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Romanian words - I have a few words I love to use.

Romanians like to tell you how simple Romanian words are to read, speak and understand. Romanian is a wonderfully phonic language where how it is written is how it sounds... but try to speak Romanian from a phrase book and not a sole person will understand you. I once tried it - the helpful Romanian just looked at me and said I am sorry I don't speak German and walked off.My lack of Romanian vocabulary naturally annoys my wife but for the first 5 years no one ever corrected me so bad words were permanently locked into my brain.

If you are even remarkably close to the right word but not 100% - then they simply will not understand and for a long time I was confused by this when I compared how easy it was to understand all the different English dialects - then the theory struck me.

The British explorers traveled everywhere and so took their language everywhere and so slowly it mutated into all sorts of words with a common heritage, In contrast Romanians stayed at home as they were busy constantly protecting themselves from invasion from all sides... so as a result their language remained pure (the only Romantic language in this part of Europe) and far less flexible than English.

Saying that Romanian words have some beautiful sounds - my favourite is DobbyTock that is not a polite word but just feels great around the mouth.

Here is a challenge for any Romanian reading this - I like to describe classes positively and as each class in my school has a letter such as mine is 4F - which I call 4 - Frumos. My friend's class is 4L and try as we might we can't think of one. Any suggestions welcome!

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