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You are right. Related romance language (Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and Romanian) speakers can understand most of the words. As a Romanian I understa

• mariuolo 13y ago
  I don't think it goes both ways, though. Romanian is rather obscure to me. Possibly because of slavic influence?
  • gordaco 13y ago
    Written Romanian looks a little intimidating because of the amount of diacritics, but what I've heard sounds surprisingly similar to Italian.
    • mariuolo 13y ago
      Phonemes are similar, but spoken Romanian is complete gibberish to me. Things get better in writing, but there's still no comparison to Spanish. After all there was a longer interaction with the latter: for historical reasons words and verbal constructs in southern dialects can give insights with regard to it or French.
  • liviu 13y ago
    In "The Grammar of Romanian"[1] book, Romanian language contains the following: 20 percent inherited Latin, 11.5 percent Slavic, 3.6 percent Turkish, 2.17 percent Hungarian, 43 percent Romance borrowings (mainly French - 38.4 percent). The lexical similarity of Romanian with Italian has been estimated at 77%, followed by French at 75%, Sardinian 83%, Catalan 73%, Portuguese and Rhaeto-Romance 72%, Spanish 71%. In modern times Romanian vocabulary has been strongly influenced by French, Italian and other languages. More on wikipedia if you are interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language BTW, are you Spanish? [1] http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199644926.do http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199644926.do
    • mariuolo 13y ago
      Very interesting, I'll try to read up more. >BTW, are you Spanish? Nope, Italian.