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Welcome to limba româna at yoyoro.net. The front or home page shows the most recent posts first, following that group you will find a selection of the latest posts relating to conversations, situations and vocabulary. The best way to navigate and explore this site is from the top menu bar of categories, since the home page is limited to only the most current posts added. Of course if you are looking for something specific please use the search bar in the top right portion of the header....hey and don't forget to subscribe to the RSS feed, just click on the icon. Învațăm românește impreuna! Amy (an expat in Cluj-Napoca)Dictionaries
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Lessons for romanian to english with audio this link brings you to lesson 1 and there are several...so click here.
Learn romanian while you play some games at polyglot click here.
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Basics Archive
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verb tense – the future – viitor
This post discusses 2 common ways to express a verb in the future tense – a how-to if you will. There are two common ways to say and write the future tense. Depending upon your learning style, choose the method that works best for you. Ultimately it will be to your benefit to know both but choosing one method to start is more productive.
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bineţe-greetings-general-hello-and-goodbye
Basic greetings, formal and informal in romanian – hellos & goodbyes
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Vocabulary – the sun
soăre = sun (sori/pl) soărele = the sun soărele apune – the sun sets – apus (vest) sau asfinţit – asfinţit derivitive of a sfinți – to bless a home…
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A avea – to have (present tense video)
A little text/video to help you to learn the verb a avea in the present tense. Learn romanian!
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numbers, dates, time, clocks
writing numbers…..punct si virgula = point and comma For americans – just use the reverse american system = 10,000.00 romanian system = 10.000,00 Most of the world depicts dates as…
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gender & usage – something or ceva
ceva = something Even though ceva ends with an ‘a’ it is a neuter word -when you use an adjective with this you will always use the masculine singular form….
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in the kitchen I – în bucărtărie
pots and pans tigaie = frying pan oală = cooking pot with small handles cratiță = cooking pot with long handle capac = lid
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temperatură = temperature
temperatură = temperature minima termică = minimum temperature maxima termică = maximum temperature temperatura corpului = 37C (98.6F) = human body temperature temperatură critică = critical temperature temperatură de aprindere…
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seasons or anotimpuri
When refering to a season of the year you use anotimpul – when refering to a season of sports or some other season use sezon. anotimpuri/anotimpul = the seasons of…
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differences – unde ești și de unde ești? (informal)
To anyone who is not just beginning this might seem obvious, but this blog highlights all kinds of situations and confusions that I have experienced. Maybe someone else has these…