Mondly Romanian App
The Best Alternative to Duolingo
Systems: Android and iOS Apps, Online Version (PC and Mac)
Suitable for: Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Learners, Students, Travel
Content: Romanian vocabulary trainer (5000 words), playful exercises, grammar
Prices: Free (initial lessons), USD 9.99 (1 month and 1 language), USD 47.99 (12 months and access to all 41 languages)
Discount offer: USD 99 (Lifetime Access to all 41 Languages)
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The Mondly App lets you learn the Romanian language in a playful way with a series of interactive exercises.
This Romanian learning program contains:
- Romanian vocabulary trainer with 5000 words
- 50 topics and categories to choose from
- 2100 Romanian lessons, including grammar
- Conversation trainer for common situations (speech recognition)
- There is even a virtual reality version of this learning app
Mondly has around 45 million users worldwide. This language course has the advantage of having 41 source languages and 41 target languages.
Summary: Mondly is very similar to the Babbel and Duolingo apps and even better in terms of quality. The cost-benefit ratio for the lifetime access to all 41 languages is unbeatable.
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Mondly Romanian App and Online Course
Romanian Basic Course
From 17 Minute Languages
Systems: Online Access (PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS)
Suitable for: Beginners and Advanced Learners, Students, Professionals
Content: 1300 words (basic course), 5200 words (complete course), grammar, verb conjugations, exercises
Prices: USD 29,95 (Basic Course), USD 97 (Complete Course)
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The Romanian Basic Course contains a vocabulary trainer for the basic Romanian vocabulary (1300 words) with native-speaker audio, as well as grammar explanations and various exercises.
The vocabulary trainer works with a long-term memory method, in which the new vocabulary is checked at increasing intervals.
You can choose between text input, multiple choice or simply confirming whether you knew a word or not.
The exercises include text comprehension questions, filling in word gaps or just vocabulary lists where one side is covered.
The basic course corresponds to the official language levels A1 and A2 (explanation of CEFR language levels).
The Complete Course contains:
- Basic course for beginners (basic vocabulary with 1300 words)
- Intermediate course (1800 more words)
- Advanced course for experts (2100 words)
- Additional specialized vocabulary
- Covers the official CEFR language levels A1 to C2
There are 17 different languages you can use to learn Romanian with this app.
Summary: Much cheaper and even better than the famous Rosetta Stone. There is a free demo version available and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Link: Romanian Basic Course and Complete Course
Strokes Learning Software
Language Course for Download or on CD
Systems: PC and Mac
Suitable for: Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Learners, Professionals
Content: Vocabulary trainer with native-speaker audio and speech recognition, exercises, grammar
Prices:
USD 49 (Romanian 1 for Beginners)
USD 89 (Romanian 1 + 2)
USD 143 (Romanian 1 + 2 + Business)
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The Strokes Learning Software consists of three parts:
- Romanian 1: Beginners Course (A1, A2, B1)
- Romanian 2: Intermediate Course (A2, B1, B2)
- Romanian 3: Business Romanian (B1, B2, C1)
These three Romanian courses each have 100 lessons, grammar explanations, a vocabulary trainer and a dictionary with 4500 spoken words.
A particularly good feature of this learning software is the pronunciation and conversation trainer with speech recognition.
The Strokes language course is available for download or on CD/DVD and has several languages to choose from in which the Romanian course is taught.
Summary: Solid, traditional language course without playful exercises. The pronunciation trainer with speech recognition is very helpful.
Glossika Romanian App
Romanian for Advanced Learners
Systems: iPhone App, Online Version
Suitable for: Intermediate and advanced learners
Content: Romanian advanced exercises
Prices: USD 17 (1 month and 1 language), USD 31 (1 month and all 64 languages)
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The Glossika app is for people who already have some basic proficiency in Romanian or already know a similar language.
The app has an entry test to determine your Romanian proficiency level. You can start from A1 to B2 (beginners and intermediate).
Glossika works with whole sentences instead of single Romanian words. You can choose which topics you want to learn.
This app has intentionally no "gamification". The only exercises are reading, listening, typing the sentences and speaking into the microphone.
There are also no grammar explanations. You are supposed to understand Romanian grammar from the context, like in Rosetta Stone.
You can try the complete app with all 64 languages for 7 days for free (without providing payment information).
Summary: Effective exercises for advanced learners, but somewhat higher price and not much variety.
Link: Glossika Romanian Language Course App
LingQ Romanian App
Innovative Approach to Learn Romanian
Systems: Android and iOS Apps, Online-Version (PC and Mac)
Suitable for: Beginners, intermediate, advanced learners, students, professionals
Content: Video and text lessons, browser extension to import any Romanian texts, vocabulary trainer
Price: USD 10 (1 month subscription)
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The LingQ Romanian App is basically a translation program that is combined with a personalized vocabulary trainer.
In addition to the lessons and texts that are included in this app, any Romanian text can be imported. LingQ has its own browser extension for Firefox, Safari and Chrome to import texts (including ebooks).
You can click on any word in the texts to see a translation and this adds the word to your personal vocabulary trainer.
LingQ also has many videos and podcasts, the content of which appears as a text next to the video or podcast — so that any word there can be clicked on and saved as well.
Unfortunately, there are no grammar lessons, meaning that this app will not suffice on its own to learn Romanian.
Summary: Very interesting way to learn Romanian vocabulary on any subject. However, you need other apps for Romanian grammar and conjugations.
Bluebird Romanian App
Romanian Lessons and Exercises
Systems: Android App, iPhone App, Online-Version (PC and Mac)
Content: Romanian lessons and exercises with voice output and speech recognition
Prices: USD 9.99 (1 month), USD 100 (12 months), USD 200 (unlimited), USD 400 (163 languages)
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The Bluebird App offers 146 source languages and 163 target languages and dialects, including Romanian.
The Romanian language course in this app includes the following:
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Daily video lessons at three difficulty levels.
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Basic Romanian vocabulary on several dozen topics
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Common Romanian verbs with conjugations
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Analysis of your pronunciation (with speech recognition)
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Tests: listening comprehension, filling in word gaps, quizzes
For Romanian, there are about 500 video lessons, each 5 to 60 minutes long. For languages with other scripts, the words can also be displayed transliterated in the Western script.
The Bluebird App does not have grammar lessons. Instead, you are supposed to understand the grammar "implicitly" from the examples, same as in Rosetta Stone.
Summary: The video lessons and the interface require some getting used to, but the exercises are quite varied. Especially for smaller languages, this app is an acceptable alternative.
Duolingo Romanian App
Well-Known Language Learning App
Systems: Android App, iOS App, PC and Mac
Content: Exercises with native-speaker audio
Prices: Free (with ads), USD 12.99 (1 month), USD 60 (12 months)
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The Duolingo App offers beginner language courses for 36 languages, including Romanian. Duolingo covers mostly the basics as well as some intermediate level Romanian vocabulary.
The major drawback of Duolingo (just like Rosetta Stone) is that there are no grammar explanations.
The vocabulary learning with Duolingo is "gamified", which means it is structured like a game with levels, experience points, achievements, etc.
The interface is relatively similar to the apps from Mondly and Babbel (Babbel has no Romanian course).
Summary: The vocabulary trainer and the exercises of the program are okay. However, it is not possible to learn Romanian grammar with this app.
Memrise Romanian App
App with User-Generated Lessons
Systems: Android App, iPhone App, Online-Version (PC and Mac)
Content: Romanian lessons and vocabulary trainer with native speaker audio, grammar
Prices: USD 8,99 (1 month), USD 60 (12 months), USD 110 (unlimited)
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With the Memrise App you can learn over 90 languages.
This includes even very small languages - however, in such cases the language courses are often limited to just a few lessons.
One special feature of the Memrise learning app is the large number of lessons created by users (native speakers).
The quality of these lessons varies greatly though. For example, only the basic forms of verbs are usually taught, without the conjugations. Some languages also do not have an audio recording of the words at all.
Another good idea of the Memrise app are the user-generated tips and mnemonics for each word to help you memorize them.
Summary: User-generated lessons are a good idea. In practice, the quality of the lessons leaves a lot be desired.
Pimsleur Romanian Course
Most Expensive Software to Learn Romanian
Systems: PC and Mac (incl. Mobile App)
Suitabe for: Beginners, advanced, students, travel vocabulary
Content: Romanian vocabulary, lessons with native-speaker audio and speech recognition
Price: USD 120 (basic course)
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The Pimsleur App is very similar to Rosetta Stone in that it does not give grammar explanations, verb conjugation tables, etc.
Instead, the Pimsleur method is supposed to let you learn the Romanian language intuitively, just like your native language - by combining pictures, reading and speaking (speech recognition).
Pimsleur offers only a beginner course for Romanian. It contains 30 daily lessons of 30 minutes each and various interactive exercises.
This Romanian learning course for PCs and Macs also includes a mobile app for Android and iOS systems.
Summary: The most expensive Romanian course, even though it is unlikely that learning with it is much better than with the cheaper apps.
Lingo Romanian App
Playful Romanian Learning
Systems: Android and iPhone Apps, Online Version (PC and Mac)
Content: Romanian lessons and exercises
Prices: USD 19.99 (1 month), USD 40 (3 months), USD 60 (6 months)
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The Lingo Play App offers language courses for 70 languages. It offers "gamified learning", which means learning vocabulary in a playful way.
Each Romanian lesson offers the following exercises:
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Presentation of new words with translation and image
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Decide whether a Romanian word matches the image
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Select one of four pictures that matches a word
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Type in the Romanian word for a picture
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Correctly type in a spoken Romanian word
In the full version this app offers up to 5000 Romanian words. The interface of the app is similar to Babbel, Duolingo or Mondly.
There is also a multiplayer mode and competitions where you can test your Romanian skills against other people.
Summary: Overpriced Romanian course that does offer some good exercises, but is not better than other similar apps.
Linguashop: Romanian
Educational Software for Download
Systems: PC (Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP)
Content: Romanian lessons with native speaker audio and speech recognition, grammar
Prices: USD 35 (second language for free)
Overall Value: 
The Linguashop educational software ("TeachMe") is available for over 90 languages, including Romanian. It also includes an audio CD.
The native speaker audio and speech recognition are relatively good.
However, the interface of the learning software is quite chaotic and there are no exercises — only lessons where new vocabulary is presented.
It is also unclear how many words are included in this Romanian learning program. There is no information about this on the website.
Some grammar lessons are included — however, these are basically just images with short texts.
Summary: Poor quality for a relatively low price. You get language courses for two languages when you buy, one as a free bonus.
