Romanian Language

Sound and Script

Recognise and pronounce all Romanian letters and diacritics well enough to read a simple sign or menu item aloud.

Nouns and Gender

Identify the gender of common nouns and use their indefinite articles correctly in real sentences.

Verb A Fi and Pronouns

Introduce yourself, your nationality, and your profession using the full present tense of 'a fi' and personal pronouns.

Definite Articles and Cases

Attach the correct enclitic definite article to singular nouns and use Nominative and Accusative forms in simple sentences.

Numbers and Daily Routines

Use numbers 1–100 and time expressions to describe your daily schedule.

Food and Shopping

Order food and buy items in a shop using prices, quantities, and polite requests.

Family and Home

Describe your family members and your home using possessive pronouns and simple prepositions of place.

Getting Around

Ask for and understand directions and use transport vocabulary to navigate a Romanian city.

Health and Feelings

Express how you feel physically and emotionally and handle a basic interaction at a pharmacy or doctor's office.

Past Events and Culture

Talk about what you did yesterday using the Romanian perfect compus and share a simple cultural observation about Romania.

Daily Routines Expanded

Describe your typical day using present-tense verbs and time expressions in real conversation.

Work and Study Life

Discuss your job or studies, workplace location, and weekly schedule with a Romanian speaker.

Eating Out and Cafés

Order a full meal in a Romanian restaurant, ask about the menu, and pay the bill confidently.

Shopping and Clothes

Navigate a clothing store in Romanian — find your size, try things on, and make a purchase.

Describing People and Places

Describe the appearance and personality of a person and the features of a place in Romanian.

Making Plans and Invitations

Invite someone to an event, accept or decline, and agree on time and place in Romanian.

Talking About the Past

Recount a past event or experience using perfect compus and past time markers fluently.

Imperfect and Ongoing Past

Contrast habitual past actions with completed events using imperfect tense naturally.

Genitive and Possession

Express ownership and relationships using the genitive case and possessive structures accurately.

Dative and Indirect Objects

Use dative case to say to whom or for whom something is done in everyday Romanian.

Modality and Advice

Give and ask for advice, express ability, permission, and necessity in Romanian.

Telephones and Messages

Handle a phone call and write a short Romanian text message or informal note.

Weather and Nature

Talk about the weather, seasons, and nature in Romanian, including forecasts and preferences.

Travel and Accommodation

Book accommodation, check in, and navigate a Romanian hotel or guesthouse confidently.

Imperatives and Instructions

Give, follow, and understand instructions in Romanian using correct affirmative and negative imperative forms.

Causes Reasons and Results

Explain reasons and results in Romanian using correct causal connectors without confusing datorită and din cauza.

Decât Doar and Restrictions

Use decât and doar correctly to express restriction and quantity in Romanian without common errors.

Romanian Social and Cultural Life

Navigate Romanian social situations — greetings, celebrations, and customs — with cultural confidence.

Talking About Opinions

Express and defend a personal opinion on everyday topics using connectors and modal phrases.

Subjunctive Mood Unlocked

Use the subjunctive mood correctly after high-frequency trigger verbs and expressions.

Talking About Experiences

Narrate personal experiences fluently by combining perfect compus, imperfect, and time expressions.

Conditional and Hypothetical

Discuss hypothetical situations and wishes using conditional forms correctly.

Media and News Language

Understand and discuss news headlines and media content using formal and reported-speech vocabulary.

Work and Professional Life

Handle professional interactions in Romanian including job applications, meetings, and workplace small talk.

Health and Medical Conversations

Handle a medical appointment in Romanian, describing symptoms, understanding advice, and following instructions.

Education and Learning

Discuss educational experiences, learning goals, and study habits in Romanian.

Environment and Society

Discuss environmental issues and social topics using B1 argumentative and lexical range.

Functional Registers

Identify and produce text in at least two functional Romanian registers (formal and informal) for real-world purposes.

B1 Citizenship and Exam Readiness

Demonstrate B1 competence across reading, listening, speaking, and writing as required for Romanian citizenship certification.

Vocabulary Strategies

Use high-frequency B2 vocabulary thematically and recall 6 000+ word families across everyday and professional contexts.

Fluent Sentence Architecture

Construct complex, well-linked sentences using subordination, coordination, and advanced connectors typical of B2 written and spoken Romanian.

Nuanced Tense and Aspect

Narrate, describe, and argue using the full range of Romanian tenses with appropriate aspect and register choices.

Modality and Mood

Express nuanced attitudes — possibility, necessity, regret, and doubt — using advanced modal and mood constructions in Romanian.

Passive and Impersonal Structures

Use passive and impersonal constructions to write and speak objectively in formal, journalistic, and academic Romanian.

Formal and Academic Writing

Produce a well-structured formal text — essay, report, or letter — meeting Romanian academic and official style standards.

Reading Complex Texts

Read and analyse authentic Romanian texts — articles, opinion pieces, and literary extracts — extracting main ideas, implied meanings, and authorial stance.

Listening and Spoken Interaction

Follow and participate in extended authentic spoken Romanian — debates, interviews, and storytelling — at natural speed.

DOOM Spelling and Orthography

Apply DOOM-compliant spelling and punctuation in all written work, eliminating the most penalised errors in exams and professional contexts.

Lexical Registers

Identify, produce, and switch between scientific, legal-administrative, journalistic, and colloquial Romanian texts with accuracy.

Romanian Culture and Authentic Language

Discuss Romanian cultural topics — literature, traditions, identity, and current affairs — using culturally appropriate and idiomatic language.

B2 Exam and Fluency Consolidation

Demonstrate B2 competence across all four skills by performing exam-level tasks and consolidating fluency for real-world use.

Fluency Foundations

Activate C1-level precision by diagnosing and closing high-frequency accuracy gaps in grammar, vocabulary, and register.

Complex Sentence Architecture

Construct long, cohesive, stylistically varied sentences using advanced subordination, fronting, and pro-forms.

Tense and Aspect

Deploy the full Romanian tense system — including mai mult ca perfect, perfect simplu, and historic present — to narrate, report, and analyse with precision.

C1 Modality and Epistemic Language

Express degrees of certainty, doubt, hearsay, and hypothetical reasoning using the full Romanian modal and epistemic toolkit.

Passive and Impersonal Structures

Use the full range of Romanian passive and impersonal constructions to write objectively and vary sentence focus.

Vocabulary Systems

Expand productive vocabulary to C1 density by mastering word families, collocations, idioms, and Latin-root deduction.

Functional Registers in Depth

Identify and produce texts in all five Romanian functional registers: scientific, literary, legal-administrative, journalistic, and colloquial.

Formal and Academic Writing

Produce structured, cohesive formal texts — essays, reports, formal letters, and complaint letters — at C1 standard.

Reading Complex Romanian Texts

Read unseen literary, journalistic, and academic texts with full comprehension and critical analysis skills.

Listening and Spoken Interaction

Follow fast, authentic spoken Romanian — news, debates, lectures — and hold the floor confidently in complex discussions.

Romanian Proverbs and Cultural Depth

Engage authentically with Romanian cultural identity, proverbs, literary figures, and contemporary media language.

C1 Exam and Fluency Consolidation

Demonstrate C1 mastery across all four skills in exam and real-world conditions, with active self-assessment and error-correction strategies.

Authentic Vocabulary Mastery

Deploy 11,000-item active vocabulary including rare collocations, nuanced synonyms, and register-specific lexical sets in spontaneous production.

Mastery Sentence Architecture

Construct maximally complex, cohesive Romanian sentences using all available subordination, fronting, and pro-form strategies for high-stakes writing and speech.

Full Tense and Aspect Control

Select among all Romanian tenses and aspects with native-level accuracy to achieve precise temporal, narrative, and evidential meanings.

Modality at Native Depth

Express the full spectrum of modal meaning — obligation, permission, probability, volition, and counterfactual regret — at native-speaker nuance.

Passive and Impersonal Depth

Deploy the full passive and impersonal system with register accuracy in formal, journalistic, and literary texts.

Five Functional Registers

Produce and analyse texts in all five Romanian functional registers — scientific, literary, legal-administrative, journalistic, and colloquial — with full native-level accuracy.

C2 Academic Writing

Produce polished, argumentative, and analytical texts in Romanian at a level suitable for university, national examination, and professional publication contexts.

Reading Literary and Complex Texts

Read, interpret, and critique authentic Romanian literary and complex non-literary texts at the level expected in national baccalaureate and university examinations.

Spoken Mastery and Interaction

Participate in complex, spontaneous spoken interactions — debates, negotiations, and formal presentations — with native-level fluency, repair, and discourse management.

Romanian Cultural Mastery

Engage with authentic Romanian cultural production — literature, media, proverbs, and identity discourse — as an informed insider participant.

C2 Exam and Fluency Consolidation

Demonstrate C2-level Romanian across all four skills in examination-format tasks and in spontaneous, unrehearsed real-life interactions.