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Picasso

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Jun 26, 2006, 11:03:04 PM6/26/06
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Scuzati-ma. Vorbiti englezeste?

I hope so because except for a few phrases... nu vorbesc româneste!
;o)

Are there any good learning tools out there for learning basic
Romanian? One I was looking at from amazon.com was Colloquial Romanian
- The Complete Course for Beginners, which includes an instruction book
with two CDs. The comments from people that bought it seemed quite
positive.

Any suggestions?

p.s. I am hoping to learn basic (not survival) Romanian as a 3rd
language.

Multumesc!

p

p.p.s. I hate not being able to use the proper accents!!!

IdacOOOOOianul

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Jun 26, 2006, 11:14:21 PM6/26/06
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Picasso wrote:
> Scuzati-ma. Vorbiti englezeste?

Io da, dar nu prea mult. Let me tell you what I learn: fuck you, suck
my dick, kiss my ass, you are an idiot, go fuck yourself, you bastard!

Valh

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Jun 27, 2006, 10:28:18 AM6/27/06
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You are asking the wrong crowd. Here you can find only immigrated smart
arses with inferiority complexes (me and you excepted, of course).

In general, a native language speaker would not know what method to use to
learn that particular language. Try asking a student or professor teaching
less known foreign languages - any - what would they recommend for that
language and search the course book in that series for Romanian.

HTH

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pro...@hotmail.com

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Jun 27, 2006, 8:15:14 PM6/27/06
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Sir,

Picasso inquired:

> Scuzati-ma. Vorbiti englezeste?

Yes, we do. We're actually even multilingual here, indeed.

> I hope so because except for a few phrases... nu vorbesc româneste!
> ;o)

You're actually doing pretty well for a starter so please keep up the
good work and thank you very much indeed for your interest in our
mother tongue.

> Are there any good learning tools out there for learning basic
> Romanian? One I was looking at from amazon.com was Colloquial Romanian
> - The Complete Course for Beginners, which includes an instruction book
> with two CDs. The comments from people that bought it seemed quite
> positive.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> p.s. I am hoping to learn basic (not survival) Romanian as a 3rd
> language.
>
> Multumesc!
>
> p
>
> p.p.s. I hate not being able to use the proper accents!!!

My local public library in Oakville, ON actually has on its shelves, in
a few branches scatterred across town, what you're looking for. Does
yours have as well (in your area served by Rogers Cable)? If not, else
if you're not very far and you don't have a better choice, I myself can
give it a try at helping you unless you're specifically looking for
just self-teaching such tools, exclussively.

Cheers and good luck,

Eduard Antoniu

Oakville, ON

P.S. The userid that you chose is not the most inspired one, as the
song it is taken from is not the most representative for the great
Romanian culture. We obviously do respect individual choices here too.

Picasso

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Jun 29, 2006, 8:58:56 PM6/29/06
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pro...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Sir,

Salut. Numele meu este Rob!

>
> You're actually doing pretty well for a starter so please keep up the
> good work and thank you very much indeed for your interest in our
> mother tongue.

Thank you. I haven't actually started any kind of formal training yet
but I have researched a few language resources. I would like to learn
several of the Romance languages. My second language is French. Would
that help with trying to learn the Romanian language?

> > Are there any good learning tools out there for learning basic
> > Romanian? One I was looking at from amazon.com was Colloquial Romanian
> > - The Complete Course for Beginners, which includes an instruction book
> > with two CDs. The comments from people that bought it seemed quite
> > positive.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
>

> My local public library in Oakville, ON actually has on its shelves, in
> a few branches scatterred across town, what you're looking for. Does
> yours have as well (in your area served by Rogers Cable)? If not, else
> if you're not very far and you don't have a better choice, I myself can
> give it a try at helping you unless you're specifically looking for
> just self-teaching such tools, exclussively.

For the moment I am looking at self-learning tools. The one I mentioned
comes with two CDs. Apparently, the dialogues on these CDs are helpful,
based on reviews that I've seen on amazon.com. The CDs allow the
student to actually listen to native Romanian speakers. Thank you very
much for your kind offer however!

Yes, my area is served by Rogers Cable. I'm a subscriber in Ottawa.

>
> P.S. The userid that you chose is not the most inspired one, as the
> song it is taken from is not the most representative for the great
> Romanian culture. We obviously do respect individual choices here too.

Initially I was puzzled by your statement about the Picasso user name.
My friend, his wife and daughter were visiting with us a few months
back and the daughter helped me come up with some user and email
account names, since mine tend to be drab and boring, so I'm told.
Picasso seemed ok to me. I did a google search this morning on "Picasso
Romanian Music" and it produced results such as "Numa Numa Dance" and
"Dragostea din tei" which eventually lead me to a group called O-zone.
I'm sure this must be what you were referring to and if so then I now
understand completely.

Pa!

p (Rob)

pro...@hotmail.com

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Jun 29, 2006, 9:34:54 PM6/29/06
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Picasso wrote:

> Salut. Numele meu este Rob!

Buna seara! Ma numesc Edi. (Good evening, my name is Eddie)

> I would like to learn
> several of the Romance languages. My second language is French. Would
> that help with trying to learn the Romanian language?

Bien sur. Traditionellement nous avons ete un pays francophone dans les
derniers siecles, mais, avec la globalisation, la jeunesse roumaine est
maintenant poliglote et l'anglais est plus repandue parmi eux, je croix
:)

Le Francais vous aide beaucoup parce qu'on reste dans la meme famille.
Je croyais que l'italien etait plus proche mais a ma surprise le
linguistes dissent que le portugues est le plus proche: 72%
compatibilite. Peut'etre il s'agit ici de leur propre modele de
migration, qui a peut-etre compris meme l'Orient Proche est les Balcans
ou la langue roumaine s'est nee aussi.

Votre meilleur partenaire de dialogue linguistique sur cet group est le
monsieur qui change toujours son nom mais l'initiales sont' d'habitude
G. S. Evitez, s'il vous plait, a parler a des anonymes ici, et
especialement a l'individu le plus dangereux du cet groupe, un fou
gitan qui denigre son origine roumaine, se pretend d'origine helenique
e de metier architecte, il pretend qu'il e familiste mais il passe tout
son temps ici en insulter le gens qui veulent discuter. C'est a cause
de cet fou que cet groupe est un caricature envahie par des anonymes.
On travaille avec la police et avec un psychiatre pour capturer le fou.

Je veux pas revenir sur cet groupe jusqu'a la disparition de cet fou et
des anonymes.

Son nom usager est gogu e je suis honteux de vous traduire qu'est que
ca veut dire en language colloquial.

Ceau (Ciao!)

Edi, MSc/MEng

P.S. Je suis surpris que vous avez Rogers commefurinsseur de service a
Ottawa. J'ai travaille pour Rogers en Toronto et je demeure en un zone
COGECO, comme Ottawa.

iorgu

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Jun 29, 2006, 10:14:53 PM6/29/06
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pro...@hotmail.com wrote:


> Buna seara! Ma numesc Edi. (Good evening, my name is Eddie)

incantat da cunoshtintza. iorgu. (je m'apelle iorgou !)


>
> Je veux pas revenir sur cet groupe jusqu'a la disparition de cet fou et
> des anonymes.

lasatzi. in frantzuza putetzi reveni orcand. face frumos pentru grup.
ca nu dijaba ne'a'nscris tata nelu ylici la francofoneala.

> Son nom usager est gogu e je suis honteux de vous traduire qu'est que
> ca veut dire en language colloquial.

hahaha ! da daca gogul panimaiet pa frantzujki, n'ai belit cieaprazu,
aaaaaa ?!

> Ceau (Ciao!)
>
> Edi, MSc/MEng
>
kalimera.

iorgu, phd agr / strawberry picker

Picasso

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Jun 29, 2006, 10:41:47 PM6/29/06
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pro...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Buna seara! Ma numesc Edi. (Good evening, my name is Eddie)

Bonne soiree et ... buna seara!

> > I would like to learn
> > several of the Romance languages. My second language is French. Would
> > that help with trying to learn the Romanian language?
>

> Le Francais vous aide beaucoup parce qu'on reste dans la meme famille.
> Je croyais que l'italien etait plus proche mais a ma surprise le
> linguistes dissent que le portugues est le plus proche: 72%
> compatibilite.

Vraiment? C'est bizzare ça! Je sais que la langue roumaine est dans la
même famille mais j'avais l'impression que, comme vous, l'italien
était la plus proche.

> Votre meilleur partenaire de dialogue linguistique sur cet group est le
> monsieur qui change toujours son nom mais l'initiales sont' d'habitude
> G. S. Evitez, s'il vous plait, a parler a des anonymes ici, et
> especialement a l'individu le plus dangereux du cet groupe, un fou
> gitan qui denigre son origine roumaine, se pretend d'origine helenique
> e de metier architecte, il pretend qu'il e familiste mais il passe tout
> son temps ici en insulter le gens qui veulent discuter. C'est a cause
> de cet fou que cet groupe est un caricature envahie par des anonymes.
> On travaille avec la police et avec un psychiatre pour capturer le fou.
>

Je suis familier avec le mauvais côté de usenet. ;o)
Malheureusement, la plupart des groupes ont leurs propres problèmes.

> Son nom usager est gogu e je suis honteux de vous traduire qu'est que
> ca veut dire en language colloquial.

Merci pour l'avertissement.

> Ceau (Ciao!)
>
> Edi, MSc/MEng
>
> P.S. Je suis surpris que vous avez Rogers commefurinsseur de service a
> Ottawa. J'ai travaille pour Rogers en Toronto et je demeure en un zone
> COGECO, comme Ottawa.

La compagnie Rogers est le seul fournisseur dans cette région, autant
que je sache. Elle a été ici depuis les années 70.

Au revoir et noapte buna!

p

IdacOOOOOianul

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Jun 30, 2006, 1:49:36 AM6/30/06
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Baaaa, da' ce bine stai tu cu limbile!!!
Cum sa fac sa-mi dai si mie una, aaa?

MarianMa...@hotmail.com

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Jun 30, 2006, 4:18:58 AM6/30/06
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Progeo cum sa intelegem articolul tau ?
Fara a citii incodarile din link

Asa
http://www.vedahallowes.co.uk/pics/menage.jpg
sau asa
http://www.beyondhollywood.com/moviepics/trois3_10.jpg

tu fiind care ?

Explica care este diferenta in incodarile voastre intre Gogu si gogu !

Cin in text virgula inseamna a termina un subiect asta tot in
incodarile voastre ?

http://groups.google.com/group/NewNurenbergTrials/msg/2025fd2bd3595da7?hl=en&

Merci
Daca mai incercatii asta inca o data sintetii inca zece anii pe bara .
Modul asta in care ati terminat lumea sa terminat iar cea ce credetii
ca
ati invatat sa imitatii uitatii repede ca va asteapta inchisorile cel
putin .


GAIA

gogu

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Jun 30, 2006, 8:48:46 AM6/30/06
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Hahaha:-)))
Imi place cum iti arati furia nebunule;-)
Cit pt minciunile/calomniile pe care le ai zis, intra si ele in tot
tachimul...
Wait and see...

--

E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure
in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi
puttane! F.d.A

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http://gogu.enosi.org/index.html

gogu

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Jun 30, 2006, 8:51:28 AM6/30/06
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? "Picasso" <sunt_eu...@hotmail.com> ?????? ??? ??????
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pro...@hotmail.com wrote:
>

>> Votre meilleur partenaire de dialogue linguistique sur cet group est le
>> monsieur qui change toujours son nom mais l'initiales sont' d'habitude
>> G. S. Evitez, s'il vous plait, a parler a des anonymes ici, et
>> especialement a l'individu le plus dangereux du cet groupe, un fou
>> gitan qui denigre son origine roumaine, se pretend d'origine helenique
>> e de metier architecte, il pretend qu'il e familiste mais il passe tout
>> son temps ici en insulter le gens qui veulent discuter. C'est a cause
>> de cet fou que cet groupe est un caricature envahie par des anonymes.
>> On travaille avec la police et avec un psychiatre pour capturer le fou.


>Je suis familier avec le mauvais côté de usenet. ;o)
>Malheureusement, la plupart des groupes ont leurs propres problèmes.

>> Son nom usager est gogu e je suis honteux de vous traduire qu'est que
>> ca veut dire en language colloquial.

>Merci pour l'avertissement.


If you believe what an idiot like Edi is saying, well ....
Mad people like this Edi are using every chance to attack those who they
disagree
with, even by lying or calumniating...
Unfortunately there will always be some naive person to listen to them...
Oh well, this is Usenet!

Daniel Dubowy

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Jun 30, 2006, 10:10:54 PM6/30/06
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Pe data de 29 Jun 2006 19:41:47 -0700
"Picasso" <sunt_eu...@hotmail.com> scris-a:


> >
> > Le Francais vous aide beaucoup parce qu'on reste dans la meme famille.
> > Je croyais que l'italien etait plus proche mais a ma surprise le
> > linguistes dissent que le portugues est le plus proche: 72%
> > compatibilite.
>
> Vraiment? C'est bizzare ça! Je sais que la langue roumaine est dans la
> même famille mais j'avais l'impression que, comme vous, l'italien
> était la plus proche.


Mais oui, mais oui..... ia uita-te pe harta.


--
Daniel Dubowy <ddu...@beethoven.com>

pro...@hotmail.com

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Jun 30, 2006, 11:07:44 PM6/30/06
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Re-lis le contexte, cul sage!

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