Free Online Romanian Language Lessons / Courses
Our Romanian language courses are structured in four categories on the basis of your Romanian language skills: A0:Essential Romanian(24h), A1:Elementary Romanian for beginners, Intermediate and Advanced.
If you do not know in which category you fit, you can take the Romanian language skills test or start directly with the absolute beginner level: A0. Essential Romanian 24 hour course.
We find the pronunciation a very important topic this is why we've build Romanian classes specialized in pronunciation.
Independently of your level, you will need some tools and an approach to studying Romanian. This is why we have prepared a short tutorial on How to learn Romanian for free.
Our approach is to provide for a better and more intuitive way of learning Romanian than the traditional language study books. We believe that Romanian can be better learned through real life situations and by using free audio and video materials.
See all lessons of the Essential Romanian 24h course >>
Level A0:Essential Romanian 24 hour course
This is the Absolute Beginner's Guide to conversational Romanian and a Romanian Survival guide.
No prior knowledge of Romanian is required.
Knowing that sometimes grammar can be tedious subject we have limited the grammar lessons to the bare minimum that you should know, the conjugations of the main Romanian verbs: "to be", "to have" and "to go".
In online Romanian course you will learn how to:
- understand a basic conversation in Romanian
- handle situations frequently experienced by foreigners in Romania
You will discover and assimilate:
- A0.1 Basic Romanian words and common phrases
- How to greet someone in Romanian
- Other practical Romanian phrases/expressions
- A0.2 How to conjugate the Romanian verbs "to be" and "to have"
- A0.3 How to say that you speak little Romanian or that you do not speak at all Romanian
- A0.4 How to say that you come from your country (e.g. I come from France)
- A0.5 How to introduce yourself in formal and informal situations
- A0.6 How to count to 10
- A0.7 How to say the colors in Romanian (e.g. red, blue)
- Quick Revision A0
- How to rent a car in Romania
- Some cultural notes about Romanian currency and main cities
See all lessons of the Romanian Elementary course >>
Level A1:Elementary Romanian for beginners
The previous Romanian language course prepared you for your first encounter with the Romanian language. Level A1 will take you further on your Romanian learning path. If you haven't done so already, we advise you to first go through the lessons of Level A0 before starting this level.
In all the lessons of this online Romanian course we continue to provide you with hundreds of free audio and video resources.
In this course we will focus on:
- A1.1 The most frequently used basic Romanian verbs
- How to deal with an Emergency in Romanian
- A1.2 How to count from 11 to 20
- A1.3 How to ask for directions
- A1.4 How to understand directions
- A1.5 How to say: "I go", "You go"
- A1.6 Romanian Time Expressions: Weekdays, Months, Seasons
- A1.7 Dating, compliments and relationship (love vocabulary)
- A1.8 Romanian pet love names and love songs
- A1.9 At the restaurant in Romania - How to book a table
- A1.10 How to order a dish in Romanian
- A1.11 Romanian traditional and international food & drinks vocabulary
- A1.12 Introduction to Romanian wines
- A1.13 All you need to know about Romanian wines
- A1.14 Romannian terroir, local wine types, wine regions and vineyards
See all lessons of the A1: Elementary Romanian for beginners course >>
Romanian Pronunciation
In each and every lesson on our website you will find free audio samples of the words/sentences you are studying.
However this course on pronunciation is a dedicated one, explaining the pronunciation rules, and grouping similar phonetic Romanian words.
Those familiar with the International Phonetics Alphabet (IPA) notation will be happy to find each Romanian word in all our lessons transcribed into the IPA style. If you are not familiar with IPA, you can just ignore the "funny characters" and listen to the free Romanian audio samples.
Three comprehensive Romanian classes are available:
Romanian Grammar
The Romanian Grammar online course explains the rules governing the grammar as well as providing many examples and exercises.
Even if you, like most people, are not a big fan of grammar, the course helps you understand why certain grammatical constructions are as they are.
We're ready and happy to help should you have questions or need more assistance. Just drop us a comment at the bottom of the lesson that you find difficult.
Currently the following lessons are ready. We are working on more (to be made available soon):
- How to ask a question in Romanian: Interrogatives
- Question in Romanian: Advanced Level - Pe cine, La ce
- Personal pronouns in Romanian
- New! Possessive pronouns in Romanian
- Romanian noun gender and number
- The two main auxiliary verbs "a fi" (to be) and "a avea" (to have) conjugated. This lesson is part of the Level A0 for absolute beginners
- The other important usual Romanian verbs conjugated: e.g. "a face" (to do), "a da" (to give)... (this lesson is part of the Level A0 for absolute beginners
- A stub about Verbs - Indicative Mood - Present Tense"
All about Romania (e.g. traveling and living)
To learn better Romanian you must know a few things about the country and its people. Moreover if you can settle in Romania, you will be more exposed and immersed in the Romanian culture and language which will boost your Romanian language skills.
This is why we have created a few lessons (most of them following your requests) to help and guide you while traveling through Romania or trying to find a job or a place to stay.
We're planning to add a few more lessons about the Romanian traditions (e.g. cultural, religious, gastronomic).
- Some advice before traveling to Romania (e.g. for tourism, business or occasional stays)
- A comprehensive guide on how to find a job in Romania
- How to rent an apartment in Bucharest as an expat/foreigner
You might also want to have a look at our other articles related to Romania:
27 comments
Online Romanian language degree
Hi,
I've been trying to understand whether there are any tests for Romanian such as the Cambridge, Toefl or IELTS for English. Any help would be appreciated.
Online Degree
I've been asked this question in the past, and I remember that the answer was that there isn't a standardized test that can be taken online. I have verified one more time, and I'm afraid that answer is still valid that there isn't one.
There are tests though by universities, but there isn't this concept of accredited college/companies/institutes, since there is no standardized test.
The http://www.ecl.org.ro/index.php?id=home/ offers tests of Romanian based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, at all levels A1,A2,B1,B2,C1 and C2.
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Intermediate lessons
Hi,
At the top of the page it says you have beginner, intermediate, and advanced lessons but I can't seem to get to the intermediate or advanced lessons so the link might be broken?
Intermediate and advanced Romanian lessons
Thank you for your comment,
The site has separate and dedicated lessons for vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar.
There are already intermediate lessons for pronunciation:
Pronunciation of i in Romanian
Romanian vowels (combined) pronunciation
and grammar:
Romanian noun gender and number
How to ask a question in Romanian
For the advanced level I wrote the following grammar lesson:
How to ask complicated questions in Romanian
I haven't had the time to group them on levels yet, and I'm
With regards to the vocabulary lessons, the Romanian Love lessons:
Romanian love phrases
is actually an intermediary-advanced one
I haven't had the time to create the Intermediate and Advanced levels as containers, but there are already lessons at that level. I'm also planning to add more vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar lessons. I hope to release them soon. And then I'll certainly create the page that groups all the lessons of these levels.
I hope this answers your question.
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Learning romanian
Very helpful thank you
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We're happy to provide the
We're happy to provide the free Romanian lessons
Multumesc!
Thanks a lot for these lessons, I have been looking for a while for a website to learn Romanian but at least for the basic level this is the best one i have found! I hope you continue to update the website with the other levels. My goal is to learn up to B1 level until the end of March, when I will leave Bucharest.
Best regards,
Felipe
More Romanian lessons
Thank you Felipe,
I'm trying for some time now to improve some features of the site. This meant I had less time to invest in new lessons. I had a feeling that the current lessons are not good enough and I was trying to make the next ones better (with more interactive content). This is quite an undertaken for my little free time. I might just pause these improvements, so that I can create more lessons.
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Good morning Sir I Mahbubul Alam from Bangladesh. I work with IT I am interested in working in Romania but cannot arrange a work permit to go or work there. I was hoping to get some help from you? Thank you sir.
Romainian
Romainian
Great exercises
Thanks for creating these exercises. Better than Duolingo:
The voice is human and Romanian.
I like the way the corrections are given at the end. If there are multiple mistakes you have to retype each correction.
I also like the way the accent is in bold.
:)
Thank you very much
I appreciate your kind words. It means a lot to me, as I'm alone in maintaining this site, in my spare time, in several languages by the way, French, Dutch, Spanish, German and Portuguese.
I like Duolingo, and I'm using it for learning other languages, however, I feel that one cannot learn a language without knowing the culture of that country, without hearing an actual person speaking, interacting, moving their hands, this is why I added the actual scenes from movies. What do you think about that? Is it interesting?
I'm also using pictures from Romania in most of the lessons as the main picture of the lesson.
In the
I'd love to add much more such as:
- a lesson on the actual districts in Romania with a map, to teach you their names
- a lesson on the Romanian names
- more lessons on the Romanian traditions, I've started a bit but it's quite some work to gather all the materials, one day I'll make it
For example https://www.learnro.com/romanian-greetings#old_style
This is a page that I've been working for some years, but I haven't managed to add that much lately https://www.learnro.com/romanian-traditions
-I'd like to add a function whereby once you finalize one set of exercise you would see a piece of a Romanian picture, and you would need to continue to discover the rest
- I'd like to add another function for the ones that finalize all exercises of a level to be able to write a paragraph in Romanian that I would correct, thus correction by a real person with explanations if needed... Actually I used to ran an poll to ask visitors to give me some feedback https://www.learnro.com/poll
Is there anything that you did not like? I'm very interested in this part as well, as maybe there are some quick wins where I could improve, both in the functionalities or in the lessons... something that does not work properly or that is missing. I'd be really happy to hear about it.
Sorry for the long answer, I'm sometimes too enthusiastic :) but always happy to help someone to learn Romanian.
Thanks for the reply. Those
Thanks for the reply. Those all sound like good ideas. Yes, scenes from movies are good, but Romanian subtitles would help too.
The other thing I would prefer is that your audio examples of phrases and sentences were more natural sounding, without pauses between each word.
e.g. your recordings for 'Bună ziua, aș dori să fac o rezervare.' or 'Aș dori sarmale cu mămăliguță' are very clear, but don't sound natural. I'd like to get a better sense of Romanian sentence intonation and rhythm. Perhaps the sentences could be recorded twice? once slow, then natural.
Best wishes, :)
One more time thank you for your Feedback
It's a good idea the Romanian subtitles.
For the recordings I agree with you the pauses between the words are a bit un-natural and the pronunciation is especially exaggerated as opposed to the natural native speakers pronunciation, however I find it better this way for learning a new language. Otherwise, from hearing two Romanian native speakers talking it would be complicated to learn from that. The pauses between the words are done on purpose, otherwise in certain sentences when the words are pronounced in a sentence one may not understand precisely where he pronunciation of an word is ending and when the other one starts.
At the end of the day it's also linked with the student's Romanian level, if they are at the very beginning, the this breaking-down of the sentence even a bit forced with a bit unnatural pronunciation of a sentence would be helpful, whereas for a bit more advanced students, this would be annoying. Two speeds would help indeed.
My plan was to add scenes from movies, where you hear the native speakers pronunciation, and also see the scenes and understand better the gestures, the mimics, the tone of real native speakers voice. Like the last Romanian movie clip in this Romanian lesson: https://www.learnro.com/romanian-emergency
A student using a computer I've added the option to slow the movie down so that you can hear the pronunciation better. On mobile phone it was not possible at that time.
And this is how I was planning to mix the two, the native speaker sentences and the more Romanian teacher special pronunciation for the Romanian students. I recall my Dutch teacher repeating twenty times a pronunciation of two vowels, I think that is quite important.
I'm happy to hear your views or other views, as I'm not pretending that I know everything, I'm just explaining the way I see things, and definitely more ideas and opinions would help me shape and customize the site to the students' needs.
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Thanks for the quick response
Thanks for the quick response. Yes, it makes sense for beginners as you say.
Perhaps when you do the intermediate level section you could speak at a more natural tempo.
Another suggestion, if I may :), is to make it easier to login to my user account. There isn't an obvious link anywhere on the home page. And when I responded to your first reply, there was no way to login. Now I've found https://www.learnro.com/user so I'll use that in future.
Best wishes.
I'm really happy with your
I'm really happy with your feedback, there are sometimes important improvements with little effort.
For the login, indeed it's the link is https://www.learnro.com/user that you found as well.
I thought it was easy to find with the little white icon, shaped like a little person, that I placed at the top of each page. The only place where that icon is missing is on the front page, I'll add it there as well. If you had other difficulties I'll be happy to learn it, so that I can correct it.
It is obvious that the site needs an better look and feel, an new more modern UI, but now I'm concentrated on the content, rechecking the pages, to mistakes, for making easy to take the exercises e.g. breaking down bigger sentences in smaller parts...
Happy to help
P.S. Today I'm off, kids are playing outside, and I have a little time for myself, for my passion to help others learn Romanian for free!
I have added that little
I have added that little white person on top of the front page as well. I hope this helps.
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thanks
Great. Thanks for your good work! :)
Alphabet
I've been looking through and completing lessons however I haven't seen a lesson for learning the romanian alphabet yet.. Is there a lesson for this?
Romanian alphabet
Hi,
The Romanian alphabet is covered in the pronunciation section:
https://www.learnro.com/romanian-pronunciation
you will find there the pronunciation of all the vowels, and some more special lessons on the pronunciation of "i" or "r". There are the consonants still to be added indeed.
Or maybe you meant something else?
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premium plus membership
Hi, I saw this membership that you offer online which involves a personalised learning programme , a 1on1 access to a teacher, ongoing professional assessments and assignments. in your comments above you say "I'm alone in maintaining this site, in my spare time".
Who is going to assess me to draft my personalised learning programme and all the other benefits that comes with the membership please?
How available is the 1 on 1 session with the teacher.
Thank you
Hi,
Hi,
All the content offered on learnro.com is free, and it is intentionally so. One can have an account to record the results of the exercises however there is no paid membership and no personalized programme to learn Romanian. I'm happy to help with any questions you might have though, for free, as long as you post them as comments, I'll reply to them.
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