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Breakfast Vocabulary (Part 2) (Romanian)

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[romanian-atease]

🔵 PRESENT 🔵 eu continui - I continue tu continui - you continue el/ea continuă - he/she continues noi continuăm - we continue voi continuați - you continue ei/ele continuă - they continue

🟡 PAST 🟡 eu am continuat - I continued tu ai continuat - you continued el/ea a continuat - he/she continued noi am continuat - we continued voi aţi continuat - you continued ei/ele au continuat - they continued

🔴 FUTURE 🔴 eu voi continua - I'll continue tu vei continua - you'll continue el/ea va continua - he/she will continue noi vom continua - we'll continue voi veţi continua - you'll continue ei/ele vor continua - they'll continue

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Resource List for Learning Romanian

Hi Language Enthusiasts,

Do you want to learn Romanian but don’t know where to start? Then I’ve got the perfect resource list for you and you can find its links below. Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve it. I hope everyone can enjoy it and if anyone notices any mistakes or has any questions you are free to PM me.

Here is what the resource list contains;

Handmade resources on certain grammar concepts for easy understanding.

Resources on learning pronunciation.

Websites to practice reading.

Documents to enhance your vocabulary.

Notes on Colloquial Language.

Music playlists

List of podcasts/audiobooks And a compiled + organized list of websites you can use to get hold of grammar!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V849Z25xYNjhQTM2qGfHMXuJl07A6Lc19s7y2kqNFs4/edit?usp=sharing

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My language bookshelf

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[beansprouts]

i just saw your post about romanian curse words, and i realized the only romanian i understand is like, "alo, salut, sunt eu" (hello, hi, it's me) and "nu ma nu ma iei" ("you don't take me") xD could you please teach me one more phrase so i know something more than the lyrics to dragostea din tei? rofl

Anon. I’m a trilingual Romanian-American with a degree in linguistics. I love languages so much and I will talk about how cool and underappreciated Romanian is endlessly. You just activated my trap card.

Romanian is the bastard child of Latin and an ancient language called Dacian about which we know very little, with additional influences through cultural contact from Hungarian and various Slavic languages. It’s the oldest Romance language still spoken, meaning it preserves a lot of very arbitrary verb tenses from Latin. And it’s got vocabulary from all of its contact languages, meaning a fascinating set of swear words!

Given that I grew up (mostly) in the US I never really got the chance to hear many swear words; my parents weren’t keen on me picking up any colourful vocabulary from them. The few expletives I did pick up were from my grandmother, and those were more Hungarian than Romanian due to her heritage (but that’s another story). She did teach me an extraordinarily foul Romanian curse that I won’t repeat here, though.

A year ago, I spent about a month with extended family in Romania (to celebrate my undergrad graduation) and they were much less careful than my parents to keep dirty words away from my innocent ears. Whenever one of them would swear and I didn’t recognize the word, I would write it down. I reproduce that note for you now:

I can tell you off the bat that răhat is fairly mild and means shit, but I will leave the translation of the others as an exercise to the reader. Warning: these are powerful. Also I cannot vouch for their spellings.

Some other fun Romanian words & phrases I picked up from my life as a Romanian-American:

noroc! good luck. Said as an equivalent to “cheers” when you’re making a toast, or as an equivalent to “bless you” after someone sneezes.

harababură: this word is a bit of a tongue-twister; it means a mess or mistake.

curent: air current/draft. Not super entertaining in its own right, but Romanians are really weird about this. tl;dr it’s basically a cultural superstition that if you leave your windows open and a cool breeze flows through your house, it’ll make you horribly sick.

cai verzi pe pereţi: the impossible. Lit. green horses on walls; if you’re dreaming of green horses on walls, you’re wasting your time thinking about impossible things. I guess. There’s also a song about it.

aiurea-n tramvai: out of nowhere. Lit. nonsense in a cable car.

a da cu mucii în fasole: my favourite phrase. Lit. to put boogers in your beans. Means to fuck up.

(I’m sure I’ll think of more later, at which point I’ll come back and edit this post!)

And finally, one of the best ways to learn a language is to listen to Romanian music, and my current fave is Carla’s Dreams, a wonderful rap group from Moldova.