If yes, how’s it going? What do you like about it? What don’t you like? What challenges are you encountering? How are you approaching it?
I ask because my partner and i both decided last year we would start doing a little language learning in our spare time, and it’s been quite nice to have that “back to school” feeling again after so many years.
I saw a video of some Romanians speaking. I think it sounds a bit like a mix of Italian and a Slavic language. Not to the same extent as European Portuguese imo. If I’m not paying attention, a Russian speaker sounds like a Portuguese speaker. I don’t know why.
That’s a pretty accurate description. Italian is definitely the closest relative and this shows itself in some mutual intelligibility (though this is often one-way as Italians have a harder time understanding Romanian than vice versa – i’ve heard it compared to Spanish vs Portuguese speakers), but there are borrowed elements both in vocabulary and grammar from Slavic languages.
If i’m being objective i have to admit Romanian is probably the hardest of the Romance languages. I’m seeing now just how many difficulties a learner can encounter as my partner has been trying to learn it for the past year.