Today we launched Romanian, the newest of our beta languages! Romanian is the first language to reach the 1,000 vote threshold in our poll (http://on.fb.me/pcZaZS), and we look forward to seeing more Romanian speakers and learners actively using LingQ to connect.
When adding Romanian, we ran into some issues that delayed the release date until today, but you should now be able to import all your Romanian lessons into LingQ and begin studying through the site!
As always, if you have any dictionaries that you would like us to add for Romanian please let us know.
I have imported some items, including newspaper articles and have noticed that the diacritics are sometimes used and sometimes not. Anyone know anything about this.
Lazy Romanians donât use diacritics, like lazy French, Polish or other peoples. Adding diacritics takes longer and is more difficult to do on smartphones or similar devices. I would avoid using texts without diacritics until I have reached a certain level of self-confidence.
GlĂźckwunsch! I see that people are throwing out Romanian resources, so I can also recommend www.hallo.ro, a RO-EN dictionary which also translates idioms. Iâve been using it myself with fairly good results.
Proof of this: a tÄia frunze la câini - hallo.ro | DicĹŁionar Englez Român | DicĹŁionar Român Englez | Pagina 1 - a tÄia frunze la câini - literally, to cut (peel, prepare) leaves for dogs, being correctly translated into âbumming aroundâ.
Also, âdexonline.roâ may be monolingual, but it provides conjugation and declension.
mikebond is right, the (sometimes total) lack of diacritics is a somewhat pathological issue for us Romanians. A good explanation for this i reckon is that many Romanians use their computerâs operating system in English, which doesnât include a Romanian keyboard by default.
I have written to that site Mike to ask if they want to sell their material across LingQ.
I found this newspaper and all of their articles are without diacritics. I didnât notice at first, and google translate seemed to work anyway. I will find another source.
Thanks for the dictionaries and hope we can integrate them asap.
I am keen to learn some Romanian since I will be visiting Romania for three days from June 6-9. My lumber company has started selling Romanian lumber to the US East Coast. I will be visiting a sawmill in RÄdÄuĹŁi then hope to drive from Suceava to Cluj and Sibiu before flying home.
Yes, but no many. The language has some unique features, and 15% Slavic origin words, but seems quite easy so far. A lot easier than the Slavic languages and Korean that I have been on recently.
@J_4_J: Romanian has kept only nominative and genitive for nouns (and more cases for pronouns, like all other romance languages, and like English). Plus, it has an enclitical article, like Bulgarian and Scandinavian languages. And the vocabulary was influenced by Turkish and Slavic languages.
I am willing to pay points to any Romanian native speaker who will translate and record two LingQ beginner series course. Eating Out and Who is She. Please let me know if you are interested.
