Problem
How do I learn more words?
Answer
Just keep going. Learning languages is like the old joke about who too you eat an elephant. The answer is one bite at a time.
English
apricot - c a i s a (with accents)
lemon - l a m a i e (cap shape over the first a but hat over the second a)
orange - portocala (bowl shape above the final a)
Pancake or crepe (a French word) - clatita (rhymes with eat her)
peach - piersica (PEACh - PiErsiCA - both have the four letters PEAC, although the Romanians have the last two in a different order)
Now we have learned five words it would be handy to learn to recognize or say pancake with lemon please. So let's learn with and please.
please - t e r o g (or v a rog - equivalent to French T u to a friend or child, v a more formal, think r o g as Request and roger, roger over an out, request to roger is dog, if you please, t e r o g or v a r o g - I inserted spaces because the automatic spell checker suggests dog; g in request also visually resembles reg with a round top and a tail)
Romanian
c a i s a - apricot (with accents)
clatita - crepe or pancake
cu is with (which was in the previous post)
l a m a i e - lemon (both words have the letters L.M and an e)
piersica - peach (both words contain PEA - PEAch and PiErsicA)
portocala - orange
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Angela Lansbury, author and speaker, teacher of English and learner of languages. I have several more posts on Romanian and other languages. Please share my posts.
How do I learn more words?
Answer
Just keep going. Learning languages is like the old joke about who too you eat an elephant. The answer is one bite at a time.
English
apricot - c a i s a (with accents)
lemon - l a m a i e (cap shape over the first a but hat over the second a)
orange - portocala (bowl shape above the final a)
Pancake or crepe (a French word) - clatita (rhymes with eat her)
peach - piersica (PEACh - PiErsiCA - both have the four letters PEAC, although the Romanians have the last two in a different order)
Now we have learned five words it would be handy to learn to recognize or say pancake with lemon please. So let's learn with and please.
please - t e r o g (or v a rog - equivalent to French T u to a friend or child, v a more formal, think r o g as Request and roger, roger over an out, request to roger is dog, if you please, t e r o g or v a r o g - I inserted spaces because the automatic spell checker suggests dog; g in request also visually resembles reg with a round top and a tail)
Romanian
c a i s a - apricot (with accents)
clatita - crepe or pancake
cu is with (which was in the previous post)
l a m a i e - lemon (both words have the letters L.M and an e)
piersica - peach (both words contain PEA - PEAch and PiErsicA)
portocala - orange
www.duolingo.com
www.romaniatourism.com
Angela Lansbury, author and speaker, teacher of English and learner of languages. I have several more posts on Romanian and other languages. Please share my posts.
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