Romanian audio pronunciation?

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Romanian audio pronunciation?

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Well, I've decided to try and learn Romanian on my own, since the college I'm going to doesn't offer it. My only problem is that many Romanian vowel or consonant sounds are completely different from anything in English. These pronunciations are listed in the book I'm using as "No English equivalent. Please see tape." Except that when I bought the book, there was no tape (Barnes & Noble only carries the tapes for the commonly-learned languages like German, French, Spanish, and Russian). :( And besides, it would be better if I had it on CD, which I could play in any of my players (instead of only one) and also play on the computer, which is right where I do my studying.

So, I was wondering if anybody knew of or could produce some sound clips online that have pronunciations of the different sounds in the language? Or Romanian phrases, even, too - I learn a language better the more I hear it spoken (at least, I pronounce it better), and the only times I've heard it out loud are in music (I listen to O-Zone now), which you can't always trust for pronunciations on things because people sometimes get lyrics wrong, or the singers distort the pronunciations to fit with the music. I mean, I did find a site that had things like "I love you" and "hello", but the quality wasn't very high, and I couldn't download them for later. Most sites I've found so far only list the phrases, or if they do provide audio, it's not on most of the really difficult sounds, it's things like "bună ziua" (Good Day/Good Afternoon). :(

Please help. I know very little of it so far, but I'm already in love with this language (it sounds beautiful, from what I've heard of it) and fascinated with the culture - I just need to be able to wrap my tongue around it (so to speak)!


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Post by pc2 »

salutations,

here's what we have found:

http://www.artpolitic.org/infopedia/ro/ ... guage.html - good site that shows the Romanian pronounciation

http://www.travlang.com/languages - search for "Romanian" in the list of languages, and you will enter in a good page that shows common expressions such as Basic Words and numbers, with their respective translations (to the language of your choice) and pronounciation.

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I also recommend this Full Text Translator English < > Romanian, as I know you're interested in translators, and as this one can be tuned up.
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This capable translator is a powerful tool for fast machine translation of all kinds of text, including Help files, web pages, e-mail letters, etc. The software also offers intelligible grammar analysis and a pronunciation function that make it possible to learn English and/or Romanian in the process.

Even though the translation is automated, you are in command of the final output as you have the option of adjusting how the program understands a given piece of text. Extensive bidirectional dictionaries totaling 400,000 words and phrases employed for translation cover thousands of specialized terms in several categories of knowledge.
Ah, mulţumesc! :D That looks awesome. I'll have to check it out after I check some sleep. That actually sounds like it will make my transator idea pointless... which is a good thing. :D

Thank you very, very much! :P


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