What's the second most understood language in Romania?

Question

(besides Romanian of course)

Answer 1

Language
The official language is Romanian, a Romance language of the Italic subfamily of the family of Indo-European languages. This language family includes French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Portuguese; its languages are spoken by about 670 million people in many parts of the world, but mainly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. About 24 million people worldwide speak Romanian, mostly in Romania and Moldova.

A sizeable Hungarian minority in Transylvania speaks Hungarian as well as Romanian; until the 1990s, there were also a substantial number of German-speaking Transylvanian Saxons, but in exchange for payments to the Communist regime many left to West Germany and most of the remainder have left the country since the fall of communism and the accompanying opening of borders.

The Romanian educational system puts a strong emphasis on foreign languages, and Radio România Internaţional broadcasts in Arabic, Armenian, Aromanian, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian (broadcasts in Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese and Turkish ended in late March 2004).

According to the Eurobarometer Report "Europeans and Languages" (Sept. 2005) more than a quarter of Romanians understand and speak English and 17% French. Romania is a member of the Organisation de la Francophonie, with Bucharest being the host of the Summit of Francophony in 2006.


One of the thousands monasteries in region of MoldovaIn terms of foreign languages, 5 million Romanians speak English, 4-5 million speak French, 1.5 million speak German, 2 million speak Italian, and 1 million speak Spanish. [4] Historically, French was the leading foreign language for Romanians to study; now it is English, so that, as a group, Romanian English-speakers are generally younger than Romanian French-speakers.

Answer 2

I should say it's Italian and Spanish. About anyone in Romania can understand those without great effort (I mean the elderly, people who live in the country-side, those without much education). It's true...statistics say that most Romanians understand English and French, because those are the languages that are taught in schools, but Italian, Spanish and Romanian are quite similar to each other (as they are all Latin languages) so there's no need for a Romanian to study them in order to be able to understand them.
It's quite odd though what I've read on a forum...An Italian guy said that he came to Romania and asked for directions or i-don't-know-what and everybody here could understand him, but unfortunately he wasn't able to get much of what the Romanians were saying.

Answer 3

The official language is Romanian, a Romance language of the Italic subfamily of the family of Indo-European languages. This language family includes French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Portuguese; its languages are spoken by about 670 million people in many parts of the world, but mainly in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. About 24 million people worldwide speak Romanian, mostly in Romania and Moldova.

A sizeable Hungarian minority in Transylvania speaks Hungarian as well as Romanian; until the 1990s, there were also a substantial number of German-speaking Transylvanian Saxons, but in exchange for payments to the Communist regime many left to West Germany and most of the remainder have left the country since the fall of communism and the accompanying opening of borders.

The Romanian educational system puts a strong emphasis on foreign languages, and Radio România Internaţional broadcasts in Arabic, Armenian, Aromanian, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian (broadcasts in Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese and Turkish ended in late March 2004).

According to the Eurobarometer Report "Europeans and Languages" (Sept. 2005) more than a quarter of Romanians understand and speak English and 17% French.

Answer 4

Other than Romanian other languages, such as Hungarian, Romani, Ukrainian and Serbian, are co-official at various local levels.
According to the Eurobarometer Report "Europeans and Languages" (Sept. 2005) more than a quarter of Romanians understand and speak English and 17% French.

Answer 5

well Italian is a Latin language, descended my the Romans like Romanian . But I think that English is the most understood language in our country.

Answer 6

XIII were given it excellent. really a lot anybody the following analyze English and French/German in college. you wouldn't have any issue in the cities. frequently the young ones (of their 20s) communicate the most fluently, so that they are those you need to be soliciting for guidelines, yet older human beings will from time to time help too. do not unavoidably anticipate salesmen to understand overseas languages although... from time to time they do, from time to time they don't, yet you'll figure out a thanks to make your self understood. Romanians are pleasant with foreigners.

Answer 7

About 10-20 percent of population are Roma (Gypsies), so Romani. LOL. Because Romanians will react now.

Answer 8

Hungarian but could be Russian since Russia is close by and most neighboring countries speak Russian. Probably depends if your in the city or country. Some people speak English in the city but not much in the country.

Answer 9

French

Answer 10

Russian