CHALENGES OF LEARNING ROMANIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
CHALENGES OF LEARNING ROMANIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the main difficulties encountered by foreign students when learning Romanian, focusing on the peculiarities of the enclitic definite article, the structure of the verb groups and suffixal verbs, as well as verbs whose root changes during conjugation. In addition, other significant obstacles are addressed, such as vowel and consonant alternations, the irregular plural of nouns, the formation of numerals, and the challenge of determining the aspectual values of verbs. To assess the impact of these difficulties on the process of learning Romanian, the paper includes a case study conducted with a group of foreign students, analysing the teaching strategies employed, the frequency of errors, and the methods by which these can be effectively corrected. The findings highlight the need for a differentiated pedagogical approach, tailored both to the learners’ linguistic profile and to the specific features of the Romanian language, and propose innovative didactic solutions to facilitate the learning process.

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