The Romanian Language, an introduction

[@comradejimmy3411]

Te urmăresc de 3 ani și vreau să îți mulțumesc și să te felicit pentru tot ceea ce faci, cu atât mai mult cu cât astazi este ziua națională a României. Mult succes in continuare! 🇷🇴🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@BenLlywelyn]

Mulțumesc rămas cu mine.

[@cris_ad]

Thanks for taking an interest in my language. As you said, not everything is 100% accurate, but I appreciate someone finding my language and culture interesting enough to make videos about it. (Edit: I think that something which may help if you're interested, in learning where to put the accent in the words.)

[@BenLlywelyn]

Welcome. Yes, i think even 1 week in Romania would help me get this accent and make a follow up.

[@donbosco4746]

Thank you Ben for your work to the beautiful Romanian language! Because of this language it’s very easy for us Romanians to speak and learn some languages very easily!

[@kakalushkklush102]

You have a nice spirit and way to talk. It's pleasant to watch your vids, thank you so much being close to romanian people.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Kind of you. Thank you

[@Spanac737]

In 1 December is Romania's day ;)

[@BenLlywelyn]

Indeed.

[@catalinmarius3985]

@@BenLlywelyn Union of Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia with Romania! (Transylvania and Bessarabia opted for conditional unions originally) The 1918-1920 period would worth a video in its own right!

[@Claudiu_Dumitru]

You did well, Ben! I wonder how I would sound like, trying to speak welsh, that would be a show (a bad one, I'd say). Thank you for the video, the first of December is our National Day, I take your video as a gift. Have a great success, whatever you do!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Happy birthday to Romania.

[@MihailȘerban-g9y]

​@@BenLlywelyn❤

[@varzaverde9162]

La Mulți Ani să trăiți! Mulțumim, Domnule profesor!

[@RickJuniorO]

Ive always loved your videos, especially the one where you delved into the myths surrounding the origin of the romanian language, and still that video has affected my main theory as to the origin, and furthermore I did not expect even more attention to the country, and for this I thank you not just from a patriotic bias, but a knowledge bias, for I believe romania and the language itself is rich in subjects such as I described in the beginning, and so few know this or take advantage of this, and so I must thank you again, for this. (I apologize for my awful grammar)

[@mpsoxygen]

Also a good map is spelled: O hartă bună. And the possessive is: Unei hărți bune. Map is feminine, so you say unei instead of unui.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you.

[@mpsoxygen]

@BenLlywelyn Thank you for the really great videos on Romanian history!

[@krim7]

New upload, exciting!

[@borntobewise87]

MULȚUMESC! / ("I...") THANK YOU ! ("...a lot" litterally as shown by the latin root "mult-" like in words such as multiple or Multiverse lol but now it means only "thanks" when you say MULȚUMESC (m-"wool"-ts'u-m-"esque") Oh and you can also use "MERSI" that comes from the french "merci" as well as a huge lot of other french loanwords, including some french words like "match" that is itself a loanword from English ! (and that we pronounce "MECI" (met-she) and use for sports meetings but I feel I digress ^^)

[@ProjectMirai64]

Draga mea limba

[@Raworkshops]

just wow man thanks!

[@mpsoxygen]

You switched â & ă in the 3 a's example at the beginning of the video. Also the ț you used in the introduction of ț is the turkish cedilla which isn't correct for Romanian as we never link the , to the letter. Really great job on the video! How did you discover Romania?

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you. How did I discover Romania? I had picked French, and looking at Romanian I could read it, which shocked me.

[@borntobewise87]

​​ So true! Bucharest used to be called the "little Paris of the East" and some famous french writers like Emil Cioran and Tristan Tzara were born in Romania (I didn't include myself cuz you know modesty blah blah X)

[@nubarkemwer6399]

great story! next you should try... ce, ci, che, chi, ge, gi, ghe, ghi.

[@borntobewise87]

@@nubarkemwer6399Not a big deal it's exactly like Italian these are pretty straightforward if you know to pronounce "anGelo", "spaGHetti", "CappuCino", "pinoCCHio" etc.

[@nubarkemwer6399]

​@@borntobewise87coaie, nu imi spune tu mie cum sa pronunt in limba materna!!!

[@Info-God]

Felicitari

[@stefanodadamo6809]

To us Italians it's largely incomprehensible - even to those who studied Latin... They, in return, find understanding and learning Italian quite easy.

[@Swedishpolymath]

I loved to learn Romanian one day.

[@BenLlywelyn]

It is accessible.

[@Swedishpolymath]

@@BenLlywelyn Well. I have studied Spanish, French, Italian and Finnish in addition to my native Swedish and German so I feel like I have the experience to tackle it. Although, my German is quite iffy due to having so much work and other "unpleasant stuff" to deal with. I'm a young diplomat in my mid 30's currently trying to get the Ukraine situation solved. I'm flying back home to Stockholm on the 4th and will attend the Djurgården HJK match on the 5th. On the 6th it's Finnish independence day celebrations so I hope a lot of things will be done next week so I can get back to sorting out my life.

[@vladandreiciubotariu3794]

Theren are a few mistakes but I will refer just for a couple of them: taxies = taxiuri, map = hartă. Harță has a very different meaning : ceartă = fight. I appreciate very much what are you doing on this channel.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Multimesc mare.

[@nubarkemwer6399]

​@@BenLlywelynit is in fact 'mulțumesc mult'

[@francoisegregyi233]

Ben, do a video on the Hungarian language, please.

[@BenLlywelyn]

I hope to. Not an easy language.

[@nubarkemwer6399]

As a romanian, I highly appreciate your effort. Still, there is an error in the video... un taxi - a taxi, mai multe taxiuri - several taxis; you've lost an 'i'. At arround half of the words pronuounced in romanian, the accent stays on another letter than the one you picked, so the pronuntiation is slightly different. Overall, you are very good in romanian, I bow before you.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Thank you. Maybe with practice I can make a follow up.

[@johnkilrainblackstone6986]

Pretty impressive considering that Romanian has to be a darn hard language to learn for an English speaking person.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Whew, yes!

[@Mashu_64]

👏

[@BenLlywelyn]

😀

[@lilianalevren766]

🕊 Well … when you say VORBITI, FACI etc … the last letter I is usualy pronounced much softer than the I in the middle of a word. You barely hear it, to be correct. Your pronuntiation correspond more to: VORBITII and FACII. 🍀

[@BenLlywelyn]

Yes. I made some mistakes. OOPS.

[@nubarkemwer6399]

​@@BenLlywelynyou just have to have some conversation with a native speaker, you'll get it quite fast, you seem to be a natural talent. Just push it a bit.

[@ALEIJADINHOPATRIOTA]

I think that Romanian sounds like a hard mechanical Latin, despite of it is a romanic language, I can't feel any feelings in this language. It is a very cool language, sounds a little bit "arcaic". But it is also a very authentic language.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Romanian gets the sexy Latin without the fluffy nonsense. It's Romance that has not lost its masculine warrior spirit. With vodka and eastern european women. I like it.

[@ALEIJADINHOPATRIOTA]

@@BenLlywelyn I would say that your opinion is very realistic too... ...a sexy version of Latin but with vodka and not with wine! LOL

[@borntobewise87]

Believe me if you've heard some good Romanian singer or poesy you would definitely feel it. Benjamin tried his best to sound natural but a fluent speaker uses much more inflections and emphasis on some syllabs to a point where it's kinda like Italian. When it's written you don't hear the music of the sentence anymore...

[@jansoltes971]

5:35 That's a goose/gâscă, not a duck/raţă. 😉

[@BenLlywelyn]

It would be tasty whichever way. 😋

[@jansoltes971]

@BenLlywelyn Those times are over for me. 🥬 But poftă bună to you! 🍗

[@Retrogamer71]

ă and the end I think is a bit more like a short "-oh" Ziua Marii Uniri Fericit Ce faci. The 'i' is more breath and not pronounced. Same for I after ț

[@InAeternumRomaMater]

We dont know if _Limba Română_ has any Thraco-Dacian influence or words. Simply because those languages are extinct and hasn’t left anything behind, so we cannot make the claim that brânză, mânz etc comes from Dacian, but are most likely either from Latin or has developed itself only in Romanian, so they are Romanian words.

[@BenLlywelyn]

It is almost impossible for Romanian to have emerged in this area without taking up Dacian words. But difficult to say as we don't know exactly what Dacian was as a language.

[@EduardMicu]

​@@BenLlywelyn We are talking about words that won't appear in any other language, so it must be from the natives. We have some similarities with other languages, Proto-Indo-European roots.

[@EduardMicu]

They haven't left anything in writing but since no other neighbor uses similar words, it's very likely to be something from the natives.

[@silviu_antone]

Manz is not from dacian, it is latin. You have manzo in italian. :) . Manzo in italian means calf, almost the same as in Romanian (we are using it for horse calf), but when you say manzat (you can translate it as beef) in Romanian you are clearly refering to cows.

[@InAeternumRomaMater]

@@BenLlywelyn Not necessarily. The Thraco-Dacian language wained by time, to say that it had a significant impact on the Latin language of the majority of the Balkan population that it would remain even 1,700 years later is an overstatement. I agree that there’s a possibility of some influence to have come in the Romanian language, yet you can’t call it significant nor something that would actually play a major role in the language enough to say “yEaH, dAcIaNs aRe oUr aNcEsToRs” - [talking here specifically about the Dacopaths not you]. But neither enough to say that Dacian is something that can be pointed out as a reason to the difference between West and East Romance languages.

[@adrianpetrea8052]

B-day

[@BenLlywelyn]

Good to see you.

[@gestandrojdier]

My man can not pronounce “pâine” to save his life 😭😭

[@BenLlywelyn]

So true.

[@JB-wh9ux]

A lot of mistakes in this video. Vorbiți/Chemați: vorbits/kemats. The -i isn’t an extra syllable. (A lot of mistakes with pronunciation actually). The article isn’t always included in the noun. Cele două cărți: The two books Cea mai mare carte: The biggest book The middle vowel -î/-â is closer to an English -ee but the tongue is in the middle of the mouth. Hartă (Not hărță) There are separate pronouns for reflexive (se and își).

[@BenLlywelyn]

I did say.

[@lilianalevren766]

An fost la piata in Estonia. Ei numesc branza telemea, feta: BRINZA. Si eu credeam ca vine din limba dacilor dar … nu pricep legatura cu Estonia.

[@mihaiilie8808]

Thank you! A few mistakes but innocent (not like Juminea😂). Romanian is the most ancient thracian language, the ancestor of latin and the ancestor of all indoeuropean languages. There will be some moron hungarians that will argue about that because they envy romanian history and coulture( they envy all indoeuropeans actually).

[@BenLlywelyn]

Yes, I may look back at this one day after being able to speak Romanian and shriek in horror! As for Hungarians, be nice, you can be friends.

[@francoisegregyi233]

Exactly! There's a lot of racism between Rumanians and Hungarian Transylvanians.

[@cris_ad]

lol good to know that even though I left Romania in 96 and live halfway across the globe, there is still Romanian/Hungarian drama. The Hungarians have their own history and don't need ours, I promise. Focus on how beautiful OUR history and culture is.

[@gestandrojdier]

Omule, esti dus cu pluta, si nu sunt ungur