For me, it's Romanian that sounds strange. Sometimes it sounds like Russian or Czech to me. And other times like Spanish. Depending on the speaker, and my frame

For me, it's Romanian that sounds strange. Sometimes it sounds like Russian or Czech to me. And other times like Spanish. Depending on the speaker, and my frame of mind. I do speak Russian, and a little Czech and Spanish, but not Romanian. It's my vague understanding that Romanian is closer to Latin than other Romance languages. But the accent can sound Slavic, even though the words are almost Latin. Also, Russian does have French and English loan words. And for ones that overlap with Romanian, they sound a lot alike.