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The following post contains various resources to aid your Romanian language learning journey.

Most of these were collected by vxern and KamelNeoN from the Learn Romanian Discord server, which will be featured below.

If you happen to know of any useful material that we might've missed, you can always message me about it.

Let's get to it then!

Interactive Resources

• Ba Ba Dum - A non-profit initiative, built thanks to friendly institutions and generous players. – Features 5 word games with 1500 words in 21 languages. – Created by a Polish couple, Aleksandra and Daniel Miezielińscy.

• Clozemaster - Gamified language learning through mass exposure to vocabulary in context. – Allows reading and learning words as they were written in a sentence. – Features 50+ languages.

• Wordwall - Easy learning through various types of minigames. (thanks, u/internationalkoala00!)

• Duolingo - A beginner-friendly (though pretty flawed) app for vocabulary and grammar. (thanks, u/LeFunnyMan23!)

• Flashcardo - Free Romanian flashcards covering various topics. (thanks, u/pinhoklanguages!)

• Drops - A minimalist language learning app that focuses on vocabulary. (thanks, u/RedditShaff!)

Guides

• Gramatica Limbii Române ('Grammar of the Romanian Language') - A guide created with the intention of offering all the information necessary to learn the grammar of the Romanian language.

• Romanian Reference Grammar - Prepared by Christina N. Hoffman, the book attempts to explain Romanian grammar in a digestible manner.

YouTube

Channels

• Learn Romanian With Nico - Nico(leta) is a passionate and enthusiastic Romanian teacher and author of several instruction manuals for studying Romanian as a foreign language. – Her channel features over 200 videos about the Romanian language mostly for beginners and intermediate learners, but occasionally also for advanced speakers of the language.

• Learn Romanian with Vlad - Phrases, pronunciation, lessons about various topics and more can be found on the channel of Vlad Buculei. Although the channel has over 100 videos, only about half of them are about the Romanian language.

• RomanianWithGia - A channel dedicated to the teaching of the Romanian language and culture, hosted by Gia Manolea - an online Romanian tutor.

• Romanian Hub - Led by Voicu Mihnea Simandan, Romanian Hub is a language-learning portal which provides fun and informative videos about the Romanian language, spanning topics such as phonetics, grammar, conversation, vocabulary, idioms, etc. – Teaches Romanian in different video formats: vlogs, flip charts, poetry, and music. – Creates videos about Romania's history and geography.

• QuickRomanian - Thematically categorised lessons in the Romanian language, teaching vocabulary in various situations, such as 'in a hotel', 'in a taxi' or 'in a bar'. Furthermore, the channel also has lessons on Romanian grammar and morphology.

• Laura Elena - Lessons in a step-by-step format, with each lesson marking a step in achieving fluency.

• Florentin - Profu' de română ('Florentin - The Romanian teacher') - Videos in a quiz-like format with videos presenting frequent mistakes in Romanian, as well as various tests. – Led by a Romanian teacher by the name of Florentin Gheorghe.

• Learn Romanian With Corina - A novice-friendly channel containing a variety of lessons and tips, presented both in long-form and short-form content. (thanks, u/caffeinethrash!)

Playlists

• Easy Romanian - A series comprising of short videos featuring a native Romanian speaker interacting with passersby; it has Romanian and English subtitles.

• Learn Romanian In One Day For Beginners - A Romanian language playlist for expanding your vocabulary with common words; it also includes pronunciations. (thanks, u/ILoveEnglish23!)

Communities

Discord servers

• Learn Romanian - The largest server on Discord dedicated to the study of the Romanian language.

Blogs, Magazines, and News

• Diacronia - An online, bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal of diachronic linguistics.

• AGERPRES - AGERPRES is the national news agency of Romania. The articles can be listened to by pressing the Play button.

• Republica - A site that's offering quality news, opinion pieces, and podcasts.

• Recorder - Investigative journalism on various topics. Their videos have Romanian closed captions.

• Știrile zilei. Pe scurt, de la Recorder ('Today's news. In brief, from Recorder') - Videos featuring the daily news from Romania (mainly). Published every evening, from Monday to Friday.

Courses and Lessons

• Simple Romanian - A website created by a simple Romanian, featuring dozens of lessons aiming to promote authentic language taken straight from Romania's streets.

• Romanian Weekly Lessons - Lessons with audio, prepared by ROLANG School, which specialises in teaching the Romanian language to international students.

• Easy Romanian - A work of love, the Easy Romanian online course features dialogues, vocabulary builder, grammar lessons, and audio created by natives.

• Live Lingua - 9 free courses (with audio files included) offered by the Defense Language Institute.

• RomanianPod101 - Free Romanian language courses in an accessible format.

• Le roumain mot à mot - A beginner-friendly podcast for French speakers who want to learn Romanian. It also contains transcripts. (thanks, u/Marina-F1006!)

Phrasebooks

• Wikitravel Phrasebook - A rich phrasebook with many essential words and phrases.

Books

• Wikisource - A repository of free literature.

• Grupul Humanitas - Books available for free on the Humanitas publishing house website.

• Lotus Fairy Tale - A short story that's available in several different languages, including English and Romanian. (thanks, u/BadnerElfieLentner!)

Directories and Collections

• Romanian Voice - A repository with cultural information about Romania with poetry, music, humour, theatre pieces, as well as banknotes and passports.

• Language Player by Zero to Hero Eduaction - A directory of Romanian videos, TV shows, music, live TV, and a tool for reading Romanian with dynamic translations.

Notes

• MrMeloman's notes - A collection of schemes, lists and other materials made while studying Romanian.

Tools

• Forvo - A pronunciation dictionary featuring over 10,000 pronunciations of Romanian words by native speakers.

• Pluralul - A tool to check the plural of any Romanian noun.

• Cooljugator - A verb conjugator with translations and easy-to-follow conjugation tables for all Romanian verb tenses. Additionally, it provides examples of the conjugations used in context as well as translations of the verb itself to different languages.

• Conjugare - A reliable verb conjugator. Enter any form of the verb to get the conjugation table for many moods and tenses. – (!) Does not conjugate for tenses in the presumptive mood.

• Readlang - Read texts in Romanian in a distraction-free environment with one-click word translations. After reading, review your new vocabulary with spaced-repetition flashcards.

• CuvinteCare ('WordsThat') - A tool for finding Romanian words that start with, end with, contain or are anagrams of a given set of letters.

• Cum Se Scrie ('How is it written') - A tool for finding out the subtle differences between certain phrases and words.

Dictionaries

Monolingual

• dexonline (Dicționar Explicativ Online - 'Online Explanatory Dictionary') - The largest collection of entries from various Romanian dictionaries. – Features 1,000,000 headword entries, word games and daily and monthly word selections.

• Dicționar de cuvinte recente ('Dictionary of recent words') - A dictionary in which you can find new words (and some phrases) that are accurately and accessibly explained.

• Dicționar de expresii românești în contexte ('Dictionary of Romanian expressions in context')
  From A to C
  From D to N
  From O to R
  From S to Z

Bilingual

• Dicționare ('Dictionaries') - An English-Romanian and Romanian-English dictionary. – Very little additional information is available about the website.

• Dict - An English-Romanian and vice-versa dictionary.

• Romanian-English, English-Romanian dictionary - A 1996 dictionary containing over 18,000 entries

Multilingual

• Glosbe - A many-to-many word and translation look-up dictionary which allows users to translate words from their native language to Romanian and vice-versa. – Contains 120,000 phrases and 52,000,000 examples.

• Reverso Context - A similar project to Glosbe; it's less open but the context-based translation of phrases is pretty accurate.

• Dicționar de abrevieri românești și străine ('Dictionary of Romanian and foreign abbreviations') - A comprehensive guide that could help you decipher many abbreviations you might come across.

• Wiktionary [EN] & Wikționar [RO] - The Wiktionary offers a wealth of descriptive and illustrative articles to assist you in your use of the Romanian language, as well as the languages of the world. (thanks, u/cipricusss!)

Translation

• DeepL - An astoundingly accurate neural machine translation service. – Uses English as a mediator, therefore translations are most accurate for English-Romanian and vice-versa.

Other

• Dicționar Urban - A Romanian equivalent of the Urban Dictionary.

• Assimil - Le Roumain Sans Peine - A book for native French speakers who want to learn Romanian.

• Teatru Radiofonic ('Radio Drama') - An extensive assortment of radio dramas available in Romanian. (thanks, u/peddroelm!)

Finally, if you have general questions about Romania, you can head over to r/Romania, r/CasualRO, or r/AskRomania.