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 |  Subject: ♦ Roumanian: Language  26th August 2015, 5:36 am | |
| Yo! Ready for a lesson?  So romanian is not a very known language around the world. It is only spoken in Romania, Republic of Moldova, the unrecognized state of Transnistria, the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia and the autonomous monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. It is however a pretty complex language and it has many grammar rules. It is not though impossible to learn it. Romanian is actually easier for English speakers to understand than it is assumed. If you’ve studied other Romance language, such as Italian, Spanish, French or Portuguese, you may feel at home sooner than you think. Romanian is a phonetic language, so words are pronounced as they are spelled. The Romanian alphabet has 31 letters, similar to the ones in the English alphabet, with the exception of five special letters called 'diacritics': ă (like the 'a' in English word 'musical'), ș (pronounced as 'sh'), ț (pronounced 'ts'), â, î (have the same reading, without an English equivalent). Certain letters (and letter combinations) are pronounced differently than they are in English though. | Romanian Letters | Pronunciation | | ă | as in father | | î, â | No English equivalent | | e | as in tell | | i | [e] as in pick | | j | as in leisure | | ş | as in shoe | | ţ | [ts] as in fits | | ce | as in check | | gi | [dsi] as in gin | | ge | [dse] as in gender | | chi | [ki] as in skill | | che | [ke] as in chemistry | | ghi | [gi] as in give | | ghe | [ge] as in guess
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- K, Q, W and Y, not part of the native alphabet, were officially introduced in the Romanian alphabet in 1982 and are mostly used to write loanwords like kilogram,quasar, watt, and yoga.
- The Romanian alphabet is based on the Latin Script;
- There are two letters with a comma below, Ș and Ț, which represent the sounds /ʃ/ and /t͡s/. However, the allographs with a cedilla instead of a comma, Ş and Ţ, became widespread when pre-Unicode and early Unicode character sets did not include the standard form. THE CEDILLA IS NOT CORRECT THOUGH! That's right. Even though they made this mistake our language does not have any cedilla but comma below. We need however to write on the internet this way because this is how the keyboard is. But "Ş" it's not the same with "Ș".
- Romanian nouns are characterized by gender (feminine, masculine, and neuter), and declined by number (singular and plural) and case (nominative/accusative, dative/genitive and vocative). The articles, as well as most adjectives and pronouns, agree in gender, number and case with the noun they reference.
- As in all Romance languages, Romanian verbs are highly inflected for person, number, tense, mood, voice. The usual word order in sentences is subject–verb–object (SVO). Romanian has four verbal conjugations which further split into ten conjugation patterns. Verbs can be put in five moods that are inflected for the person (indicative, conditional/optative, imperative, subjunctive, and presumptive) and four impersonal moods (infinitive, gerund, supine, and participle).
- Romanian is the only Romance language where definite articles are enclitic: that is, attached to the end of the noun (as in Scandinavian, and Bulgarian), instead of in front (proclitic). They were formed, as in other Romance languages, from the Latin demonstrative pronouns.
 Useful romanian words/ phrases (some of them have pronounciation between the paranthesis)  Hello! - Bună! (Boo-nuh) Hi! - Salut! Good morning! - Bună dimineaţa! (Boo-nuh di-mi-na-tsa) Good evening! -Bună seara! (Boo-nuh sea-ra.) Good night! - Noapte bună! (Nwap-te boo-nuh) Good day! - Bună ziua! (Boo-nuh zee-wa.) Good bye! - La revedere! (La rev-eh-de-ray) My name is... - Numele meu este... (Noo-me-le meu yes-te ...) What is your name? - Care e numele tău? Do you speak english/ romanian? - Vorbeşti engleza/ româna? How do you say...? - Cum se spune...? I am sorry - Îmi pare rău! (Im pa-re rau) Thank you - Mulţumesc! You're welcome - Cu plăcere! I don't know - Nu ştiu Yes - Da No - Nu How are you? - Ce mai faceţi? (Che may fa-chets) I am fine - Sunt bine Here - Aici There - Acolo Days of the week: Monday - Luni Tuesday - Marţi Wednesday - Miercuri Thursday - Joi Friday - Vineri Saturday - Sâmbătă Sunday - Duminică Months of the year: January - Ianuarie February - Februarie March - Martie April - Aprilie May - Mai June - Iunie July - Iulie August - August September - Septembrie October - Octombrie November - Noiembrie December - Decembrie Numerals: One - Unu Two - Doi Three - Trei Four - Patru Five - Cinci Six - Şase Seven - Şapte Eight - Opt Nine - Nouă Teen - Zece Eleven - Unsprezece Twelve - Doisprezece One hundred: O sută So do you think you can manage it? How about giving a try to the romanian translation game? The one that gets the most translation right wins the contest! |
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