I am in the midst of getting crazy due to the whole mess in my mind. I have been a procrastinater-but-also-multi-tasker for nearly my whole life which makes me never stop thinking, even while sleeping. It's nearly summer here in Japan and the day is getting longer. As the consequence, I am lack of sleep. 4 hours a day is definitely not enough for a heavy sleeper like me. The "hibernating-bear" - effect (that's the name of the always-sleepy-during-winter condition I gave on my first winter) is getting away from my body and mind. Now, I can't really focus on which one to finish first. URGH!!!!
So, as another break out, I am not going to discuss anything scientific today. I did a skype with my good friend (who is also my Romanian teacher). And I think I will just post some introduction about Romanian language.
Romanian (limba română) is a Romance language officially spoken by around 24 million people as a native language, especially in Romania and Moldova; and by another approximately 4 million people as a second language, mostly at the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia and in the autonomous Mount Athos in Greece
The Romanian has obvious grammatical and lexical similarity of Romanian with Italian which has been estimated at 77%, followed by French at 75%, Sardinian 74%, Catalan 73%, Spanish 71%, Portuguese 72%.
However, the languages closest to Romanian are the actually other Eastern Romance languages, spoken south of Danube, which are: Aromanian/Macedo-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian, which are frequently classified as dialects of Romanian. Therefore, an alternative name for referring the Romanian-romanian used by linguists to disambiguate with the other Eastern Romance languages is "Daco-Romanian", referring to the area where it is spoken (which corresponds roughly to the onetime Roman province of Dacia).
Some linguists consider Romanian as the closest living language to Latin due to the structure. However, other studies have disputed these claims, showing that Romanian has had a greater share of foreign influence than some other Romance languages such as Italian in terms of vocabulary and other aspects. During the Middle Ages, Romanian was also became heavily influenced by the Slavic languages and to some degree by Greek.
OK, enough with the short introduction. Let's end this post with some greetings in Romanian ^^
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Bună
Dimineaţa =
Good morning
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Bună
Ziua =
Good day / Good afternoon
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Bună
Seara =
Good evening
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Noapte
Bună =
Good night
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Bine
Ai Vinit =
Welcome
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Ce
faci? =
How are you?
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Sunt
bine =
I am good
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Nu
sunt bine =
I am not good (I am not OK)
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Aşa
şi aşa =
(Just) So so...
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Mulţusmesc =
Thank you
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La
revedere =
Good bye (Until we meet again / See you again)
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Pa,
pa! =
bye, bye!
OK, pa pa!!
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