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Good morning friends and good to see you in a new episode of Language Review on OTV.
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My name is Indragostit Lulia de Limbi and I am from the United States.
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Today we will discuss about the Roman language, otherwise formerly known as Russian-Italian,
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Numenumenese, Moldovan, Draculan or gender fluid Latin.
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This is episode 19 of Language Review, a series where I go through the languages of the world and review them, sort of like a film critic or a video game reviewer.
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And at the end of the video, I'll give them an official rating from Dogwater to GigaChad on the Simp scale.
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Before we begin, to support me and join my exclusive language learning community, check out my Patreon.
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There are dozens of extra videos there, and we do weekly vocab challenges that I'd love for you to be a part of.
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If you enjoy this video, let me know which language you'd like me to review next in the comments, and without further ado, hi sign Chippin.
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Romanian?
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I love Rome!
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It's so beautiful!
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It's my dream to visit that city!
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Yeah, Rome is great, so naturally, so is Romanian.
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Romanian is mainly spoken in Rome, which is the capital of the Italian country of Italy.
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Ah, Rome, the most beautiful city in all of Europe.
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Just look at this architecture and urban planning.
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Wait, is that L'Arc de Triomphe?
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Is this Paris?
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No, this is Bucharest.
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Bonvenit in Rai.
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Romanian is mainly spoken in Romania, a country that looks like a fat potato chillin' in southeastern Europe.
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And this place is criminally underrated.
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Romania might just have the deepest and most interesting lore of any country.
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From Vlad the Impaler, to communism, to dictatorships and revolutions, they've had it all.
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They build their roads like Mario Kart tracks, their castles are humongous and the real Dracula lives in one of them, and then their parliament building is ginormous.
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The dictator built the heaviest building in the world just to flex.
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But the people didn't like him that much, so they, uh, made him stop being a person.
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And they aired it on TV on Christmas.
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And to this day, the building is still 70% empty.
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I really want to visit Romania to see the city of Cluj-Napoca, which is arguably the most beautiful and modern city in all of Eurasia.
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And everyone in Cluj has really jacked legs, because you can ride the bus there for free in the city if you do 20 squats in front of a camera.
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I wonder if it scans you and sends all your data to Palantir.
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But seriously, I've always thought Romania is so cool.
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Even just the name oozes aura, like Romania, sounds like a fairy tale.
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And then Transylvania is a region there.
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What a fancy word.
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It's like Pennsylvania.
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Romanians are Chads.
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I mean, they even have the same flag as the country of Chad.
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I actually used the Chadian flag in the thumbnail.
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Did anyone notice?
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Then Romanian is also spoken in Moldova, but it depends who you ask.
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The name of the language in this country is very controversial.
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It was called Moldovan over there until 2013, when their highest court ruled that Romanian is the official language of Moldova.
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But the NPCs there do not agree.
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According to the 2024 Moldovan census, more people claim to speak Moldovan there than Romanian, by a decent margin.
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But the Moldovans I talk to seem to be ready to go to war to defend calling it Romanian.
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Regardless, Moldova is another very underrated place that I'd love to immigrate to.
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Their capital, Chisinau, looks interesting, and they have gorgeous scenery.
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But their biggest export is the greatest song of the 21st century, Dragostai Dente, otherwise known as the Numa Numa Song.
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But I prefer to call the language Transnistrian because it's also spoken in the rogue breakaway state of Transnistria,
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which is a little noodle of land between Ukraine and Moldova that is not an internationally recognized country yet.
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But honestly, if you ask them, I'm not even sure they want to be a country.
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These guys still think they're a part of the Soviet Union, even though they're technically in Moldova, and their government still officially calls the language Moldovan.
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And Slava Domnului, here in Freedomland, we have over 150,000 Moldovan-speaking NPCs, who are all professional hide-and-seek players, because I swear I've never found one.
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I know there's a big debate in Moldova on if y'all should join the EU, or cozy up to Russian, or even unite with Romania, but hear me out.
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Come join us.
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We'll put you next to Florida to keep you warm.
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Moldovan's also spoken as a minority language in nearby countries like Bulgaria,
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Hungary, Serbia, and Ukraine, and there are big immigrant communities all over the place in Western Europe.
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So with over 24 million NPCs speaking the language natively, learning Romanian will unlock you barely any DLC at all.
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Probably because unlike the other romance lingos, they didn't colonize everyone.
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Being a fan of Romanian feels like being a fan of an artist before they get famous.
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One day Romanian's gonna be a global language, so now is a great time to learn it.
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Yeah, I'll pass.
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I'm afraid of the Balkans and Slavic languages are hard.
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Well good news, it's not Slavic.
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It's actually a romance language.
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Okay, fuck you.
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Romanian is kind of an oddball.
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It's the long-lost brother of the other big romance languages like Mexican and Baguette.
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They were quintuplet orphans who were separated at birth.
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These guys were all adopted by stable middle-class suburban parents
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while Romanian was adopted by the kind of chaotic yet fun unstable parents who got a fiery divorce.
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Divorce?
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Divorce!
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She took the house, she took the kids.
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So nowadays, this language survives over there in isolation, and it's pretty darn impressive that it holds up
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while surrounded by Slavic lingos on all sides and whatever the heck Hungarian is on its left flank.
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So Romanian evolved separately from its brothers and was influenced by other nearby languages, and it kind of turned into this gnarly Slavic romance fusion.
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So Romanian's got the best of both worlds.
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They're lucky people.
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They literally have everything.
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A hybrid language, tasty sausages, cow stomach soup, and Romania even has some of the fastest internet speeds in the world.
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Now back to Romanian.
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Now let's talk about dialects.
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Thankfully, the Romanian language doesn't have crazy diverging dialects that will make you rip your hair out like Arabic or German.
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They used to have more dialects, but communism.
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You know, communism.
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But the biggest divide you are gonna encounter is, of course, Romanian-Romanian versus Moldovan-Moldovan.
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Standard Romanian is based on the Bucharest variety of the Wallachian dialect found in southern Romania, and this sounds neutral and is what you'll hear in the news and textbooks.
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Romanian-Romanian in general sounds a bit harsher with stronger consonants, and it feels more Western European with loanwords from countries where leaders are democratically elected.
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Then Moldovans speak Chinese Romanian.
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In Romania, they use a lot of che-che sounds, but the Moldovans often replace these with sh-sounds.
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Like they literally have a phrase, sh-she, which sounds suspiciously a lot like the way this white boy thanks his Filipino waitress at Denny's in Mandarin.
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I've also had Romanian NPCs tell me that they perceive Moldovan speakers the same way that us Americans would hear Irish people.
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They're definitely speaking the same language, but you gotta sit straight up and lock in a bit to understand.
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Moldova byla chest you sovietzkeva sojuza, so they use an abundance of Russian loanwords that aren't common in Romania.
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This is second nature to these Moldovans because monogii z nich govriet pa ruski.
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But in general, NPCs from both countries can understand each other pretty well.
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There are still smaller regional dialects, but linguists can't agree on anything,
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so in general, people in Transylvania are like Americans living in the south with a southern drawl.
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Then speakers of the Banat dialect in Western Romania leaking into Serbia have more of a Yugoslavian twang.
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But honestly, you're just gonna learn standard Romanian unless you run off and marry a man in a small town in Romania.
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So now it's time to talk about the writing system.
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Romanian is written in a modified version of the American alphabet with 31 letters instead of the original cast of 26.
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And that's because they have an additional 5 characters, which look like other normal letters in the alphabet, except these guys have cute little bonus features on them.
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Firstly, in addition to the normal A, they've got two extra A's with little symbols on top of them.
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The naked A makes the ah sound, like in father, while the A with a bowl on its head makes a relatively normal moaning noise, uh, like in about.
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Then the A with the traditional Vietnamese cone hat on top makes a much gnarlier, deeper moaning noise, like uh.
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It reminds me of uy in Russian, but not quite.
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It's more eww.
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And then the last letter with the hat is this I with the cone on top.
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And this makes literally the exact same noise as the A with the cone hat.
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Eww.
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Yeah, they make the same sound.
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They're redundant.
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It's stupid and I do not like that.
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Apparently they use the A when it's in the middle of words
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and the I when it's at the beginning or end of a word.
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So technically the uppercase A cone hat doesn't exist.
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I better not see it in the comments.
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It's banned.
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They should just use one letter and since they're in Eastern Europe, just embrace the multi-ocular O.
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That thing oozes aura and would boost tourism.
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Numanumanese also has two letters that are furries with tails coming out of their butts.
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They're not tails!
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They're commas!
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Don't mislead your audience!
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Oh crap, I forgot!
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Those are definitely not tails!
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Many fonts to this day mess that up and make them look like attached tails, but there's really a gap there.
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If you accidentally connect it to the S, it'll look like a Turkish letter, and you know in that region of the world there's so much beef and drama, they don't want to be mistaken for Turks.
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They'd rather be mistaken for Hungarians.
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Oh yeah, that'd be fine.
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Romania and Hungary are best friends.
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Anyway, the S with the tail makes the sh sound, and the T with the tail makes the tz sound.
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Pretty useful letters that definitely simplify writing.
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The rest of the alphabet is not going to give you a hard time.
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The writing system is easy.
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Unless you go to Transnistria where they use the Russian alphabet to write.
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Honestly, it's pretty dope seeing a Romance language written in Cyrillic.
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I speak French, Spanish, and Russian, so seeing this breaks my brain and feels immoral.
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The entire country of Moldova actually used to write in Cyrillic until posly raspada Sovietzkova sajusa when Western democracy,
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na-na-na-boo-boo, came and ruined everything.
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But compared to the Cyrillic they used up until the middle of the 1800s, this current script is some neutered dog water.
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They used to have glorious, ancient Cyrillic characters like these hundreds of years ago.
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My favorite being this spider, known as the Big Yus, which used to make that U sound that the cone hat A and I sadly represent in 2026.
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Yeah, those letters are definitely going to be the hardest to pronounce for learners.
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Like the word in in Romanian is in.
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Well, that's convenient.
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But the I has a hat on it, so it's un, with that deep grunt at the front.
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Learners also have troubles with the letter C in this lingo.
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If it comes before A, O, or U, it makes a hard K sound, like KASO But before an E or an I, it makes the CH noise,
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like in CHE But if you put an H in between them, now it gets hard again, like K.
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And the pesky G does a similar thing, turning from a hard G noise in GUSTE to a soft J noise like in GJRAFA.
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I wonder what that one means.
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BULLEA.
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This stuff is really easy if you already speak pasta, because the Italians copied the Romanians and do the same sort of thing.
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So how does the Romanian language sound in general?
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Well, to the monolingual beta, it just sounds like Italian.
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In fact, if you close your eyes and pretend you're American, you'll probably think it's Italian.
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Hey Tony, I'm from Italy!
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But for the distinguished listener, it sounds more like Italian and Russian met at a bar, went home together, and had a baby.
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And the baby then grew up with a special interest in his distant ancestors from the Roman Empire.
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You'll constantly be asking yourself, Am I listening to Russian, or did I time travel back to 20 AD, Or am I just in Minas Gerais?
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Because you'll often hear words like Foame and Tarzio, which sounds so freaking Brazilian to me.
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In general, Romanian is gorgeous.
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It is a beautiful mixture of so many things, but it comes together to still have its own unique identity.
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And it is genuinely one of my favorite languages to listen to on the planet.
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I find it so elegant, prestigious, and attractive, even when giant hairy men speak it.
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And Romanian music is just, oh my goodness, it is amazing.
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For such a small number of speakers, they have musically mogged the entire universe.
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I love the genre called manele, which is like traditional Romanian party music.
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I'm especially a fan of Nicolai Guta, whose song A Opta Minune Alumi is straight fire.
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It makes me so happy to listen to.
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And then, of course, the greatest song ever written in the history of mankind, I had to take my hat off just to say this,
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is the song by the Moldovan pop group Ozone, known as Dragosteidinte.
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Please sing along with me.
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Ugh, this language just has such a dynamic range.
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You'll hear beautiful, whimsical, girly words like vresa plec, followed by dark, twisted, thick words like dragoste,
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which looks and sounds like dragon.
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But it actually means love.
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I swear this language makes me feel like I'm in Skyrim sometimes.
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They won't shut up about dragons and the words look so emo and gothic.
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Like, look at this word.
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I guess my brain registers these accent markers as piercings that a Hot Topic employee would have.
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Romanian is so metal.
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And then the Slavic influence in their vocab is awesome.
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One of the first words you'll probably want to learn in this language is hello.
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Nah, that's useless.
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Let's learn chainsaw, which is družba in Romanian.
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But družba means friendship in Russian.
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What?
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And then to say friendship in Romanian, you say prietnie, which is also extremely Slavic.
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But the most mind-blowing thing is that to say yes in the Romanian language, you literally say da.
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That is the king of Slavic words.
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But don't forget, this is a romance language, so now let's look at the Latin influence.
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Cum.
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Cum means how, and this has to be the most Latin-looking word I've ever seen.
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You'll hear many words and expressions with cum in this language, like oricum, precum, and nicicum.
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Really, the majority of words in the language have a Latin origin.
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Like intensitate, which literally sounds more Italian than the Italian word for intensity, which is intensità.
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And they often even say merci for thank you, just like the Frenchies.
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But ironically, some of the phrases that come straight from Latin still sound really Slavic to me, like buna ziwa, which is an important greeting meaning good day.
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You're kidding me, ziwa isn't Slavic?
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And then they have my favorite way to say and in any language.
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They say she, which just sounds so crisp when sandwiched between two nouns, Bolsonaro, She, Lula.
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The personal pronouns are very romance-y, and I especially love that they have the same word for I that the Brazilians use.
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Except in Romanian, it's more like, While in port, it's like,
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But warning, the you formal pronoun is the most insane thing you will see this entire year.
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How do you go from the simple, informal tu, to dumnea vostra?
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It literally sounds like a Skyrim shout to summon the undead and if someone called me that, I'd be checking my flank for dragons.
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And then a lot of random words are different between Romania and Moldova, especially food vocab for some reason.
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A Romanian is likely to say pepene verde for watermelon, but a Moldovan would say harbus.
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Then a tomato in Romania would be roxie, but in Moldova, they might say patlágica.
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I don't eat fruits nor vegetables, so I don't really care about that.
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And the last thing I'll say about vocab is that Romanian speakers love to talk about this town in Croatia.
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They always say the name of the city, and I don't know why.
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It's confusing.
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But do you know what else is confusing?
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Romanian grammar.
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Making plurals is annoying, because there are like a billion different ways to form them that seem very frustrating, because you just gotta memorize them all.
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Look at these.
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How does om turn into oameni?
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But at least this is the most socially progressive language on planet Earth.
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For starters, it has three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter, which is weird for romance languages.
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But what makes this lingo such a pioneer in social progress is that nouns can change their gender when they're made plural.
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The singular indefinite articles are un for masculine nouns and o for feminine ones.
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So a boy is unbayat, while a girl is ofata.
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And then a neuter noun behaves like a masculine one in the singular.
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So a hotel, even though it's neuter, is un hotel.
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But here's where the magic happens.
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If you want to say two of each of these things, you say, Doi baietzi, because doi is the masculine version of two.
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Doa fete, because doa is the feminine version of two.
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And then doa hoteluri, which also takes the feminine form of two.
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But wait, it used the masculine article before.
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The word hotel got on HRT and transitioned between the singular to the plural form.
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I'm an ally.
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I support that.
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And the definite articles are pretty crazy too.
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For the singular articles, the masculine one is ul.
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Then the feminine one is ah.
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And the neuter again copies the masculine in the singular.
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But the crazy part is that these definite articles are attached to the ends of nouns, just like in Swedish.
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So the boy is bayatul, with that ul attached.
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Then the girl is fata.
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And the hotel is hotelul.
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When we go to the plural forms, we use e for masculine nouns and le for feminine ones.
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And then again, as you can clearly see, our neuter noun hotel is now a woman.
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I honestly love this stuff.
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But unfortunately, Romanian has five cases.
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Yeah, five cases.
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You heard that right.
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If you don't know what a case is, maybe you should keep your innocence.
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Basically, it means that nouns can change based on their purpose in a sentence, like, for example, if it's the subject, the direct object, or the indirect object.
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So the five Romanian cases are nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, and vocative.
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But slavobogu, for most Romanian nouns, the nominative is the same as the accusative, and the genitive is the same as the dative.
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These are the forms of the boy in each case.
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They're really not too difficult, just some slightly different endings you'll need to learn the patterns of.
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Then the girl uses slightly different endings, but it'll be chill, I promise.
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There are three additional forms for each noun when they're plural, and knowing how to decline one noun of a certain gender into each case does not mean
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that you'll know how to do it for other ones.
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Just like in Russian, there are many different endings that nouns can take in all the cases,
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which, without a doubt, makes Romanian the hardest major Romance language to learn.
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And there are a ton of verb tenses, but if you're already familiar with Mexican or spicy Mexican, None of this is going to surprise you.
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They have four different conjugation groups depending on the endings of the infinitives.
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So a-lucra, for example, means to work.
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Yeo lucrez, tu lucrezzi, el lucrezza, and so on.
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There are a lot of irregulars, but that's just a normal romance language thing.
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Thank Dracula they don't borrow verbal aspects from Slavic languages.
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That would be horrible.
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I think the most noteworthy and potentially pain-inducing thing about the verbs is that they use the subjunctive tense way too much.
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And that's because they connect verbs in a unique way in Romanian.
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In other Romance languages, you often say I want plus the infinitive.
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So the I want part is conjugated, but the infinitive is not.
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But in gender-fluid Latin, you have to do I want plus the subjunctive conjugation of the first-person singular.
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So to leave in Romanian is a pleca.
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Then to say I want to leave,
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it's vrau sa plec, which is I want plus the subjunctive marker plus the subjunctive first-person singular conjugation of aplica.
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But to say you want to leave, now both verbs agree with you singular, and it becomes vrei sa plec dar numanumaye.
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So now it's time to talk about shock factor.
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How will native Romanian speakers react to you speaking their language as a foreigner?
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Well, if you walk up to a Romanian expat in the US or Europe, and you say something to them in Romanian, they're probably going to be confused.
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They'll ask, why on earth did you waste your time learning our tiny and irrelevant language?
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Have you not heard of Spanish?
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Then when you tell them, because I like the Numa Numa song, they're legally required to perform the entire ballad for you.
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But seriously, not a lot of people learn Russian-Italian, so native-speaking NPCs will be quite bewildered when you tell them you're learning it.
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They'll be delighted to hear you making an effort, even if you only know simple phrases like Buna Ziwa and Mutsumesc.
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But if you speak decent, conversational Romanian to them as a foreigner, they will do backflips.
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They aren't gonna combust mid-backflip like the Chinese, or insist that you take their house and all their possessions like Arabic speakers, but they will repeatedly flip,
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invite you into their homes, and give you Sarmale.
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I could talk about gender-fluid Latin for 89 hours, but you've already heard enough,
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So it's time for me to give the Moldovan language an official language simp certified rating on the simp scale.
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On a scale of dog water to gigachad, I place Romanian solidly in...
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The gigachad tier.
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Ever since I got into language learning, I have always been fascinated with Romanian.
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It's spoken in such an interesting and underrated part of the world that I'd love to immigrate to.
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And it sounds heavenly in the most gothic, dragonian, tough, yet flowy way imaginable.
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It's truly such a bridge language between East and West, but it comes together and has such a unique identity that oozes aura.
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Romance languages are popular, but everyone ignores the fifth most common one, so you would be such a Chad if you studied it.
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The grammar can get a little toxic, but imagine how rewarding and satisfying it would be to speak Russian-Italian one day.
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If you do the math, Romanian speakers only account for less than half a percentage of the world's population.
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So this language does not unlock you a lot of DLC, but that's precisely why natives will appreciate your effort so much.
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I strongly, strongly recommend learning Romanian, and I will definitely learn it one day.
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Without y'all, I'd probably still be a monolingual beta male.
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Mulțumesc for watching, and la revedere!
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שיעור הדיבור הזה ברמה C1 מבוסס על הסרטון “Language Review: Romanian”. המילים שחוזרות הכי הרבה: Romanian, language, sound, word. בסרטון הזה יש 327 משפטים ו-4339 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 24:44. הדובר מדבר בקצב טבעי של כ-175 מילים בדקה, קרוב לשיחה יומיומית. רק 76% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית, כך שאוצר המילים מאתגר.
אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה
15 המילים המתקדמות ביותר בסרטון, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:
| מילה | הגייה | משמעות |
|---|---|---|
| noun שם עצם | /naʊn/ | שֵׁם עֶצֶם, שֵׁם |
| cone שם עצם | /ˈkoʊn/ | חָרוּט |
| alphabet שם עצם | /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/ | אָלֶף־בֵּית, אָלֶפְבֵּית |
| verb שם עצם | /vɝb/ | פועל, פֹּעַל |
| communism שם עצם | /ˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/ | קוֹמוּנִיזְם |
| accusative שם עצם | /əˈkjuzətɪv/ | יחס הפעול |
| foreigner שם עצם | /ˈfɔɹ.ɪ.nɚ/ | זָר, זָרָה |
| genitive שם תואר | /ˈd͡ʒɛnətɪv/ | יחס הקניין, יַחַס הַקִּנְיָן |
| immigrate פועל | /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/ | הִגֵּר |
| infinitive שם עצם | /ɪnˈfɪnɪtɪv/ | שֵׁם פֹּעַל, מָקוֹר |
| loanword שם עצם | /ˈloʊnˌwɝd/ | מִלָּה שְׁאוּלָה |
| confuse פועל | /kənˈfjuːz/ | בלבל |
| definite שם תואר | /ˈdɛfɪnɪt/ | מוגדר |
| unlock פועל | /ʌnˈlɑk/ | פתח |
| certify פועל | /ˈsɜː.tɪ.faɪ/ | וידא |
Phrasal verbs שתשמעו
| מילה | משמעות |
|---|---|
| check out פועל | בדק |
משפטים שכדאי לחזור עליהם
משפטים קצרים ושלמים מהסרטון שאפשר להשתמש בהם בשיחה יומיומית:
- It's my dream to visit that city!
- It's stupid and I do not like that.
- How do you go from the simple, informal tu, to dumnea vostra?
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verb — הרגל או מצב שהיה נכון בעבר וכבר לא קיים | used to have · used to write · used to make |
| משפטי תנאי (Conditional sentences) if + clause, will/would + verb — תנאי ותוצאה שלו | if someone called me that, I'd be |
| הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו | they've had · has really jacked · I've always thought |
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | is mainly spoken · is criminally underrated · is also spoken |
הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה
הדובר משתמש ב-81 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו they're, don't, you'll. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.
- הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: conjugation /ˌkɑnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/, distinguish /dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/, socially /ˈsoʊʃəli/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, fusion /ˈfjuː.ʒən/
- מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: conjugation /ˌkɑnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/, underrated /ʌn.dɚˈɹeɪ.təd/, accusative /əˈkjuzətɪv/, infinitive /ɪnˈfɪnɪtɪv/, monolingual /ˌmɒ.nəʊˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:
- /w/ — שפתיים מעוגלות, לא /v/: loanword /ˈloʊnˌwɝd/, monolingual /ˌmɒ.nəʊˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/, distinguish /dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/, workplace /ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/
- /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: masculine /ˈmæskjələn/, vocab [ˈvoʊ.kæb], alphabet /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/, flank /ˈflæŋk/, ancestor /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/
- /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: plural /ˈplʊəɹəl/, aura /ˈɔːɹə/, underrated /ʌn.dɚˈɹeɪ.təd/, foreigner /ˈfɔɹ.ɪ.nɚ/, immigrate /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/
איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה
- הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
- התחילו במהירות 0.75×, תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט, וחזרו למהירות רגילה כשזה מרגיש קל.
- הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו noun, cone, alphabet.
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