Learn Romanian - I offer several methods - which is the most radical for you?

What should you do to learn Romanian? The first solution is the simplest yet the most extreme. Move here - and live somewhere other than Bucharest.

If you live in Bucharest, there are enough ex-pat people and places that will stop you ever needing to fully engage with your local environment.

Choosing a preferably small, rather run down village, in a house which requires lots of renovations - hence lots of interaction with the locals and the local shops is a far more effective way of mastering Romanian - learn the lingo or starve. My building projects all lie in differing levels of disrepair. The problem being that in one, my granny, who is quite correct to be perfectly happy with her little home, does not want experimental improvements from her rather-building-inept great-son-in-law. In the other, which no one lives in, as soon as I get magnetically attracted to one of our large, whirring, noisy, wood cutting machines, my father in law distracts me like a kid with sweets, as he immediately recognizes that my hands and the complete lack of any safety equipment is not an ideal combination - so it is more efficient, and more gets done, when I don't work there either.

Why do I need to learn the Romanian language? I still want to become a Romanian citizen, but they don't just accept anyone - you need to apparently prove you love Romania by reciting a 90 verse poem about its merits rather than write a 130 page website on the same love of the place.

If you want to learn Romanian from afar, a much better idea, click on the advert from Transparent as you can really get a great piece of software for free. It does have lots of flashcards to learn Romanian as well as 69 other languages - many which are put there for fun. You can even the go to their community page and download more free lists - building up a comprehensive library for free.

The third way, which also contains a link from here, is to marry a Romanian. This failed miserably for me - don't get me wrong - you cannot find a happier husband than me - but English dominated and you will learn a relationship can really only support one main language. The advantage being as Irina is so fluent in both languages now; it has removed all my needs for further study.

However - saying all this, there is still a part me that is determined to master this impossible language. When I find a moment, I will again, like the language junkie I am, employ yet another Romanian (I have a rapidly growing staff!) and this time learn Romanian so I can become the Romanian citizen I know I can be!

How and why do you want to learn Romanian? What hints and tips would you give me? Do you teach Romanian? Do you live in Bucharest? Can you teach me?

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