I'm already a tiny bit stuffed in the language department-French (near native fluent) Japanese (able to teach advanced Japanese) and dabbling in others, but Romanian will be a first. There's something I want to say to someone to completely blow them away, but although I'm assuming the intonation might be similar to French, I can find nowhere to hear this phrase except at Google Translate, which sounds forced and robotic. I want to play a trick on this person, whom I just met a week or so ago, and she has utterly no reason to believe I know a thing about Rumanian. She is in fact from Moldava, but I know that a minority speak Ukrainian, and fewer speak Russian. So first I'm going to tell her-she's a home-care nurse (but I have no romantic intentions) Tu esht un ahnjer (which is how I heard it on GT, but assume it's more nuanced and will have to guess the cadence/stress) and if she says something, I'll tell her "Ce? Numa stiai vorbitor de Romana. Credam ku stiai!" Considering I just learned that yesterday and I'm seeing her tomorrow, I need to learn the pronunciation of this in a hurry. Oh, well, I can say the whole thing at natural speaking speed with all the rolled r's and imagined intonation, so if it works I'll post it here.
I'm already a tiny bit stuffed in the language department-French (near native fluent) Japanese (able to teach advanced Japanese) and dabbling in others, but Romanian will be a first.
There's something I want to say to someone to completely blow them away, but although I'm assuming the intonation might be similar to French, I can find nowhere to hear this phrase except at Google Translate, which sounds forced and robotic.
I want to play a trick on this person, whom I just met a week or so ago, and she has utterly no reason to believe I know a thing about Rumanian. She is in fact from Moldava, but I know that a minority speak Ukrainian, and fewer speak Russian.
So first I'm going to tell her-she's a home-care nurse (but I have no romantic intentions) Tu esht un ahnjer (which is how I heard it on GT, but assume it's more nuanced and will have to guess the cadence/stress) and if she says something, I'll tell her "Ce? Numa stiai vorbitor de Romana. Credam ku stiai!"
Considering I just learned that yesterday and I'm seeing her tomorrow, I need to learn the pronunciation of this in a hurry.
Oh, well, I can say the whole thing at natural speaking speed with all the rolled r's and imagined intonation, so if it works I'll post it here.