r/romanian

Not sure if this is the right community to post this, but I need some advice on Romanian terms of endearment for children.

For context, I'm drafting a story and there is a father-figure with a Romanian background who I want to show as very warm and loving towards his adoptive children. I've seen many websites or posts use nicknames like puiu and pici, but was hoping for ones more unique. All the terms I've seen are very light and loving, but a couple of this man's children are rambunctious and quite frankly a pain in his ass at first. One in particular was very distrusting of him at first and would lash out, so thought perhaps to compare him to a stray cat or because he has very fair features, something to do with a winter storm? It would give off the same affection as calling a toddler a "little tornado" cause they always leave a room a mess of toys after playing.

If these ideas are too out there for terms of endearment, let me know! I rather stick to words or phrases that are more authentic than try to stretch too far.

Also, one of the characters is names Christopher. Just curious is there is a diminutive for this name? I'm not familiar with the grammar of the language. Would Cristinel, Cristi, or Cristiță work? Is there a difference between the suffixes?

In Dutch we say 'gebroken wit', which literally translates to 'broken white'.

"asistentă Maria, a fost o plăcere să te cunosc"

if you were nurse Maria, would you understand what I'm trying to say?

I'm trying to say "glad to have met you"

if this the wrong sub, please let me know where I can ask this.

thank you so much in advance

So I'm Moldovan but grew up outside of the country and am from Transnistria family heritage wise and I know they use rusismes often and I'm wondering, what are your perspectives on using rusismes as much as those from Transnistria combined with Romanian?

Mersi!

As the title says, I'm a heritage speaker and was never formally taught Romanian. I can speak it pretty well (albeit with mistakes, but my family says it's very understandable), my listening comprehension is solid, and I can figure out what a text says with some concentration, but I have absolutely no knowledge when it comes to grammar and writing. I would appreciate any advice/tips on what I can start doing to improve. Thank you!

UPDATE

At someone's suggestion, I created a WhatsApp group. Anyone interested in future lessons, please join so you don't miss out on updates. Thank you

ORIGINAL POST:

Last week, I made a post asking if people would be interested in attending a free Romanian course if I gave one weekly. I've got a lot of positive feedback, people saying they would be interested in participating, including some DMs. So, I posted links for the meetings in the post.

But tonight, I connected to the call and I was the only one there.

I have to ask: Was there any problem with the link? Did anyone try to connect and couldn't? Or was it simply that no one decided to show up, even though they said they were interested?

As I mentioned in the previous post: I am not doing this for money. I have 6+ years of experience with private lessons, but i lack experience with big groups. So, I offered these beginner classes for free, thinking it would be a win-win for all.

I will still show up for the scheduled courses TODAY (10 pm for Spanish) and TOMORROW (8 pm romanian time). I hope I will see someone there. If not, at least I tried.

If anyone has any advice or feedback, please feel free to comment or DM me. I don't understand if something went wrong or if I did something wrong or one of those "it happens, just move on"

I'm still connected to the call if anyone would like to try to connect and let me know if there's a problem.

Thank you! Have a good evening !

From what I've learned this would be translated to

"I love you (with) much of everything"

I'm assuming this is some kind of romanian saying? It's a bit confusing when taken literally

Hi!
I’m looking for advice about e-readers for reading Romanian books with English translation here and there.

What e-reader do you use? Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, etc. are advised by AI but I don’t really understand how to install a dictionary and use it while reading, iPhone doesn’t have Romanian out of box.

Also, where do you usually buy or download books in Romania? I tried voxa so far but couldn’t find dictionaries options there, just pure text.

Thanks!☺️

Ive been learning Romanian for abour 3 weeks now mostly by using Clozemaster for grammer and translating some sentences hear and there and so far I think its going well!!! I focused on learning the 6 Ws "Who what when where how why" and some other jey words like Have or Are or this/that Im still very beginner as I lack a lot of vocab abd practice but its the most ive ever known and im proud of myself