Romanian is spoken by around 24 million people , as a native language, and by another 4 million people as a second language.

Visually, the language looks like a mix of Latin and Slavic, to me. The words often resembles Latin and I wonder how close Romanian is to old Latin, compared to Italian.

In October I took Romanian lessons with Violeta Ieremie, from Scrie Bine. She introduced me to the language in a structured way. She told me about the “diacritice” , that were so difficult for me to pronounce in the beginning. She showed me words with three vowels connected , for example : ceai and copiii.

I believe that it is the abundance of vowels that makes Romanian sound like a flowing river to me. It was a friend who first used those words “ flowing like a river”. Romanian is a melodic language and I can’t wait for the day when I can read Eminescu in Romanian. More.

See: Romania insider

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