Learn Romanian

Are you travelling to Romania? Or do you wish to learn a Romance language? Here is a brief introduction to Romanian as a language:

Romanian has many linguistic features in common with Italian, French and Spanish. Even though mutual intelligibility in terms of vocabulary is limited for the first two, the Latin origins offer a grammatical common ground for Romanian in respect to other Romance languages.

Alphabet

Aa Ââ Ăă Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Îî Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Șș Tt Țț Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Letter	Pronunciation	Example	Translation	Observation
Aa	[a]	aur [aur]	gold
Ââ	[ɨ] [ɨ din a]	câine [kɨine]	dog
Ăă	[ɘ]	ăsta [ɘsta]	this (this one), informal
Bb	[be] [bɨ]	bebe [bebe]	(little) baby
Cc	[tʃe] [kɨ]	cal [ kal]	horse	pronounced [tʃe] or [tʃi] before vowels E or I, and pronounced [k] before other vowels or consonants
Dd	[de] [dɨ]	dar [dar]	gift, but
Ee	[]

Some words

Now that you know the alphabet, you can learn a few examples coming from the nomenclature of animals:

Bear - Urs

Bee - Albină

Bird - Pasăre

Butterfly - Fluture

Cat - Pisică

Chicken - Pui de găină

Cockroach - Gândac

Cow - Vacă

Deer - Cerb

Dog - Câine

Eagle - Vultur

Elephant - Elefant

Fish - Pește

Fly - Muscă

Fox - Vulpe

Frog - Broască

other ways to learn Romanian ?

• betawikiversity:Pagina principală: Wikiversity in Romanian language