Part 2 * Alphabets

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Hi Friends ! Welcome to Part 2. Glad you are back :) . If you are new and seeing this blog for the first time, please visit Part 1 to keep up with our old readers.

Now, last time we have studied almost all useful alphabets which we need to have knowledge about but still are just few left which I wanna cover now in beginning of this part. And upsi :) I gave you a kind of homework to do it by yourself which was speaking word : Română. Today we will explain pronunciation of that special character too. So let’s have a look on following table:

Alphabet	Pronunciation
d	d in danger
g	g in gun
h	h in half
j	j in bridge
L	L in Laugh
v	v in vast
Special characters
â or Î	u in Buzz
ţ	ts in guts
Very less used alphabets of Română
x	x in Xerox
z	z in zombie
Unused alphabets of Română , Yeeee
k	“Kapa”
q	q in quick
w	“dublu va”
y	“Egrek”

After learning these above alphabets, you can be sure of having knowledge of every alphabet used in  Română. Now to complete this section of pronunciation, all we have left with is learning one last table with special combinations:

Special Combination	Pronunciation
Gi	Gi in Ginger
Ghe	Ge in Get
Ghi	Gui in Guitar
Che	Ke in Kept
Chi	Ki in Kiss

So we have covered the all pronunciations but before you go around showing your knowledge about how correct you can speak any Română word, one last thing you need to know which is about vowels.

        Same like English, Română is also having vowels but 8 of them instead of 5 :) . These are:  a, e, i, o, u, ă, â and Î. You already know their pronunciations. Now when a word in Română ends at “i”, we make that “i” almost silent that means we speak it as less as possible and the vowel which comes before that “i” in the whole word, we emphasize on it. For example:

Luni (Monday) – make “i” almost silent and emphasize on “u” when you speak it.

Same with Marţi (Tuesday).

        If you have paid attention till now, then there is no word in Română now which you can’t speak correct.

        I suggest you to go ahead and open any page or take any content of Română and start reading it, it will not only increase your confident in correct speaking but also will help you learning these pronunciation faster. Keep in mind that there might be few exceptions same as in any other language but don’t get demoralized by them because once you got what is in majority then minority can be covered at any time.

        Here are few words for you to speak and also learn their meaning which will help you in learning week days:

Week Days
Word	Meaning
Luni	Monday
Marţi	Tuesday
Miercuri	Wednesday
Joi	Thursday
Vineri	Friday
Sâmbătă	Saturday
Duminică	Sunday

Here ends Part 2. Can’t wait to tell you guys more because there is lot of fun coming after this but you get to have time for revising and practicing. So that’s it for Day 2. Congrats, you are just 2 months and 28 days are behind from getting expertise in Română.

Summary

Alphabet	Pronunciation
A	a in March
ă (special character)	u in return
â or î (special character)	u in Buzz
b	b in book
c	c in cold
d	d in danger
e	a in case
f	f in far
g	g in gun
h	h in half
i	e in east
j	j in bridge
k (not used)	“Kapa”
L	L in Laugh
m	m in mount
n	n  in nest
o	o in corpse
p	p in palm
q	q in quick
r	r in rat
s	s in suit
ş (special character)	sh in brush
t	t in test
ţ (special character)	ts in guts
u	u  in suit
v	v in vast
w (not used)	“dublu va”
x  (very less used)	x in Xerox
y (not used)	“Egrek”
z  (very less used)	z in zombie
Special combination
ce	che  in chest
ci	chi in chicken
gi	Gi in Ginger
ghe	Ge in Get
ghi	Gui in Guitar
che	Ke in Kept
chi	Ki in Kiss