I am liking Romanian so far. It seems rather easy, being that I already know or partly know Latin, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Latin. There are also some Slavic words and syntactical features popping up.
The Assimil 'Le Roumain sans peine' was written before the spelling reform of 1993, so there are some words that I try to lookup on ro.wiktionary.org or en.wiktionary.org that don't come up, although a few of them will redirect to the current standard spelling.
I have decided to take my 'detailed' approach to learning this language, which consists of typing all of the L1 and L2 into a spreadsheet, extracting each new word and phrase into separate columns, looking up interesting related items (like singular form of plural nouns) and putting all of that into anki. My stats as of right now, having done new items and just entered lesson 3 are:
Mature: 0
Unseen: 82
Young+learn: 70
Suspended+Buried: 68
Total cards: 220
Total notes: 110
Listening to the lessons, it definitely feels closest to Italian; especially when you hear the phrase:
'La revedere'.
And on that note, la revedere!
