Colloquial Romanian

The Complete Course for Beginners

Ramona Gönczöl-Davies, Dennis Deletant, Ramona Gönczöl

• Editore: Routledge
• Anno: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317304982
• Edizione: 4
• Argomento: Languages & Linguistics
• Categoria: Languages

This fourth edition of Colloquial Romanian has been completely updated to make learning Romanian easier and more enjoyable than ever before.

Written by experienced teachers of Romanian, this course offers a step-by-step approach to spoken and written Romanian. No previous knowledge of the language is required.

What makes this new edition of Colloquial Romanian you best choice in language learning?

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• lively dialogues reflecting life in contemporary Romania

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• a range of stimulating exercises with full answer key

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• clear grammar notes and summary

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• extensive English-Romanian and Romanian-English glossaries.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

Unit One

Bună ziua

Good day

In this unit you will learn about:

• Greetings and introductions
• A fi (to be) and other useful verbs
• Numbers up to a hundred
• Positive and negative forms

Useful words and phrases

aici	here
ce?	what?
chiar	even
da	yes
dar	but
de	of, from
de la	from
din	from
din păcate	unfortunately
magazin	shop
în	in
într-adevăr	indeed
în general	generally
la	to, at
nu	no
numai	only
pe curând	(see you) soon
şi	and
întotdeauna	always
petrecere	party

Dialogue 1

La hotel At the hotel (Audio 1:3)

Mike Foster, a businessman from Scotland, has recently arrived in Bucharest and is looking for a place to sit down in his hotel lobby. He sees an empty seat next to a young woman.

MIKE	Bună dimineaţa, domnişoară. E liber aici, vă rog?
DOMNIŞOARĂ	Da, poftiţi. Luaţi loc!
MIKE	Mulţumesc. Staţi în hotel?
DOMNIŞOARĂ	Da, stau chiar aici.
MIKE	Sunteţi din România?
DOMNIŞOARĂ	Da, sunt româncă. Sunt din Timişoara. Dar dumneavoastră?
MIKE	Eu sunt din Marea Britanie, din Edinburgh. Sunt scoţian. Şi cât timp staţi în Bucureşti?
DOMNIŞOARĂ	Stau numai patru zile. Dar dumneavoastră?
MIKE	Eu stau trei luni. Sunt om de afaceri. Mă numesc Mike Foster. Şi dvs?
DOMNIŞOARĂ	Eu sunt Rodica Mihai, sunt ziaristă la ziarul ‘Azi’.
MIKE	Şi es...