Studying Romanian in the Faculty of Philology

Beginners (A1-A2)

–Lengua Rumana I. Third language. Optional. Undergraduate, All Majors. 1st and 2nd Year. 3 ECTs. Fall semester.

-Lengua Rumana II. Third language. Optional. Undergraduate, All Majors. 1st and 2nd Year. 3 ECTs. Spring semester.

-Lengua Rumana I. Second language-Minor. Compulsory. Undergraduate. All Majors. 1st and 2nd Year. 6 ECTs. Spring semester.

-Lengua Rumana II. Second language-Minor. Compulsory. Undergraduate. All Majors. 1st and 2nd Year. 6 ECTs. Fall semester.

Intermediate (B1-B2)

-Lengua Rumana III. Third language. Optional. Undergraduate. Romance Philology only. 3rd and 4th Year. 3 ECTs. Fall semester.

-Lengua Rumana IV. Third language. Optional. Undergraduate. Romance Philology only. 3rd and 4th Year. 3 ECTs. Spring semester.

-Lengua Rumana III. Second language-Minor. Compulsory. Undergraduate. All Majors. 3rd and 4th Year. 6 ECTs. Fall semester.

-Lengua Rumana IV. Second language-Minor. Compulsory. Undergraduate. All Majors. 3rd and 4th Year. 6 ECTs. Spring semester.

Romanian. A short presentation

Romanian is an Indo-European Italic Romance language, just like all the other Romance languages, but it could be seen as the most peculiar of them. The main reason for this peculiarity is its geographical area of formation and distribution. It belongs to the most Oriental group of Eastern Romances, called Balkan-Romance languages or even Daco-Romance languages. In this group there are other minor related languages: Aromanian, Istro-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian.

Romanian has in common with the other Romances the core grammatical structure and the majority of its vocabulary, but also special features due to its isolation: it is much more conservatory in relation with the ancient Latin, it has a huge expressive valor with a distinctive rustic touch and a lot of borrows from the Slavic languages surrounding its area of formation.

Studying Romanian could be a very enriching experience because it supposes an archeological discovery of a very special kind of linguistical fossil combined with a vivid contemporary idiom (spoken by around 30 million people in Romania, The Republic of Moldavia and all around the world by a very large international community of Romanians living and working abroad, especially in Italy, Germany, Spain, Canada and USA).

They say that a true Romance languages expert should dominate Romanian and even that without knowing at least the basics of it one could not truly understand the fascinating phenomena of the birth and grow of the Romance idioms in history

Also, Romanian is one of the 22 official languages of the European Union and it is very much demanded for translating documents, conferences and administrative papers.

Further readings

• Mioara Avram, Marius Sala, Les presentamos la lengua rumana, Alicante, Publicaciones Universidad de Alicante, 2014
• Fernando Sánchez Miret, «Rumanística en la Universidad de Salamanca», Philologica Jassyensia, 2, 2006, 257-261.