I am thinking of writing this article for a long time. Not because I am Romanian but because in fact the Romanian language has admirable advantages for its speakers. The thing is that a Romanian young person, intelligent enough, without studying any foreign language can easily understand the subject of a conversation in Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish and with a lot of intuition English, German (specially if is coming from Transylvania) and a little bit of Slavic languages like (Serb, Polish etc). How is that? I will try to explain this in several posts mentioning I am not a linguist, so if you find some mistakes please comment!

Romanian is a Romance language, belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family, having much in common with languages such as French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Lexical similarity: 77% with Italian, 75% with French, 74% with Sardinian, 73% with Catalan, 72% with Portuguese and Rheto-Romance, 71% with Spanish.

However, the languages closest to Romanian are the other Eastern Romance languages, spoken south of Danube: Aromanian/Macedo-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian, which are sometimes classified as dialects of Romanian. An alternative name for Romanian used by linguists to disambiguate with the other Eastern Romance languages is "Daco-Romanian", referring to the area where it is spoken (which corresponds roughly to the onetime Roman province of Dacia).

Regarding grammar, shortly, Romanian nouns are characterized by gender (feminine, masculine, and neuter), and declined by number (singular and plural) and case (nominative/accusative, dative/genitive and vocative). The articles, as well as most adjectives and pronouns, agree in gender, number and case with the noun they reference.

The specificity or what makes it difficult to be understandable by other Latin languages is the fact that Romanian is the only Romance language where definite articles are enclitic: that is, attached to the end of the noun, instead of in front.  They were formed, as in other Romance languages, from the Latin demonstrative pronouns.

As in all Romance languages, Romanian verbs are highly inflected for person, number, tense, mood, voice. The usual word order in sentences is Subject - Verb - Object. Romanian has four verbal conjugations which further split into ten conjugation patterns. Verbs can be put in five moods that are inflected for the person (indicative, conditional/optative, imperative, subjunctive, and presumptive) and four impersonal moods (infinitive, gerund, supine, and participle).

The Romanian vocabulary is formed by: 75% Latin, 15% Slavic and 10% other (Dacian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, English etc).

The Romanian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet with five additional letters Ă (ə), Â and Î (both pronounced ɨ), Ș , Ţ.

The letter Ă (ə) and Ș were remaining from the Dacian language. The Ș is a heritage of Etruscian, this is why the Italian is having it in the group of letters sci/sce read like in romanian Și and Șe.

To be continued!

We are living in a strange world. This is how I feel. Most of the people are hurrying to do different things and stuff, solve issues, make their studies, develop their career, marring…having kids…all the things. Most of this makes them to forget to enjoy small things in their life, to enjoy the moment…to enjoy our humanity. We are like in a never stopping carousel, haring up to show who is the first, who is the best…who is more important, more reach. Some people they even forget what they are and from where they were starting. But I want to talk in this post about a certain category of people. I want to talk about the pretenders, about the cheaters…about those which are forgetting that we are humans between humans and we have to behave. I don’t mean to behave like to be polite or something…but to behave in the sense of humanity. Most of the people were having a hard year, making efforts to keep their job or to find another one, to keep their business running etc. we are all stressed and a bit of humanity will be welcomed. Unfortunately between us they are the pretenders, the ones who are jealous, the inhuman, full of frustration because they are not able to accept they were making their own choices and they were not the ones they wanted…and they don’t want to accept the consequences. The ones living in their own bubble, believing that they can do whatever they want, that they can invade the life of others and they can take/steal the ideas of other to keep their “honor”, to keep their jobs….in one word I call them the cheaters. The ones not knowing what is the modesty of being smart because they think they are the smartest. I have one in my environment and even if I am a quite equilibrate person it is incredible some times the damage is doing in my mind. I am lucky because I have a lot of nice people around me: my friends and family and all the people I know sharing the same values as mine. To all these people I want to say a big thank you. Thank you that they are like they are, that they are existing, that they are honest, sincere, friendly, having good will, sharing feelings, ideas, humanity. Thank you because you are taking out all the best of you, thank you for not polluting the minds and the life of others. Thank you for giving me the energy and hope to go on, because the majority around me is human!