Learn Romanian for your trip
Bucharest, Transylvania and the Black Sea coast, including when to say dumneavoastră.
- 12 modules
- 4 missions
- 581 phrases to search, hear and save
Try it free for 14 days.
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A travel guide with First Steps and an Out and about track, and four missions: an evening on a terrace, taking a train and a bus, buying fruit, vegetables and cheese at a market stall, and getting help at a pharmacy.
Real situations, one at a time.
4 missions, each a situation you will meet on a trip. You practise the key language, then the conversation.
Missions
An evening on a terrace
Get a table on a terrace, order a meal and a drink, ask for the bill, answer Separat sau împreună?
Take a train and a bus
Buy a train ticket, handle a sold-out train and a change of track, and follow directions from the station to the bus stop or the centre.
Buy fruit, vegetables and cheese at a market stall
Buy tomatoes and cheese at a market stall, taste before you buy, name your amounts, answer the seller's questions and pay in cash.
Get help at a pharmacy
Describe a small health problem to a pharmacist, mention an allergy, understand the dose, and ask where the police are about a lost passport.
The Romanian you learn, in order.
It starts with First Steps, the survival language for your first hour, then a travel track for the places you will go.
- 1First StepsBună ziua! Hello, please, thank you, and the polite words that open doors.
- 2Out and aboutTrains, markets, the pharmacy and the terrace: getting around Romania and getting what you need.
- 12
- modules, each in short lessons
- 302
- words and expressions
- 29
- sentence patterns
- 581
- phrases in the phrasebook
Romanian you can use on day one.
These are from the first lessons. In the app each has audio, a note on when to use it, and a way to save it.
Bună dimineața, doamnă!
Good morning, madam!
Mulțumesc mult!
Thank you very much!
Scuzați-mă, vă rog.
Excuse me, please.
Cât costă asta?
How much is this?
Unde este gara?
Where is the station?
Vorbiți engleză?
Do you speak English?
Puteți repeta, vă rog?
Can you repeat that, please?
Nota de plată, vă rog.
The bill, please.
Three things about Romanian for a traveller.
Dumneavoastră
Romanian has a polite "you" (dumneavoastră) for strangers and older people. The guide shows when to use it and how to answer.
A Latin language
Romanian is a Romance language, so Italian, Spanish and French speakers will recognise many words.
Moldavia is a region of Romania
The guide's notes make clear that Moldavia, in Romania's north-east, is a historic region of Romania and is not the Republic of Moldova.
Places the course has notes on.
Each note is a habit of that place, so you know what to expect where you are going.
Bucharest
The capital: the old town, the metro, big boulevards and the Palace of the Parliament
Cluj-Napoca & the north-west
Cluj-Napoca and the north-west of Transylvania: a lively university city. Hungarian is also spoken by a minority
Brașov & the Carpathians
Brașov, Bran and Râșnov, with the Southern Carpathians close by
Sibiu
Sibiu, its medieval centre and the Transylvanian Saxon villages nearby. German-speaking heritage
Maramureș
Baia Mare, Sighetu Marmației and the wooden churches of Maramureș: villages where English is rare
Iași & Moldavia
Iași, the old university city, and Moldavia, the historic region of Romania's north-east (not the Republic of Moldova)
Constanța & the Black Sea coast
Constanța, Mamaia and the Black Sea resorts: busy in summer, quiet outside it
Danube Delta
Tulcea and the Danube Delta: boats, birds and small villages
Elsewhere in Romania
Timișoara, Oradea, Sighișoara, Craiova and everywhere else
The same app plans the trip you are learning Romanian for.
Takes your phrases offline
Download the travel guide on Wi-Fi. The phrasebook, survival and travel packs, local notes and audio then work with no signal.
Plans the trip too
Put places on days, save the TikToks and reels that gave you ideas, see the stops on a map and share the plan.
Keeps your travel map
Colour in the countries you have been to and the ones you want to go to.
About learning Romanian.
Will people speak English?
In Bucharest and tourist places often, in villages and small towns less so. The notes say which places to expect it in, and the phrases cover the rest.
Does it cover Transylvania?
Yes. There are notes for Cluj-Napoca, Brașov, Sibiu and the Maramureș villages, with the Hungarian and German heritage of the region.
Is the course available offline?
Download the guide on Wi-Fi and the phrasebook, packs, notes and audio work with no signal.
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