"Bărbatul mănâncă păianjeni?"

Translation: Does the man eat spiders?

[slackbeard]

spiders georg eats 10000 spiders a day

[lcates55]

Well, if he's Renfield . . .

[DanaBockho]

That's exactly what I thought

[VincentDav626706]

That's exactly who came to mind . Well this is Romanian course

[romanului]

I think the recording is not very clear or my ear is not quite tuned up. I listened carefully and got paianjen, did not hear any final "i" even though I expected to find it.

[Lng52-._]

Same here. If it were plural, shouldn't the "i' be pronounced?

[ChrisVossen]

It's one 'i' so no, it's not heard. Even though I myself can't hear the difference between with or without either.. It's really hard to distinguish the sound for non-natives apparently.

[ElMeuNom]

It palatalizes the consonant, a very slight difference which is very difficult for native English speakers (or Spanish, French, etc.) to hear.

[hippietrail]

Exactly. Romanians and speakers of Slavic languages such as Russian will describe this in English as making it "soft", which usually perplexes the English speaker they're trying to teach (-:

[ishkar3]

In this frase you can hear it a bit in the "n" before. It sounds like the Spanish ñ.

[MKKhanzo]

Weird diet!

[hippietrail]

He does when he's a guest on Fear Factor or Survivor.

[Andrea555078]

Gross

[ArguingInElvish]

RUUNNNNN!

[Iris-92]

To me the audio sounds like 'paa-jaa-nu-sjè-nie'. Am I the only one hearing this?

[Patrick700856]

I feel concerned for the romanian diet

[Brilli15Bri]

I hope not o_O

[RAINERR2019]

Yum!

[LearningRo2]

Can it lit be normal phrases pls duo

[ivorobioff]

dar el stie ce mănâncă?

[SiobhanOli]

Can someone please help me understand the difference between "does the man eat spiders?" and "the man eats spiders". I'm struggling with this every time it's a question!

[depp503542]

If he is a Chiese