ROMANIAN (The Forgotten Romance Language)

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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)

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

Much love to Romania and Romanians from Greece <3