Romania language - Its history from early times to now

The Romania language dates back to the Roman times. The Dacians (original Romanians) were not easy to beat - but they had access to all sorts of things the Romans desired - such as Gold and Salt.

Amazingly but true Romans were paid in both money and salt. Romanian for salt is sare - from there you can easily see where the term salary comes. So Romania and Italy became close trading partners. As the Roman Empire went into decline and collapse, Romania became an island of the Romantic languages, surrounded by a sea of Slavic languages.

It in turn over time evolved into its own special language - spoken no where else - letting it become a really pedantic language which is only spoken by one nation - and hard for anyone else to confidently master.

There are lots of side effects to this. The young people know how to speak the Romania language and also English - making me even lazier in the process as I can try even less to communicate. The fact I work in a British school and mix all day with British teachers, my wife speaks to me in English and my in-laws understand my Romanian so never correct it does not help me at all!

I did investigate a machine to help me speak - but it is ten times as expensive (200 pound) as any other multi-European language translator so I resisted the urge so far. My wife insists out my only hope is now to learn it with Victor when he learns to speak. I am sure he will quickly outstrip his old dad’s rate of progress! He also needs to master English so he too is bilingual and he can translate my desires into intelligible Romanian!

Don’t get me wrong - I speak poor Romanian all the time but I can read it really well. I read my wife’s trashy Romantic magazines, where people describe their miserable lives and where I can hire a real Romanian witch to cure all my ills in 24 hours. It apparently costs about 100 euros per problem followed by a few more thousand to get them to leave you alone again.

The only time my Romania language skills improve is when I left alone with my Romanian grandparents - where you must speak Peasant Romanian or no one can understand you. Saying that, the fact I walk my dog on a lead (or she runs away at the sign of any trouble) confuses Romanians quite enough for now.

Tell me how you find the Romania language. Do you find it as hard as I do or do I just need a better teacher?

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