--- title: Romanian description: Romanian is an Eastern Romance language with unique grammatical features influenced by Slavic languages. This topic covers foundational grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, helping you hold basic conversations, comprehend written texts, and navigate daily life in Romania. category: languages subcategory: romance-languages difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/romanian --- # Romanian Romanian is an Eastern Romance language with unique grammatical features influenced by Slavic languages. This topic covers foundational grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, helping you hold basic conversations, comprehend written texts, and navigate daily life in Romania. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 1 Courses • 4 Websites ## Websites ### 1. SEELRC Romanian Resources Duke University's Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center hosts a scholarly Romanian reference grammar with self-grading exercises, written by academic specialists and downloadable for offline use. Suited to advanced learners and linguists wanting precise morphological description. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://slaviccenters.duke.edu/romanian **Tags:** romanian, reference-grammar, linguistics, language-resources ### 2. Forvo Romanian Crowdsourced pronunciation dictionary where native Romanian speakers record individual words and phrases. Search any word to hear multiple regional recordings, letting you check stress placement and vowel sounds against native speech. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://forvo.com/languages/ro/ **Tags:** romanian, pronunciation, phonetics, vocabulary, audio ### 3. LingQ **Author:** Steve Kaufmann Reading and listening platform where learners import or choose texts with audio, look up unknown words inline and track vocabulary as it moves from new to known. It supports daily comprehensible-input practice and steady vocabulary growth across dozens of languages. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.lingq.com/ **Tags:** comprehensible-input, extensive-reading, vocabulary-acquisition, listening-practice ### 4. learnro.com Learnro.com is an online resource for learning Romanian. It provides structured lessons, grammar explanations, vocabulary building, pronunciation tips, and practice exercises to help beginners and intermediate learners progress. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://learnro.com **Tags:** websites, languages, romance-language ## Courses ### 1. Romanian Learn Romanian with Duolingo! This free course covers the essentials for beginners to build a solid foundation in the language. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.duolingo.com/course/ro/en/Learn-Romanian **Tags:** romanian, language-learning, vocabulary, grammar ## Youtubes ### 1. Learn Romanian with Nico Learn Romanian with Nico! Fun, easy-to-follow YouTube lessons will help you master Romanian grammar and vocabulary. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://youtube.com/@learnromanianwithnico **Tags:** romanian, grammar, pronunciation, video-lessons ## Podcasts ### 1. Learn Romanian **Author:** RomanianPod101.com RomanianPod101.com is an innovative and fun way of learning the Romanian language and culture at your own convenience and pace. Our language training system consists of free daily podcast audio lessons, video lessons, Romanian Word of the Day, a premium learning center, and vibrant user community. Stop by RomanianPod101.com today for a Premium 7-Day Free Trial and Lifetime Account! **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.romanianpod101.com **Tags:** romanian, listening, audio-lessons, vocabulary ### 2. Romanian Language Podcast **Author:** Florin Dimulescu The Romanian Language Podcast is a podcast for learning Romanian. If you have reached an intermediate or intermediate-advanced level, this podcast will help you improve your Romanian language comprehension, develop your vocabulary and extend your grammar knowledge in context, in a natural way, by listening to stories and commentaries on various topics. The transcripts for each episode are available on www.easy-readers.ro. Support this podcast: https://paypal.me/florinfin --- Podcastul de limba română este un podcast care te ajută să înveți limba română. Dacă ai ajuns la un nivel intermediar sau intermediar-avansat, acest podcast te va ajuta... **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** ro | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://castbox.fm/ch/4660481 **Tags:** romanian, listening, comprehensible-input, transcripts, vocabulary ## Books ### 1. Colloquial Romanian **Author:** Ramona Gönczöl-Davies, Dennis Deletant Routledge course book taking absolute beginners through Romanian pronunciation, noun and verb systems, and everyday conversation across graded dialogues with audio. Working through it leaves you able to handle basic spoken and written exchanges. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415237831?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, languages, romance-language ### 2. Romanian: An Essential Grammar **Author:** Ramona Gönczöl Reference grammar covering Romanian noun declension, verb conjugation, articles, pronouns and syntax, with contemporary usage examples throughout. Use it to resolve specific grammar questions or to work systematically from beginner through intermediate structures. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415338255?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, languages, romance-language --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/romanian