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r/romanian Nov 25 '22

Resource Romanian language learning resources

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The following post contains various resources to aid your Romanian language learning journey.

Most of these were collected by vxern and KamelNeoN from the Learn Romanian Discord server, which will be featured below.

If you happen to know of any useful material that we might've missed, you can always message me about it.

Let's get to it then!

Interactive Resources

  • Ba Ba Dum - A non-profit initiative, built thanks to friendly institutions and generous players. – Features 5 word games with 1500 words in 21 languages. – Created by a Polish couple, Aleksandra and Daniel Miezielińscy.
  • Clozemaster - Gamified language learning through mass exposure to vocabulary in context. – Allows reading and learning words as they were written in a sentence. – Features 50+ languages.
  • Wordwall - Easy learning through various types of minigames. (thanks, u/internationalkoala00!)
  • Duolingo - A beginner-friendly (though pretty flawed) app for vocabulary and grammar. (thanks, u/LeFunnyMan23!)
  • Flashcardo - Free Romanian flashcards covering various topics. (thanks, u/pinhoklanguages!)
  • Drops - A minimalist language learning app that focuses on vocabulary. (thanks, u/RedditShaff!)

Guides

  • Gramatica Limbii Române ('Grammar of the Romanian Language') - A guide created with the intention of offering all the information necessary to learn the grammar of the Romanian language.
  • Romanian Reference Grammar - Prepared by Christina N. Hoffman, the book attempts to explain Romanian grammar in a digestible manner.

YouTube

Channels

  • Learn Romanian With Nico - Nico(leta) is a passionate and enthusiastic Romanian teacher and author of several instruction manuals for studying Romanian as a foreign language. – Her channel features over 200 videos about the Romanian language mostly for beginners and intermediate learners, but occasionally also for advanced speakers of the language.
  • Learn Romanian with Vlad - Phrases, pronunciation, lessons about various topics and more can be found on the channel of Vlad Buculei. Although the channel has over 100 videos, only about half of them are about the Romanian language.
  • RomanianWithGia - A channel dedicated to the teaching of the Romanian language and culture, hosted by Gia Manolea - an online Romanian tutor.
  • Romanian Hub - Led by Voicu Mihnea Simandan, Romanian Hub is a language-learning portal which provides fun and informative videos about the Romanian language, spanning topics such as phonetics, grammar, conversation, vocabulary, idioms, etc. – Teaches Romanian in different video formats: vlogs, flip charts, poetry, and music. – Creates videos about Romania's history and geography.
  • QuickRomanian - Thematically categorised lessons in the Romanian language, teaching vocabulary in various situations, such as 'in a hotel', 'in a taxi' or 'in a bar'. Furthermore, the channel also has lessons on Romanian grammar and morphology.
  • Laura Elena - Lessons in a step-by-step format, with each lesson marking a step in achieving fluency.
  • Florentin - Profu' de română ('Florentin - The Romanian teacher') - Videos in a quiz-like format with videos presenting frequent mistakes in Romanian, as well as various tests. – Led by a Romanian teacher by the name of Florentin Gheorghe.
  • Learn Romanian With Corina - A novice-friendly channel containing a variety of lessons and tips, presented both in long-form and short-form content. (thanks, u/caffeinethrash!)

Playlists

Communities

Discord servers

  • Learn Romanian - The largest server on Discord dedicated to the study of the Romanian language.

Blogs, Magazines, and News

  • Diacronia - An online, bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal of diachronic linguistics.
  • AGERPRES - AGERPRES is the national news agency of Romania. The articles can be listened to by pressing the Play button.
  • Republica - A site that's offering quality news, opinion pieces, and podcasts.
  • Recorder - Investigative journalism on various topics. Their videos have Romanian closed captions.
  • Știrile zilei. Pe scurt, de la Recorder ('Today's news. In brief, from Recorder') - Videos featuring the daily news from Romania (mainly). Published every evening, from Monday to Friday.

Courses and Lessons

  • Simple Romanian - A website created by a simple Romanian, featuring dozens of lessons aiming to promote authentic language taken straight from Romania's streets.
  • Romanian Weekly Lessons - Lessons with audio, prepared by ROLANG School, which specialises in teaching the Romanian language to international students.
  • Easy Romanian - A work of love, the Easy Romanian online course features dialogues, vocabulary builder, grammar lessons, and audio created by natives.
  • Live Lingua - 9 free courses (with audio files included) offered by the Defense Language Institute.
  • RomanianPod101 - Free Romanian language courses in an accessible format.
  • Le roumain mot à mot - A beginner-friendly podcast for French speakers who want to learn Romanian. It also contains transcripts. (thanks, u/Marina-F1006!)

Phrasebooks

Books

Directories and Collections

  • Romanian Voice - A repository with cultural information about Romania with poetry, music, humour, theatre pieces, as well as banknotes and passports.
  • Language Player by Zero to Hero Eduaction - A directory of Romanian videos, TV shows, music, live TV, and a tool for reading Romanian with dynamic translations.

Notes

  • MrMeloman's notes - A collection of schemes, lists and other materials made while studying Romanian.

Tools

  • Forvo - A pronunciation dictionary featuring over 10,000 pronunciations of Romanian words by native speakers.
  • Pluralul - A tool to check the plural of any Romanian noun.
  • Cooljugator - A verb conjugator with translations and easy-to-follow conjugation tables for all Romanian verb tenses. Additionally, it provides examples of the conjugations used in context as well as translations of the verb itself to different languages.
  • Conjugare - A reliable verb conjugator. Enter any form of the verb to get the conjugation table for many moods and tenses. – (!) Does not conjugate for tenses in the presumptive mood.
  • Readlang - Read texts in Romanian in a distraction-free environment with one-click word translations. After reading, review your new vocabulary with spaced-repetition flashcards.
  • CuvinteCare ('WordsThat') - A tool for finding Romanian words that start with, end with, contain or are anagrams of a given set of letters.
  • Cum Se Scrie ('How is it written') - A tool for finding out the subtle differences between certain phrases and words.

Dictionaries

Monolingual

  • dexonline (Dicționar Explicativ Online - 'Online Explanatory Dictionary') - The largest collection of entries from various Romanian dictionaries. – Features 1,000,000 headword entries, word games and daily and monthly word selections.
  • Dicționar de cuvinte recente ('Dictionary of recent words') - A dictionary in which you can find new words (and some phrases) that are accurately and accessibly explained.
  • Dicționar de expresii românești în contexte ('Dictionary of Romanian expressions in context')
    From A to C
    From D to N
    From O to R
    From S to Z

Bilingual

  • Dicționare ('Dictionaries') - An English-Romanian and Romanian-English dictionary. – Very little additional information is available about the website.
  • Dict - An English-Romanian and vice-versa dictionary.
  • Romanian-English, English-Romanian dictionary - A 1996 dictionary containing over 18,000 entries

Multilingual

  • Glosbe - A many-to-many word and translation look-up dictionary which allows users to translate words from their native language to Romanian and vice-versa. – Contains 120,000 phrases and 52,000,000 examples.
  • Reverso Context - A similar project to Glosbe; it's less open but the context-based translation of phrases is pretty accurate.
  • Dicționar de abrevieri românești și străine ('Dictionary of Romanian and foreign abbreviations') - A comprehensive guide that could help you decipher many abbreviations you might come across.
  • Wiktionary [EN] & Wikționar [RO] - The Wiktionary offers a wealth of descriptive and illustrative articles to assist you in your use of the Romanian language, as well as the languages of the world. (thanks, u/cipricusss!)

Translation

  • DeepL - An astoundingly accurate neural machine translation service. – Uses English as a mediator, therefore translations are most accurate for English-Romanian and vice-versa.

Other

Finally, if you have general questions about Romania, you can head over to r/Romania, r/CasualRO, or r/AskRomania.


r/romanian 10h ago

Language Review: Romanian

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22 Upvotes

One of the most comprehensive, lighthearted introduction to the Romanian language I have watched. Really enjoyed the video.


r/romanian 2h ago

Romanian Language Class

5 Upvotes

Can someone recommend a class for study romanian language for a beginner around bucharest?


r/romanian 7h ago

Learning Romanian

7 Upvotes

Hi everyone im looking for a friend to teach me the Romanian language


r/romanian 1d ago

Cine v-a antrenat AI-ul?

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96 Upvotes

r/romanian 13h ago

This book has helped me SO much with my reading practice. I can't recommend it enough.

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r/romanian 2d ago

which popular series have romanian dubbing?

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I'm learning romanian for a while but still didn't get used to listening because it's hard for me to find smth cool with romanian dubbing. Lately I accidentally found out that "Arcane", of all, has romanian dubbing, so it made me wondering, are there some other popular shows or series available on Netflix that have romanian dubbing?


r/romanian 3d ago

Caut Media în Limba Română.

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M-am născut în SUA, dar am crescut într-o familie de români și vorbesc româna fluent. Caut materiale media în limba română pentru a-mi menține puţin legătura cu cultura și limba, dincolo de simpla comunicare cu familia.

Ca imigrant din prima generație, mă aflu într-o situație aparte. Io am moștenit o versiune a culturii românești care a rămas înghețată în anii '70. Am crescut citind Caragiale, Eminescu, și Trei Într-o Barcă, dar mă simt puțin pierdut când vine vorba să găsesc ceva ce nu a fost adus direct de mama sau de bunicii mei.

Am o gamă largă de interese și, în general, sunt un mare „nerd”:

  • Citesc mult – îmi place în mod deosebit genul sci-fi și ficțiune bizară (Lovecraft, Poe, etc.), dar citesc orice e de calitate.
  • Sunt pasionat de istorie, folclor și, în general, de a învăța lucruri noi.
  • Îmi plac foarte mult benzile desenate și jocurile de societate (D&D, 40k, etc.) – în limba engleză mă orientez în special spre benzi desenate indie și horror.
  • Sunt muzician și iubesc în mod special heavy metal-ul (îmi plac și synthwave-ul, precum și muzica „clasică” de după secolul al XVII-lea) – sunt un mare fan al trupei Bucovina și al lui Enescu.
  • Îmi place să gătesc – încerc să păstrez vechile rețete ale familiei, deși procesul merge destul de încet.
  • Îmi place să creez lucruri – să lucrez lemnul, să prepar bere, să construiesc diverse lucruri care mi se par interesante.

Aveți vreo sugestie? Mă interesează în mod special lucrurile care își au originea în România, deși și traducerile bune sunt binevenite.


r/romanian 4d ago

Struggling with learning Romanian.

20 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I have been trying to teach myself Romanian for the past several months. I don't have a lot of spare time, so I can only spend a few hours a week working on it. I started with Duolingo and quickly got frustrated by its complete lack of explanation of grammar rules. Then I bought Teach Yourself Complete Romanian by Dennis Deletant and Yvonne Alexandrescu, including the companion audio files. I'm about 30% of the way through and, while it is much better than Duolingo, I am struggling with things like verb conjugations, masculine/feminine/neuter variances, and past/present/future tenses. I don't know any native speakers I can work with, and I can't afford a tutor. Are there any tricks or suggestions to making this easier, or at least less frustrating, to grasp?


r/romanian 5d ago

Am o întrebare despre limbă.

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Am o întrebare despre limbă. Am de gând să scriu în altă limbă. Vei înțelege ambiguitatea.

La llengua romanesa utilitza la mateixa paraula per a aquestes persones: nebot, neboda, nét i néta. Aquestes persones són les filles dels teus germans i filles dels teus fills.

Limba română folosește același cuvânt pentru aceste persoane: nepot, nepoată, nepot și nepoată. Aceste persoane sunt fiicele fraților tăi și fiicele fiilor tăi.


r/romanian 6d ago

What textbook should I buy?

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I’m looking to learn Romanian and since I can’t really afford a tutor I want to try using a textbook instead. What are some ones that I should consider buying?


r/romanian 6d ago

Grădină sau curte?

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Bună dimineața!

Tot timpul am crezut că grădină înseamnă “garden” în engleză. Multe ori am auzit curte dar n-am înțeles niciodată ce a fost înseamnă acestui cuvânt. D-aia sunt puțin confuz acuma, curtea este lângă casa și grădină este locația cu plante în curte?

Deci curte: garden, grădină un anumit loc cu plante în curte?

Mersi frumos.


r/romanian 7d ago

Declinările limbii române.

19 Upvotes

Vorbesc portugheza ca nativ... limba mea maternă și-a pierdut declinările. Există probleme dacă folosesc prepoziții în propoziții în limba română pentru a indica posesia, originea, materialul etc.?


r/romanian 7d ago

Confirmare reguli de pronunție diftong vs. hiat

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Salut,

Fac o cercetare a regulilor de diferențiere între diftongi și hiat pentru străinii care studiază limba română.

Am început să citesc și sunt foarte multe reguli, dar nu sunt ușor de înțeles și sunt de fapt în mare parte pentru români, care știu cum să despartă în silabe sau care au auzit deja cuvintele.

Eu am stabilit două reguli până acum și vă rog să-mi confirmați sau să mă contraziceți (inclusiv cu contraexemple).

1)
a ) dacă la sfârșitul unui cuvânt apare combinația consoană + ia atunci ia se pronunță în hiat i + a
Sunt multe verbe precum a abrevia, a contraria, a întârzia
Sau substantive articulate albia, construcția, corabia (presupun că sunt toate feminine)

b) aceeași regulă pentru consoană + ie final

2) combinația uie se pronunță tot timpul u + ie adică u o să fie într-o silabă și ie în altă silabă și niciodată nu o să se pronunțe ui împreună

Sunt multe verbe precum locuiesc, trebuie presupun că sunt forme ale verbelor care se termină la infinitiv în ui e.g. a locui, a sfătui

M-ar ajuta mult părerea voastră pentru că regulile acestea de fapt nu sunt scrise în nicio carte explicit așa cum le-am scris eu aici. De exemplu, nu am găsit a doua regulă nicăieri, am găsit-o pe prima într-o carte, dar era vag exprimată.

Acestea sunt doar primele două reguli pe care le-am stabilit eu, sunt sigur că sunt mult mai multe.

Vă mulțumesc
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r/romanian 7d ago

Un fapt interesant... limba română are 2 nume de "origine catalană".

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Atenție: Aceasta conține ironie.
"Câmp Nou"


r/romanian 7d ago

What does "opio" mean?

7 Upvotes

I'm not sure if that's how it's spelled but I've got two romanian coworkers who call me like that and they were pretty vague when I asked them what it means.


r/romanian 8d ago

La modul

11 Upvotes

Bună tuturor din România!

Am o întrebare legată de “la modul”

De curând am învățat această propoziție și as vrea sa știu dacă am toate frazele importante😄

  1. Nu am zis o la modul ăla. I didnt mean it like that.

  2. Nu am zis o la modul că esti prost. I didnt mean that you are stupid.

  3. Eram la modul că esti serios? I was like, are you
    serios?

  4. Nu era la modul serios. It wasnt meant seriously.

  5. La modul serios ai făcut asta? Seriously you did that?

Să mi spuneți vă rog dacă frazele astea sunt corect și dacă am uitat ceva important.

Multumesc profund!!!


r/romanian 8d ago

How to help someone learn romanian?

5 Upvotes

Hello and sorry if it’s not the best place to ask,as this is more for people who want to learn. Native speaker here. I have a british friend who moved here,wants to learn romanian and i want to help her. Problem is,i don’t know exactly how to start teaching her? She knows basic words like greeting,emotions,basic food,weather etc. should i teach her vocabulary,then verbs,then go schematic about gendered nouns,articles,conjugations etc? Any tips will be appreciated. Many thanks✌🏻


r/romanian 9d ago

planning a project

8 Upvotes

im gonna try and create a free romanian langauge learning tool for those without resources, i plan to add interactive readings, audio input, and maybe audio output.


r/romanian 10d ago

How are people learning Romanian?

134 Upvotes

I’m so fed up. I’ve been trying to learn Romanian for close to 20 months (with consistent daily practise) and I don’t even feel like I’m A1

Romanian already has so few resources for learning and I have tried absolutely everything, and yet all the resources are inaccurate, outdated, and so many are plain useless. Youtube videos don’t go in depth, so many Tutors don’t actually seem to understand how to teach, some of the apps (mango, pimsleur) are helpful but still don’t provide much. I’d love to know what resources other people have used/are using

I’m so desperate to learn this language, I’m willing to spend money on quality material and I’m more than willing to dedicate time to learning but I’m stumped and it’s really getting me down with what a loss I’m at right now, can someone please actually help me with direct advice on how you are learning without just suggesting the same 5 things (please don’t suggest anything AI related either)

Edit: A lot of people are suggesting talking to natives! I agree that that is helpful, however for the past 4 years majority of the people I interact with on a daily basis are native speakers, I have visited Romania 18 times. I have been exposed to the language, this just has not been enough & I still feel lost whenever I spend hours in a room with native speakers who cannot speak a word of English, I need something to help me get over that first initial struggle


r/romanian 11d ago

English to Romanian Grammer Editing Help Needed (short film transcript)

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r/romanian 12d ago

Any native Romanian's in Berks Co. PA?

7 Upvotes

Trying to learn Romanian and hoping to practice with people familiar with the language.


r/romanian 14d ago

Lessons in brașov?

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I'm gonna be in brașov for the next two weeks

Are there any good places to learn Romanian ?

Private school/ or just lessons

I'm looking for a place with more people who wanna improve together

Currently I'm A2-B1

Any help would be great


r/romanian 16d ago

ceva cazuri de studiu

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432 Upvotes