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@mxz.schwarz

4 жыл бұрын

masina, the word that you used in your second example, is actually of slavic roots, it's similar to the russian word for car, машина (mashina). the pronunciation is almost identical.

@mxz.schwarz

4 жыл бұрын

@Alex C then why is mashina only in romanian, the language influenced by slavic languages?

@mxz.schwarz

4 жыл бұрын

@Alex C car is currus in latin.

@mxz.schwarz

4 жыл бұрын

@Alex C I was under the impression that the italian word for car was auto.

@mxz.schwarz

4 жыл бұрын

@Alex C why couldn't it b Indo-European?

My grandmother came to the US from Romania as a young woman. She lived in Philadelphia and, until she learned English, she would go to the Italian market to buy food. She said she never had trouble communicating with the Italian-Americans.

@DrPhibesxx7

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this family story. I love it 👍

@gsmgsa

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I'm romanian and I can tell they are very similar in many ways.

@RadioRoxx.FM_90.1FM

3 жыл бұрын

That îs a nice history

@BartSimpson-jd2vs

3 жыл бұрын

They are similar languages

@M_alienWorld

3 жыл бұрын

I used to live in NYC. My parents visited from Romania, I took them to Columbus Day parade on 5th Ave (great times... in 2003 there was still a Columbus Day !). We were speaking in Romanian, and the Italian guy next to us asked "what dialect is that?" as he could understand most of our chat...

professor Tamborra (Rome University) used to define Romania "a Latin island in a big Slavic sea"

@imalpha6026

4 жыл бұрын

Hungarian isn't slavic

@ceaparadioactiva

4 жыл бұрын

@@imalpha6026 Hungarian isn't a Slavic language, yes. The comment was regarding Latin languages in Eastern Europe.

@cristianvasile2615

4 жыл бұрын

Asta a zis-o un român, nu profesorul Tambborra

@roxanamarza9321

4 жыл бұрын

Francesco Zati that actually sounds beautiful! ❤️

@Perririri

4 жыл бұрын

The Magyar, both in Hungary and the #Erdély ( Transylvania, ) are not Slavic

It's so ironic that the one language that literally has "roman" in its name would be the "forgotten" one.

@practicaltheory6604

2 жыл бұрын

Me as a native Romanian speaker , I plan to learn the old Latin language in future .

@vespasiancloscan7077

Жыл бұрын

In a way yeah, but it also makes sense. Romance speakers in the eastern half of Europe were cut off from the bulk of the other Romance speakers and surrounded by other nations/tribes. And, people tend to define themselves in the least specific manner necessary to differentiate themselves from outsiders. So for example while in the UK a person will identify as a Scouser, once they're abroad they'll be far more likely to just think of themselves as simply British. The Portuguese, Castilians and Catalans couldn't call themselves Romans because they're all neighbours culturally descended from the Romans.

@coodrut

Жыл бұрын

yeah but i n our language we have like diferent sounds like â î ă and our country name îs România but yeah it s close to roman

@healththenopulence5106

Жыл бұрын

@@coodrut we didnt come up with the name “Romania”.. actually the old people called themselves “rumâni” and said they descend from the romans and dacians… this is in the middle ages before being latin or knowing your origin was in fashion or before history got studied specialists… So we literally call ourselves “rumâni/români” for the oldest times we remember

@healththenopulence5106

Жыл бұрын

Romanian actually kept some words from latin that no other language did “incepere” etc

As an Italian, I just want to say hello to my Romanian brothers. I absolutely love your country ❣️

@stefanatg8544

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zapatero078 da tu

@dearomania8289

2 жыл бұрын

I love Italia! ♥️

@ionut4939

2 жыл бұрын

Hello

@scm4072

2 жыл бұрын

Ciao frate:D

@drevil8913

2 жыл бұрын

Salut! 🥰

I love how Romanian didn't just keep a latin vocabulary, but the grammar as well, which is the closest to the original Latin than all the other romance languages. By the way, I am a native Italian speaker and when I read a romanian newspaper, I was surprised I was able to understand decently all the articles of the front page.

@lunadeargint540

3 жыл бұрын

It's a very keen obsevation. Some people just get stuck with the Slavic element missing the general picture altogether. Some words are maybe difficult to understand for other Romance speakers because of the phonological evolution e.g. /l/ (not ll though) between 2 vowels became /r/ in Romanian: "caelum" > (ceru )> "cer" = sky or because of preserving other Latin words e.g. "înțelege"/"înțelegere" < intelligere = understand; "bătrân" < veteranus =old (for people; for objects "vechi"); "inima" < anima= heart etc.

@anaionescu8913

2 жыл бұрын

As a native romanian speaker, I can also mostly understand italian when I hear it and the only trouble I have when reading italian is adding extra consonants where I would naturally see them. It's fascinating to study such a similar, but different language

@xavierchaves

2 жыл бұрын

I am a native portuguese speaker and i can understand some words but the most of them i can't understand

@dreama.

2 жыл бұрын

That's captivating budd! I'm from Moldova , so Romanian is already my first language However , i might try and learn Italian!

@pn8937

2 жыл бұрын

@@elsiesrifle phonetically not in noun morphology though.Languages are not monoliths they are consisted of different levels,while in the level of phonology Sardinian is the closest to Latin in terms of morphology(and noun morphology in particular)Romanian are closer to Latin than Sardinian(or any other Romance language or dialect for that matter).

Sunt italian, dar vorbesc și franceza și engleza. Confirm că italiana și romana sunt limbi foarte apropiate. Deși mai fac multe greșeli, am o cunoaștere intermediară a limbii române pe care am învățat-o alături de iubita mea de origine română. M-am îndrăgostit de România și acum, pentru mine, nu mai trece Crăciunul fără să mănânc sarmale din Banat! Salutări tuturor românilor!

@casafort23

4 жыл бұрын

pofta buna la sarmale si piftie!

@analupu887

4 жыл бұрын

Io invece sono rumena e abito in Italia, quindi capisco quasi meglio l'italiano che il rumeno. Sto studiando inglese da autodidatta e francese a scuola. Sarmale toată viața cu smantana😂

@zar5989

4 жыл бұрын

@@casafort23 multumesc!

@zar5989

4 жыл бұрын

@@analupu887 immagino sia normale dopo molti anni passati parlando una lingua differente. Vivendo in Belgio, succede spesso anche a me di confondermi nonostante sia nato e cresciuto in Italia. Complimenti per i tuoi studi! PS dobbiamo diffondere la smantana in Italia perchè è troppo buona xD

@zar5989

4 жыл бұрын

@@UlpianHeritor mulțumesc foarte mult! Am început să citesc cărți în limba română, dar până acum a fost super dificil. Apropo, am fost la Timișoara și mi-a plăcut mult!

The other day in London, outside a church used by the Romanian orthodox community, I saw two mysterious looking metal boxes, on legs to put them at eye level. The boxes were closed, with a few little holes drilled in them. I looked through and saw only a little sand. And the word "adormiti". A Romanian friend told me later it means people who are asleep. So the boxes were obviously for putting candles in them, to light in memory of the departed. I kicked myself for not having noticed straight away that it sounded like "endormi" or "endormis" which means exactly that, "asleep", in French (my language) . I know, too, that Romanians use "merci" to say thank you. But when I meet a Romanian serving in a coffee shop, for instance, I prefer to say "multumesc", which sounds more authentic, somehow! Today, it brought a beautiful smile to the face of a young lady who'd just handed me my coffee. She was from Moldova!

@dearomania8289

2 жыл бұрын

♥️

@vespasiancloscan7077

Жыл бұрын

Creepy thing is, if people weren't aware of the context due to there often being another box for "vii" (les vivants) next to the one for the deceased, "adormiti" could also be interpreted as "endormez-vous". Which you know, isn't a good look what with the candles and all

@nickidon7262

Жыл бұрын

Well we use ,, merci" because it's a shorter word :)

@IonutTudorica

Жыл бұрын

We actually use "merci" far more often than "multumesc". At least with those close to you.

@xavierkreiss8394

Жыл бұрын

@@vespasiancloscan7077 Vii ? This is fascinating!

¡ Saludos desde Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 a mis hermanos de Rumanía 🇷🇴 !

@user-vu3nz4un7d

Ай бұрын

salutari din Bucuesti pentru fratii mei din Cuba

sometimes when I hear Romanian from a distance, my brain goes "what dialect of Italian is this", unitll i get closer and realize that its acc Romania.

@PurpleAlienFYT

4 жыл бұрын

Nu mai trage cu urechea:))

@luismartinas1784

4 жыл бұрын

I have friends from Italy, north. And in the beggining they ask me If i speak napoletano :)))))

@gmad3387

4 жыл бұрын

@@luismartinas1784 problema asta am avut o eu in roma =))

@minunileinternetuluioficia1177

4 жыл бұрын

Don't come very closer if you want still to have wallet in your pocket 😂😂😂 Regards, from Bucharest 🤗

@loredanaelenadumitru5766

3 жыл бұрын

Back în the good old days, when i was studying abroad, i had several Italian friends. When they talked in their language, as a Romanian, i could easily understand aprox. 80% of the vocabulary. And i have never never learned Italian. Not even one class, not even one hour. And I really loved that, because this makes you feel closer to people. :) on the other hand, when i talked în romanian, they were able to understand only a small part of what i was saying, so i suppose that the slavic influence has taken a toll on the language :)

It's interesting how other Romance Language native speakers say they can't understand Romanian at all, but at the same time Romanians say they can understand at least Italian and Spanish. Maybe there's something else here: Romanians are flooded with foreign languages: We watch movies with subtitles, mostly in English and Spanish. We learn English, French and sometimes German or Spanish in school. We have high Internet speeds, so it's common to read news in English (though, since it's the Internet, we mostly watch porn and have endless arguments with Hungarians) Most of us have relatives or acquaintances that work in Spain, Italy or France and come back thinking they're better than us. It's easier, I think, for us to understand foreign languages that we might have had contact with before than it is for Western people that may even have a hard time finding Romania on the map.

@Altrantis

7 жыл бұрын

Western romance languages are also just overall easier to understad because they're structurally broken appart, making it easier to reverse-engineer from romanian. I didn't know you watched movies in spanish. Also, I have been in the crossfire of those romanian-hungarian arguments before (and my opinion is Transylvania is to Romania and Hungary what Belgium is to France and the Netherlands. Both are wrong claiming sole relatability).

@vladutcornel

7 жыл бұрын

Altrantis Spanish language telenovelas (Soap operas) are popular in Romania, Belgium was always a country of two ethnicities and I don't see many similarities to Transylvania. I feel like the Flemish-Walloon relationship is way friendlier than Romanians and Hungarians in Transylvania. Belgium was always a country of two ethnicities that decided to live together in the same country, whereas Romanians in Transylvania felt persecuted by the minority Hungarian nobility until 1918 and Hungarians feel misrepresented by the central Romanian government. None of the two ever agreed to be part of the same country. Also, it's not the only argument Romanians and Hungarians have on the Internet

@Altrantis

7 жыл бұрын

***** Oh. Why would you watch those, they're terrible. I'm from latin america BTW. Also,having lived in belgium, that's exactly the kind of problems they have in belgium.

@vladutcornel

7 жыл бұрын

Altrantis Why do they wear so much make-up? Why do they always think they're fat when they're in perfect shape? Why do they like those bad acting boring soap-operas? As a straight man, I don't always understand women, but I can acknowledge they like what they like. And Romanian women, for some reason, like telenovelas.

@Altrantis

7 жыл бұрын

Aahahah... I don't know, people here watch them cause they're on the national channels as opposed to cable and they're in spanish... and I think because they're addicted... But they're really bad.

Much love to Romania and Romanians from Greece

Im from Spain and have problems understanding romanian but where i live there're quite a lot of romanians and they all seem to pick spanish rather fast. Some of them you wouldnt know they are foreigners until they tell you. Very humble and hard working people.

@lalgonultas

8 ай бұрын

As a native Turkish speaker who easily learned Spanish, I am struggling to understand the Romanian language.

@kozmickarmakoala3526

8 ай бұрын

@@lalgonultas I am a native Spanish/English speaker who tried to learn Turkish before the internet. I love Turkish and at least I languish on Turkish language videos. Saludos de NYC Kardesh ! 🤩

@lalgonultas

8 ай бұрын

@@kozmickarmakoala3526 Great! 😊 Actually, the fact that verbs have suffixes makes Spanish resemble with Turkish. I love Spanish so much that whenever I hear this language, butterflies flutter in my stomach. 😊 Greetings from Istanbullll.

@Badolado384

2 ай бұрын

​@@lalgonultasYou need to be native in at least 1 romance language to understand it it's phonetically very difficult but most Italians can understand us with no probelm

With the grammar, it seems like Romanian is closer to Latin than any of the other romance languages.

@franzyuri5751

3 жыл бұрын

Were the articles in latin at the end of the words too? And it also had a case system like the romanian one?

@COBfreak1

3 жыл бұрын

@@franzyuri5751 There is no definite or indefinite article in latin, though sometimes that or this is used as a definite article. The case system is also extensive, there are 6 cases for nouns with a singular and plural form for 12 forms. There are 5 cases for adjectives with a separate singular and plural (10 forms). Verb conjugations are an absolute mess in latin, do yourself a favour and google a latin verb conjugation, pure comedy. Classic latin is very difficult to learn in my opinion, I studied it for 4 years in high school and I don't think i could translate much right now, let alone produce correct latin text.

@franzyuri5751

3 жыл бұрын

@@COBfreak1 thank you very much for the response, that is so interesting! The reason why modern romance languages don't have this complexity is because they evolved from vulgar latin? Also, where are you from? I've never heard before of someone studying latin in highschool.

@COBfreak1

3 жыл бұрын

@@franzyuri5751 The reason why classical Latin had this complex case system is because their word order frankly didn't make any sense. Sentences could be placed in tons of different word orders and still make logical sense because of the case system. Vulgar Latin wasn't really written down and Classical Latin had been standardized even before the Roman Empire. When the Western Roman Empire fell around the 4th century, these languages, wich were at that point sort of regional dialects, became increasingly divergent. Around the 8th-11th century the people weren't able to understand religious texts from the Classical Latin bible anymore. I feel like the loss of the case system is a natural evolution of the languages. To me it makes much more sense to contain cases in sentence structure rather than actual word cases, but that's just my personal speculation. For your second question, I'm from the Netherlands, we have 3 different level of high schools here, with some sublevels. I did a certain sublevel of high school called gymnasium in wich we get lessons in Classical Latin for 3-6 years and Classical Greek for 2-5 years. I've also had training in German, French and Spanish and of course in Dutch and English. Though honestly at the moment I'm only really fluent in English and Dutch and can ask for some basic things in German and French, I've always been more of a science guy. :P

@razvanfodor5653

3 жыл бұрын

@@franzyuri5751 In Romania we study Latin in mid-school for two semesters.

We love our Latin brothers and sisters ❤️ 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 ❤️

@gregkMos

4 жыл бұрын

Only they ?

@andyradu5617

4 жыл бұрын

We love you too ❤️

@kunaetixx2047

4 жыл бұрын

❤❤❤

@nationLawyer

4 жыл бұрын

But the alban-brother vlahilor isn't roman, latin. Crazies!

@suco_mid

4 жыл бұрын

We love you too

I am Portuguese and I find a lot in common with Romanian, even in pronunciation! It is fascinating!!! Romanian can pronounce Portuguese words very well. Foarte = Forte ( PORTUGUESE & Italian). Foame = Fome ( PORTUGUESE & Romanian) meaning hungry! Eu sou ( I am in Portuguese) = Eu sunt ( I am in Romanian)

As a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker, I found Romanian harder to understand than other closer Romance languages. One exception was "barbatul", man, which made me laugh because in Portuguese "barbado" means "bearded one". Very accurate in Dacian times, I guess.

@yumbam5546

2 жыл бұрын

From the Latin _barbatus_ .

@LearnRomanianWithCorina

2 жыл бұрын

For "barbado" we have "bărbos", from "barbă" (beard)

@Synth2

2 жыл бұрын

"barbatul" would actually be "the man". Barbat is man, but not too much of a difference

@EM-wr9yy

Жыл бұрын

Well, yes, "bărbat" means "man" and "barbă" means "beard", from the latin "brabatus". The word "bărbat" actually means "the one that wears a beard" at origin

@sprc155

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow "barbas" in Greek slang means middle aged man, like uncle. Sometimes you can use it as an offensive word and it means old man. Maybe its a coincidence or its a loan word from Latin.

I'm a Brazilian Canadian who dealt with a lot of Romanians while living in Canada. My 2 cents about it: They can understand much more Portuguese than I ever thought they could, and the last but not the least: they are the nicest people I had the chance to interact with.

@brother1ray

5 жыл бұрын

My experience of Portuguese folk is that they can understand most of the Romance languages, while not being understood themselves! Portuguese friends could grasp Spanish, Italian and some French with relative ease, but not be understood speaking their owntongue. Written down, they are clearly related, but pronounciation ?

@wanderleyneves9036

5 жыл бұрын

@@brother1ray That's a fact. :-)

@nicolecostin1516

5 жыл бұрын

Mulțumesc (thank you 😊)

@brother1ray

5 жыл бұрын

Yes Pedro, which makes me think you Portuguese are the natural linguists of the Latin languages, LOL! I love the gentle, beautiful sounds of Portuguese, especially Fado songs, but even as a French/English speaker, I can read your lovely language much easier than "hear it", if you know what I am saying, sir ?? Just think you are short done by...……….Italian is clearly just 'modern Latin', and beautifully clear...…..Spanish is 'sexy' sounding, French has changed the most, and I love it, as a language, but Portuguese is not the 'outlier' that we think it, too often...….And I'm, Irish...…..Ha, ha!!

@hdremus

5 жыл бұрын

Mulțumesc :)

I am from Brasov, Romania. I reside now in US. In my first year in US, one lady overheard me speaking with a cashier at the grocery store. I simply asked “can I have a pack of gum please”. The lady later approached me and asked if I am from Transivania. I was so surprised and intrigued by the question because I was quite used to people asking me if I am Russian, not Romanian and this lady went so specific to ask me if I am from Transilvania (which I am ). I never thought that a transilvanian accent transports specifically into a English accent. Turned out her daughter-in-law was from Romania coincidently from Transilvania as well. So it might have been a coincidence, but still makes a good story about my beginnings as a young immigrant.

@plrc4593

2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating story :P Greetings from Poland. One of our kings was from Transilvania :P Moreover he had had been a duke of Transilvania. He was Hungarian though :P

@MaxGMD69

2 жыл бұрын

@@plrc4593 transylvania is hungary love hungary from moldova

@brandonk.4864

2 жыл бұрын

@@MaxGMD69 cringe

@MaxGMD69

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandonk.4864 mad

@andreivanpopa

2 жыл бұрын

@@MaxGMD69 1919

I'm from Brazil and I love the Romania and their language! Greetings from Brazil to all Romanians and my brothers!

@strange_cat_ugh8534

2 жыл бұрын

Why thank u

@VampiraJulia_

2 жыл бұрын

@@strange_cat_ugh8534 you're welcome!❤️

@costinhalaicu2746

2 жыл бұрын

Viva Brasilia!

@VampiraJulia_

2 жыл бұрын

@@costinhalaicu2746 mulțumesc!! Obrigada!! viva a Romania!!!🇧🇷❤️🇷🇴

@Bswatch

10 ай бұрын

Much love back to you guys, I love the way your language soud,is so romantic.

Now I know. Romanian is the most preserved Latin grammar. Unlike other romance languages, Romanian maintained it's grammar which based on Latin.

There was a real case in USSR when a Soviet soldier from Moldova run from the army and hid in a small remote village somewhere in Caucasus mountains. The local school didn't have a teacher of international language for several years so they were very happy to hire him as a teacher of French but besides Russian he knew only Romanian so he taught Romanian language as French. Many years later when a student at an university was claiming to know French but were speaking another language they sent a commission to that village and discovered that a large part of locals were speaking Romanian as a second language. But they loved him so much that they didn't fired him but kept as teacher of Romanian language.

@Alex-er2nh

5 жыл бұрын

Incredible, I'm from Moldova too

@turcuadiadria

5 жыл бұрын

Thats a sweet story makes me proud of being romanian. 😍

@imeretian9446

5 жыл бұрын

That might soun strange but we have almost the same exact story here in Georgia, except it was A Migrelian(West Georgian) man teaching Migrelian instead of English in some chukotkan village.

@lucabrazzi5755

5 жыл бұрын

Hmm, romanian instead of French... how did ge get away with that? Only in USSR that would be possible.

@Thrlta

5 жыл бұрын

How clever. I can teach Latvian as Russian to Libyan school

As a native spanish speaker I'd say I understand about 50% of spoken romanian and about 70% of written romanian.Now, what I like the most is how some words developed in a different way in romanian; for instance the word "inima" that means "heart" comes from the latin word "anima" but in latin it means "soul", and like this there are many other words like "lume" "suflet" "merge" "fara"... undoubtly romanian is a very poetic langauge. Eu ador limba romana.

@andreim.5324

7 жыл бұрын

Te agradezco por tu comentario y opinion. Yo soy del Romania y adoro l'espagnol idioma. L'espagnol es tan bien muy poetica como idioma, y a mi me fascine como es tan difference de pais a pais. Por exemplo, es muy differente in Mexico, Argentina, Spain. Un grande saludo, Juan Sebastian, y me discuplas si no hay escrivido tan propio. Entendado a escrivir sin ajudo :)

@juansebastianquinteroardil7385

7 жыл бұрын

Andrei Mirea Cu placere! exista unele erori, dar am inteles 😄. Fii mandru de limba ta! aveti un million de motive pentru a face acest lucru. Vorbesc romana este un privilegiu, puteti simti pur latina cand o vorbesti 😍. salutari! scuze pentru romana mea, de asemenea eu sunt de invatare 😅😆

@StriderAngel496

7 жыл бұрын

Juan Sebastian Quintero Ardila that's close enough :D

@chester8486

7 жыл бұрын

wooow.... reaallly good!! Ai o romana foarte buna pentru cineva care nu este roman!

@georgesmadu726

7 жыл бұрын

Yo adoro el Castellano tambien. Lo aprendi solo y lo hablo con mucho gusto. Soy Rumano y no tengo ninguna verguenza por eso a pesar que nuestros primos latinos ( italianos ,espanoles) nos considera gitanos.

Sunt mexican si iubesc limba romana. Cred că cel mai ciudat lucru la română pentru un vorbitor de spaniolă (și pentru orice vorbitor al unei limbi romanice actuale) este aglutinarea articolelor la substantive. Chiar și declinațiile cu fiecare caz mi se par logice, dar de ce să pun articolele la sfârșitul cuvântului? Pe scurt, aceste particularități fac acest limbaj frumos. ¡Saludos desde Ciudad de México!

@Badolado384

2 ай бұрын

Scrii mai corect Română decât 90% din Români, pălăria jos 💁🏼

@Moanalover24

Ай бұрын

​@@Badolado384They translated it

@VVeres-rw1jb

Ай бұрын

Articolele la sfârșitul cuvântului: e o influență a limbii slave vechi...

@alejandroflores3692

Ай бұрын

@@Badolado384 Utilicé un traductor, evidentemente. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Pov: Esti roman si ai venit in comentarii sa vezi ce zic Americani,Italieni,Francezi etc, despre limba noastra 🤡

@catalinapopa643

2 жыл бұрын

Mi-a apărut la recomandate după 5 ani, mor=))

@dogloglo

2 жыл бұрын

@@catalinapopa643 si mie acum

@bahnadumitru.5864

2 жыл бұрын

Și mie bă😉😁

@delly6018

2 жыл бұрын

@@catalinapopa643 si mie :))

@autumn7749

2 жыл бұрын

Nu imi da expose bestie✋🏻😭

I'm italian and I find romanian language quite easy to understand , especially the writing form. Imi place limba romana!

@JoseRenanAssis

7 жыл бұрын

As a Portuguese native speaker I can also relate this, the written form has some similarities. The Slavic portion makes it unintelligible.

@guesswot5311

7 жыл бұрын

até podia dizer que é relatable, mas eu falo as duas línguas por isso nem noto muito

@andreea-mariastoian6674

7 жыл бұрын

For us it's the same with italian and other romance languages. We don't have too much slavic influence.

@braschigiovanniangelo5559

7 жыл бұрын

Beato te. io sono di Roma e non capisco un acca quando i Rumeni parlano. Senza mai averlo studiato capisco lo SPagnolo al 60% e il portoghese (meglio se scritto). ma per te il rumeno è intellegibile? hai grandi doti allora!

@bloodlineunicorn6911

7 жыл бұрын

I have the same problem with Italian: I don't understand anything :))))))

Soy de España y estudio rumano!. Un precioso idioma parecido al español!. Ambos idiomas, junto al italiano, francés o portugués, son idiomas claramente procedentes del latín. Un saludo a tod@s los herman@s de Rumanía!!!salut!!!😉👋

@PopescuSorin

Жыл бұрын

ES: Soy de España y estudio rumano! RO: Sunt din Spania si studiez romana!

@xosga1968

Жыл бұрын

@@PopescuSorin 😉🙂

@sam_9228

Жыл бұрын

Soy de Colombia y estoy estudiando Francés

@xosga1968

Жыл бұрын

@@sam_9228 bonne chance avec le français!!!

@sam_9228

Жыл бұрын

@@xosga1968 Merci!

Ive been to Romania, gorgeous country and people, it is a well kept secret.

@elizatudor9439

4 ай бұрын

Beautifully said! ❤

I'm Latino and worked with some romanian guys in New York. I was shocked at how many words were the same in romanian-spanish. For example "pared" (wall) and "camión" (truck). Our Latin languages are beautiful!! Greetings from Argentina.. !!!

@dacvalah6317

4 жыл бұрын

you want to say ,,pared,, -,,perete,, wall . camion is already international word

@cristim5315

4 жыл бұрын

Also we use color "verde"

@ivansabev6372

3 жыл бұрын

We say camion in Bulgarian too which is not a Romance language. Some words might be shared internationally.

@adrianpop6978

3 жыл бұрын

Verde , casa , acasa, vaca, carne, capra, amic, piele, barba, corp, pantalon, bluza, nostru, vostru, Tu, El, Ea , Unu, doi, trei, Luni , Vineri , and many others, some of them are identical with Spanish

@pdpadsl

3 жыл бұрын

Camion comes from french language, and it is not so internationally used. Most of the german speakers don’t understand that word; they commonly use the acronym LKW (Lastkraftwagen) instead.

Now I know why they named the car Dacia which is made in Romania!

@M_alienWorld

3 жыл бұрын

and here's the map www.wikiwand.com/en/Trajan

@vikvik9573

3 жыл бұрын

سلام از رومانیا🙋‍♀️

@Bristena100

3 жыл бұрын

:)))))))

@zamolxis7414

3 жыл бұрын

Really? You know about Dacia? I thought they're only popular in Romania, that's cool!

@Crypto30302

3 жыл бұрын

Asta da

I'm italian and to me it becomes very easy to speak romanian when I go to Romania. Both languages are very similar!

@francoo.m.

Жыл бұрын

@Cypher I love Romania!

@georgemarcel9832

11 ай бұрын

The Romanian language is veri simple if you know the romanian alfabeth. Read is so simple. I'm romanian. The language change with time

Trăiască România! Dragoste din Bulgaria. 🇧🇬❤🇷🇴

@C0rn3liu

10 ай бұрын

Trăiască Bulgaria. Dragoste din România

Sunt din Filipine,tatal meu e din Romania iar mama e din Filipine, momentan stau in Filipine dar incerc sa mai invat ceva romana din aceasta nebuneala cu acest virus.Tin cont de fiecare sarbatoare, mai ales Craciunul.In fiecare an , de Craciun vin acasa in Romania sa mananc sarmale cu mamaliga!:) Toate tarile acestea au ceva special, mai ales Romania , si chiar daca am 14 ani, stiu multe despre aceasta tara minunata !

@georgerotaru5037

3 жыл бұрын

@BAD RAPOT Multumesc!:D

@dumitrachetheodor4047

3 жыл бұрын

respect frate!

@Dr33p4

3 жыл бұрын

Eu sunt romanca si iubesc enorm sa vorbesc si scriu in filipineza ❤️❤️❤️

@M_alienWorld

3 жыл бұрын

super!!!

@oncetherewerewolves

2 жыл бұрын

Sarmalele cu mamaliga sunt cele mai bune 😂 P.S sunt romanca

I'm brazilian, and i'm impressed of how much i could understand of it

@paulohtobias

4 жыл бұрын

Really? I didn't understand a thing.

@lorena_lucas

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulohtobias me neither

@starpinklittle2811

3 жыл бұрын

@@lorena_lucas @Paulo Tobias Is not hard to understand it, you should only "align" the romenian words to your Portuguese knowledge. Like: Cunosc Istoria Europe foarte bine. Pt: *Conheço a História Europeia muito bem.* ES: *Conosco la História Europea mucho bien.* IT: *Cososco moito biene la storia Europea.* Fr: *Je connais très bien l'Histoire Européenne.* Did you understand now? Only the idiomatic accent changes, but sometimes the Word's sounds keep the same.

@lilycornelio

3 жыл бұрын

Me too and I'm a Spanish speaker

@paulohtobias

3 жыл бұрын

@@starpinklittle2811 pelo seu exemplo eu consegui entender

Salut din Chișinău ! Iubesc România și frumoasa limbă a lui Mihai Eminescu.

@dearomania8289

2 жыл бұрын

💙💛❤

@Sobreira4

2 жыл бұрын

& Mircea Cartarescu

@derkinator7511

Жыл бұрын

& nicuşor de la braila

@ManamaEd

Жыл бұрын

& Salam

@CobaltBeatbox

Жыл бұрын

& Florea Florin

I recently traveled to Romania (I'm colombian, and my mother tongue is american spanish) and it was really difficult to understand the spoken romanian language. Many of the sounds are different than what I am used to, but maybe reading was a bit easier. Despite this, I find the language very beautiful and kind of rhytmic. Hope to go back to Bucharest and many other cities soon (and in spring or summer, winters are too cold! haha). I loved the Transylvania region so much. Greetings from Colombia!

In USA my Romanian friends used to speak in front of me their language and sometime I said !!!!hey man I understood that part !!!!!. And was a complete phrase. I'm dominican so my native language is Spanish another romance language.

@Diana-yy8kp

3 жыл бұрын

nice

@MarcoS-ow3gs

3 жыл бұрын

K lo k

@kunaetixx2047

3 жыл бұрын

Klk

@teodor1790

3 жыл бұрын

It took me 3 months to learn Italian. I was born in Romania!

In 1999, I had a 12 hour layover in Bucharest, and went into the city to pass the time and sightsee. I speak Spanish and Italian and am semi-fluent in French. When I landed at the airport, I knew nothing about the Romanian language. Before I even left the airport, I asked myself, "Is this a Romance language?" because I could read or figure out most of the signs without the English translations, and previously I had assumed it was a Slavic language. When I got into the city, I learned that if a person did not speak English, I could just speak very slowly and clearly in Italian, and they could understand me, and I could understand them maybe 30% or so. I didn't even try my Spanish or French on them, because I could tell by the writing that Romanian was much closer to Italian. It was the most exciting part of that long day: figuring out on my own that Romanian was a Romance language, and how to get by with Italian, with no advice from any book or video like this one.

@GlumWretch

7 жыл бұрын

Now about 3/4 of Romanian teens and young people speak English at a conversational level. Beside this, either French or German(it depends of what they picked in school) is the second foreign language learned, thus I don't think you'd have any troubles to be understood at the very moment.

@cornerro

7 жыл бұрын

back in '99, you would have been even more surprised if you had used french.

@larrydirtybird

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I think this is the case in many countries. English classes are mandatory in most schools, so the younger generation will know some English, but the older generation won't. I lived in China, and I learned never to expect a Chinese person over the age of 40 to be able to speak any English. I would always look for someone who looked high school or university age. Even then, it was only a 50/50 chance. So I learned survival Chinese very quickly.

I'm colombian and when i visited romania i was so surprised by the many similar words with spanish, but beyond that it was really hard to understand anything, it requires study in order to be understood, but i loved being there so much, i want to go back again

@angelgomez4632

2 жыл бұрын

ES QUE ESE IDIOMA RUMANO ES UNA LENGUA ROMANICA QUE ESTA EN EUROPA ORIENTAL DEL ESTE

I learned that my great grandfather was Romanian and I’m trying to learn the language to learn my roots more- it’s such a neat and unique, and beautiful language! I hope to go there one day.

@adrianmbutnariu

2 жыл бұрын

Mult succes!

@danielagheorghe262

2 жыл бұрын

Where do you live now Em?

@flrazvan

2 жыл бұрын

never forget your roots. Nice comment!

@costinhalaicu2746

2 жыл бұрын

Never as good a time as the present, beside you would be getting ahead of mass tourism, and get to see the country without having to wade your way through the crowd everywhere you do. :)

@dollarweeb4573

Жыл бұрын

Nu te obosi.Degeaga inveti română, pentru ca nu esti si nu vei fii una dintre noi.

As a romanian native speaker i can understand -60% of spoken italian and 80% of written italian -50-40% of spoken spanish and 60% of written spanish -30% spoken french and 35% written french(i don't like french) -20% spoken portuguese and 60% of it's written form For a lot of common slavic words we have a latin one too but generally the slavic form of these words are more often used

@captaindeadpool4357

7 жыл бұрын

Silviu Ciolcă Italiana e foarte usor de inteles si cand e vorbita,mai ales daca ai fost atent la ora de franceza

@gestandrojdier

7 жыл бұрын

am subestimat poate , intradevar italiana e foarte usoara cred ca am vazut inregistrari cu niste accente putin mai ciudate , La multi ani !

@darknesscat3301

7 жыл бұрын

La mulți ani toți românilor!

@Botafogoplayground

7 жыл бұрын

Darkness Cat tuturor românilor ;-)

@RickyBeast

7 жыл бұрын

interesting that you understand 60% of written Spanish and just 25/30% written portuguese...

Damn, the more I learn about Romania, the more I fall in love with it. Greetings from Bulgaria!

@amandamanda125

7 жыл бұрын

johnyk891 Și eu!!!!!

@scasino9358

7 жыл бұрын

greetings, neighbour!

@norielsylvire4097

7 жыл бұрын

johnyk891 For me it is a loss that our rich and cult people decided to leave old church slavonic as cult language and start using latin, and also is bad taht we latinized with french words the language. The more I look in the past of my language, the more I like it, cause I don't like to be related to Romans, I really prefer Slavic people. Also the tradicional and vulgar language is more like slavic and the cult language is almost Latin with some slavic words. I can't understand the cult language so much. I recomend you a Rimanian signer Called Hrusca (Pronounced Hrushka) that sings in old romanian, that's a way to figure how the language sounded 80 years ago, but no one can tell how it sounded 250 years ago, before being latinized.

@DigitalHobby

7 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Romania.

@AnnedolfFrankler911

7 жыл бұрын

Dem Rottensoul Thanks for the recommendation. Stefan Hrusca definitely has some beautiful songs. Even though I do not understand what he is saying, I still enjoy his music as it is so calm and his voice makes them even better. And it was interesting to hear how the Romanian language sounded 80 years ago. Despite the influence Latin had over it, it's still a very beautiful language to this day. By the way, someone should really work on Stefan Hrusca's wikipedia page. The world needs to know about him!

I know in various degrees 18 languages (all except two indo-european). I am of Armenian origin living in Romania (family came 500 years ago). Many people correctly noted that Romanians can learn "sister" languages very easily because of the synonyms for common slavic words that we use. That is also true for other languages, there are so many synonyms in Romanian that the dictionary of those my mother (Romanian language teacher) had was the heaviest book in our pretty extensive library and there were tens of synonyms for so many things, it made an interesting reading for that aspect alone. When we read languages from around us (even Magyar which is NOT indo-european) we can recognize so many words if we read extensively older and contemporary Romanian. It is so easy to write poetry in Romanian because you can find a rhyme to anything due to the sea of synonyms. That is also giving another dimension to the language because you can use various synonyms to suggest slight nuances in the object or action you are describing. For example, to die, has so many ways of saying it, from super polite (a adormi-Adormirea Maicii Domnului to fall asleep- the falling asleep of the Mother of God, even the word maica, synonym to mother is so completely different in the actual meaning) to very rude "a crăpa" to crack, like the imperative "Crăpi!" or "Să crăpi" which is also a kind of a curse and releases some tension, English speakers would often say "Crap!", different meaning, of course, but the same sounds. I can name 20 different ways to describe dying, all slightly different, meaning different things and then there is the context... Being a writer is so easy in Romanian, once you get to know the language and the vocabulary extensively. I find myself writing a whole paragraph in English for 10 words describing the same thing in Romanian, even, perhaps, more accurately and in more detail. I believe this is the result of so many influences and so many writers for such a small people. They say: The Romanian is a poet by birth" and it is not that far from the truth, when I was little I read a book for kids, rhyming all the way even as it was in prose and used a very limited vocabulary. I suppose that is because it is so easy with this language.

I am from Romania and im so happy that so many people enjoy learning our language and thinking that it is very beautiful! Mulțumesc celor care se chinuie și își dedica timpul învățând limba mea și a românilor! ( thank you to the people that try and dedicate their Time learning our language)

I don't know why some people say Romanian sounds Slavic.. My native language is polish, I also speak Russian & Czech - to me Romanian DOESN'T sound any Slavic. I rarely hear other Slavic languages but when I do - I can recognise them immediately. Romanian on the other hand.. When I first heard it - I thought it was some heavy Italian dialect. Even all the words that came from Slavic languages are changed so much that it's almost impossible to get them. It's a beautiful language though. I really love the way it sounds.

@awbinn3377

4 жыл бұрын

bulgarian (and macedonian) are quite different to other slavic languages so who knows...

@adrian.farcas

4 жыл бұрын

@And Bed you are right, the Slavic influence is mostly a convenient explanation given by those who do not understand the nature and cause of the obvious differences between Romanian and the other Romance languages. It is possible to construct sentences, phrases and even whole stories in Romanian using just the vocabulary inherited from Latin, and this will nevertheless be not comprehensible to any significant degree by other Romance speakers. The real explanation is that Romanian simply evolved differently from Latin and kept many different structures, word meanings etc that are not encountered in the other Romance idioms.

@mariogherca859

4 жыл бұрын

True

@gabytrifoy7012

4 жыл бұрын

And Bed Hey romanian here yeah all people say it s slavic but i never understood slavic languages and no one romanian don t understood them without study and to me all slavic languages sound ugly and hard like allien languages but italian , spanish, french it s sound very nice one italian man if say something in italian to one romanian never studied the language romanian he will understood maybe 30,35% from the full sentence other hand slavic without study understand 0% so they have to stop us calling slavic if we don t understood nothing from slavic many pfilozophies they said Romania it s a Latin island in a slavic sea because we are surrounded by slavs and we don t speak it Romanian it s The Latin of the East :) i respect poland i met good and bad polish people but i still think it s a nice and kind nation greetings

@theodoremarescaux5888

4 жыл бұрын

Welll... I thought Romanian was such a Romance Language, until my Czech wife speaking with our kids made me realise how many Slavic words are hidden in plain sight there ;)

Hats 🎩 off to Romanian people from Iran

@TheFirstGroover

4 жыл бұрын

Jos palaria

@vikvik9573

4 жыл бұрын

Zende bad IRAN!!! Zende bashi!!! Salam az Romania!!❤️❤️❤️

@histoiresavoir2983

4 жыл бұрын

Best regards to persians from Romania !

@ralu63

4 жыл бұрын

Why thank you

@ettoremorabito860

3 жыл бұрын

And I love Iran from Italy !

For me Romanian sounds super cool and archaic. It sounds similar to the Valyrian language in Game of Thrones.

@jf936

Жыл бұрын

Yea it sounds like that, because they use a bit of latin in that valyrian language

@dollarweeb4573

Жыл бұрын

I've never heard that one before. Romanian sounds like Valyrian? Does that mean i get a dragon?

@excelynite

Жыл бұрын

@@dollarweeb4573 you get a 'balaur", the romanian version of the dragon.

@andrajurubitamarin5379

8 ай бұрын

​@@excelynite😂👏👏👏

I'm italian. i think that romanian isn't too different from the others romance language, many words are similar to Italian.

@dearomania8289

2 жыл бұрын

👍

@Stefanoll

Жыл бұрын

when i speak romanian with my family in front of my french friends they dont understand a word which i find weird

@healththenopulence5106

Жыл бұрын

@@Stefanoll french has very different pronunciation.. its similar to german sound in many more ways than romance languages But french ppl undersntand written romanian quite well

@C0rn3liu

10 ай бұрын

I agree Ciao!

I love this language. Greetings from Brazil to my Romanians brothers.

@luccarodriguez8750

2 жыл бұрын

Love and hope to Brazil 🇧🇷 ❤ 🇷🇴

@rungur8213

2 жыл бұрын

Helloo

@bitchtoster5834

2 жыл бұрын

Hello our honorary balkan friend!

@luccarodriguez8750

2 жыл бұрын

@@bitchtoster5834 Nice to meet you ❤

@dreama.

2 жыл бұрын

wassup Much love from Moldova and Romania

I am from Brazil and my native laguage is Portuguese. I remember the first contact I had with the Romanian language was at 1994, during the World Cup. I listened the National Anthem and the excelent football team gave me the curiosity about the language. Three years later, at University, I founded a book of the 60s: Romanian language for foreigners. And I studied a little bit to help me to translate an article of the Reviste de Chemie, a Romanian magazine about Chemistry. The article was about corrosion in titanium alloys. Well, to me Romanian is an interesting language, and I can read scientific articles in Chemistry and Physics, but I need the dictionary because some worlds are different of Portuguese. Listening and speaking the Romanian is difficult to me, because in Brazil is very rare who speak the language.

@EletroRafaVideo

7 жыл бұрын

I really didn't know the word perlavar. I read the dictionary and there is the word there, the verb perlavar. Usually we use lavar in Portuguese; perlavar sound to me, a Brazilian Portuguese speaker, something old.

@6nayime

7 жыл бұрын

lavare in italiano

@edsilva5672

7 жыл бұрын

I am a Brazilian, Portuguese teacher, and had never heard of perlavar either! Although it really is in the dictionary.

@itsallucard9552

7 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, I have the same problem. There is virtually no native speaker of Romanian in Brazil... all I can do is try to associate with Italian some parts of it.

@neagoeandrei6050

7 жыл бұрын

There are some Romanians communities in Brazil, that are there since the WW2. Around 2000 Romanians fled there, with the Nazis from Germany, and in Argentina is the same thing.

My mother tongue is slavic Croatian, during my visit to Romania I spoke Italian and most of local speakers understood what I meant.

I’m a Romanian native and I’m fluent in Spanish, Italian and French, also largely understand Portuguese. It’s was very easy learning all these languages because of the Latin roots of Romanian. I find Italian the most closely related. Most Romanians would understand Italian to some degree although they migh not be able to reply back in Italian. Romanian is very rich in words and expressions which are non translatable to other languages (especially non romance ones), but so is Spanish and French. English for example is quite a plastic blunt language that has different expressions made out of common words (put on, put off). For example, our most famous poet, Mihai Eminescu, is hard to translate in other languages as the feelings and emotional message only makes sense in Romanian. The best example is the word “dor” which means not to have beside you a person that you love and you feel some pain because of that. In English they use “I miss you”…but that’s very plastic and common, you can also miss the bus or a tooth 😅. In French, Italian and Portuguese is the same as English “tu me manques, Mi manchi, eu sinto sua falta. “.

@Mauro8917_

Жыл бұрын

I wanna be like you, for now I'm learning English, I will try to learn french in a few days, I will try to learn Romanian after it, I know this comment is unnecessary but I wanted to say it, Saludos

@snufy777777

Жыл бұрын

@@Mauro8917_ mucha suerte nene!

@enricoboldrini5350

Жыл бұрын

Actually, in Portuguese we have a word that represents the exact feeling that you described in your comment, the word is "saudade" or "saudades". It can be used in a more significant way, like really meaning a pain caused by the absence of a determinated person, or in a more superficial way, that is mostly used day to day here in Brazil, like when someone says to his/her friend: "estou com saudades de você" (I miss you). In these situations it generally doesn't have a deep meaning, but when it is used in poetry, it can represent a more profound meaning. I'm considering to study Romanian in the future, as it looks like a very interesting language to learn.

@thepolyglotreader8803

Жыл бұрын

The thing about "dor" is a cliché that near illiterate teachers of "Romanian language and literature" love to repeat and believe in. They point their pedantic finger in the air, they hold a hand against their hearts and keep saying this all throughout the school years. And when their indoctrinated pupils grow up to be just as illiterate as them or even more so, they also start chanting this mantra: "dor is untranslatable, dor is untranslatable, dor is untranslatable, oh my god, dor is untranslatable, Eminescu my god, dor is untranslatable ". But I assure you, the "dor" people are waving the "dor" flag and are banging their blunt heads against it, in brainless, nationalistic adoration, merely because they only know Romanian (in the best case) and read only Romanian poetry. In fact there are complete equivalents of the "untranslatable" word "dor" in several languages. Only from those I can name personally, there is "saudade" in Portuguese, "тоска" in Russian, in German quite a bunch of terms do the same trick, "Begehren ", "Drang", "Verlangen", "Sehnsucht" and even in English (for those who actually read literature in this language, not only comments on the internet) there is "longing" and "yearning". English is "blunt" only for those that are not sharp enough and know it poorly, dude. I know what I am writing here and can take the full responsibility of it. I am a passionate reader and enjoy literature in all latin languages + Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German and Russian. Please excuse my lack of modesty.

@snufy777777

Жыл бұрын

@@thepolyglotreader8803 well, obviously you are too smart for this planet and you radiate intelligence and modesty wherever you walk the Earth…on the other hand, I am an ignorant brainless nationalistic limited twat who hasn’t got a clue what he’s talking about. But still I stand by my arguments. In Portuguese, people would normally say “eu sinto sua falta”, it’s the most common expression. Saudade is a feeling of longing, melancholy, desire, and nostalgia that is characteristic of the Brazilian or Portuguese temperament. It describes a deep emotional state; a yearning for a happiness that has passed, or perhaps never even existed In English you’re also saying you’re missing someone, you never say I’m yearning or longing for my wife! And yes, English is blunt and full of paradoxes my dear, for example: -A house is burning up as it burns down -quicksand …but it takes you down slowly -boxing rings are …square -you fill out a form by filling it in -if a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? -why do we recite at a play but play at a recital? -we park on driveways and drive on parkways

Today I heard my first Romanian words from the President of Moldova Maia Sandu. Understandable and clear "Our analysis..." unbelievable what a beautiful language, also the reason I came here to watch. If I ever learn another language, my heart has chosen. My mother tongue is Flemish/Dutch, French second language, English third language. Partly understood and a maximum of ordering a drink or food: German and Italian..

@andreig4252

Жыл бұрын

Bedankt voor je leuk woorden over Roemenie. Ik ben Roemeense en ik studeer Nederlands nu want ik studeer in Nederland. Ik vind het taal veel interessant. Een paar woorden zijn gelijk met Roemeense/Engels

@johanpire1413

Жыл бұрын

@@andreig4252 Veel geluk en succes met je studies.

I am a native french speaker and I have also studied Spanish, Italian and Russian. Romanian absolutely blows my mind. Great video.

@gregkMos

4 жыл бұрын

Здравствуйте! Lingua Romana e molte intressante? Buneşte!

@anonymushacker4651

4 жыл бұрын

Salut frate, cum e romana Or you don t know that much romanian

@ak5659

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Neuter gender and cases!

@kjlm4574

4 жыл бұрын

And english;)

@caovuonglam

3 жыл бұрын

@@gregkMos La lingua Romana *è* molto interessante. Affermative statement. Add a question mark and it becomes a question. La lingua Romana *e* molto interessante means the Romanian language and is really interesting. Doesn't make sense.

I am from Italy and obviously Italian is my mother tongue. I also speak fluent English and Spanish. After a week in Romania I could understand basic communications and I could answer in English or Italian to People and we could communicate with very little issues. Also, most Romanians are nice enough to speak slower for tourists if you want to play the "I speak Italian you answer in Romanian" game. Most waiters/retail workers were quite amused about my attempts of basic conversation and ordering food/drinks in Romanian.

@alindradici1047

4 жыл бұрын

This is so cool, si eu înțeleg intaliana destul de bine

@rodrigogalindo2499

4 жыл бұрын

Pero this è demasiado incredibile 😂

@h.thumbsthomas5479

4 жыл бұрын

I studied Romanian in University and found that this helped me when in Italy in terms of being able to read signs and communicate in pretty basic ways.

@vyrnius

4 жыл бұрын

Once I tried to buy "party stuff" from a italian guy it wasn't easy but we could communicate in italian/romanian 😂

@sinforosodazuera3459

4 жыл бұрын

''obviously Italian is my mother tongue'' not everyone in Italy speaks Italian as their native language. duh

My favorite sounding language. It’s beautiful and I hope to visit someday

Romanian is hard to understand by an Italian but italian is easy for a romanian. The reason for this is mainly because we use some slavic words. But these slavic words also have latin synonyms which we associate with Italian really fast. 🇷🇴❤️🇮🇹

As a native Romanian and French speaker, when I don’t remember a word in Romanian, I just take the word in French and pronounce it as if it was a Romanian word. It works 70% of the time 😂 [edit] wow so much likes for that, thx internet people !

@ichbinhier355

4 жыл бұрын

mdr, mais je parle français et je trouve pas de mots qui soient similaires... pourrais-tu me donner des exemples ? :)

@dragosbaronide5373

4 жыл бұрын

At school when i don t know a word in franch i pronounce in romanian but with accent:)))

@valisuciu6002

4 жыл бұрын

Karla p, strategie!

@flrazvan

4 жыл бұрын

La inceputul sec XIX pana la incep sec XX romanii au avut o mare iubire Franta ( care din pacate i-a cam inselat :)). Atunci am importat masiv cuvinte din Francaisa.

@iProgramInCpp

4 жыл бұрын

Eu truvez în dulap... It doesn't work some of the time 🙃

My great grandmother came to the United States from Romania. I want to learn Romanian and maybe travel to Romania to get back in touch with my roots.

@xanaana314

4 жыл бұрын

Same here! I am teaching romanian myself, exactly bc of this reason. Wanna check it out?:)

@razvanc.5142

4 жыл бұрын

Xana Ana i can help :) O zi bună să aveți

@allemik9396

4 жыл бұрын

Le Coy bro that’s interesting, I’m glad to see you you want to touch up with your roots

@sanieisleam3225

4 жыл бұрын

Good idea!!!!

@AlinTomoroga

4 жыл бұрын

Same here Ana, if need help you can always ask and we can converse on phone to get better

It was not re-latinzed. It just had a large borrowing of french loan-words as it entered the modern age because it had no words for stuff like picnic or railway or plane etc

@brb4903

5 ай бұрын

so where is the re-latinisation?

I actually have one or two of the images you used in this video. I actually like the language, and I am learning it. Respect from Hungary.

Im an American who is fluent in Spanish (and im not a Latino). Its truly beautiful that I can understand almost 30-40% of Romanian. May Romania and Moldova flourish.

@vladodobleja748

3 жыл бұрын

You can understand 100% of the Romanian language but when we speak we have to plan ahead our sentences in order for you to do that,for every slavic word we have a latin word to correspond!

@juliosalazar6924

3 жыл бұрын

Being Latino doesn't mean your language is Spanish, as Portuguese-speaking Brazilians and French-speaking Haitians are also latinos

@gusgama8464

3 жыл бұрын

@@juliosalazar6924 Most of the hispanophones in the USA are latinos.

@juliosalazar6924

3 жыл бұрын

@@gusgama8464 well, any person whose first language is a Romance language, is a Latino

@SharkJ002

3 жыл бұрын

Calling the Romance languages speakers Latins is like calling the Germanic language speakers Germans. It's kinda stupid

I am a Hungarian (I mean, from Hungary), I came here to get more info on Romanian to maybe better understand them and like them more

@adldy8618

3 жыл бұрын

im dead 😀

@M_alienWorld

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, and Kosonom - from Cluj/Koloszvar. I am a Romanian American, and after living abroad for 18 years I think we (Romanians and Hungarians) have a lot in common and we should get to be better friends .... Cheers!

@Romulu5

3 жыл бұрын

Come and visit. You ll be comfortable here. Yeah, you ll meet some weird, bad people, but hey, that s normal. I think Budapest is awesome. Been there a few times.

@Sabinathor

3 жыл бұрын

bravo! that's nice, indeed.

@dervernemer

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! We need to understand each other better... we have more or less common history, common traditions, similar food ... if there were no politicians... Best is to visit us... you will be surprised! Regards and respect

Uh, oh! You have seeded Romanian into my brain. Thank You, Paul! I speak 3 romance languages, and I am starting to pick up a fourth, Portuguese, spontaneously, but Romanian was still unexplored for me. Now you have given me the first clues 🗝to unlock Romanian. Seven

As a native Czech speaker who knows French and Italian, Romanian just feels like a mix of what I know :D I'd love to learn the language one day!

bă, eu aici din Basarabia vorbesc limba română, limba moldovenească e invenția lui tătuca Stalin!

@alinblanariu7283

6 жыл бұрын

După 5.000 de ani am găsit și eu un concetățean care zice asta =)))))))))

@militianulpulii9218

6 жыл бұрын

Mare lucru sa nu fi rusnac nu este...

@Alex-er2nh

6 жыл бұрын

Eu tot consider la fel Și eu sunt din Basarabia

@nicolasleighton2236

6 жыл бұрын

I only get stalin

@268snake

6 жыл бұрын

Sunt de acord cu tine si tot sunt din Basarabia.

Mulțumită acestui video mai puține persoane cred ca vorbim rusă. Mulțumesc.

@garamses170

5 жыл бұрын

Latin

@iulianpatrascu2998

5 жыл бұрын

Moldovan o scris asta-i sigur

@herbert3863

5 жыл бұрын

tá vendo, falo portugues e não entendi absolutamente nada

@lucabrazzi5755

5 жыл бұрын

@@herbert3863 Nici eu nu anteleg portugheza. Sant 2 limbi diferite.

@herbert3863

5 жыл бұрын

Razvan Dumitrescu incrível! Eu entendi o que você escreveu!

In Catalan we have a similar structure for the word "foarte", which is "força".

Eu mă numesc Ioana-Bianca, și nu sunt din România dar din Republica Moldova🇲🇩 P.S.doresc sănătate la toți cine citește acest comentariu

@64marro

Жыл бұрын

cum NU ESTI DIN ROMANIA? Aici e acasa pentru tine.

@katf5619

Жыл бұрын

Îți mulțumim 😄

@GholaTleilaxu

Жыл бұрын

Basarabia e România!

@C0rn3liu

10 ай бұрын

Ador cum vorbesc frații noștrii moldoveni limba română...accentul și pronunția e superbă :)

I know I'm late to the party (new subscriber) but I'm an ethnic Hungarian born and living in Romania, which makes me one of the proud 4 million L2 speakers of Romanian :) It is a very unique Romance language which has helped me enormously in learning other Indo-European languages (Hungarian has not been a great help there... yikes). The grammar is not easy, but very interesting, I always try to speak and write Romanian as correctly as possible, but in speech there's always the obvious hardship of the native speaker of a language that does not have grammatical gender whatsoever :D You have a beautiful language, take good care of it! Greetings from "un unguroiacă” (mistake completely intentional ;) )

@claudiu8426

3 жыл бұрын

Succes si mult respect pentru tine "unguroaică dragă"! :)

@Bristena100

3 жыл бұрын

wow...nu ai spus nimic de rau despre noi :)

@paulmiron9583

3 жыл бұрын

Sa nu uitam de toate bancurile cu “vreau si eu doi oi moi...nu nu, am zis gresit, as vrea va rog două ouă mouă”

@Bristena100

3 жыл бұрын

@@verusmember997 me too. But it depends on the parents i guess. From what I know, Hungarians are not very eager to learn and speak Ro.

@indiekiddrugpatrol3117

3 жыл бұрын

@@verusmember997 well she most likely lives in a Hungarian community in Western Romania and grew up speaking Hungarian first and foremost

As a romanian and someone who grew up in Portugal,romanian is really underrated,and most people don't even know about this beautiful country,but at least...we're unique😌

@jonlima9897

3 жыл бұрын

Im from Brazil and the first thing that jump into my mind when someone says Romania is Cleopatra Stratan xD

@RaduRadonys

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonlima9897 Funny thing is that she's from Republic of Moldova, so not quite from Romania, although as usual for Moldovan artists she made her career in Romania.

@PopescuSorin

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonlima9897 Ghita! te-astept diseara la portita

@slickgamesinc.9002

2 жыл бұрын

That name tbo

@Krakkozia

2 жыл бұрын

Romania is not uniqe just stolen.

I'm half Portuguese on my mother's side, I understand Portuguese better than I can speak it. I married a Romanian, and being around her family for Easter and Christmas, listening to them speak, I noticed that I could follow their conversations and reply to them correctly (in English) a lot of the time because I'd been attuned to Portuguese from growing up around my mom's family.

Duuude I am from Romania and thanks for spreading the word of my country! I really apreciate it. Phew easy words for all: Salut/bună=Hello Da=yes Nu=no

Spanish native speaker here, I'm really excited about how similar could be Romanian to Spanish.

@dand7763

4 жыл бұрын

ianuarie enero februarie febrero martie marzo aprilie abril mai mayo iunie junio iulie julio august agosto septembrie septiembre octombrie octubre noiembrie noviembre decembrie diciembre luni lunes marți martes miercuri miércoles joi jueves vineri viernes sâmbăta sábado duminică domingo unu / doi / trei uno / dos / tres patru / cinci / șase cuatro / cinco / seis șapte / opt / nouă siete / ocho / nueve zece / o sută / o mie diez / cien / mil Frig / Cald Frío / Calor Atenție Atención Carne Carne (!)

@cb21andrei

3 жыл бұрын

Read what Carmen Huertas says about Romance languages ​​in the book "No venimos del latin".

@elbogotano4162

3 жыл бұрын

@@cb21andrei esa vieja dice solo disparates acerca de las lenguas neolatinas, solo busca confundir

@silviotattoo3725

3 жыл бұрын

@@dand7763 si in germană e simplu. Ianuar Februar , März, April, mai ,iuni,august, September, Oktober, November, Dezember.

@divelea

3 жыл бұрын

Native Romanian here. I had to choose language B at uni (language A was English) and I instantly went for Spanish. Boy it stuck so quickly and effortlessly... Three funny moments from those days learning spanish. My professor asked me to conjugate "ser" and i said "yo sono"... another time i meant to say that I was *embarrassed* in a sentence and said "embarazada" instead... and "tu gata" which in romanian literally means "did you finish" if you put a question mark to it.. long story short I love Spanish 🤪

I was in Romania last month, and I fell in love with their language. Also, the people are extremely nice! It would be great to have some Romanian friends! Love from Arabia ♥️

@alexandruchira184

5 жыл бұрын

You are from Saudi Arabia?

@ingridorphe4419

5 жыл бұрын

Well, you just made a new one. :)

@gimmori9618

5 жыл бұрын

Hi dude, greetings from romania

@allex4453

5 жыл бұрын

Hello, we can be friens if you want!

@ovidiumarinelsava7928

5 жыл бұрын

HI ! HOW ARE YOU?

As a Romanian, in my travels, after a week in either Portugal, France, Spain or Italy, I start to completely understand what the natives are saying. I would say that the level of understanding differs slightly. The easiest is Italian, then Portugese (written), then Spanish, and last French. Fun story, when I started to understand Portugese and ask questions to natives, they were suspicious, like I've know the language all that time and did not want to tell them.

I love how many peoples are learning Romanian. Im a half english half Romanian girl and seeing how Romanian is being known now it's amazing!

I’m gonna learn Romanian guys , wish me luck)

@iq1311

3 жыл бұрын

Noroc(means good luck)

@biancasuiugan9866

3 жыл бұрын

Oohh you'll need plenty of that😂😂 Mult noroc la învățat! Sunt sigură că te vei descurca! And because i want to support you in learning it, i hope you will get to a point where you could translate and understand what i said!💜💜

@georgegherghelau1264

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck

@lilpatriarch6940

3 жыл бұрын

Ai învățat? =)

@ideology8323

3 жыл бұрын

good luck, you are gonna need it, homie!

Portuguese here. Romanian is just remarkable, I was able to recognize so many of those words! Truly a linguistic treasure.

@voidmailgaming4704

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Romanian is absolutely cool. Spanish speaker here. Romanian adds a lot of colour to the language family, love the mixture of roots and the phonology

So cool to read comments about our beautiful language!! Hello from Moldova

Yay! I'm Romanian, and it's Romanians bday today!

@MrThatonebitch

7 жыл бұрын

Romania's*

@rolandorodriguez4504

7 жыл бұрын

andrea a ¡Felicidades a Rumanía!

@MrThatonebitch

7 жыл бұрын

Sherbet ¡gracias!

@cr.salvatore

7 жыл бұрын

religiondispatches.org/the-fourth-of-july-is-not-americas-birthday/ Uite un articol unde scrie America`s birthday exact cum a spus andrea mai sus Romania`s birthday...nu spus ca ce ai spus mai sus nu este corect dar ca andrea nu a gresit se poate folosi si daca nu e vorba de o nastere

@MrThatonebitch

7 жыл бұрын

0vershade da, știu dar "happy birthday" este mai ușor de scris lol

I have a Romanian coworker and I was amazed at how well she spoke Spanish despite having been in Spain for only a couple of years, considering I have many native Portuguese speaking friends who are really hard to understand despite being here for over a decade. Then I heard her talk in the phone with her Romanian relatives and while the language is unintelligible they pronounce leter sounds pretty similar to us, and that's why she is so good at spanish

@mirceapintelie361

3 жыл бұрын

telenovelas are a new religion for romanian women🤣🤣🤣

@M_alienWorld

3 жыл бұрын

The vocabulary and grammar overlap is 75% +... so we just speak Romanian with French or Spanish etc words.... We have the polite 'you' like in 'usted', we have feminine and masculine for objects (table is 'masa', home is... 'casa', family is... 'familia'.... there you go!) I speak some Spanish without ever studying it. And understand 80% when spoken to me....

@yakone1379

3 жыл бұрын

I am a romanian 16 year old boy, as a kid I used to watch telenovelas with my grandma and I learned plenty of Spanish from them. My aunt could understand Spanish without having learned it. And yeah, we're a latin language, of course we pronounce sounds the same.

@BartSimpson-jd2vs

3 жыл бұрын

@@yakone1379 , pero por favor.....

Hola , en Zaragoza hay muchos rumanos y hasta una radio. Al ratito de escuchar comencé a entender algo. Las rumanas son bellas aunque tenga poco que ver. Salute desde Buenos Aires. Gracias por tu trabajo

I travelled in Romania with a Mexican friend. I speak basic Italian and I was able to converse with Romanians using my basic Italian, but my Mexican friend could not understand Romanian at all. Mind you I can understand Spanish and I know basic French and Italian, but I could not understand any Portuguese in Portugal and Brazil.

I teach primary school children in the UK. We've recently had an influx of Romanian children join us, with little to no English, and using broken Romanian through Google Translate, I've engaged with their language, and attempted to learn Romanian along with them as they learn my language. I've really enjoyed watching this video, it's really helped my understanding of their linguistic roots. These children are incredible, speaking and reading English almost as well as native children in a matter of three months or so. Thanks for the video, I intend to study language to improve my understanding when dealing with these young people.

@rolkze2238

6 жыл бұрын

that's very commendable of you, I wish you good luck with that

@ionpopescu3001

6 жыл бұрын

You are a great teacher.

@hide904

6 жыл бұрын

You are the kind of English teachers needed in the world, especially in the EFL field. I detest when people argue that you should only use English to teach it to people who are learning it. Using L1 helps a long way on both parts of the teacher and student.

@fishlove693

6 жыл бұрын

zeldagoblin that sounds really complicated. I wish I had teachers like you. We don't have many dedicated teachers here in the US. I applaud you.

@GvpVavaRomania

6 жыл бұрын

In Romania there are many localities named after the local "cow man" as you call it. Bucureşti= Of Bucur (Bucur's), Filipeşti= Of Filip ( Filip's), Ioneşti= Of Ion (Ion's), Popeşti = Of Pop (Pop's), Şuţeşti = Of Şuţu etc. And the name of Walach, is a name given by our neighbours, even in Romanian the word "valah" (wallachian) has sclavic origin. We never called in Romanian Wallachia instead we called it Ţara Româneacă which will translate in English as Romanian Land ( with Muntenia, Oltenia), Moldova (Bucovina, Basarabia, Moldova), Dobrogea, and Transilvania (Banat, Crişana, Transilvania and Maramureş).

Barbat (meaning “man” in Romanian) derives from Latin “barbatus”, which means “bearded”.

@odinvinterskygge

4 жыл бұрын

I speak Portuguese and the first thing I thought when I saw that word as example in this video was exactly how it looks like "barbado" (a bearded person, in portuguese) and that pretty much makes sense, since most men have beards.

@PopescuSorin

4 жыл бұрын

@@odinvinterskygge also in Romanian "barba" means beard :P

@nydydn

4 жыл бұрын

@@odinvinterskygge Also, for some reason, we (Romanians) make it a point in history lessons that our ancestors had a bearded appearance. Only now I made the connection with the word for bărbat.

@Konradp68

4 жыл бұрын

In my Romance dialect (Venetian), "barba" used to mean "uncle" (and "beard", of course).

@afcw1969

4 жыл бұрын

Beards are a sure sign of the male identity. My neighbors, two women named Barbara. One told me that her name relates to barbarian. The other said that baba and Barbara are related.

A lot of Dacic words have been forgotten, and there are still a few of them, for example: (brânză - cheese bortă - hole copac - tree a fugi - to run gheară - nail Etc.) Greetings from Moldova🇲🇩

@destiaptah2197

Жыл бұрын

A FUGI = LATIN FUGIT A O ZBUGHI = DACIAN/TRACO GETIC WORD! A FUGI = A O ZBUGHI.

@user-pk9qo1gd6r

Жыл бұрын

fugi is absolutely not Dacian.

@stryker3141

Жыл бұрын

Abur, Barză :)

@cv5w

8 күн бұрын

Brânză, a fugi, gheară are Latin in origin. Check out Wiktionary.

My native language is Castilian ("Spanish"), and I can also speak Portuguese and French (and soon Italian), so I can give a qualified opinion. For us the Romanian language has 2 layers of difficulty. First is obviously the percentage of vocabulary which is different from the other Romance languages, and I mean difference where the similarity is very low or null altogether. So without studying the different common words, what you understand will often be broken because key words in phrases will be unknown. This is a mild condition that can be solved relatively easy by studying the basic vocabulary and common expressions. But the second layer is a barrier in itself: the declensions. Coming from languages that have lost this syntactic mechanism, the fundamental difficulty is to automatize the construction of phrases with the words having the correct declensions, specially one's capability of understandig that when hearing the language. The result is that we cannot understand spoken Romanian without any previous study of the language. And we can partially understand the written form. From my own experience with French, I'd say that formally studying Romanian, one can get to an acceptable level of understanding of Romanian by studying it from about 8 months to a year.

I'm Italian and my boyfriend is from Moldova. The more he teaches me Romanian the more surprised I am by all the similarities that these two languages have! Thanks for the super educational video :D

Thank you Paul, for posting this video on our National Day, how thoughtful of you!:)

@VladVlad-ul1io

7 жыл бұрын

Andrei Popescu La multi ani. :)

@user-qr6qs4ox2z

7 жыл бұрын

Avadhut Kasinadhuni thanks a lot!:)

@AndrewVasirov

7 жыл бұрын

Dar ieri era ziua națională :DD Oh, m-am prins acuma, scuze :))

@VladVlad-ul1io

7 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Vasirovovichintovkovichirov (Vasirov) :)

@unom9515

7 жыл бұрын

Andrei Popescu mina rakastan sinua XD

Paul, I am enjoying your furnishing information about languages' history, grammar and phonetics. Wow! I am a language learner, so I appreciate your efforts.

THIS WAS WONDERFUL! thanks a million, as a language teacher and obsessive linguist who speaks Italian, French, Spanish and the odd bit of Portuguese and soon to travel to Romania this week, this video has given me so much insight and excitement that I can travel alone and be ok!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR XXX

I'm a Filipino and I've been learning this language for months... For me, this language is just interestingly beautiful...

@editname6868

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s beautiful like Polish and literally every other language that isn’t English

@AndreiGamer-ul

2 жыл бұрын

Mănâncă sarmale băiete

@eEmm1

Жыл бұрын

@@editname6868 polish, beautiful language?

@lightsabercollector3096

Жыл бұрын

​@@eEmm1 it sounds like a buzz when you speak it, especially when paired with a slavic accent

@C0rn3liu

10 ай бұрын

Filipino?!?!? That`s impresive!!!! Congrats!!!!

*Latin brothers from around the globe, let's conquer the world!* 🇵🇹🇪🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹🇹🇩

@crack_lag651

7 жыл бұрын

**evil laugh**

@exth2294

7 жыл бұрын

We already did. Now all we need is to make Rome great Again. Spain: All the Americas (except Brazil), including U.S southwest/Louisiana, Texas and Florida. Plus the Philippines/equatorial guinea, etc. Portugal: Brazil, Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Macau, Goa, (in 38 states in Africa) and thousands of cities France: The Americas (including Louisiana territory), Canada, most of Africa, a lot of countries in Asia (an endless list) Italy: Italian East Africa (Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia) plus Libya

@canisjay

7 жыл бұрын

CRACK_LAG GERMANIA DELENDA EST

@NazbolCaliphDonaldaddeenTrump

7 жыл бұрын

oui

@NazbolCaliphDonaldaddeenTrump

7 жыл бұрын

***** 1453 was an inside job, Ottoman cannons can't melt Constantinople walls

I'm Brazilian, and I didn't know until a few months ago that romanian is a latin language, I found out after researching why they have roman in their name,I was surprised to understand some sentences

@gobro2786

Жыл бұрын

So unobvious!? 🤣😘

Send you love from România & thank you for the video. ❤ Mulțumim pentru videoclip din România❤.

I am fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. However, in recent years, I have come to love Romanian language, people, culture, music and geography. What a beautiful language and people!

@kanaldeleo7776

Жыл бұрын

Îți place Dani Mocanu? Sau ai auzit de Zdub și Zdob?

@user-kz4mu9id3o

Жыл бұрын

@@kanaldeleo7776 ma dc plm îl pui sa asculte muzica țigănească ;)))

@borky1987

Жыл бұрын

@@kanaldeleo7776 🤦‍♂

@mariucahristea8816

Жыл бұрын

Multumim frumos! Chiar avem o patrie frumoasa! Chiar avem o limba frumoasa!

@danascully6698

Жыл бұрын

@@kanaldeleo7776 Iti place sa fii prost?

Really cool language, I love how it sounds and the way it is so strangely different from Italian and Spanish. it's a pity that politics ruin the relationship between our peoples... Greetings from Hungary

@georgeiordan271

5 жыл бұрын

Kristof Feher Yes very sad but is good that there are people like us which in the end, we will win against all this hate. We should hate our politicians and we should be brothers with all our neighbours, greetings from Romania. Pace frate!

@Cris-hd1wb

5 жыл бұрын

Idk of this is by political purposes or people's stupidity. They still want to take the whole region of Transilvania and that's how hate starts. It's not so different, but some of the words are just used differently. For example, "mult" means a lot in Romanian, but "molto" means very in Italian. "Foarte" in Romanian means very, but in Italian it's "Forte" and means strong xD ! It's funny how different they've developed :)

@AlinsieventualCalin

5 жыл бұрын

I live in Transylvania and I have a hungarian great-grandmother. There is no conflict between our nations. I have hungarian relatives. My boss is hungarian and many of my colleagues. There are many interetnic mariages and relations. And since both countries are members of NATO and EU, the borders have become irrelevant.

@stefantrandafir1099

5 жыл бұрын

Hi!

@AlinsieventualCalin

5 жыл бұрын

Salut!

Very very informative, educational if your looking for similarities! Great job my man!