/romanian

📚 An organised, abundant collection of resources to learn the Romanian language as spoken in Romania and Moldova, compiled from various sources on the internet.

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The Romanian Language / Limba Română

Foreword

Having struggled to find a list of useful resources to learn the Romanian language and having been inspired by a fellow language learner, TheDomcio, and his wonderful repository for the Polish language, I decided to create a repository dedicated to the Romanian language.

I invite everybody and anybody to contribute to his and my own repository, and to create one for other languages which do not yet have such a repository.

Table of Contents

Information

This section contains information about the Romanian language, as well as links to resources.

Literature

  • Grammars

    • Romanian Reference Grammar - Prepared by Christina N. Hoffman, the Romanian Reference Grammar is a book created to explain Romanian grammar in an digestable format.

  • Books

    • Wikisource - A repository of free literature.
    • Grupul Humanitas - Books available for free on the Humanitas publishing house website.

  • Textbooks

    • Manuale.edu.ro - Romanian language textbooks, useful for advanced users.

  • Phrasebooks

  • Blogs and magazines

    • 🇷🇴🇬🇧 Diacronia - An online, bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal of diachronic linguistics.

Structured education

  • Courses and lessons

    • Simple Romanian - A website created by a simple Romanian, featuring dozens of lessons aiming to promote authentic language taken straight from Romanian streets.
    • Romanian Weekly Lessons - Lessons with audio, prepared by ROLANG school which specialises in teaching the Romanian language to international students.
    • Easy Romanian - A work of love, the Easy Romanian online course features dialogs, vocabulary builder, grammar, audio created by Romanians in Romania.
    • 🇩🇪 Grammatiken.de - A detailed course on Romanian grammar in German.

  • Guides

    • Grammar

      • 🇷🇴 Gramatica Limbii Române ('Grammar of the Romanian Language') - A guide created with the intention of offering all information necessary to learn the grammar of the Romanian language.

Interactive resources

  • Applications and games

    • 🇷🇴🇺🇳 BaBaDum - A non-profit initiative, built thanks to friendly institutions and generous players. – Features 5 word games with 1500 words in 21 languages. – Created by a Polish couple, Aleksandra and Daniel Miezielińscy, - book, game and font designers specializing in educational picture books for children.
    • 🇷🇴🇺🇳 Clozemaster - Gamified language learning through mass exposure to vocabulary in context. – Allows reading and learning words as they were written in a sentence. – Features 50+ languages.

Compiled resources

  • Dictionaries

    • Monolingual

      • dexonline.ro (Dicționar Explicativ Online - 'Explanatory Dictionary Online') - The largest collection of entries from various Romanian dictionaries. – Features 1,000,000 headword entries, word games and daily and monthly word selections.
      • Dicționar Urban - Romanian equivalent of the Urban Dictionary.

    • Bilingual

    • Multilingual

      • Glosbe - A many-to-many word and translation look-up dictionary which allows users to translate words from their native language to Romanian and vice-versa. – Contains 120,000 phrases and 52,000,000 examples.
      • Reverso Context - A similar project to Glosbe; it's less open but the context-based translation of phrases is pretty accurate.

  • Directories and Collections

    • Language Player - A directory of Romanian videos, TV shows, music, live TV, and a tool for reading Romanian with dynamic translations.
    • RomanianVoice - A repository with cultural information about Romania with poetry, music, humour, theatre pieces, as well as banknotes and passports.

  • Notes

    • MrMeloman's Notes - A collection of schemes, lists and other materials made while studying Romanian.

Media

Communities

  • Discord

    • Learn Romanian - The largest server on Discord dedicated to the study of the Romanian language.

Tools

  • 🇬🇧 Forvo - A pronunciation dictionary featuring over 10,000 pronunciations by native speakers of Romanian words.

  • 🇷🇴 Pluralul - A tool to check the plural of any Romanian noun.

  • 🇬🇧 Cooljugator - A verb conjugator with translations with easy-to-follow conjugation tables for all Romanian verb tenses. Additionally, it provides examples of the conjugations used in context as well as translations of the verb itself to different languages.

  • 🇷🇴 Conjugare - A reliable verb conjugator. Enter any form of the verb to get the conjugation table for many moods and tenses. – (!) Does not conjugate for tenses in the presumptive mood.

  • 🇬🇧 Readlang - Read texts in Romanian in a distraction-free environment with one-click word translations. After reading, review your new vocabulary with spaced-repetition flashcards.

  • 🇷🇴 CuvinteCare ('WordsThat') - A tool for finding Romanian words that start with, end with, contain or are anagrams of a given set of letters.

  • 🇷🇴 Cum Se Scrie ('How is it written') - A tool for finding out the subtle differences between certain phrases and words.

  • Translation

    • 🇷🇴🇺🇳 DeepL - An astoundingly accurate neural machine translation service.
      • Note: DeepL uses English as an intermediary language, therefore translations will be most accurate for the 🇬🇧-🇷🇴 and 🇷🇴-🇬🇧 pairs.
    • 🇷🇴🇺🇳 Google Translate
    • 🇷🇴🇺🇳 Lingvanex

References

1 - https://worldometers.info/world-population/romania-population/