Thank you Dianne for your kind words. We hope that you will enjoy your time in Romania.

Besides the lessons of this level (A1), you will find in level A2 - Elementary Romanian some guidance on how to find your way on the streets of Romania.

If you need any help with the Romanian language or some advice over Romania just let us know.

Cu plãcere (you're welcome)

In English "you" can mean one person or a group of persons.
If you want to say "We love you" where "you" refers to one person then you should say: "Noi te iubim".
If you refer to more than one person that you love, then you should say: "Noi vă iubim"

In colloquial Romanian most of the time the subject in this case "Noi" can be left out without any problem.

You can also check our detailed lesson on Romanian love
I hope this answers your question.

Hi Carmen and welcome,

To answer your question, in Romanian we say "Te iubesc" for I love you.
You can find this and many other expressions and love related Romanian terms in our lessons of level A1 at:
Romanian love

Please check out all our other lessons in our two levels of Romanian language A0 and A1 at:
Romanian lessons

I appreciate your kind words. I was hesitating on the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), for the ones that do not know IPA this is the column most to the right in the above tables, the one with the funny characters, which involves quite some work, but now I'm reassured that there are persons that actually appreciate it.

For the letter writing part, I assume you mean a formal letter right? such as: I undersigned declare having...
Could you please clarify a bit what you meant.

Thank you

Thank you muat, you are very polite, the Grammar section is suffering a lot, is quite underdeveloped, it's just a matter of priorities, I'm very much willing to help, but my free time to work on the website is unfortunatelly quite limited, so I'm doing my best and will continue to do so, and definitely the Grammar section must be improved.

I'm working now on a lesson on how to order in a Restaurant, including Romanian food, Romanian wine, Romanian beer... As soon as I will be done with that I'll move on to the Romanian Grammar and Pronunciation sections.

The easiest to know when I'll finish another lesson is via our facebook page and on the homepage

Many thanks for your understanding

Dear Helen,

First of all allow me to express my admiration to the work you are doing and the support and help you bring to those boys.

Incidentally the recordings for the lesson on Romanian food is already available, so I could start working on adding them to the website together with the usual translation and explanations. I'll do my best to add a few words already this weekend and then progress asap with adding the rest. The lesson is comprehensive and you will find there many Romanian expressions and words related to eating including name of dishes, fork, knife, salt...

All the Romanian food online lesson will be present in the A1 level course
The particular lesson on food is now located at: Romanian food (even though it is meant for eating out, you can find many words which can be used for eating anywhere :) . I'll complete that lesson asap with more expressions.

Regards

Hi,

I just wanted to let you know that I haven't forgotten about your request, on the contrary I'm adding every day more Romanian food and drinks phrases.
I've managed to crop a good lesson, even though there is still much more to be added (I'll do my best to add them fast).
Here is the Romanian vocabulary lesson that I have prepared:
Romanian food and drinks

I have also managed to finalize the lesson on the Ordering at a restaurant, which is less relevant in your case, however there are a few Romanian terms and words that can be used in a non restaurant environment (such as eating at home):
How to order food in Romanian

I hope it will help you, and I'll do my best to finish asap the rest of the above lessons.

Thank you Zeynep for your appreciation as well as for letting me know that there is something wrong / or there is room for improvement with the mobile version. The way the website is rendered on mobile phones is very important, thus I would appreciate it if you could be more specific on what exactly should be improved. In horizontal mode , what I call landscape mode, on iPhone 5, 6 and Galaxy S3,5 and 6, the website looks ok, but maybe I'm missing something.

I'll be happy to look into it if you could help me better understand the issue you are facing. Could you also mention your phone model? If you find this information too personal to publish it as a comment here, please feel free to use the contact page at Contact to drop me a private message.

All the best

Hi,
Thank you for the request, I'm happy to help you.

The requested translations are:
1. Mă bucur să fiu aici (literal translation: I'm glad to be here). I have found this sentence interesting, thus I've added it with the audio in the lesson on Introductions in Romanian
2. "I want more, please" can be translated in two ways:
2.a "Mai vreau, te rog". You are literally saying Still want, please ("te rog" is informal)
2.b "Vreau mai mult, vă rog". You are literally saying [I] want more, please, where "vă rog" is a formal way of saying "please"
Please find the audio and the translation in our dedicated page English Romanian Translations as translations 1 and 2 at: Translate English to Romanian

3.Is there a phone nearby, is translated in Romanian by: "[Unde] este un telefon prin apropiere". I haven't had the time yet to work on the audio file for this translation. I'll try to add it asap

I hope it helps

Bună ziua
Mulțumesc pentru sugestie! Este bine-venită.

I have added both translations in the Greetings section above.

Enjoy your beautiful moments with your loved ones (wedding, birth...)!

Hi,"Servus" is used instead of "Hi" in Transylvania, thus this is why you do not hear it that frequently where you are living (most probably you are not living in Transylvania).I'll add it in the list wiuth it's audio prounciation to allow others to easily recognize it.Happy to help

Hi Carol,

Fetească regală is a good wine variety. There are good and bad Fetească regală wines.

Without pretending to be an expert, just let me know the wineyard/winery and the year and I'll try to provide an opinion. I assume that in any case it would be better then your current knowledge on the subject.

We are also preparing a lesson on Romanian wines, but at the moment it is work in progress. You can have a look at: Romanian wine. You will also find there some explanation on the local Romanian grapewine varieties, and hopefully in the future a bit more on Romanian wines.

In any case I hope you will enjoy your Romanian wine, as it was most probably given to you with a lot of love.

Hi Roe,

The translation for restroom, lady's room, bathroom is "toaletă".

In the lesson above you can find the pronunciation of the question: "Unde este toaleta?" which means, Where is the restroom/bathroom/toilet?

Bathroom is translated actually as "baie" but in colloquial Romanian it is often used instead of restroom/toilet.

If you have more questions just let me know

Hi Carol,
Thank you for the question.

"warm" is translated as "cald" in Romanian.
"very warm" - "foarte cald"
"hot" - "fierbinte" (this is the translation you were looking for)
I have added in the section Various other Romanian phrases and useful words the sentence "Mi-e cald" which is translated into Romanian as "I feel warm/hot".
I do not have a translation readily available for "fierbinte", but in the lesson on the Romanian love phrases you will find the translation of "You have hot lips" (Ai buze fierbinți)

"Cold" - has two translations: the most common one is "rece". In English one would say: "This water is too cold". This sentence is translated as "Apa asta e prea rece"
However the correct Romanian translation for "I'm cold" is "Mi-e frig". Thus the second translation for "cold" is "frig". Both "rece" and "frig" can be used to describe the weather, with "frig" being perceived as colder than "rece". When one would talk about the way he/she feels, you should say "Mi-e frig" rather than "Mi-e rece" which is less common.
I have added "Mi-e frig" in the above lesson, together with its audio pronunciation.

With regards to the second part of your question the translation of "Man his hands are freezing" is "Omule, i-au inghețat mâinile".
Two remarks on this translation. In Romanian we use less frequently omule (man) as compared to English. One would skip "Omule" and say the rest. I would add "Omule" only if I would shout at somebody to draw his immediate attention about something important.
The second remark is on the tense of the verb. You've used present continuous, I used a past tense. If I would translate it as "îi îngheață mâinile" would sound a bit strange that his hands are freezing in this very moment.

If you need the pronunciation I could try to get the recording organized and then post it . Just let me know.

Happy to help

Hi Bob,

It's nice of you to want to write/talk to your in-laws on Easter.

To answer your question: it depends how religious they are.
If they are not so much religious, a message should contain a reference to "the light", such as:
"Fie ca lumina Paștelui să vă umple casa şi să vă aducă numai armonie, fericire şi multă iubire.Hristos a înviat!"

If they are more religious then you should refer to Jesus or God:
"Hristos a înviat! Sărbătoarea Învierii Domnului binecuvântată de lumina sfântă să vă aducă sentimente calde, bogăţie sufletească şi bunăstare.Un Paşte fericit alături de cei dragi!"

If you will talk to them just listen carefully (see the above Greetings section in this lesson) to the pronunciation of the usual simple Easter greetings: "Hristos a înviat" and the usual answer "Adevărat a înviat".

Happy to help

Hi Roland,
Currently you can only see the results of your answers while taking the questions. We do not record your results.
I started thinking some time ago about it, but I need to put more time into it, first decide all the details and then implement it.In the meantime I've been adding more questions (I've recently added in the pronunciation section specialized questions for listening) and more materials (complete lesson on pronunciation of all the possibilities of two Romanian vowels).

I hope this answers your question.

Thank you for your understanding

Mulțumesc Alexandra,

It's nice of you to help your friend.
I'm happy that this site could be of help.

Hi,

I think you could say:
Salut (Hi)
Ce mai faci? (How are you doing?)

Another way would be:
Cum îți mai merge (How is it going?)

Care-i treaba? (What's the deal/What's up) - I would not really use this one, unless you are addressing your buddy.

There are other more complicated ways, but I believe you are searching for something rather casual and simple.
Just let me know if you need anything else.

Happy to help

Thank you Hazzle,
I'm happy that you like the website.
I will certainly add more content. I'm announcing it on Facebook whenever a new lesson is available.
Now I'm working on finalizing the revision exercises in French, and afterwards the plan is to finalize the lesson on the time expression (in level A1)

At the same time I'm also working on improving the functionalities, to make it easier to access the exercises and to record their results. This will take me some time to develop, but I'm convinced it will help.

Happy to help

P.S. Generally speaking (not directed at you personally), if any of you has some time to help, I can certainly use a helping hand.

Hi, You are right, "aid" is not a Romanian word. So somewhere there is a mistake. If you can provide a bit more context I could try to guess better. In any case based on the sentence you have provided I can confirm that the structure is correct, and "aid" could be the name of a person. In Romanian one would say "și vine Iulian să ia ceva de acasă..." There is a Romanian name "Adi" that is the short form of Adrian or Adriana. This is just a speculation. It could be that it's just a mistake. Happy to help