More than that, she is efficient,and intelligent, takes initiative and helped me a great deal in my Romanian studies. She was typical of the help I got from Romanians via eLance in my Romanian adventure. Great country, great people!
To the extent that I speak it and understand it, yes in two months, mostly at home,using LingQ, listening and reading and eventually speaking, about 1-2 hours a day.
you speak like a romanian that emigrated from Romania many years ago. Congrats. Very good stuff. I'm Lingq user and I hope to speak spanish after one month (Im one week into it) :)
I trying to learn the language aswell because I'll visit Romania in novembre. I do understand the language now al little bit, but I can't speak that much already, so what I see you doing is very encouraging, la revedere!
I spent 150-200 hours on Romanian. I started Romanian April 10th when I bought Pimsleur, which I reviewed here in a video, April 13. Then I had pattern sentences and other content translated and recorded vi eLance, which I loaded up in LingQ. In all spent about 2-3 hours a day for 50 days,including LingQ, listening to mp3 player, and skype chats with tutors, before going to Vienna and Romania. I had from 3 to 8 hours per day of Romanian conversation during my three day stay in Romania.
Hi Steve, I am a spanish student who i have been recently finishing an exchagnge program in Romania. It is true all you say about the friendliness and warmth of Romanian People. I am still amazed by the country. Most of them can speak English at a pretty advanced level, besides some other romance languages, so it is quite impressive you only spoke in Romanian at a good enough level as I can appreciate in the video for the short period of time invested. You are definitely inspirational!
Es muy interesante que hiciste un intercambio de lenguas en Rumanía. Yo nací hay pero e vivido 4 años en España y aprendí la lengua Castellana y Catalana aunque olvide como hablar el Catalán por no tener nadie con quién hablar, aún puedo entender el Catalan. Ahora vivo en Canadá y aprendí obviamente el Inglés y también estoy intentando aprender el Francés. Me encanta que hayas tenido una buena experiencia en Rumanía. Saludos desde Canada.
Nice! I've been learning Romanian for about a month. The culture and country are beautiful. Sadly, I will not be there for another month. Keep it up Steve!
Romanian is a truly beautiful language. My mother tongue is French and I also speak some Spanish, so there are commun roots there. But the slavic and other influences give Romanian quite a different flavour than most other Latin Languages.
There is very little slavic influence in some romanian words, but the pronouncing is very similar to many Italian dialects from Sicily, Como, Friuli or Sardegna 😉
Actually,few thousands of years ago, the Slavic languages were specific for a pretty small area comparing with the living area of our ancestors, the Thracians, and so, it's more probably that the Slavic languages was influenced by the old Romanian (Thracian) language or , both by an older one.
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve I live in Cluj Napoca and I am also studying at the university of letters. My major is Korean and my minor is Chinese. I can't believe you're so fluent in all of those languages. Also, your romanian sounds great. I'd be glad to have the opportunity to meet you there.
Hi Steve, I've started my journey to learn Romanian and so far I find it similar to Italian. Thank you for the videos, you're an inspiration for me and many others. Have you been in Montreal before? We have some meetup groups that you can share your language experience with other people. La revedere!
I'm so glad seeing sooo many open - minded people who don't see romania as a "trash hole" like some would say. The accuracy level in your speaking was totally outstanding, sir. :) Keep this up. ^-^
I'm from Ukraine and I can compare the thrash levels of Moldova, Russia, and other nearby states and, - maybe I don't know much about Romania, - but it's doing not that bad from what I can see. I'd love to visit it more.
People that wants to drag you to stupidity mostly thinks like that... But people learning languages are pretty open minded generally You probably heard around you there's always those people saying negative things (like showoff, why would you do that and so on) at whatever you are doing that is related to something that is good (positive) whether it's learning or just trying to do a task properly .
Having visited and traveled widely in Romania numerous times of the last 3 years, I have seen the good, the beautiful, and the desperate. All exist. Yes, I have met so many lovely people who have invited me into their lives, it is amazing and heartening. Still, at the poorer village level, opportunity and quality of life are severely limited. Poverty is profound. Education, infrastructure, health care deficient. The tragedy of the generations post 1989 is the lack of opportunity for both the under-educated and the well-educated, hence the Diaspora to wealthier EU nations for better jobs. As for being a "trash hole", nothing could be further from the truth. It is a beautiful country, rich in resource and human potential. I love Romania
Wow, what a SMILE! Sorry Steve, I wasn't talking about you, but your smile is nice, too. I've become interested in learning Romanian because I like history, and Romanian history is fascinating, being that it seems somewhat enigmatic. Also, the idea that Romanian seems closer to Latin than most other languages appeals to my history interest, as well. Unfortunately, I'm not talented at learning languages - French is beautiful, but I never did well with it in high school or college. I've heard that Romanian is a bit more accessible for English speakers because the syntax is more similar. Don't know if that's true or not, but I think I'd like to try. Thanks for the video. I'm also looking at the Nico videos. I'm just starting out.
You are absolutely right. This has been my experience everywhere in my recent travels to Russia, Prague, Mexico, and previous visits to Portugual, Spain, Italy, not to mention living in Japan, France, and the Chinese people I know here in Vancouver. This list goes on, and when I learn Korean, and perhaps Polish or Arabic, Turkish or Hindi one day, the list will get longer.
Faculty of Letters for anyone confused is what we call literature studies, it’s a faculty with many specialisations related to international languages and Romanian. It’s probably equivalent to what people graduate from in the US in order to become linguists or English professors
Excellent ! :D I understand that at this point you had learned some romanian in only two months and at it's great (it took me about 6 months) to see that you learned a lot ! I'm mexican and for me, it was the same, I actually started to speak alittle bit but in about 6 months, so your progress has been notorious, with time we can speak with more fluency. Congratualions for your romanian and for your channel!! Greetings!!
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Felicitari pentru progresul dumneavostra exceptional si va multumesc mult pentru sursa de inspiratie si modelul pe care ni-l expuneti! sunteti un model pentru mine, si cu siguranta si pentru alti tineri!! Dovediti ca internetul se poate folosi si intr-un alt mod util, si nu numai sa fie o pierdere de timp! JOS PALARIA!!!! BRAVOOOOOOOO!!!! J'attens avec impatience des nouvelles vidéos de votre part et j'aimerais vous souhaiter d'apprendre le plus de langues possibles! Groetjes van Belgie!!!
+life well loved that's obvious because Romanian is one of the romance languages, that said if you know french or Spanish or Italian that could help you learn Romanian vocab faster.
Bună domnule Steve,ma bucurat enorm să vă ascult vorbind românește, eu am 57 ani și in urmă cu 2 ani am început să învăț engleza,mai greu la inceput dar după ce l-am găsit pe AJ Hoge a fost mult mai bine.Pe canalul lui v-am văzut și pe dumneavoastră zilele trecute și azi din greșeală am dat de interviul in limba română, sunteți super,cunoașteți f multe orașe și aveți chiar și accentul bun,o să vă urmăresc in continuare.Toate cele bune vă doresc,,,eu voi asculta mini story.Pa
Am văzut acest videoclip de câteva ori. Îmi amintesc o prima dată când am văzut-o. La acel timp doar am început să învăț limba română. Dar acum îl văd și înțeleg absolut totul. Și pot spune că Steve vorbea româna destul de bine.
@@progamingofficialpenguin2601 Sunt ucrainean. În Ucraina avem mulţi români care trăiesc aici. Şi eu cred că asta e o datorie să ştii româna dacă trăeşti in Ucraina. Deoarece româna este una dintre limbile care se vorbesc aici.
@@igiigiint De admirat,imi pare rau de ce se întâmplă la voi din cauza unei nații blestemate care a făcut odată ca poporul ucrainean să se duşmanească cu cel român. Mă bucur că am atins un moment în care popoarele noastre sunt înfrățite. Sper să îi învingeți pe muscali!
@@progamingofficialpenguin2601 Nu vom învinge fără ajutorul vostru. Nu e posibil pentru că Rusia e prea mare şi prea mulţi bani are care Europa ha plătit la ei pentru gas. Dacă nu faceţi ceva acum în primul rând vei avea Rusia la graniţa voastră cu toate rachete puse în direcţia voastră şi după asta ruşi vor veni la voi. Este relaxant a gândi că acest război nu e a vostru. Dar de fapt toată Europa şi în primul rând voi, Romania, sunteţi deja în război. Şi exact asta spun ruşi, că ei sunt în război nu cu Ucraina dar cu vestul. Cred că politicieni nu spun asta, dar aşa e...
This is a very good example of determination. 2 months to fluency. Felicitari. As vrea ca toti strainii sa incerce macar sa invete macar cateva cuvinte. E o limba frumoasa.
Wow. Increribil, mi se pare imposibil sa vorbesti o limba dupa 2 luni. Nu credeam ca este posibil asa ceva. Sunteti o adevarata sursa de inspiratie. Vorbiti foarte bine 😊 Felicitari 🤗
Congratulations,Sir! I'm from Sibiu (Romania), the town you visited during the theater festival. I'm glad to hear an english speaking person that speaks romanian. If you have in plan to visit again Sibiu please fell free to contact me and I will be pleased to help.I like meeting people from other countries and this can help improve my english and maibe your romanian. I would recommend visiting Sibiu on summer because there are lots of festivals during that period. Felicitari inca odata.
Super! Ai unele momente cand vorbesti asa de cursiv incat semeni cu un roman. Ma bucur ca vrei sa revii si sper sa ai parte de experiente placute. Nu rata Brasov, Maramures iar daca iti place natura mergi si in Delta Dunarii. Numai Bine!
Thank you. I think mostly Romania is not very well-known. I think there are relatively few tourists and I don't think the tourist facilities, hotels and restaurants, are so great in Romania. I think Romania potentially has a lot to offer and I certainly want to go back. I think the tourist facilities need to be developed more.
sure these languages have common origins, but have evolved in time far from each other, Italians and Spanish can understand each other, we need to waste time and try hard to understand something between Italians and French, and between Italians and Portuguese but it's totally useless trying between Italians and Romanians.
I'm Italian, and I have I have yet been able to understand a phrase in Romanian from a Romanian friend. I'm wondering may you understand most Italian and French NOT thanks to your Romanian but through other experiences ?
Wow. Vorbesti destul de bine romaneste. Inteleg foarte bine ce vrei sa spui. Yeah, you do have an accent, but that's not important. I moved to Canada from Romania and I also live in Vancouver and hats down sir. 75 years old and 20 languages. Amazing. And you started when you were 60 years old. You're actually motivating me to learn more languages. And I'm only 44 years old.
Damn impressive progress for just two months, congratulations... you're particularly good at pronouncing words with diacritics, diphthongs and ce,ci,ghe,ghi's :)
Try LingQ, lots of Italian content (and other languages) with transcript, all available for free download. Google for Il Narratore, Il Gastronauta, Gaudio, and check RAI. Good luck.
Steve, I can write to you in English, but I believe that Romanian is appropriate in your case.😊 Respect pentru progresul făcut! Jos pălăria! Îmi pare rău să aud că nu ai vizitat exact ce era mai frumos: Brașovul, Clujul, Timișoara, Iașiul... Dar poate între timp, din 2013, ai reușit. Indiferent, felicitările mele pentru progresul făcut!
Hi Mr Popescu: I need to know the meaning of the Romanian words in an old document. It is "alni". Not sure if it spelled correctly. Multumesc from Argentina...
Hello again! 'Alni' it's not a romanian word, even an arhaic one. If you can tell me about the context a bit, I belive it will help. If you mean 'alini' = 'a alina' that means 'soothing/to comfort a pain'.
@@pcristu Hi Tony. Thank you for being so kind to me. I would need to send you a picture of the old Romanian document where that word is. How can I do it? Multumesc.
@@marioaramburu5370 estudias romanian Mario? Yo quiero hacerlo pero no encuentro mucho contenido, me dices donde buscaste? En realidad estoy con ingles, pero a futuro me encantaria saber rumano tambien. Saludos
Amazing. I live in Hungary (and am British) but I have had a go at Romanian too). I understood you perfectly, and I guess you speak a lot more languages than I do, congratulations.
I think two months to fluency is possible (particularly with Romanian if you speak Italian or Dutch if you speak German), provided you spend it all in the country and talk in it at least 12 hrs a day. For what seems to be about 3-400 hrs of study, this is really quite impressive. People should really stop using amount of months or days or years and start talking about the number of hours people study/practice imo.
Dear mr kauffman i enjoy your videos very much iam able to speak in 4 languages besides my native spanish , i am not a polyglot until i achieve a c2 level in all 5 only spanish, English & italian have a c level but portugues &french im working on them I'm 63 yrs old great video!!!
Your dicition is great, and you just have some small misses on the accent, but for 2 months this is amazing. You would probably become perfectly fluent in a year. Felicitari!
I know I lived in Serbia! My Grandparents came from Bukovina Romania! They move to Serbia!Then the Erdély Bukovina belonged to Hungary ! But the Romanian people I knew , were very nice! That´s why I wrote this I know that there is a poorness!poverty!
So Steve what i just witnessed wads all practically learned from LingQ? And that it can learn it off of the site? As u can tell I am romanian through looking at my last name but I don't speake. I would love to learn it for the next time I go
Buna steve. I came across your video while brushing up on my romanian. My wife is very interested in learning romanian and we went to the Linq website. It looks promising but it appears that Romanian isn't available as a language to learn. Is this still in the works?
Hi Steve, thanks for all the videos. I know you say that listening to the language which you are trying to learn is important, I was wondering if you could suggest some places I can acquire some Italian listening material please. Thanks again!!!
Steve; thank you so much for doing this about Romania. I for one plan to live there some day, i think it is the best kept secret ever. Do you have any idea why Romania is so overlooked and under rated by the west if not by the world? Multumesc foarte mult!
I know, and she seems also really smart, friendly, nice and very hardworking. I don't know too many women like her, but if I was with one, I'd be a happy man.I wish I knew more like her. Also, the Romanian people in Steve's seemed really nice and friendly. This is one of the things I like about learning a new language, being able to communicate with more people and share ideas.
You must pay the tutor a nickel for every "uh" or "um". It's a good habit in any language to try to avoid saying "um" or "uh". :) Love the channel and thank you for your work. :)
Pretty good then. As I said, I think it comes down more to the number of hours than the time period over which the study occurs. You probably noticed a large spike in your abilities during that short trip I would imagine also.
Thank you for showing to the word how beauty Romanian language and Romanian women are. They will learn now Romanian is a Latin language (well Romania looks like from "Roman", so very Latin with some Slavic words synonyms like aer = vazduh, etc.). This is inspirational and motivates me more to learn Danish, as I live in DK and find hard to learn! This would be just the 4th language I can speak. Indeed, "brute force" memorization is not a good idea. I found Scandinavian languages very hard to read with very complex rules and exception like "af" can be read kind of "ow" or "e" (i.e. from "bed")in different context. I will look for some advice from you related to Scandinavian languages, as you are born here.
Hey, im studying medicine in romania (Timisoara) for 1 year ago and still have no clue of the romanian language because i dont really know how to learn it efficiently. you said she translated a lot of sentences for you? is there any chance to get those? i think this would be really helpful , thank you Alex (ger)
You can find lots of Romanian content, audio and text, on LingQ. Go and have a look. You can download it all free of charge. Let me know how you make out.
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Hi Steve, I visited the LingQ site tonight and went round and round trying to find the Romanian content! Please could you provide me with a brief description of how to find it? It would be very much appreciated. Thanks very much!
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Thanks for replying so quickly, Steve! Ok, so I've gone to 'Sign up for Free' on the Home page, then on the drop down menu under 'Learn' I see lots of languages but definitely no Romanian or Library listed there! Oh dear, am I looking in the wrong place?
Wow, it was really interesting to see you speaking romanian :) I started looking at your channel when I started learning japanese and I accidentally stumbled upon this video. It does show great progress for only 2 months, I am really impressed, congratulations! In case you do come back and decide to visit Timisoara, feel free to poke me, I could probably help. How do you like the language?
Which materials to hear and read do you recommend for someone without romance-languages base? The goal is to speak more-or-less fluently (like you do) about basic topics. Thanks and take care.
How much time per day did you take to reach this level? even if the conversation is simple, I think that your skills in Romanian are amazing knowing that you've been just a few months learning it.
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve are there any apps or online sites you recommend for Romanian? It is my mother langue, I'd like to learn it better before I take the SLIP test for high school...
+guthyjuki874 I'm a contributor for the Romanian course, and we are working hard for the course to come out...the wait shouldn't be THAT much longer!!:)
I had a look at LingQ after watching one of your videos Steve, but couldn't find Romanian - I'll have to go an have another look. Is this Nico from TH-cam in this video? Thanks for posting!
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Thanks for your reply Steve. I still can't see Romanian listed. I went to the 'Join Us' page and it was listed in the drop-down box for joining, and I checked at the bottom of the page where it said which languages were available and Romanian wasn't listed. At the top left is the logo, and clicking on that takes me to the home page. Nico is a Romanian language tutor who has a couple of courses here on TH-cam - I've started with her 'Easy Peasy' course. I thought the woman in your video looked like her.
Carol Tresadern On the top left hand corner is the LingQ logo, beside that is a drop down list of languages. Ah, I am sorry, you have to click on "Beta languages" at the bottom to open up the non-supported languages, which includes Romanian. Sorry. Once you open a non-supported language it will always appear in the list. My mistake. Good luck.
Please look at what I said above. Click on Beta languages in the list and you will all the unsupported languages including Romanian, from then on it will be there.
Bravo lui Steve, care "mănâncă limbile pe pâine", dar un bravo și mai mare Georgianei, pentru inteligența cu care a abordat conversația. Este, cred, un bun pedagog. O singură mică scăpare a Georgianei, la 6.23 - "instead = în loc de" și nu "în ciuda". Am învățat de aici că este bine să nu întrerupi studentul pentru mici greșeli - dacă nu perturbă prea mult sensul - iar când intervii, trebuie să fii scurt și să vorbești clar și răspicat. Această calitate îi lipsește, pare-se - si nu pot să înțeleg de ce - occidentalului (neprofesionist): am făcut, în joacă, testul, cu zeci și zeci de locutori (mai ales de limbă franceză, la telefon, și femei)... Imposibil să-i faci să vorbească rar, mai mult de... trei secunde! :-D
Steve, great speaking abilities in linba romana. Why is Romanian not offered on lingq? Romanian is also not offered at Rosetta Stone. I guess the market potential is not as promising as compared to Polish or other east european languages. I would be a customer....
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More than that, she is efficient,and intelligent, takes initiative and helped me a great deal in my Romanian studies. She was typical of the help I got from Romanians via eLance in my Romanian adventure. Great country, great people!
romania is my nationality and romanian is my mother tongue 1st language
Mulțumesc frumos
I am romanian i love you beautiful and smart HUMAN Being 👏✊
Your accent is crazy good!! Wow. You're an inspiration to learn a million languages.
To the extent that I speak it and understand it, yes in two months, mostly at home,using LingQ, listening and reading and eventually speaking, about 1-2 hours a day.
you speak like a romanian that emigrated from Romania many years ago. Congrats. Very good stuff. I'm Lingq user and I hope to speak spanish after one month (Im one week into it) :)
I trying to learn the language aswell because I'll visit Romania in novembre. I do understand the language now al little bit, but I can't speak that much already, so what I see you doing is very encouraging, la revedere!
I just love it when a foreigner shows interest in learning romanian.
I spent 150-200 hours on Romanian. I started Romanian April 10th when I bought Pimsleur, which I reviewed here in a video, April 13. Then I had pattern sentences and other content translated and recorded vi eLance, which I loaded up in LingQ.
In all spent about 2-3 hours a day for 50 days,including LingQ, listening to mp3 player, and skype chats with tutors, before going to Vienna and Romania.
I had from 3 to 8 hours per day of Romanian conversation during my three day stay in Romania.
Hi Steve, I am a spanish student who i have been recently finishing an exchagnge program in Romania. It is true all you say about the friendliness and warmth of Romanian People. I am still amazed by the country. Most of them can speak English at a pretty advanced level, besides some other romance languages, so it is quite impressive you only spoke in Romanian at a good enough level as I can appreciate in the video for the short period of time invested. You are definitely inspirational!
Es muy interesante que hiciste un intercambio de lenguas en Rumanía. Yo nací hay pero e vivido 4 años en España y aprendí la lengua Castellana y Catalana aunque olvide como hablar el Catalán por no tener nadie con quién hablar, aún puedo entender el Catalan. Ahora vivo en Canadá y aprendí obviamente el Inglés y también estoy intentando aprender el Francés. Me encanta que hayas tenido una buena experiencia en Rumanía. Saludos desde Canada.
@@andreions wow y como aprendes idiomas.
Nice! I've been learning Romanian for about a month. The culture and country are beautiful. Sadly, I will not be there for another month. Keep it up Steve!
Romanian is a truly beautiful language. My mother tongue is French and I also speak some Spanish, so there are commun roots there. But the slavic and other influences give Romanian quite a different flavour than most other Latin Languages.
There is very little slavic influence in some romanian words, but the pronouncing is very similar to many Italian dialects from Sicily, Como, Friuli or Sardegna 😉
Sometimes it sounds like Català too
Actually,few thousands of years ago, the Slavic languages were specific for a pretty small area comparing with the living area of our ancestors, the Thracians, and so, it's more probably that the Slavic languages was influenced by the old Romanian (Thracian) language or , both by an older one.
Well done Steve! Very good Romanian level for only 2 months. We expect you to visit Cluj Napoca. All the best!
I definitely want to get back to Romania. Cluj Napoca and Brasov are high on my list of places to visit.
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve
I live in Cluj Napoca and I am also studying at the university of letters. My major is Korean and my minor is Chinese. I can't believe you're so fluent in all of those languages. Also, your romanian sounds great. I'd be glad to have the opportunity to meet you there.
I actually recently heard of this language. Sounds so beautiful
Hi Steve, I've started my journey to learn Romanian and so far I find it similar to Italian. Thank you for the videos, you're an inspiration for me and many others.
Have you been in Montreal before? We have some meetup groups that you can share your language experience with other people.
La revedere!
I will be in Montreal on Sept 17 and 17 and it would be great to have a meet up. La revedere.
I'm so glad seeing sooo many open - minded people who don't see romania as a "trash hole" like some would say. The accuracy level in your speaking was totally outstanding, sir. :) Keep this up. ^-^
dont worry about that. Everyone love romenian girls ^^
I'm from Ukraine and I can compare the thrash levels of Moldova, Russia, and other nearby states and, - maybe I don't know much about Romania, - but it's doing not that bad from what I can see.
I'd love to visit it more.
People that wants to drag you to stupidity mostly thinks like that... But people learning languages are pretty open minded generally
You probably heard around you there's always those people saying negative things (like showoff, why would you do that and so on) at whatever you are doing that is related to something that is good (positive) whether it's learning or just trying to do a task properly .
Having visited and traveled widely in Romania numerous times of the last 3 years, I have seen the good, the beautiful, and the desperate. All exist. Yes, I have met so many lovely people who have invited me into their lives, it is amazing and heartening. Still, at the poorer village level, opportunity and quality of life are severely limited. Poverty is profound. Education, infrastructure, health care deficient. The tragedy of the generations post 1989 is the lack of opportunity for both the under-educated and the well-educated, hence the Diaspora to wealthier EU nations for better jobs. As for being a "trash hole", nothing could be further from the truth. It is a beautiful country, rich in resource and human potential. I love Romania
Yes the visit to Romania, just like my previous visit to Prague, activates my accumulated passive knowledge in the language.
Wow, what a SMILE! Sorry Steve, I wasn't talking about you, but your smile is nice, too.
I've become interested in learning Romanian because I like history, and Romanian history is fascinating, being that it seems somewhat enigmatic. Also, the idea that Romanian seems closer to Latin than most other languages appeals to my history interest, as well.
Unfortunately, I'm not talented at learning languages - French is beautiful, but I never did well with it in high school or college. I've heard that Romanian is a bit more accessible for English speakers because the syntax is more similar. Don't know if that's true or not, but I think I'd like to try. Thanks for the video. I'm also looking at the Nico videos. I'm just starting out.
Kaye NineTwo You should see the women. :)
Indeed, what a dumb smile! :) Such bimbos invaded this field of teaching Romanian în the past years.
@@sorin86yt I know this was four years ago, but fuck you anyways.
@@sorin86yt 🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷
You are absolutely right. This has been my experience everywhere in my recent travels to Russia, Prague, Mexico, and previous visits to Portugual, Spain, Italy, not to mention living in Japan, France, and the Chinese people I know here in Vancouver. This list goes on, and when I learn Korean, and perhaps Polish or Arabic, Turkish or Hindi one day, the list will get longer.
Faculty of Letters for anyone confused is what we call literature studies, it’s a faculty with many specialisations related to international languages and Romanian.
It’s probably equivalent to what people graduate from in the US in order to become linguists or English professors
Excellent ! :D I understand that at this point you had learned some romanian in only two months and at it's great (it took me about 6 months) to see that you learned a lot !
I'm mexican and for me, it was the same, I actually started to speak alittle bit but in about 6 months, so your progress has been notorious, with time we can speak with more fluency. Congratualions for your romanian and for your channel!! Greetings!!
Fans de la Oca Thanks for the kind words, and really enjoyed visiting your country.
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Felicitari pentru progresul dumneavostra exceptional si va multumesc mult pentru sursa de inspiratie si modelul pe care ni-l expuneti! sunteti un model pentru mine, si cu siguranta si pentru alti tineri!! Dovediti ca internetul se poate folosi si intr-un alt mod util, si nu numai sa fie o pierdere de timp! JOS PALARIA!!!! BRAVOOOOOOOO!!!!
J'attens avec impatience des nouvelles vidéos de votre part et j'aimerais vous souhaiter d'apprendre le plus de langues possibles!
Groetjes van Belgie!!!
+Fans de la Oca (Superunknown) Spanish is verrrrry similar to Romanian, some words are exactly the same(:
+life well loved that's obvious because Romanian is one of the romance languages, that said if you know french or Spanish or Italian that could help you learn Romanian vocab faster.
***** I do not even know Romanian that well, but I can understand simple Spanish phrases which I find pretty cool(:
Bună domnule Steve,ma bucurat enorm să vă ascult vorbind românește, eu am 57 ani și in urmă cu 2 ani am început să învăț engleza,mai greu la inceput dar după ce l-am găsit pe AJ Hoge a fost mult mai bine.Pe canalul lui v-am văzut și pe dumneavoastră zilele trecute și azi din greșeală am dat de interviul in limba română, sunteți super,cunoașteți f multe orașe și aveți chiar și accentul bun,o să vă urmăresc in continuare.Toate cele bune vă doresc,,,eu voi asculta mini story.Pa
You're brilliant, Sir!
thanks.
@@Thelinguist Ciar pronunți foarte bine, și asta în două luni, incredibil.
Am văzut acest videoclip de câteva ori. Îmi amintesc o prima dată când am văzut-o. La acel timp doar am început să învăț limba română. Dar acum îl văd și înțeleg absolut totul. Și pot spune că Steve vorbea româna destul de bine.
@Adrian Da. Evident. Acum vorbesc mult mai bine. Tu înveți sau ești român?
Ai rădăcini române sau doar din pură curiozitate ai învățat limba?
@@progamingofficialpenguin2601 Sunt ucrainean. În Ucraina avem mulţi români care trăiesc aici. Şi eu cred că asta e o datorie să ştii româna dacă trăeşti in Ucraina. Deoarece româna este una dintre limbile care se vorbesc aici.
@@igiigiint De admirat,imi pare rau de ce se întâmplă la voi din cauza unei nații blestemate care a făcut odată ca poporul ucrainean să se duşmanească cu cel român. Mă bucur că am atins un moment în care popoarele noastre sunt înfrățite. Sper să îi învingeți pe muscali!
@@progamingofficialpenguin2601 Nu vom învinge fără ajutorul vostru. Nu e posibil pentru că Rusia e prea mare şi prea mulţi bani are care Europa ha plătit la ei pentru gas. Dacă nu faceţi ceva acum în primul rând vei avea Rusia la graniţa voastră cu toate rachete puse în direcţia voastră şi după asta ruşi vor veni la voi. Este relaxant a gândi că acest război nu e a vostru. Dar de fapt toată Europa şi în primul rând voi, Romania, sunteţi deja în război. Şi exact asta spun ruşi, că ei sunt în război nu cu Ucraina dar cu vestul. Cred că politicieni nu spun asta, dar aşa e...
This is a very good example of determination. 2 months to fluency.
Felicitari. As vrea ca toti strainii sa incerce macar sa invete macar cateva cuvinte. E o limba frumoasa.
Wow. Increribil, mi se pare imposibil sa vorbesti o limba dupa 2 luni. Nu credeam ca este posibil asa ceva. Sunteti o adevarata sursa de inspiratie.
Vorbiti foarte bine 😊 Felicitari 🤗
I a fost usor ca vorbea deja alte limbi de origine latina si tu daca incerci sa inveti italiana probabil vei reusi in 2 3 luni
Multumesc!
Congratulations,Sir! I'm from Sibiu (Romania), the town you visited during the theater festival. I'm glad to hear an english speaking person that speaks romanian. If you have in plan to visit again Sibiu please fell free to contact me and I will be pleased to help.I like meeting people from other countries and this can help improve my english and maibe your romanian. I would recommend visiting Sibiu on summer because there are lots of festivals during that period. Felicitari inca odata.
King .Energy Thank you for your kind offer. I will contact you if I visit again, which I hope to do one day.
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve
Thank you
Super! Ai unele momente cand vorbesti asa de cursiv incat semeni cu un roman. Ma bucur ca vrei sa revii si sper sa ai parte de experiente placute. Nu rata Brasov, Maramures iar daca iti place natura mergi si in Delta Dunarii.
Numai Bine!
Thank you. I think mostly Romania is not very well-known.
I think there are relatively few tourists and I don't think the tourist facilities, hotels and restaurants, are so great in Romania. I think Romania potentially has a lot to offer and I certainly want to go back. I think the tourist facilities need to be developed more.
Thank you for letting me know.
I am really impressed! Am inteles tot ce ai zis. I know Romanian is hard to learn, but you did a great job. Multumesc mult pentru asta, Steve!
foarte bine! Great job Steve you are doing a grea job with your Romanian. Never heared a foreigner that can speak that well. Congrats!
Can’t believe you learned Romanian, my native language, this is so cool 😍
If you did this in 2 months then I am truly impressed.
I suggest you join LingQ for Romanian.
Hello.
Your accent in this recording is so..
I'm so glad and I'm happy for your achievement.
Best Regards from UK/RO!
This is inspirational and motivates me even more to learn my German! Well done and I love your Lingq site!
I'm a Canadian and I speak French. Romanian is very similar to French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese since it's a Romance language.
since it's a ''Latin'' language. :p (Wait... it isnt a Latin language... how is Romanian similar to French?)
Go check out.. Romanian is a Latin Language. I know it's weird, but it is.
sure these languages have common origins, but have evolved in time far from each other, Italians and Spanish can understand each other, we need to waste time and try hard to understand something between Italians and French, and between Italians and Portuguese but it's totally useless trying between Italians and Romanians.
saintpine I'm Romanian and i can understand most Italian/French phrases without having any knowledge in those languages.
I'm Italian, and I have I have yet been able to understand a phrase in Romanian from a Romanian friend. I'm wondering may you understand most Italian and French NOT thanks to your Romanian but through other experiences ?
Woow,for just 2 months of learning it's incredible!Good job!
felicitari din inima Steve! You made a great job!
Sunteti extraordinar! Un accent perfect.
Wow. Vorbesti destul de bine romaneste. Inteleg foarte bine ce vrei sa spui. Yeah, you do have an accent, but that's not important. I moved to Canada from Romania and I also live in Vancouver and hats down sir. 75 years old and 20 languages. Amazing. And you started when you were 60 years old. You're actually motivating me to learn more languages. And I'm only 44 years old.
That's crazy man, as a Romanian, you have my respect👏🏻
Damn impressive progress for just two months, congratulations... you're particularly good at pronouncing words with diacritics, diphthongs and ce,ci,ghe,ghi's :)
Try LingQ, lots of Italian content (and other languages) with transcript, all available for free download. Google for Il Narratore, Il Gastronauta, Gaudio, and check RAI. Good luck.
Thanks a bunch, I'm already on LingQ... I will also look at the others you have recommended, cheers.
Steve, I can write to you in English, but I believe that Romanian is appropriate in your case.😊
Respect pentru progresul făcut! Jos pălăria! Îmi pare rău să aud că nu ai vizitat exact ce era mai frumos: Brașovul, Clujul, Timișoara, Iașiul... Dar poate între timp, din 2013, ai reușit. Indiferent, felicitările mele pentru progresul făcut!
Hi Mr Popescu: I need to know the meaning of the Romanian words in an old document. It is "alni". Not sure if it spelled correctly. Multumesc from Argentina...
Hello again! 'Alni' it's not a romanian word, even an arhaic one. If you can tell me about the context a bit, I belive it will help. If you mean 'alini' = 'a alina' that means 'soothing/to comfort a pain'.
@@pcristu Hi Tony. Thank you for being so kind to me. I would need to send you a picture of the old Romanian document where that word is. How can I do it? Multumesc.
@@pcristu I have just sent you a message to your Facebook. Please read it. Multumesc from Argentina...
@@marioaramburu5370 estudias romanian Mario? Yo quiero hacerlo pero no encuentro mucho contenido, me dices donde buscaste?
En realidad estoy con ingles, pero a futuro me encantaria saber rumano tambien. Saludos
Well, Steve, you just made me look small !! I only speak 7 languages and you speak 20 !!
Two months? Really? That's impressive! This stunt of yours makes me feel very envious. Kudos!
What a beautiful woman. Please more of her speaking Romanian.
Wow 2013 and in 2016 Mr. Kaufman, looks healthier, stronger and younger. Nice one sir.
Hats off to you, Mr. Kaufmann! Your romanian is very good !
Darn... That girl is astoundingly beautiful :P
I'm also gonna learn Romanian soon, this gave me some inspiration. :)
1-2 hours per day. mostly listening, reading and working at LingQ.
Amazing. I live in Hungary (and am British) but I have had a go at Romanian too). I understood you perfectly, and I guess you speak a lot more languages than I do, congratulations.
well done, very motivating. Thanks for posting it
Check again. I learned Romanian on LingQ.
Wow, he's accent in Romania is so natural!!! I love it
Foarte bine vorbiți Românește! Ce alte lîmbe stiți?
Ce alte limbi stiti*
And you should say : Vorbiti foarte bine romaneste
I think two months to fluency is possible (particularly with Romanian if you speak Italian or Dutch if you speak German), provided you spend it all in the country and talk in it at least 12 hrs a day.
For what seems to be about 3-400 hrs of study, this is really quite impressive. People should really stop using amount of months or days or years and start talking about the number of hours people study/practice imo.
Dear mr kauffman i enjoy your videos very much iam able to speak in 4 languages besides my native spanish , i am not a polyglot until i achieve a c2 level in all 5 only spanish, English & italian have a c level but portugues &french im working on them I'm 63 yrs old great video!!!
Your dicition is great, and you just have some small misses on the accent, but for 2 months this is amazing. You would probably become perfectly fluent in a year. Felicitari!
This is adorable!!!! Such a sweet man.
I know I lived in Serbia! My Grandparents came from Bukovina Romania! They move to Serbia!Then the Erdély Bukovina belonged to Hungary ! But the Romanian people I knew , were very nice! That´s why I wrote this I know that there is a poorness!poverty!
foarte bine, sunt impresionata :) romanian is really difficult, but you are nailing it congratulations!
It helps if you learn at a young age
her voice is 100% the same as Björk's
So Steve what i just witnessed wads all practically learned from LingQ? And that it can learn it off of the site? As u can tell I am romanian through looking at my last name but I don't speake. I would love to learn it for the next time I go
Felicitări Steve. Vorbesti corect româneste. Mulțumesc pentru cuvintele frumoase spuse despre meleagurile natale.
Buna steve. I came across your video while brushing up on my romanian. My wife is very interested in learning romanian and we went to the Linq website. It looks promising but it appears that Romanian isn't available as a language to learn. Is this still in the works?
Hi Steve, thanks for all the videos. I know you say that listening to the language which you are trying to learn is important, I was wondering if you could suggest some places I can acquire some Italian listening material please. Thanks again!!!
Steve; thank you so much for doing this about Romania. I for one plan to live there some day, i think it is the best kept secret ever. Do you have any idea why Romania is so overlooked and under rated by the west if not by the world? Multumesc foarte mult!
I know, and she seems also really smart, friendly, nice and very hardworking. I don't know too many women like her, but if I was with one, I'd be a happy man.I wish I knew more like her. Also, the Romanian people in Steve's seemed really nice and friendly. This is one of the things I like about learning a new language, being able to communicate with more people and share ideas.
You must pay the tutor a nickel for every "uh" or "um". It's a good habit in any language to try to avoid saying "um" or "uh". :) Love the channel and thank you for your work. :)
Felicitari, domnule Kaufmann!
Hello Steve,
do You have any experience in Baltic languages?
Felicitari ! Ma apuc sa invat Mandarina. Sper sa reusesc, Imi doresc mult. Toate cele bune Sir !!!
GREAT! MANY THANKS . Very inspiring!. BRAVO!!!
Pretty good then. As I said, I think it comes down more to the number of hours than the time period over which the study occurs. You probably noticed a large spike in your abilities during that short trip I would imagine also.
Wow, she is a stunner.
How did you meet Georgiana and how I can in contact with her because I want to practice speaking my Romanian.
I found her through Google.
Thank you for showing to the word how beauty Romanian language and Romanian women are. They will learn now Romanian is a Latin language (well Romania looks like from "Roman", so very Latin with some Slavic words synonyms like aer = vazduh, etc.). This is inspirational and motivates me more to learn Danish, as I live in DK and find hard to learn! This would be just the 4th language I can speak. Indeed, "brute force" memorization is not a good idea. I found Scandinavian languages very hard to read with very complex rules and exception like "af" can be read kind of "ow" or "e" (i.e. from "bed")in different context. I will look for some advice from you related to Scandinavian languages, as you are born here.
What about ESPERANTO?
Now I understand why you like Learning romanian ;) she is so pretty lol
Hey,
im studying medicine in romania (Timisoara) for 1 year ago
and still have no clue of the romanian language because i dont really know how to learn it efficiently.
you said she translated a lot of sentences for you? is there any chance to get those? i think this would be really helpful , thank you
Alex (ger)
You can find lots of Romanian content, audio and text, on LingQ. Go and have a look. You can download it all free of charge. Let me know how you make out.
How about listen to the music...get the movie Crazy Stranger with english sub-titles....
good luck.
fred
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Hi Steve, I visited the LingQ site tonight and went round and round trying to find the Romanian content! Please could you provide me with a brief description of how to find it? It would be very much appreciated. Thanks very much!
Choose Romanian. Then from the drop list at the Learn button choose Library. Should be there.
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Thanks for replying so quickly, Steve! Ok, so I've gone to 'Sign up for Free' on the Home page, then on the drop down menu under 'Learn' I see lots of languages but definitely no Romanian or Library listed there! Oh dear, am I looking in the wrong place?
Wow, it was really interesting to see you speaking romanian :) I started looking at your channel when I started learning japanese and I accidentally stumbled upon this video. It does show great progress for only 2 months, I am really impressed, congratulations! In case you do come back and decide to visit Timisoara, feel free to poke me, I could probably help.
How do you like the language?
+Bogdan Teleaga Loved it and loved visiting the country. I hope I visit again and will contact you.
Romanian is very beautiful, as is that tutor.
Which materials to hear and read do you recommend for someone without romance-languages base? The goal is to speak more-or-less fluently (like you do) about basic topics. Thanks and take care.
Great! I am romanian and I'm also learning lots of languages as you. I just want to say that I'd like to be as good as you are. :)
How much time per day did you take to reach this level? even if the conversation is simple, I think that your skills in Romanian are amazing knowing that you've been just a few months learning it.
Well done....sau foarte bine. Keep up the good work.
Mr Kaufmann, youre anaizing iam speak also 4 languages but you are wow do you speak Serbian too ?
This is so cool!!!! I didn't even know you could do this!!!
+guthyjuki874 Go for it.
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve are there any apps or online sites you recommend for Romanian? It is my mother langue, I'd like to learn it better before I take the SLIP test for high school...
+guthyjuki874 you could try Duolingo. it helps me a lot.
Dragos Dragos Thanks for the tip! I have been, but they do not have Romanian and that's what I need the most..(:
+guthyjuki874 I'm a contributor for the Romanian course, and we are working hard for the course to come out...the wait shouldn't be THAT much longer!!:)
I am studying french and now i am atarting to be interested in roumanian
Steve, you are very funny and intelligent of course! :)
I want to learn Romanian, too. But I do not find it in LingQ, can you please tell me how can I contact them?
+Nichtszuverstecken Its in the beta languages.
I had a look at LingQ after watching one of your videos Steve, but couldn't find Romanian - I'll have to go an have another look. Is this Nico from TH-cam in this video?
Thanks for posting!
Carol Tresadern I don't know who Nico is but you will find Romanian in the drop down list of languages at the top left of the site.
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve
Thanks for your reply Steve.
I still can't see Romanian listed. I went to the 'Join Us' page and it was listed in the drop-down box for joining, and I checked at the bottom of the page where it said which languages were available and Romanian wasn't listed. At the top left is the logo, and clicking on that takes me to the home page.
Nico is a Romanian language tutor who has a couple of courses here on TH-cam - I've started with her 'Easy Peasy' course. I thought the woman in your video looked like her.
Carol Tresadern On the top left hand corner is the LingQ logo, beside that is a drop down list of languages. Ah, I am sorry, you have to click on "Beta languages" at the bottom to open up the non-supported languages, which includes Romanian. Sorry. Once you open a non-supported language it will always appear in the list. My mistake. Good luck.
I'm don't know if I'm doing something dim - I can see the Beta list, but Romanian isn't listed there.
Please look at what I said above. Click on Beta languages in the list and you will all the unsupported languages including Romanian, from then on it will be there.
Bravo lui Steve, care "mănâncă limbile pe pâine", dar un bravo și mai mare Georgianei, pentru inteligența cu care a abordat conversația. Este, cred, un bun pedagog.
O singură mică scăpare a Georgianei, la 6.23 - "instead = în loc de" și nu "în ciuda".
Am învățat de aici că este bine să nu întrerupi studentul pentru mici greșeli - dacă nu perturbă prea mult sensul - iar când intervii, trebuie să fii scurt și să vorbești clar și răspicat. Această calitate îi lipsește, pare-se - si nu pot să înțeleg de ce - occidentalului (neprofesionist): am făcut, în joacă, testul, cu zeci și zeci de locutori (mai ales de limbă franceză, la telefon, și femei)... Imposibil să-i faci să vorbească rar, mai mult de... trei secunde! :-D
Steve, great speaking abilities in linba romana. Why is Romanian not offered on lingq? Romanian is also not offered at Rosetta Stone. I guess the market potential is not as promising as compared to Polish or other east european languages. I would be a customer....
lindemannt Please check again.
She is so pretty
Good job, Steve. I'm wondering if you intend to learn Hungarian, too. (Or you have already?) I'm a native and could help you
Maybe in the future, but no immediate plans, but thank you.
@@Thelinguist I would be glad? I am just finishing my degree in English :)
Really good job!
Sorry I don't, but maybe one day.
The Romanian people are all very nice people!