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Romanian Made Nice & Easy (REA) (Languages Made Nice & Easy) | 
 enlarge | Author: The Staff Of Rea Delete
Publisher: Research & Education Association
Category: Book
List Price: $6.95
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 71841
Media: Paperback
Pages: 104
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 0878914013
Dewey Decimal Number: 401
EAN: 9780878914012
ASIN: 0878914013
Publication Date: May 29, 2001
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 Speaking Romanian with an accent November 17, 2007
Roger Crowley (San Diego, CA USA)
OK, they do try to give me a clue to how the words sound when spoken by giving me a pseudo-phonetic hint. But many times, the hint would have me saying the words incorrectly. I know this because my wife is Romanian and I've tried to say a few of the phrases the way the hint implies ... only to be laughed at.
Teaching me to say the words incorrectly doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the book. But I guess it was based on the language courses for the U.S. Foreign Service Personnel. It's just a good thing that many of the Romanians these government employees will face know English.
For example, to say "I'd like to eat," the book tells me to say "ahsh vree-AH sa ma-NUNK." Well, I'd be closer to how the Romanians say it if that last word had been "ma-NINK."
But overall, it's a half-way decent traveler's Romanian. And I can tell them I'm an American ... though, using the pronunciation in this book as a guide, I don't think they'll have any trouble guessing that I am.
 Not really a "Learn Romanian" book August 8, 2007
L. Bleicher (Brazil)
I have bought a small set of books to learn the Romanian language and this seems to be the least useful of them.
It's not a book that will teach you the language - it will only provide you phrases that will be useful if you want to spend some days in Romania and be minimally understood. If you really want to learn the language by yourself, it should be really a better idea to buy some method (I particularly like the one from Assimil, which has an option with audio from the lessons spoken by native Romanians), a Romanian grammar (the one from Christina Hoffman is very helpful) and a good dictionary. This one is just for tourists.
romanian made easy July 5, 2007
Sorin Neagu
well i am not done with it yet but from where i'm at it is really helpful and easy to use as is stated in the name.
 Pragmatic if not scholarly July 5, 2006
Daniela S. Falco (Windsor Locks, CT)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book can give English natives who do not master phonetic transcription of any kind a very useful idea of how to pronounce Romanian by reading and not listening--as close as native English speakers can get it. As long as students of Romanian possess no theoretical basis such as phonetic transcription (either American or European) which can help with reading a foreign language, and want to get a crash course in everyday phrases, this book provides an almost ideal approach to the learning of spoken Romanian--it is "nice and easy", as promised.
To those who want to learn it for more serious purposes, though--such as getting a better grasp of the language, writing correctly, or even taking academic courses in Romanian--I would suggest them to supplement with more serious books, such as the Teach Yourself Romanian Complete Course, for example.
like the title says. "Nice and Easy" December 4, 2005
R. Leonard (Michigan)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
i bought this book because my girlfriend's family is from romania and she speaks the language. i wanted to learn the language so her family would see me trying to fit in and... well, let me fit in. after i got the book, i pulled out my phone and sent a text in romanian. she replied back in romanian. the only problem with the book is it does'nt go very deep. it's pretty short. i'd love it if the same people wrote something bigger in the same format. the pronunciation guides were great. if you're just looking at getting started at learning romanian, or you just want to impress a romanian/american girl (cuz they're so hot) buy the book.
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