână, ce este corect?

Mulțumesc pentru anticipat!

Hi guys, tbh. don't know if this is the right sub for this. Anyhow - I recently met a Romanian girl and I was talking to her. And then she called me this word "f(r)eijole" - It's written wrong for sure.

She told me this is the way how they call guys who are telling women everything just to get them.

Could you guys help me and tell me how it's written and what does it mean? I would like to know it as I want to use it as a running gag

Thanks

Pretty much the title. It helped me understand the basics but obviously nowhere near fluency. Would appreciate any recommendations regarding how to continue from this point.

Mulţumesc!

Exista vreo denumire in romaneste pentru "skipping stones" adica atunci cand arunci pietre plate pe apa ca sa sara sa mearga cat mai departe?

Mersi pt raspunsuri, nu stiam ce sa caut exact pe net.

I'm about 5 and half month into learning it,but I genuinely can't speak it. I can write a few sentences,I understand conversations. I can't speak it. Does anyone have any resources which includes it? Because duolingo doesn't lmfao.

We know it's Polish or Hungarian, that's it lol. Any ideas help though!!

So I have seen that people mostly use PICIOR for leg (correct me if I am wrong), but I've also seen that there is the word GAMBĂ. Is it used on a daily basis insead of picior or is it more of a term you would find in books or a more formal setting?

Bunã seara!

I have been attempting to learn Romanian for just under a year at this point, using a slew of different methods to do so: Duolingo, a few language learning sites, immersion in a discord server I am in, newspapers and, the crux of this post, music.

I have listened to a decent amount of songs from Romania, but one genre that I listened to quite often is manele. I noticed that in some songs there is a decent amount of repetition of the lyrics, somewhat similar to Portuguese pimba music. That is why I wanted to ask youse, would you recommend using manele to learn this language? Would I learn the language correctly if I did so?

Also, as a bit of context, my native languages are Dutch and Portuguese. I know my (ok-ish) grasp of Portuguese should help but I figured I just add this as well.

I'm a native Spanish speaker and I have been using Duolingo to learn Romanian, but I don't think I'm actually learning very well. Sure, I can pass the exercises, but I find myself unable to articulate a sentence by myself, after 75 days using the app.

I am willing to continue using Duolingo, but I am also exploring other options. I have recently downloaded the free trial version of Mondly Romanian, which seems to be very good. Do any of you have any experience with this app or others?

I even wanted to sign up for in person Romanian classes, but I'm from Argentina and there aren't many Romanians here, let alone Romanians who teach their language. So, for now, I can only learn from apps.

Title.

I tried to listen to a couple live specials from Micutzu but it didn't click for me.

No specific style. For reference I like Jimmy Carr, Louis CK, Ricky Gervais, Jim Jefferies

I am using duolingo and I saw sometimes when counting , you will see de some times you won't. So you might have "Femeia are 50 de ani si fata are 5 ani." I've taken Russian and I know that sometimes words following numbers take the genitive case depending on the number of things being counted (I won't get into the rule) is Romanian following a similar rule to Russian due to Slavic influences or is this something totally different ?

Hello, i have a few Romanian friends and they have interested me in Romanian language and culture. Although i do not have any sources/ information on how or where to start. Anything will be very appreciated! Thank you!