Showing posts with label romanian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romanian. Show all posts
Friday, January 11, 2008
Accents in Romanian
A quick update: some our users pointed out that Romanian lessons don't have accents in Romanian words. Now they do! Tudi did the corrections and I uploaded them today to the site.
Sunday, July 08, 2007
New Version of the Site. New Awsome Features.
My dearest Internet Polyglotter!
At last, with a great honor and deep moral satisfaction we announce that a new version of the site has been developed and deployed on http://www.InternetPolyglot.com !
The new version has a number of new features:
1) Typing Game - a new game where you are presented with a word in your language and you have to type its translation in the language that you learn. We hope this game will be a good addition in the language toolset that we provide for our users.
2) We bought and uploaded more pictures so that the majority (95%) of all lessons have images associated with the words. Enjoy a more colorful experience in learning new words!
3) New improved chat. Now the chat page has multiple channels so that you can chat with other people in your native language or about a language that you learn.
4) "Jump to a lesson" link. Now when you go to a lesson detail page you can see a new link "Jump to a lesson". When you click on it you see a popup list of all other lessons that are of the same word language and translation language.
5) Romanian audio pronunciation on Romanian lessons.
6) Other minor improvements that should improve your staying with http://www.InternetPolyglot.com .
Now a little bit about our plans. We are working hard now on a new "game-like" page which we call a slide show. We think that it should improve the initial learning process - instead of just jumping to games, go through all words in a lesson as a slide show: each word will be presented as a picture with the word and translation and the word and translation will be pronounced. We hope to develop the slide show in a month or so. As soon as it's ready we'll gladly notify you of that.
Now enjoy learning languages with http://www.InternetPolyglot.com and have a great time!
Internet Polyglot team.
At last, with a great honor and deep moral satisfaction we announce that a new version of the site has been developed and deployed on http://www.InternetPolyglot.com !
The new version has a number of new features:
1) Typing Game - a new game where you are presented with a word in your language and you have to type its translation in the language that you learn. We hope this game will be a good addition in the language toolset that we provide for our users.
2) We bought and uploaded more pictures so that the majority (95%) of all lessons have images associated with the words. Enjoy a more colorful experience in learning new words!
3) New improved chat. Now the chat page has multiple channels so that you can chat with other people in your native language or about a language that you learn.
4) "Jump to a lesson" link. Now when you go to a lesson detail page you can see a new link "Jump to a lesson". When you click on it you see a popup list of all other lessons that are of the same word language and translation language.
5) Romanian audio pronunciation on Romanian lessons.
6) Other minor improvements that should improve your staying with http://www.InternetPolyglot.com .
Now a little bit about our plans. We are working hard now on a new "game-like" page which we call a slide show. We think that it should improve the initial learning process - instead of just jumping to games, go through all words in a lesson as a slide show: each word will be presented as a picture with the word and translation and the word and translation will be pronounced. We hope to develop the slide show in a month or so. As soon as it's ready we'll gladly notify you of that.
Now enjoy learning languages with http://www.InternetPolyglot.com and have a great time!
Internet Polyglot team.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Romanian Lessons Are Loaded
Romanian lessons are now available online! Huge kudos and thanks to Monik and Mihai who made it happen!
As you may already know Romania is a East-European country and you can read about it a nice and very useful article from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania.
So please please visit Romanian lessons on Internet Polyglot - enjoy the new language!
And, as usual, if you see any discrepancies and incorrect translations - shout out loud here or on the forum.
History of the Romanian Language
At the beginning of Christianity, the land that is now the country of Romania was occupied by settlements of Geto-dacians, an indo-European family of tribes. With the Latin expansion from Central Europe and the Greek influences from the South, the Geto-dacians would make contact with the two great civilizations through trade and of course, wars. Roman writings attest that geto-dacian traders around the Danube were polyglots, being able to speak several local dialects, Latin and old Greek. It’s from this combination of cultures that the Romanian people and language were born, although in today’s language the predominant reagent is Latin.
Actually, of the old Geto-Dacian dialect only around 100 words are left, the others being either assimilated by the Latin language or simply replaced. The Greek influence can be seen mostly in the lower part of Romania and is not very large, but mentionable. At the same time, other nomadic influences can be spotted in the Romanian language, most of which are attested to the Goths.
Learning Romanian
Learning Romanian is as easy (or well, as hard) as learning any other Latin based language such as Italian, French or Spanish. Actually, if you already know any of these languages, learning Romanian will most likely be a walk in the park, since they have several shared words, grammar structures and pronunciation rules.
Although you won’t find them with the abundance you would for English, Italian, French or some other languages, “Learn Romanian” courses and books can be downloaded from the Internet, or bought from local libraries in case you thought of starting learning by yourself. Another great source of learning material can be found on the many sites that offer free Romanian lessons online all across the World Wide Web.
And if these aren’t enough for you, feel free to try and improve vocabulary through the numerous Romanian vocabulary games that can also be found online. These vocabulary games will help you memorize words and improve your spelling and pronunciation skills. Although you can’t simply learn Romanian by yourself through simple vocabulary games, they’re a great addition to any free Romanian online lessons or “How to Learn Romanian” courses that you might be following.
From a grammatical point of view, Romanian shares the same set of rules as Italian (after all, both languages are considered to be the direct descendants of Latin). Romanian nouns for example are inflected by gender (feminine, masculine and neuter), case (nominative/accusative, dative/genitive and vocative) and number (singular and plural). The articles, as well as most adjectives and pronouns, agree in gender with the noun they reference.
Articles about Romanian in other languages:
History of the Romanian Language (in English)
Lengua Rumana (in Spanish)
Langue roumaine (in French)
Rumänische Sprache (in German)
Lingua rumena (in Italian)
Roemeense Taal (in Dutch)
Língua Romanian (in Portuguese)
Istoria limbii Romane (in Romanian)
История румынского языка (in Russian)
تأريخ اللغة الرومانية (in Arabic)
As you may already know Romania is a East-European country and you can read about it a nice and very useful article from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania.
So please please visit Romanian lessons on Internet Polyglot - enjoy the new language!
And, as usual, if you see any discrepancies and incorrect translations - shout out loud here or on the forum.
History of the Romanian Language
At the beginning of Christianity, the land that is now the country of Romania was occupied by settlements of Geto-dacians, an indo-European family of tribes. With the Latin expansion from Central Europe and the Greek influences from the South, the Geto-dacians would make contact with the two great civilizations through trade and of course, wars. Roman writings attest that geto-dacian traders around the Danube were polyglots, being able to speak several local dialects, Latin and old Greek. It’s from this combination of cultures that the Romanian people and language were born, although in today’s language the predominant reagent is Latin.
Actually, of the old Geto-Dacian dialect only around 100 words are left, the others being either assimilated by the Latin language or simply replaced. The Greek influence can be seen mostly in the lower part of Romania and is not very large, but mentionable. At the same time, other nomadic influences can be spotted in the Romanian language, most of which are attested to the Goths.
Learning Romanian
Learning Romanian is as easy (or well, as hard) as learning any other Latin based language such as Italian, French or Spanish. Actually, if you already know any of these languages, learning Romanian will most likely be a walk in the park, since they have several shared words, grammar structures and pronunciation rules.
Although you won’t find them with the abundance you would for English, Italian, French or some other languages, “Learn Romanian” courses and books can be downloaded from the Internet, or bought from local libraries in case you thought of starting learning by yourself. Another great source of learning material can be found on the many sites that offer free Romanian lessons online all across the World Wide Web.
And if these aren’t enough for you, feel free to try and improve vocabulary through the numerous Romanian vocabulary games that can also be found online. These vocabulary games will help you memorize words and improve your spelling and pronunciation skills. Although you can’t simply learn Romanian by yourself through simple vocabulary games, they’re a great addition to any free Romanian online lessons or “How to Learn Romanian” courses that you might be following.
From a grammatical point of view, Romanian shares the same set of rules as Italian (after all, both languages are considered to be the direct descendants of Latin). Romanian nouns for example are inflected by gender (feminine, masculine and neuter), case (nominative/accusative, dative/genitive and vocative) and number (singular and plural). The articles, as well as most adjectives and pronouns, agree in gender with the noun they reference.
Articles about Romanian in other languages:
History of the Romanian Language (in English)
Lengua Rumana (in Spanish)
Langue roumaine (in French)
Rumänische Sprache (in German)
Lingua rumena (in Italian)
Roemeense Taal (in Dutch)
Língua Romanian (in Portuguese)
Istoria limbii Romane (in Romanian)
История румынского языка (in Russian)
تأريخ اللغة الرومانية (in Arabic)
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