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Romanian Grammar (Hippocrene Language Studies)

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This book is chocked full of information. This book is not intended to be a phrase book and it's entire emphasis is the unique sentence structure that the Romanian language requires.

I recently had one of the books I authored translated into Romanian by the Sibiu Monetary Financial Commodities Exchange. This was a book that one of the translators recommend to me and I was not disappointed.

I am using this booklet to help me study Romanian.
Grammar is explained but, as a book for learning, it lacks a lot of text. I blame that on the publisher as well as another point of criticism: Romania had another spelling reform. Time to revise, Hippocrene!!
For all the work done on this special language a 'well done' to Christina.

As far as I know, this book is not copyrighted, with the exception of the front cover. It was written by an employee of the State Department, Foreign Service Institute as part of her job function, making it public domain material. She did not give permission for Hippocrene to publish the book, they published it because it was in the public domain. There's no reason that the contents shouldn't be made available for the public to see.

I have bought a small number of books to learn Romanian recently. Some are really useful, others won't help much.

My conclusion is: buy a good full course book (the one from Assimil is great, and has an option with audio from the lessons spoken by native Romanians), this grammar, a good dictionary, and you will have everything needed to start learning Romanian by yourself.

The book is an excellet supplement for any course in learning Romanian. It has been and will continue to be an excellent recource in learning the language. It is perfect for beginners and for those who want a better grasp of the grammar of this beautiful language!

Grammar teachers were never known for their ability to communicate intelligently. So I wasn't expecting much. But actually this book is very useful for an intermediate Romanian language student such as myelf. I recommend it ...not that you have a lot of other choices in the US marketplace. -Christian

This book is very good accompanied with a more basic Romanian Learning book like: Teach Yourself Romanian Complete Course Audiopackage. It's definetly not a stand-alone learning tool.
It has some very useful hints/tips for helping you learn, but overall it's more of a reference guide where you can easily look up verb conjugations and other grammar structures.

This book just has very little stuff. On one hand it is a grammar for beginners, on the other, many words are not translated. One must read it with a dictionary. But then why bother?

Another silly language/grammar book... Who can make good use of it? Who wrote that?