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Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
Perhaps you wanted to say "pentru ca ma intrebi". Better is "pentru ca m-ai intrebat" or even better "pentru intrebare".
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
The list is far from having any scientific value. Some words from the list are from Latin, other are Slavic, Turkish or with unknown origin. Very few words there, if any, could be indeed traced to...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
They are both almond-shaped, from where the name ;).
Try to say "mi" ( with short "i") with Romanian accent and the result will be "imi". As dya said, there is no difference.
Why the...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
Pentru prea putin. Ca sa fiu sincer nu imi plac ultimele reguli dictate de Academie si nu le respect, dar apreciez decizia din 1993 privind 'ā' si 'sunt'. Oricum consider ca atata timp cat respectam...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
"Cāntec" is of neuter gender, so it is masculine at singular and feminine at plural. Romanian doesn't have a proper neuter gender, but there are substantives which are masculine at singular and...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
Or aceste cāntece ;)
Thread: Gordana Stojicevic - Māndra mea cu cārpa mură (5 Replies, 8,206 Views) by Sahrian
"Bălă" perhaps means "white haired" or "blonde", as I think I can identify the Slavic etymon.
"Cu cārpa mură" means " having the kerchief with 'mură' " (...
Thread: Ionut Cercel: Hai Chaiorie (english translation please) (3 Replies, 9,014 Views) by Sahrian
This one is not in Romanian language, it seems to be Gypsy language :)
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
Your family speaks the Bănăţean dialect of the Romanian language.
Edit: Learn firstly standard Romanian and then visit some place where the Bănăţean dialect is spoken, I think this is the easier...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
Cu plăcere!
Because French was the most culturally prestigious from all Romance languages.
I think because they were considered to be superfluous for native speakers and there are not...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
They are borrowings, as happens now with English words. French was the most influential foreign language in the Romanian culture those times.
But 'voi' is not French borowing (it is inherited from...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
This is another page which I found interesting, where Romanian sounds are explained: http://soltdm.com/langmod/romana/rom_sunlit.htm
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
For the form of the Romanian personal pronouns, please see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Romanian_personal_pronouns
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
My apologies for don't remembering. This is a question of writting, not of speaking. Actually the 'vowel shift' intention was to return somehow to the forms used before the Soviet occupation, read ...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
Welcome to the forum, Tiber!
I don't understand at what "vowel shifts" do you refer, but "Moldovan" is the same language as Romanian with the difference that sometimes they put emphasis on...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
Your Romanian is good enough, congratulations. But I have to make three little corrections:
1). 'din'='from', 'de'='by', so you should use <<"zmeul" de "vama veche">>.
2). In Romanian...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
I would never have thought that you did refere to 'ţoale'. 'Ţoale' (informally) means indeed 'clothes', but it means 'things' only in that sense i. e. 'articles of clothing'. :)
'Lucruri' doesn't...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
"du-te" means "go to". "du-te la alba ca zapada" literally means "go to snow white". "Albă ca zăpada" is "Snow White", the character from the fairy tale.
"toala" means nothing in Romanian....
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
Not at all. This link is really interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_alphabet, especially after "Unicode and HTML".
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
ȘșȚț are DIFFERENT characters than ŞşŢţ. The first ones are those recommended when writing Romanian (but who cares :)). Perhaps you have to enlarge the character set installed.
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
ADEVARAT A INVIAT!
I think we could accept French besides English as language of communication in this thread. I'm curious how many of us (Romanians) still know some French. If it's easier for you...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
At http://www.romaniandolls.com/books/007manual/Manual03/GRAMATICA/fi.h can be found the complete conjugation of the Romanian verb "a fi" ("to be").
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
Eu sunt
Tu eşti
El/Ea este
Noi suntem
Voi sunteţi
Ei/Ele sunt
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
You are welcome. I hope there will be more interest in the thread, the board being principally a "Lyrics Translation" one, which theoretically attracts more people than a "Learning Romanian...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
There was no such thing as "Romanian" Orthodox Church in those times. If our intellectual elite from Moldavia wouldn't have discovered which is our true national identity thanks to the Polish schools...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
"Romāna cu sau fără profesor" ("Romanian With or Without a Teacher") by Liana Pop:
http://subvertingcapitalism.blogspot.com/2007/04/romana-cu-sau-fara-profesor.html.
Good introduction to Romanian...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
To those seriously interested in learning/teaching languages, I introduce this interesting book: http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Language-Learning-Teaching-Fourth/dp/0130178160. The book is...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
Actually I didn't register here in order to argue with the lyrical Y (to argue about what!?), but to open a discussion related to the title of this thread.
Being a teacher myself I am interested in...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
I didn't use ugly words. Maybe I was too informal, but considering the age difference I think I can take the liberty...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
@Night Wish
I was joking, so don't take my words in a hard way. I know that igrec is a nice guy and I sincerely appreciate his presence on this discussion board. The only problem is that sometimes...
Thread: Learning Romanian language (1,912 Replies, 408,169 Views) by Sahrian
What do you mean by "Romanian has an athropololgic [sic] part formed by slavic languages like a 15%"? This is pure nonsense.
This is too much...igrec, in order to advise people you have to be...