Dr. Massey's Free Language Program - Romanian
Below are the five phases of my free program for Romanian, downloadable as a
single PDF file. I offer these in the hopes that they can help others. I'm proud
to say that one reviewer of the same program for Arabic called this the "best
free" basic language program on the internet.

My Ph.D. was in Semitic studies, and my undergraduate was in Latin and
Greek. After 911, I worked for four years as an Arabic linguist at the National
Security Agency, before becoming a Latin teacher.

I had already developed my five phase program for other languages when I
met my wife, a Romanian-American. We summer in Romania every year and
these materials were a great help to get me started at a basic conversational
level.

Each phase of the method includes phrases and important vocabulary of
increasing difficulty. MP3 files with a native speaker pronouncing the
Romanian are also included below.

The words and phrases are presented with English followed by Romanian in
italics:

Please                                Thank you
Vă rog                                Mulţumesc

You're welcome                Excuse me
cu plăcere                        Scuzaţi-mă

Do you speak English?
Vorbiţi englezeşte?

I don't speak Romanian very well.
Eu nu vorbesc limba română foarte bine.
For further study, I recommend the following materials:
My novel A Place of Brightness follows a Romanian-
American family from the time of Communist Romania
down to present-day points across the globe.  Amidst a
gathering storm of dangers and intrigue, they face the
pains of their deep losses and celebrate the survival of
love.
Stefan and Andrew Valquist had a strange childhood.
Their mother, who claimed to have fought as an
anti-Communist insurgent back in Romania, taught
them everything she knew before her death.

Now grown up and working as an Orthodox priest and
a soldier, the brothers' world is shaken when they
receive a message from an uncle they believed had
been killed decades earlier.

A trip back to their mother's homeland thrusts them
into danger when they narrowly avoid death at the
hands of mysterious assassins. Now they race against
time to stop an imminent attack on their ancestral
home.
The book is available in paperback, Kindle, and Nook.
If you don't have a Kindle, you can still read the book
on your computer or other portable electronic device.
Just download the free software under "Kindle
Reading Apps" on the left side of the Kindle Store.
My book, Original Thin: the
Paleo Diet in the Bible and
Ancient Literature, tells the
story of how I lost weight on
the Paleo Diet and then
discovered that ancient peoples
had preserved a memory of the
time when their ancestors lived
on the Paleo Diet.
It is also available in Kindle.