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Monday, May 29, 2017

Romanian words for food or cutlery

Problem
How to remember Romanian words for food and cutlery?

Answer
Look for similarities.

Tips
The comma or cedilla under a t turns it into a ts sound as in cats, lots, knots, pots, tots, what's.
The comma under the s turns the sound into SH.

Romanian - English
banana - banana
c u t i t - knife
furculiţă - fork
l i n g u r a - spoon
lingurita - teaspoon
servetel - serviette or napkin

English - Romanian
banana - banana
fork - furculiţă
knife - c u t i t
Napkin/serviette - servetel
spoon - lingura
teaspoon - lingurita (think of a little spoon, adding i t a, like señorita like a little señora )

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. author and speaker, teacher of English and learner and teacher of other languages. 

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