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Câteva dificultăți ale gramaticii limbii române ca limbă străină
Grammar Difficulties in Teaching Romanian Language as a Foreign Language

Author(s): Adina Irina Forna
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning, Language acquisition, Translation Studies
Published by: Editura Tracus Arte
Keywords: Romanian language as a foreign language; grammar; A1–A2 levels of CEFRL; inflective parts of speech; irregularities;

Summary/Abstract: Studies in Romanian language are getting more and more appealing to students all over the globe. The learning and training opportunities in equally varied, and exciting fields, both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in our country, have led in the recent years to a significant and steady increase of the number of students enrolled in the groups of Preparatory year of the Romanian language for foreign citizens. Therefore, students from the European continent (UK, Greece, North Macedonia) along with students from other parts of the world (Cuba, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Algeria, Jordan, Afghanistan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, Congo, Kenya etc.) showed their interest in the program offered by the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. The present paper intends to tackle, in a non-exhaustive manner, some grammatical notions of Romanian language as foreign language found at A1–A2 levels, from the program’s first semester, and more than that some grammar difficulties encountered during the process of teaching and learning all these. We wish to refer mostly to noun (articulated or not), verb and personal pronoun, insisting on those aspects which are unclear or more complicated owing to the irregular inflectional character identifiable in more inflective lexical-grammatical classes, irregularities that are at times quite difficult to understand by foreigners.

  • Issue Year: XII/2021
  • Issue No: 2 (34)
  • Page Range: 161-167
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian