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Bucharest |
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The Painted Churches of Bucovina and Gura Humorului |
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By train: Veliko Tarnovo to Bucharest, Romania |
By train: Bucharest to Gura Humorului |
By car: Gura Humorului through the Carpathian Mountains to Sighişoara |
By train: Sighişoara to Budapest, Hungary |
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Romanian Food and Drink |
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How's the Plumbing? |
Romanian is a Romanace langauge. That is, it is based on Latin, like French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Anything you know of those languages will be an enormous help in finding your way around in Romania, especially once you know how the spelling specifies pronunciation that you might not have expected.
Vowels
| a | As in cut | |
| ă | As in ago | |
| â | As in French deux | |
| e | As in set | |
| i | As in meet | |
| -i | Almost always silent at the end of a word, as in Bucureşti or Nadia Comăneci | |
| î | As in French deux |
Consonants
| c | As in cat in
ca-,
că-,
câ-,
cî-,
co- and
cu-, as in chat in ce- and ci-. See Nadia Comăneci, pronounced as an English speller would write Komanech. |
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| ch | Like "k" in che- and chi- | |
| g | As in go in
ga-,
gă-,
gâ-,
gî-,
go-,
gu-, and gh-, as in George in ge- and gi-. Compare to c. |
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| j | As in pleasure | |
| ş | As in ship | |
| ţ | As in cats |
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