"Limbile vechi sunt grele."
Translation:The old languages are hard.
November 30, 2016
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debbocar
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The point is you are not learning English, you are learning Romanian... and in order to do so you need to know how the sentences are constructed. It is important to translate directly to become familar with the format.
@debbocar: It's not important at any stage to learn the direct 1-on-1 translation of Romanian constructions, because the direct translation results into a construction that does not exist or is not used in English. In order to correctly understand when one needs to use the definite article suffix in Romanian, it is more helpful when one can notice a difference between the two languages' versions of a certain utterance