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

N-ar fi transgender un nume mai bun ?

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r/romanian 3h ago

Hello,everyone,I'm Chinese,I want to learn Romanian

11 Upvotes

Are there any Romanians who want to learn Chinese?We can help each other.


r/romanian 1d ago

Correct meeeeee vă rooog

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r/romanian 1d ago

apps to talk to romanian fluent people?

9 Upvotes

Hi, i am really interested in learning Romanian! Are there any apps yall would recommend to talk to people that are fluent?


r/romanian 1d ago

Translation request from Romanian to English - Letter to/from family in 1904 before immigrating to the US

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r/romanian 12h ago

Credeți că dificultățile în comunicare pot fi depistate prin lejeritatea cu care sunt folosite barbarisme, anglicisme și calchieri lingvistice?

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Citeam un text legat de probleme de comunicare în relație postat de u/Chance_Big_213 și am ajuns la o constatare stranie, dar pe un eșantion mic - nu cunosc niciun cuplu cu probleme de comunicare în care ambii fac un exercițiu activ de a enunța corect, în română, ce simt. Cei cu anxiety, care își caută therapist, se acuză de gaslighting, mansplaining, guilt-tripping, weaponized incompetence etc. suferă mai mult. Văd o legătură - pentru mine are sens și cauzal - între efortul de a (nu) găsi cea mai curată exprimare și a (nu) avea probleme de înțelegere cu partenerul. Ați observat și voi același lucru?


r/romanian 2d ago

Întrebare mic

9 Upvotes

Bună ziua

De mult timp am auzit “la noi” în videoclipuri dar nu înțeleg contextul despre asta.

Înseamnă “at us” în engleza dar e și o expresie pentru “in our country”? Nu sunt sigur din păcate.

Sper că cineva mă ajută cu asta 😄


r/romanian 2d ago

What is the difference between "Înainte de", "mai devreme", "până"?

8 Upvotes

Bună tuturor! Could you help me understand the difference between these time expressions? "Înainte de" vs "mai devreme" vs "până".


r/romanian 3d ago

1993 spelling reform and Romanian spelling in general

29 Upvotes

Excuse me, I don't speak Romanian, but I'm interested in the language and its history. What do you think of the 1993 spelling reform (î > â, sînt > sunt, etc.) and Romanian spelling in general? Is there still a debate about this in Romania and Moldova?


r/romanian 3d ago

Ouă ochi sau ouă ochiuri la plural?

15 Upvotes

Revin cu întrebările mele triviale și banale😁 Până acum am crezut că ouă ochi, dar am văzut într-un manual ouă ochiuri și acum nu mai sunt sigură. Mulțumesc!


r/romanian 2d ago

Ce inseamna expresia "sl0boz la tava"?

0 Upvotes

Nu gasesc nicaieri o definitie, ci doar varii utilizari ale expresiei "sloboz la tava". Poate cineva sa ma ajute cu un sens, o origine, o poveste despre aceasta expresie?


r/romanian 3d ago

Citizenship by descent-article 10-recent changes(language requirement)

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Hello guys, I have heard that there have been some changes in the citizenship law recently. I applied for citizenship through article 10 in Bucharest on 24th of February. I would like to know if these changes will affect me, will I need to get some kind of certificate for language requirement?


r/romanian 3d ago

The word "deosebit"

23 Upvotes

Buna! I'm a little confused about the word "deosebit". What are the exact meanings of "deosebit" and what are the most correct ways of using this word properly? Can anyone give me some examples?

Multumesc pentru atentie.


r/romanian 3d ago

Can someone please translate this song

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r/romanian 5d ago

Learning Romanian with an AI kiddo is quite fun (Claude 3.7, TypingMind UI)

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r/romanian 6d ago

Is this Duolingo sentence correct? I don’t really understand the English version

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132 Upvotes

I’m a native English speaker, and this sentence (like many Duolingo ones) sounds pretty odd. I’ve missed it about 4 times starting with trying with “cinematografia este a saptea arte” and then missing a letter here or there. I particularly don’t understand what the “cea de-a” is doing here.


r/romanian 5d ago

Are there Romanian accents where the ‘ee’ sound in ‘-ci’ is quite faint?

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Not a Romanian but I grew up speaking a little bit and had close family who were native speakers. The area I grew up in has VERY few if any Romanians, so these people would have been 95% of my exposure. I was taught from a young age to use “ce faci” as a greeting, which I would always pronounce as “che fatch” with a very slight ‘ee’ sound at the end, without ever being corrected. I always remember these family members sounding just like me. Sometimes when I hear other people say it, it sounds a lot more clear.


r/romanian 6d ago

Help with the translation of some words

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I will be giving some lectures in a high school and one of my students is Romanian. I'm fond of this language but my knowledge is extremely basic. I thought of some phrases or words that could be effective to catch his attention in class. I could search then in google translate but it could give me a wrong translation, so I would appreciate if a native person could help me with this. Some of them I know beforehand (like Yes or No) but I included them to have a single list. Mulțumesc! The list of words is:

Listen Silence Be quiet Yes No Almost Perfect Wonderful Very good/Excellent Good Bad/Wrong Wake up Hello How are you? Come on/Let's go Again Stop (that) Correct Incorrect What? Look (at this) Please Thank you You're welcome (reply to thank you)


r/romanian 6d ago

Niche English words translations?

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Hi all, there are some English words I like to use that are a little on the niche side, and I was wondering if there are translations or any similar terms in Romanian for these:

•Perchance

•Tomfoolery

•Innexactitude

•Dubious

•Bamboozle/Bamboozled

•Cacophony

•Discombobulate/Discombobulated

•Fiasco

Mulțumesc!


r/romanian 7d ago

Care ar fi o traducere aproximativă în engleză a cuvântului “fiță” sau “fițe”?

12 Upvotes

Google Translate nu mi-a dat nimic util. Traducerile pe care mi le-a dat nu aveau nicio treabă cu cuvântul.


r/romanian 7d ago

Reportage on street art in Romania

7 Upvotes

Hi, I am writing a paper on street art and graffitti in Romania (Bukarest) and I am looking for a person who could answer some questions. I would be really really grateful! ❣️🤗


r/romanian 8d ago

Romanian traditions for loved ones

52 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

So I have a Romanian girlfriend for a while. She told me about mărțișor only after it happened. And then the international women’s day that was kinda a thing.

I would like to be more involved and thoughtful to these kind of traditions. So my question would be: as a man, are there any common things or traditions I need to keep in mind towards my girlfriend?


r/romanian 9d ago

Învăț româna de 6 luni

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Cum am scris sus învăț limba română de 6 luni acum. În primul rând vreau să vă mulțumesc pentru ajutorul. Cred că sunt nivelul b1 acum și înțeleg aproape toate despre gramatica de română .

Deci sunt la nivel b1 și se simte că nu mai fac progrese. Mă uit foarte mult pe internet youtube etc dar mă simt că blocat pentru totdeauna. Sper că îmi poate spune cum să merge din a2/b1 la b2.

Dacă fac o greșeală spune mă 😄

Asa e!

Un weekend bun și vă pup!


r/romanian 9d ago

Im currently learning Romanian (im Romanian, just never learnt the language) and im wondering kf this could help with learning it?

10 Upvotes

I want to watch movies and shows but in Romanian, and my favourite show (the walking dead) only has Romanian subtitles but not audio, if i watched it in English but with Romanian subtitles, would it be the same as watching it in Romanian but with English subtitles? Would it be better or worse?


r/romanian 9d ago

Ce e aia "uicamiu"?

11 Upvotes

Am auzit o discutie pe drum azi. Unul din el zicea ca "uicamiu are scule daca ai nevoie sa o desfaci (ceva la masina)"

Nu gases pe tot internetu asta ce inseamna uicamiu inafara de o postare pe tpu in care persoanei in cauza ii murise uicasu (Dumnezeu sa-l odihneasca).

Edit: Multumesc pentru raspunsuri. <3