If you’ve finished (or are deep into) Duolingo’s Romanian course and you’re still freezing up when you try to understand a Romanian YouTuber, read a news headline, or hold a basic conversation — you’re not broken, and you haven’t wasted your time. You’ve just hit the wall that almost everyone learning a smaller Duolingo language …
Duolingo Intermediate Romanian: How Far Can the Owl Actually Take You?Read More »
If you’re here, I’m guessing you’ve already spent a few months on Duolingo’s Romanian course and walked away feeling… underwhelmed. Maybe the owl pushed you through 30 units and you still couldn’t follow a basic conversation. Maybe you noticed your friend learning Spanish gets podcasts, stories, and audio lessons while your Romanian tree feels like …
The Best Duolingo Alternatives for Romanian (From Someone Who’s Tried Them)Read More »
If you’re searching for the best way to learn Romanian vocabulary, you’ve probably already tried something that didn’t work. Maybe you downloaded a flashcard deck and drilled it for a few weeks. You felt productive. You could match “masă” to “table” when the app asked. But then you tried to say “put it on the …
Best Ways to Learn Romanian Vocabulary: A Practical System That Actually SticksRead More »
You finished the Duolingo Romanian tree—or maybe you’re close, and you’ve noticed something uncomfortable. Despite hundreds of days of practice, you still can’t understand Romanians when they speak at normal speed. You can translate “Băiatul mânâncă un măr” without breaking a sweat, but actual Romanian YouTube videos might as well be in Martian. You’re not …
What To Do After Duolingo Romanian: Your Roadmap to Real ProgressRead More »
If you’ve Googled “best apps to learn Romanian,” you’ve probably noticed something right away: the articles all look the same. Same apps. Same descriptions. Same vague promises about fluency. The problem isn’t that Romanian is hard. The problem is that Romanian is less commonly studied, and app quality varies a lot. Some platforms have clearly …
Best Apps to Learn Romanian 2026: An Honest Guide by Learning StageRead More »
The Numerals in Romanian, simple or compound, follow regular patterns: 1 (unu) 2 (doi) 3 (trei) 4 (patru) 5 (cinci) 6 (șase) 7 (șapte) 8 (opt) 9 (nouă) 10 (zece) 11 (unsprezece / written and oral / unșpe /oral only) 12 (doisprezece, doișpe) 12 (treisprezece, treișpe) 14 (paisprezece, paișpe) 15 (cincisprezece, cinșpe) 16 (șaisprezece, șaișpe) …
The most frequently used Romanian pronouns are personal, possessive, relative, and demonstrative. Since the grammar is derived from Latin, pronouns fall into case patterns, just like nouns. Latin-derived unstressed pronouns, as opposed to the stressed ones, increase the number of pronouns currently in use. Personal Pronouns In the category of personal pronouns, there are three …
Romanian Pronouns: Personal, Possessive, Relative, and DemonstrativeRead More »
Adverbs describe actions, and therefore appear next or close to verbs. Romanian adverbs are generally not inflected. Some follow the same degree of comparison rules as adjectives. Others could take the form of diminutives because of emotional involvement in conversation. Some adverbs in Romanian are simple, others are compund: când = when unde = where …
Adjectives in Romanian are much different from adjectives in English. Adjectives agree with nouns in gender, number and case. Unlike in English, the typical place for an adjective in a sentence is after the noun, not in front of it. Whenever an adjective preceeds a noun, the intention is purely emphatic. Adjectives may have one …
Romanian Adjectives: Endings, Comparisons, and ExpressionsRead More »
Gender On the basis of their grammatical structure, Romanian nouns are divided into three classes (traditionally called genders): masculine, feminine, and neuter. The form of the indefinite article that accompanies a noun and the ending of the noun indicate the gender to which the noun belongs. Masculine nouns take a consonant plus –u, -e, or …
Romanian Nouns: Gender and Declension Reference GrammarRead More »
