You're one of the few that knows what he's talking about. Everything was brief and dead on. Historically accurate, grammatically accurate, culturally accurate - the real deal. Very well made presentation. I salute you!
Good job, very well done! I'm Romanian, and I want to congratulate you on your very well documented facts. I can tell that you're very good with languages, and love the way you pronounce Romanian words. Don't know if you had a teacher explaining things to you, or you just "caught" it by ear as they say, but very well done! One mention- Romanians used Cyrillic alphabet for a few hundred of years because it was forced on them...but the base of the language was and always will be Latin. It was a way of surviving and continuing our Latin heritage in a sea of Slavic people...Romania is isolated from all the other Romance-speaking nations geographically, but maybe that's the main reason why we preserved that very proper Latin grammar.
One of the most accurate representations of what Romania may look like through a foreigner's eyes I have even seen or heard of. Decent, brief, on point, and really well documented. Thank you, I hope you've enjoyed your time here!
Is not what i mean. I mean they could learn the words but the way english people pronounce none romanian people would understand a thing, is like they would invent a new language or something.
***** its funny for me what you just said but really unfortunate for you that you have been around such people that created this impression for you. Don't generalize not everyone is swearing and cursing all the time. No European would be sad if Romania vanishes? You sound a little frustrated maybe you have a personal issue. I respect others opinions but you took it in other direction. Here this guy was talking about grammar and learning tips. You shouldn't have watched it at the first place if you don't like Romanian language
Legolas Greenleaf The guy/girl who wrote the message to her deleted his/her message...and thats why it appears she speaks to herself,look,you can even see that the message was given to another guy/girl.
thanks for the video!! This was an excellent presentation on the basic linguistics. I'm a very curious person, and this is the stuff that most people don't explain, but to me, it's the most important information about any language. Where it comes from, the roots, the sounds, grammatical structure, cases, etc. This video was very interesting! Thanks again!
Thank you for your learning tips. I was adopted, and found out that I am Romanian, and have been seeking answers since to found out more. You have been quite a educational role model. Thank you
There are three types of Latin vocabulary in Romanian. 1. The first is directly inherited from Vulgar Latin, which is the core of language. 2. The second are the words which came from Scientific Latin, for example, "ignis" in classical Latin means "fire", but in Vulgar fire is "focus", in Romanian fire is "foc", but in Romanian there is a word as IGNIFUG, which came scientific Latin. 3. The third is of course borrowing from another romance languages, most of them come from French, no wonder, Romania is a Francophone country, where many people as foreign language speak French, but now English popular as well
I have no idea how i ended here but im so glad i did! I'm from Romania and i think you're amazing ! this is the first video i saw from you and i already fell inlove with you xD I'm just gonna watch every video you ever posted right now xD
Great video, and your pronunciation is really really cute. Although Romanian is a phonetic language, people learning it tend to butcher the pronunciation.
romanian has some hundreds words that are the same in sanskrit, and many words considered to be slavonic, are in fact much older than the slavonic influence came to this part of europe. it is from thracian language ( an indoeuropean satem language, indoiranian branch) the mother of dacian language.
Actually, grammar wise, French is by FAR the hardest one, since it mostly derives from ancient French. Back in the days where only the most educated people knew how to write, and they made the grammar as complicated as possible to make it seem harder. In romanian you basically write it as you hear it
+Nonno d' acciaio French grammar is not that hard? French born people still struggle with french at a college level.. I would know because I just graduated from a french college.
+Adrian Negreanu no I mean grammar is not only the "you write as you hear" part. Grammar is more than that. I think I may have not expressed myself properly
+Nonno d' acciaio Yes of course it's not that simple, but I myself am romanian (born in canada) and without ever having a romanian education i'm able to write in romanian, of course making quite some mistakes, but anyone would still be able to comprehend what i wrote, which is not always the case with French, seeing a non french person writting french is often really painful, which is mostly because of the thousands of grammar rules that have no logic behind them in french
+Vannesa M Spanish? More like italy, since they gangbanged us hundreds of years ago, and from there we got our country's name, if Rome wouldn't invaded us, then we would still name Dacia, and citicenzs would be named dacians or something like that. Dunno who told, dunno if it's real, but someone told there are some proofs our language is somehow related to latin language.
+Resu- kun De cine anume? Inseamna ca eram primitivi rau de tot. Atunci nu ii de mirare dc mai bine de jumatate din tara asta ii proasta si mediocra gramada,
Hi I am from Romania. Romania is my country. And I learned English and French at school and I find it hard. I think the Romanian seems hard because you're not born here but me I'm easy. I should be glad if you try some Romanian dishes (SARMALE). Many people believe that the Romanian language is romantic but they think so because it is a Latin. I am very glad that you managed to say the word,, fundatie``. And to be honest I did not understand anything you say because you are a child and do not know English very well (but I took a ten English school). Now forget everything I wrote above me in Romanian:Buna sunt din romania. romania este tara mea. Si eu la scoala invat engleza si franceza si imi este cam greu. Cred ca romana ti se pare grea pentru ca nu esti nascut aici dar mi-e mi se usoara. Mas bucura daca ai incerca niste preparate romanesti ( SARMALE). Multi oameni cred ca limba romana este romantica dar li se pare asa pentru ca este o limba latina. Ma bucur foarte mult ca ai reusit sa spui cuvantul ,, fundatie``. Si sincera sa fiu n-am inteles nimic din ce-ai spus pentru ca sunt un copil si nu stiu foarte bine engleza ( dar am luat un zece la engleza la scoala).
Congratulations to this guy! These are a few things maybe your viewers want to know - the most have been said, but I give them additional examples. Romanian language is almost 80% of Vulgar Latin language, (vulgar=spoken, popular), plus 20%: 1. Slavic words (Serbian, Bulgarian: calorifer=warm-water heating, Russian: a iubi - ljublu=to love), 2. Greek words (democrație from demos-people+kratos-power, medical terms, science names like: zoologie - zoo+logos-word/science, arheologie - archais-old+logos-word/science), 3.Turkish words (cișmea=fountain, sarma=main dish, peșcheș=money tribute), 4. Dacian words (varza=cabbage, barza=stork, brad=fir), 5. German words, 6. Hungarian words. Romanian language is the only Romance language that kept, from Latin, "Neutral gender" (genul neutru) : words that have the singular ending form of masculine and the plural ending form of feminine (for ex. un stilou/one pencil - doua stilouri/two pencils. Masc: un/one - doi/two, Fem.: o/one - doua/two, Neutral: un/one - doua/two.). All of the above words (1.2.3...6) are influences from our ancient neighbours: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman/Turkish Empire, Russian Empire and countries under their domination (Serbia, Bulgaria). Old Greek and old Slavic languages are still learnt in Theological High Schools and Theological Faculty in Romania and Latin language (one of those 8 "dead" languages în Europe) is still studied in 7th/8th and 9th grade in school/high school. Our bible comes from Greece and it was written with cyrillic alphabet in ancient times. Romania is a "new" country (its borders finalized btw. 1856/1944) and its written language formed btw. 16th and 19th century. But many of the European countries are "new" formed states: Italy and Germany, both formed as states in 1871.
Obviously you have been in a more formal, old fashion Romanian society. It seems that you have also learned some Romanian. To clarify some things: the younger generation does not use so many formal expressions. On the other hand, even before the 19th century, before the contact to the French and Italian languages, in language character was Latin to such an extent that the emperor of the Austrian Empire Philip the Second, traveling in his youth as an adolescent in Transylvania has been impressed by the fact that he could understand Romanian after studying Latin in school! He gave 4 names (like a greeting) to four Romanian villages in Transylvania: Salvae, Parva, Nepos and Romuli (which means I am greeting you little niece of Rome). The names are still used today.
Well,I just came from a party I saw your vid on recommendation and as a Romanian I watched it with interest.I am not a religious guy and I am not recommending no one churches ,or religion,I am against changing or twisting believes,I am with my faith and that is enaugh.But if not you ,there will be other to send anyway and I ll tell you what you need to know ,if you want,about Romania(people,places,differences,etc.)from a Romanian point of view.
Tip for foreigners trying to learn romanian grammar : Don't worry about all the nuts and bolts, most of romanians also didn't got right all the details. You can see that especially when you read the TH-cam comments ;)
+sandra4408 ... Dacia as far as I know is produced only in Romania... but some similar models are produced in other places as Morocco and India... but they are not allowed to place the Dacia sigla's on the front of the car... I saw same models with the Renault sigla's!
Interestingly, you noticed the similarities between French words used in English. Sometimes, when I don’t know an English word, I take a Romanian word and say it in an English way, and many times, it matches a word less used like I would have an elevated vocabulary; people ask how you know that word...lol, I don't; I just used a Romanian one with an English accent 😂
Romanian is the easiest language to learn actually and I am not Romanian. In Albanian Alphabet we have 36 letters and that makes it pretty much easy to learn. So far I learned almost 5 languages and none of them are hard to learn.
the language is very hard and very complex it`s much harder to learn than any language spoken in east or south europe but it`s also more beautiful and sounds extremly pleasant
I speak all romance languages that came after latin, i wouldn't say fully fluently but hey 11 languages too many to keep a track on. but still portuguese is out of the 6 is the hardest, The complex grammar The complex dialect/accent Closed language Reminds me of my russian or any slavic or baltic language because of having a strong powerfull accent compared to the rest of all romance languages execpt east romanian or moldavian who has russian or ukranian accent. Fast speaking. Romania language would fall right after portuguese. But if you know Italian Spanish or French specially French then you can speak Romanian execpt the accent being different but you would understand alot of Romanian The same does not happen in European Portuguese, while Brasilian Portuguese is like the second easiest one after Spanish. From hardest to easy i would place like this 1 Portuguese/galician 2 Romanian 3 Italy because of different dialects from noth to soulth or Sardinian 4 French 5 Catalon 6 Brasilian 7 Castilhan This is my order of placing all this languages, but im not fluent with all of them just know enough how to talk or understand everything that is being told to me unless some weird accent comes in...
***** No they are not the same language, Brasilian falls into the same cathegory as Angolan does There is formal Brasilian that tries to follow the European Portuguese way but that only happens in 3 or 4 known parts of brasil, move from there you get the common br and crioule mixed. To me they are different languages, not the same, give it 2 more centuries and see how different both languages will become, Same as when Leon was nearly the same as Galician Portuguese and now is castilhan, same is happening to Galician whos been influenced by Castilha. Brasilian is portuguese yes, same words or most of them but the dialect/accent is completly different, One is closed the other is spoken out loud like singing, and resemble the same as castilhan execpt being portuguese. Mas se quiseres pode-mos falar na tua língua, para mim é me igual.
fonte de origem = portugal da europa. segunda categoria seria brasil e depois angola. ` eu talvez me tenha explicado mal mas sim muitas zonas brs sao mais portuguesas em lingua portuguesa europeia do que portugues brasileiro como disse anteriormente pt pt ou pt br sao na mesma uma so lingua apenas a pt br muda um pouco o seu dialecto e a sua escrita no qual ate involve criolo ja o mesmo em angola acontece e portuguese sim official mas como o de portugal, obviamente que nao é dai eu chamar como segunda categoria ou sub divisao da original do tempo da colonisacao. nao quero parecer racista ou algo do genero amigo apenas tentanto explicar que nos europeus entendemos brasileiro melhor que o pt pt pergunta a um espanhol ou italiano ou franca ou romeno eles iram entender melhor o br que tem semelhanças no timbre ou no acento da voz como tem o espanhol ja o portugues em si e diferente comparado ou espanhol ou brasileiro ou italiano numa lingua latina romana portugues e romeno da romenia sao as unicas duas que tem um acento ou dialecto que nao se assemelha ao resto das linguas latinas. tem muita terra em portugal no qual a lingua parece escocesa.... e sou russa mas mim eu divido as linguas por classes devido aos verbos e as vogais e nouns porque se formes a ver italia tem varios dialectos que mais parece uma data de linguas espalhada por toda a peninsula italica..sendo a principal a toscana no qual todos entendem e a principal para se falarem assim como castelhano o é na espanha. Eu como falo varias tenho de dividir em divisoes para poder entender e pensar nela em mim propria para a poder escrever sem ter que dar muitos erros mesmo nao tendo teclado para por tis e acentos da para entender perfeitamente penso eu claro xaxaxa
Yes i consider them secondary languages from my native one. musmanks nenetsia the repulicks all have their own dialect. ukrain belarus are different languages too, oblat is weird. bulgarian is like alien kazak kyrg taji so many accents and dialects that come from slavic baltic origin but all from old prusk. most are understanbadle but some nope it is a mix of native with russ and something else like turk.. a simple word no can change from net het nee ne h4t just the word "no" let alone bigger words or phrasing a phrase.
+Natasha Zinkiy I'm glad to read your posts. Even better know that you are trying to learn my language, Portuguese (I'm from Brazil) besides Portuguese, I speak Spanish (accent in Urugayan), English (American), Esperanto. Nowaday I'm studying Papiamento (Aruba), Catalan, Italian (it is more a review- I had learnt it years ago) , Romanian, German, Swedish, Dutch and Albanian. I know very few Russian, I'm a real language lover. I understood your point comparing Brazilian Portuguese and Angolan- some scholars call Portuguese-Portugal and Brazilian Portuguese, and maybe we can call Angolan Portuguese (I really would need to hear an Angolan speaking, but it sounds to me that they have more closer pronounce of Portugal than a proper pronounce, even why Angola was free from Portugal only in the last second part of last century. About Romanian it is quite an alien language among Romance languages, because the language had other influences, but it isn't that hard, of course I'm in the beginning of my studies. I hope soon as possible to come back to my Russian and Slavic studies. I wish you very good luck with Portuguese.
Renato Figueiredo Yes Angolan is more close to portugal than it is brasilian portuguese. They just have an accent but the language remains execpt the criolo that exist within there For brasil languages alot has changes and continues to do, brasil is big 200m people coming up with new words everyday.
Is Romania a country where I can ask for directions and advice in Spanish better than in English if I go there on holidays?? Due to similarities I do this in countries like Brasil and Italy. Ahh, and in France!! (These guys prefer to speak Spanish than English and they might learn spanish at school because many of them were sooo good at...)
Both languages are very similar to each other, but I suggest you to learn a few words in Romanian or talk in English, because nowadays, pretty much everyone learns and speaks English
well, the old Dacia was conquered by romans in 106 I guess, this is when people from there started to learn latin and later- with the influences and stuff- we transformed that to Romanian. The French influence was much later, when we were already having a "latin" language. Still, it is very, very well, congratulations! You already know many things that many Romanian people don't know (which is sad for my country but good for you). Keep up the good work and good luck with everything!
This was great. I think that, when you mentioned that Romanian is the closest Romance language to Latin, you had in mind the fact that. out of all the daughter languages of Latin, Romanian is the only one to have retained a case system. I, myself, am an Orthodox Christian, as are most Romanians, and I'm considering going to Romania, and spending time in an Orthodox monastery there. I'm also an American of Italian and Slavic descent (Polish and Ukrainian), so Romanian and its culture and language all resonate with me. I think it's interesting how the Vulgar Latin survived in Dacia to become the present Romanian language, and how, to this day, many Romanians look like Italians and Spaniards (in other words, that the descendants of the Roman colonists in Dacia survived, surrounded by Slavs and Hungarians.) Still another interesting thing is, how there are often pairs of words in Romanian, which mean the same thing, and one word is of Latin origin, and one is of Slavic origin--like "timp" and "vreme" for time. I learned to speak a fluent Spanish, and I do OK with Portuguese, Italian, and French. Also, I know some Russian, plus bits and pieces of other Slavic languages. So, my guess is that I would learn Romanian rapidly. What I would do is, concentrate on the regular morphological, phonological, and lexical contrasts between Romanian and her sister Latin tongues. Anyway, I admire the Mormons (you're one yourself, right?), and I feel badly that there is or was a satirical play about them on Broadway--as well as for the unjustified negative reputation that they get here in the US (which is to be understood, as Mormons stand for morality and being centered on God, which are things that our culture finds abhorrent.) PS Not to focus on superficial things, but the Romanian people themselves are a beautiful-looking people.
+Vannesa M - Not quite. It is a mixture of these three languages. There are things similar to Portuguese and others with the Spanish (note that Spanish is 80% or more like the Portuguese), and of course Italian ... When I heard them speak Romanian it seemed to me Portuguese but at the same time latin.
You must be very well groomed....buddy.Well you talk nice regarding the linguistic comparisons. But let me tell you something nobody from westerners in Europe gave a dam on Romanian language or culture...that's a fact....Don't get me wrong I'm originating from Romania. My respect anyway....
The difficul part of speaking romanian language is grammar and pronuntiation ! The english accent of britans stop them from speaking fluent ! Escuse my english, but i'm romanian !
***** I never really heard Romanian accents before XD. A lot of people say it sounds like Latin, but some people who do audio files, it sounds Russian. Thanks!
You know something? English language has also 3 genders, it's only you don't use it often. The only thing is every word has a gender, even verbs, like participial verbs, passive verbs, Genitive, Dative, even names have gender when declined to dative. What's intereting is that Romanian language is more latin than Italian but more closer to Spanish. EX: Spanish hermosa; Romanian frumos, frumoasa; while italian has only bello which also means war not just beautiful so Italian is also in contradiction with ancient Roman Latin language on this term
+picior lemn ... haha... she the one with 12+ 8 years of studying the language talks... don't be hard on them... romanian is a superior language to english... so it is not that easy for them to learn!
I AM ROMANIAN.WANT TO HEAR SOMETHING IN ROMANIAN?REAAD THIS:Salut!Sunt Ioana si am 11 ani.Sunt din Constanta.Tu cine esti?IT MEANS'Hi! I am Ioana and I am 11.I am from Constanta(a city from Romania).Who are you?
I am actually romanian and yes,romanian is soooo hard.Tooo many gramatic things.I think is a nightmare trying to learn it(if you are not romanian obviously)
You're overreacting. A lot of people lack proper grammar lessons. That is because grammar is done very early in school and rare afterwards. As such, most of them forget them when in their high schools years. This is an error caused by the system which imposed a school program that basically makes students have a lack of grammar knowledge.
You're one of the few that knows what he's talking about. Everything was brief and dead on. Historically accurate, grammatically accurate, culturally accurate - the real deal. Very well made presentation. I salute you!
Florea Andrei thanks for such a kind comment!
+Prepare to Serve! i am romanian , if you want i can teach you words if you dont kwnow all of them , sorry if my english is bad
+Prepare to Serve! i can learn you some words too
+Cornel Neagu teach*
atunci cum naiba il inveti pe asta romana daca nici macar nu stii cum sa scrii in engleza?
Also being Romanian, I have to say : good job dude! Thanks for taking an interest in Romania.
Good job, very well done! I'm Romanian, and I want to congratulate you on your very well documented facts. I can tell that you're very good with languages, and love the way you pronounce Romanian words. Don't know if you had a teacher explaining things to you, or you just "caught" it by ear as they say, but very well done! One mention- Romanians used Cyrillic alphabet for a few hundred of years because it was forced on them...but the base of the language was and always will be Latin. It was a way of surviving and continuing our Latin heritage in a sea of Slavic people...Romania is isolated from all the other Romance-speaking nations geographically, but maybe that's the main reason why we preserved that very proper Latin grammar.
One of the most accurate representations of what Romania may look like through a foreigner's eyes I have even seen or heard of. Decent, brief, on point, and really well documented. Thank you, I hope you've enjoyed your time here!
Ah, I remember this guy :)
You really got the right man on this one. He spoke Romanian really good when he served here.
Iulia Blaga thanks! That's cool that you met him in Romania! :)
He did serve in my branch for a while :)
Be serious, americans will never learn romanian.
I am and I have met plenty Americans who have learned Romanian.
Is not what i mean. I mean they could learn the words but the way english people pronounce none romanian people would understand a thing, is like they would invent a new language or something.
i am romanian and this was vey nice to hear i couldnt explain it better
***** its funny for me what you just said but really unfortunate for you that you have been around such people that created this impression for you. Don't generalize not everyone is swearing and cursing all the time. No European would be sad if Romania vanishes? You sound a little frustrated maybe you have a personal issue. I respect others opinions but you took it in other direction. Here this guy was talking about grammar and learning tips. You shouldn't have watched it at the first place if you don't like Romanian language
Irina Sandu you know you talk to youreself, right?
Legolas Greenleaf The guy/girl who wrote the message to her deleted his/her message...and thats why it appears she speaks to herself,look,you can even see that the message was given to another guy/girl.
ReDirect Mapping yes, i guess ure right, they should remove the delete option, it makes pepole look wierd
Legolas Greenleaf yeah..
Respect Sir , finally, a foreigner who talks objective about Romania !
I'm Romanian. I'm in high school.what I can say is that you know my language better than I do
nasol =)))
pai sa stii
romanele e grele
Can't believe he knows so much about our country and history and grammar and he's pronouncing words very well haha... love this guy :D
As opposed to the majority of the videos on the topic the guy really knows the real deal! Amazing!!
thanks for the video!! This was an excellent presentation on the basic linguistics. I'm a very curious person, and this is the stuff that most people don't explain, but to me, it's the most important information about any language. Where it comes from, the roots, the sounds, grammatical structure, cases, etc. This video was very interesting! Thanks again!
I knew that! I really love the language. Similar to Italian. Latin Language. :) Yes. French was a second language in Italy my nonna spoke.
I'm Romanian LOL MULTUMESCCC BA
this guy is smart i like him, as a romaniam i grew up in englad english came so easy to me, he explains it so good
Thank you for your learning tips. I was adopted, and found out that I am Romanian, and have been seeking answers since to found out more. You have been quite a educational role model. Thank you
There are three types of Latin vocabulary in Romanian. 1. The first is directly inherited from Vulgar Latin, which is the core of language. 2. The second are the words which came from Scientific Latin, for example, "ignis" in classical Latin means "fire", but in Vulgar fire is "focus", in Romanian fire is "foc", but in Romanian there is a word as IGNIFUG, which came scientific Latin. 3. The third is of course borrowing from another romance languages, most of them come from French, no wonder, Romania is a Francophone country, where many people as foreign language speak French, but now English popular as well
I`m Romanian too , I realy like how you document our language
Sunt impresionata :) Felicitari!
I have no idea how i ended here but im so glad i did! I'm from Romania and i think you're amazing ! this is the first video i saw from you and i already fell inlove with you xD I'm just gonna watch every video you ever posted right now xD
Great video, and your pronunciation is really really cute. Although Romanian is a phonetic language, people learning it tend to butcher the pronunciation.
Finally a person who knows the truth about romanian language.I salute you,my respect!
I'm Romanian so, congratulations!
romanian has some hundreds words that are the same in sanskrit, and many words considered to be slavonic, are in fact much older than the slavonic influence came to this part of europe. it is from thracian language ( an indoeuropean satem language, indoiranian branch) the mother of dacian language.
Actually, grammar wise, French is by FAR the hardest one, since it mostly derives from ancient French. Back in the days where only the most educated people knew how to write, and they made the grammar as complicated as possible to make it seem harder. In romanian you basically write it as you hear it
grammar is not that
+Nonno d' acciaio French grammar is not that hard? French born people still struggle with french at a college level.. I would know because I just graduated from a french college.
+Adrian Negreanu no I mean grammar is not only the "you write as you hear" part. Grammar is more than that. I think I may have not expressed myself properly
+Nonno d' acciaio Yes of course it's not that simple, but I myself am romanian (born in canada) and without ever having a romanian education i'm able to write in romanian, of course making quite some mistakes, but anyone would still be able to comprehend what i wrote, which is not always the case with French, seeing a non french person writting french is often really painful, which is mostly because of the thousands of grammar rules that have no logic behind them in french
Nice summary. But, there are few things to point out.
Cases deal with nouns. Moods, aspect, tenses with verbs
Romanian language sounds a lot like Spanish! And I can understand when someone is speaking Romanian, how some words are so similar
+Vannesa M Spanish? More like italy, since they gangbanged us hundreds of years ago, and from there we got our country's name, if Rome wouldn't invaded us, then we would still name Dacia, and citicenzs would be named dacians or something like that.
Dunno who told, dunno if it's real, but someone told there are some proofs our language is somehow related to latin language.
LOL I'm Romanian :)))
+Resu- kun De cine anume? Inseamna ca eram primitivi rau de tot. Atunci nu ii de mirare dc mai bine de jumatate din tara asta ii proasta si mediocra gramada,
+ranker4 nu cunosti istoria româniei deloc?
+Resu- kun Cunosc ce ii de baza, dar sincer sa fiu, ma mai uit si la documentare, ei zic ba, cartile zic da, sau chiar invers.
îmi place când cineva vorbește română,mănâncă dulciuri etc.
si mie
+Sarra ._.
Si mai vorbeste si cu gura plina...
+SkyGuardian Ca romanu
Everything he says is accurate and true. I am so proud and thrilled.Plus, he's so cute (sorry, but I had to say it).
Ce frumos.Bravo!Esti super-documentat.
Hi I am from Romania. Romania is my country. And I learned English and French at school and I find it hard. I think the Romanian seems hard because you're not born here but me I'm easy. I should be glad if you try some Romanian dishes (SARMALE). Many people believe that the Romanian language is romantic but they think so because it is a Latin. I am very glad that you managed to say the word,, fundatie``. And to be honest I did not understand anything you say because you are a child and do not know English very well (but I took a ten English school). Now forget everything I wrote above me in Romanian:Buna sunt din romania. romania este tara mea. Si eu la scoala invat engleza si franceza si imi este cam greu. Cred ca romana ti se pare grea pentru ca nu esti nascut aici dar mi-e mi se usoara. Mas bucura daca ai incerca niste preparate romanesti ( SARMALE). Multi oameni cred ca limba romana este romantica dar li se pare asa pentru ca este o limba latina. Ma bucur foarte mult ca ai reusit sa spui cuvantul ,, fundatie``. Si sincera sa fiu n-am inteles nimic din ce-ai spus pentru ca sunt un copil si nu stiu foarte bine engleza ( dar am luat un zece la engleza la scoala).
great to know you like Romania ^^
I can't believe people actualy like my language! ^^
Congratulations to this guy!
These are a few things maybe your viewers want to know - the most have been said, but I give them additional examples.
Romanian language is almost 80% of Vulgar Latin language, (vulgar=spoken, popular), plus 20%:
1. Slavic words (Serbian, Bulgarian: calorifer=warm-water heating, Russian: a iubi - ljublu=to love),
2. Greek words (democrație from demos-people+kratos-power, medical terms, science names like: zoologie - zoo+logos-word/science, arheologie - archais-old+logos-word/science),
3.Turkish words (cișmea=fountain, sarma=main dish, peșcheș=money tribute),
4. Dacian words (varza=cabbage, barza=stork, brad=fir),
5. German words,
6. Hungarian words.
Romanian language is the only Romance language that kept, from Latin, "Neutral gender" (genul neutru) : words that have the singular ending form of masculine and the plural ending form of feminine (for ex. un stilou/one pencil - doua stilouri/two pencils. Masc: un/one - doi/two, Fem.: o/one - doua/two, Neutral: un/one - doua/two.).
All of the above words (1.2.3...6) are influences from our ancient neighbours: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman/Turkish Empire, Russian Empire and countries under their domination (Serbia, Bulgaria).
Old Greek and old Slavic languages are still learnt in Theological High Schools and Theological Faculty in Romania and Latin language (one of those 8 "dead" languages în Europe) is still studied in 7th/8th and 9th grade in school/high school. Our bible comes from Greece and it was written with cyrillic alphabet in ancient times. Romania is a "new" country (its borders finalized btw. 1856/1944) and its written language formed btw. 16th and 19th century.
But many of the European countries are "new" formed states: Italy and Germany, both formed as states in 1871.
Obviously you have been in a more formal, old fashion Romanian society. It seems that you have also learned some Romanian. To clarify some things: the younger generation does not use so many formal expressions. On the other hand, even before the 19th century, before the contact to the French and Italian languages, in language character was Latin to such an extent that the emperor of the Austrian Empire Philip the Second, traveling in his youth as an adolescent in Transylvania has been impressed by the fact that he could understand Romanian after studying Latin in school! He gave 4 names (like a greeting) to four Romanian villages in Transylvania: Salvae, Parva, Nepos and Romuli (which means I am greeting you little niece of Rome). The names are still used today.
Well,I just came from a party I saw your vid on recommendation and as a Romanian I watched it with interest.I am not a religious guy and I am not recommending no one churches ,or religion,I am against changing or twisting believes,I am with my faith and that is enaugh.But if not you ,there will be other to send anyway and I ll tell you what you need to know ,if you want,about Romania(people,places,differences,etc.)from a Romanian point of view.
i could listen to this guy talk for hours
Tip for foreigners trying to learn romanian grammar :
Don't worry about all the nuts and bolts, most of romanians also didn't got right all the details.
You can see that especially when you read the TH-cam comments ;)
Good job my friend!
Also every word has nu accent,You pronounce them almost like the letters in the Alphabet,
Alfabet (Alphabet) = A L F A B E T
Where you see the map of Dacia in bible?
Very well described, thanks
Sincer, pentru noi română e ușoară
The Romanian car is called Dacia
The car was named after the name of the country
The car is actually produced in france
+sandra4408 you sure?
+sandra4408 ... Dacia as far as I know is produced only in Romania... but some similar models are produced in other places as Morocco and India... but they are not allowed to place the Dacia sigla's on the front of the car... I saw same models with the Renault sigla's!
+Mühafaka As a romanian I can tell you that Dacia is triying to manufacture more and more products in Morocco because it's cheaper.
good job!!!! very well described.
Interestingly, you noticed the similarities between French words used in English.
Sometimes, when I don’t know an English word, I take a Romanian word and say it in an English way, and many times, it matches a word less used like I would have an elevated vocabulary; people ask how you know that word...lol, I don't; I just used a Romanian one with an English accent 😂
thank you!!!
Romanian is the easiest language to learn actually and I am not Romanian. In Albanian Alphabet we have 36 letters and that makes it pretty much easy to learn. So far I learned almost 5 languages and none of them are hard to learn.
Hey!! Aren't you the guy I saw today at the Medicine Uni?
Superb!
the language is very hard and very complex it`s much harder to learn than any language spoken in east or south europe but it`s also more beautiful and sounds extremly pleasant
I speak all romance languages that came after latin, i wouldn't say fully fluently but hey 11 languages too many to keep a track on. but still portuguese is out of the 6 is the hardest,
The complex grammar
The complex dialect/accent
Closed language
Reminds me of my russian or any slavic or baltic language because of having a strong powerfull accent compared to the rest of all romance languages execpt east romanian or moldavian who has russian or ukranian accent.
Fast speaking.
Romania language would fall right after portuguese.
But if you know Italian Spanish or French specially French then you can speak Romanian execpt the accent being different but you would understand alot of Romanian
The same does not happen in European Portuguese, while Brasilian Portuguese is like the second easiest one after Spanish.
From hardest to easy i would place like this
1 Portuguese/galician
2 Romanian
3 Italy because of different dialects from noth to soulth or Sardinian
4 French
5 Catalon
6 Brasilian
7 Castilhan
This is my order of placing all this languages, but im not fluent with all of them just know enough how to talk or understand everything that is being told to me unless some weird accent comes in...
***** No they are not the same language, Brasilian falls into the same cathegory as Angolan does
There is formal Brasilian that tries to follow the European Portuguese way but that only happens in 3 or 4 known parts of brasil, move from there you get the common br and crioule mixed.
To me they are different languages, not the same, give it 2 more centuries and see how different both languages will become,
Same as when Leon was nearly the same as Galician Portuguese and now is castilhan, same is happening to Galician whos been influenced by Castilha.
Brasilian is portuguese yes, same words or most of them but the dialect/accent is completly different, One is closed the other is spoken out loud like singing, and resemble the same as castilhan execpt being portuguese.
Mas se quiseres pode-mos falar na tua língua, para mim é me igual.
fonte de origem = portugal da europa.
segunda categoria seria brasil e depois angola.
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eu talvez me tenha explicado mal mas sim muitas zonas brs sao mais portuguesas em lingua portuguesa europeia do que portugues brasileiro
como disse anteriormente pt pt ou pt br sao na mesma uma so lingua apenas a pt br muda um pouco o seu dialecto e a sua escrita no qual ate involve criolo ja o mesmo em angola acontece e portuguese sim official mas como o de portugal, obviamente que nao é dai eu chamar como segunda categoria ou sub divisao da original do tempo da colonisacao.
nao quero parecer racista ou algo do genero amigo apenas tentanto explicar que nos europeus entendemos brasileiro melhor que o pt pt
pergunta a um espanhol ou italiano ou franca ou romeno eles iram entender melhor o br que tem semelhanças no timbre ou no acento da voz como tem o espanhol ja o portugues em si e diferente comparado ou espanhol ou brasileiro ou italiano numa lingua latina romana portugues e romeno da romenia sao as unicas duas que tem um acento ou dialecto que nao se assemelha ao resto das linguas latinas.
tem muita terra em portugal no qual a lingua parece escocesa....
e sou russa mas mim eu divido as linguas por classes devido aos verbos e as vogais e nouns
porque se formes a ver italia tem varios dialectos que mais parece uma data de linguas espalhada por toda a peninsula italica..sendo a principal a toscana no qual todos entendem e a principal para se falarem assim como castelhano o é na espanha.
Eu como falo varias tenho de dividir em divisoes para poder entender e pensar nela em mim propria para a poder escrever sem ter que dar muitos erros mesmo nao tendo teclado para por tis e acentos da para entender perfeitamente penso eu claro xaxaxa
Yes i consider them secondary languages from my native one.
musmanks nenetsia the repulicks all have their own dialect.
ukrain belarus are different languages too, oblat is weird.
bulgarian is like alien
kazak
kyrg
taji
so many accents and dialects that come from slavic baltic origin but all from old prusk.
most are understanbadle but some nope it is a mix of native with russ and something else like turk..
a simple word no can change from net het nee ne h4t
just the word "no" let alone bigger words or phrasing a phrase.
+Natasha Zinkiy I'm glad to read your posts. Even better know that you are trying to learn my language, Portuguese (I'm from Brazil) besides Portuguese, I speak Spanish (accent in Urugayan), English (American), Esperanto. Nowaday I'm studying Papiamento (Aruba), Catalan, Italian (it is more a review- I had learnt it years ago) , Romanian, German, Swedish, Dutch and Albanian. I know very few Russian, I'm a real language lover. I understood your point comparing Brazilian Portuguese and Angolan- some scholars call Portuguese-Portugal and Brazilian Portuguese, and maybe we can call Angolan Portuguese (I really would need to hear an Angolan speaking, but it sounds to me that they have more closer pronounce of Portugal than a proper pronounce, even why Angola was free from Portugal only in the last second part of last century. About Romanian it is quite an alien language among Romance languages, because the language had other influences, but it isn't that hard, of course I'm in the beginning of my studies. I hope soon as possible to come back to my Russian and Slavic studies. I wish you very good luck with Portuguese.
Renato Figueiredo Yes Angolan is more close to portugal than it is brasilian portuguese.
They just have an accent but the language remains execpt the criolo that exist within there
For brasil languages alot has changes and continues to do, brasil is big 200m people coming up with new words everyday.
Is Romania a country where I can ask for directions and advice in Spanish better than in English if I go there on holidays??
Due to similarities I do this in countries like Brasil and Italy. Ahh, and in France!! (These guys prefer to speak Spanish than English and they might learn spanish at school because many of them were sooo good at...)
Both languages are very similar to each other, but I suggest you to learn a few words in Romanian or talk in English, because nowadays, pretty much everyone learns and speaks English
***** Nu vorbeam cu tine, nu te mai considera special sau ceva ca nu cu tine vorbeam. Si sa stii ca nici nu ma impresionezi cu limba engleza
well, the old Dacia was conquered by romans in 106 I guess, this is when people from there started to learn latin and later- with the influences and stuff- we transformed that to Romanian. The French influence was much later, when we were already having a "latin" language. Still, it is very, very well, congratulations! You already know many things that many Romanian people don't know (which is sad for my country but good for you). Keep up the good work and good luck with everything!
I love Romania
"Believe it or not"?! Buddy, the clue is in the name... :))))
This was great.
I think that, when you mentioned that Romanian is the closest Romance language to Latin, you had in mind the fact that. out of all the daughter languages of Latin, Romanian is the only one to have retained a case system.
I, myself, am an Orthodox Christian, as are most Romanians, and I'm considering going to Romania, and spending time in an Orthodox monastery there.
I'm also an American of Italian and Slavic descent (Polish and Ukrainian), so Romanian and its culture and language all resonate with me.
I think it's interesting how the Vulgar Latin survived in Dacia to become the present Romanian language, and how, to this day, many Romanians look like Italians and Spaniards (in other words, that the descendants of the Roman colonists in Dacia survived, surrounded by Slavs and Hungarians.)
Still another interesting thing is, how there are often pairs of words in Romanian, which mean the same thing, and one word is of Latin origin, and one is of Slavic origin--like "timp" and "vreme" for time.
I learned to speak a fluent Spanish, and I do OK with Portuguese, Italian, and French. Also, I know some Russian, plus bits and pieces of other Slavic languages. So, my guess is that I would learn Romanian rapidly.
What I would do is, concentrate on the regular morphological, phonological, and lexical contrasts between Romanian and her sister Latin tongues.
Anyway, I admire the Mormons (you're one yourself, right?), and I feel badly that there is or was a satirical play about them on Broadway--as well as for the unjustified negative reputation that they get here in the US (which is to be understood, as Mormons stand for morality and being centered on God, which are things that our culture finds abhorrent.)
PS Not to focus on superficial things, but the Romanian people themselves are a beautiful-looking people.
să vă trăiască.
asta a fost buna! ... :))) tipul e bun de facut trolling daca il inveti :D
I wonder whats he doing now, after almost 4 years, did he learn to speak romanian fluently?
ce caut aici ?
Asta ma intreb si eu
+Aslexx Uchiha mie imi place sa vad ce crede lumea despre tara noastra :))))
If you know Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, you know Romanian!
Yes Romanian sounds similar to Spanish
+Vannesa M - Not quite. It is a mixture of these three languages.
There are things similar to Portuguese and others with the Spanish (note that Spanish is 80% or more like the Portuguese), and of course Italian ...
When I heard them speak Romanian it seemed to me Portuguese but at the same time latin.
+Jose X. F. Da Silva
and french in same time, :P
+Jose X. F. Da Silva Não é verdade, Eu falo português mas eu não entendo nada da lingua Romena.
***** Yes.
I wonder if a Romanian speaker will understand me speaking Spanish to them lol !
+Danny Cardona Yes we would. Our mothers watched MANY telenovelas when we were kids. hahaha XD
Someone told me that mostly of the telenovelas were from Venezuela and South America contries, haha. I believe that now! Is funny how you say it haha
creo que millones te entenderían. vivan las telenovelas jajaja
I am from Romania . Learn more mans the romania language :D
Yes French Is very hard. I know because I tried to learn it.
I am Romanian and im using my Norwegians friend youtube user
Oh yeah mean , Romanian are the best
I'm Romanian thanks
how long was he learning romanian ?
I want very much to know , what's the name of this guy, can you say that to me ... Thanks :)
You must be very well groomed....buddy.Well you talk nice regarding the linguistic comparisons. But let me tell you something nobody from westerners in Europe gave a dam on Romanian language or culture...that's a fact....Don't get me wrong I'm originating from Romania. My respect anyway....
ce mai faceti prietenii mei romăn
I am Romanian and its not hard to learn its very much like French.Italian
you are a very well informed young man. i am more than impressed.
Eu sunt Român
The difficul part of speaking romanian language is grammar and pronuntiation ! The english accent of britans stop them from speaking fluent ! Escuse my english, but i'm romanian !
I have this rough Russian accent while speaking Romanian. Normal?
***** I never really heard Romanian accents before XD. A lot of people say it sounds like Latin, but some people who do audio files, it sounds Russian. Thanks!
i am romanian
You know something? English language has also 3 genders, it's only you don't use it often. The only thing is every word has a gender, even verbs, like participial verbs, passive verbs, Genitive, Dative, even names have gender when declined to dative. What's intereting is that Romanian language is more latin than Italian but more closer to Spanish. EX: Spanish hermosa; Romanian frumos, frumoasa; while italian has only bello which also means war not just beautiful so Italian is also in contradiction with ancient Roman Latin language on this term
i remember you :)
nici nu credeam ca limba romana poate fi numita drept o limba romantica :)) ce fel ne vad unii straini,
i'm romanian and this language isn't that hard ;)
+picior lemn ... haha... she the one with 12+ 8 years of studying the language talks... don't be hard on them... romanian is a superior language to english... so it is not that easy for them to learn!
EU stiu romana, nu am griji.;)
I AM ROMANIAN.WANT TO HEAR SOMETHING IN ROMANIAN?REAAD THIS:Salut!Sunt Ioana si am 11 ani.Sunt din Constanta.Tu cine esti?IT MEANS'Hi! I am Ioana and I am 11.I am from Constanta(a city from Romania).Who are you?
Children should be banned from the internet :)))) ... prea mult acces la "todleri" pe internet :)
***** Inteligent mai esti...
I believe that are more than 77% words... )
eu vorbesc romana
I speck romanian
Care e romaan???
Andrei latina e dupa romana
i spik Romanian
Bravo... Da' tu dăunt spik ingliș...
+Alexandra Gavrilut ... you made my day! haha!
I know is a hard language
ce mai lume bai
I am actually romanian and yes,romanian is soooo hard.Tooo many gramatic things.I think is a nightmare trying to learn it(if you are not romanian obviously)
Sardinian is the closest language to Latin actually.
Come on i can do this : salut prepare to serve în română pregătește-te să fi servit
ce faci , sefule? :D
Bine bah
phew,glad i am romanian(btw,romanian is the hardest gramatic language)
It's a very complex language. 90% of romanians people don't can use it right. And that's a fact.
You're overreacting. A lot of people lack proper grammar lessons. That is because grammar is done very early in school and rare afterwards. As such, most of them forget them when in their high schools years. This is an error caused by the system which imposed a school program that basically makes students have a lack of grammar knowledge.
Are u from Romania?
Tom Withe Yes I am.