How to pronounce eu, ea, el, este, eşti, etc in Romanian?

The Romanian (Român) language is quite phonetic and uses accents on some vowels and on some consonants.

Letters not listed are pronounced approximately as in English.
--Dick Oakes



A, a - a as in father
Ă, ă - a as in around
Â, â - i as in girl (see Î)
E, e - e as in let
I, i - i as in machine
Î, î - i as in girl
O, o - o as in note; also o as in gone
U, u - u as in duke

C, c - c as in cello (ch) when before E or I, otherwise c as in cat
Ch, ch - ch as in chaos (k)
G, g - g as in germ (j) when before E or I, otherwise g as in go
Gh, gh - gh as in ghost (g)
J, j - z as in azure (zh)
Ş, ş - s as in sugar
Ţ, ţ - tz as in quartz (ts)

The Romanian language has many dipthongs (and tripthongs), which are pronounced separately but in rapid succession. The weaker vowel almost becomes semiconsonantal. Examples are:

ai - ai as in kaiser
au - au as in sauerkraut
ău - a as in about combined with u as in flute
ea - ea as in bread
ei - ei as in seine
eu - eu as in feud
ia - ya as in yacht
ie - ye as in yes
io - yo as in yoke
iu - yu as in yule
îi - i as in hike
îu - similar to eu in feud
oa - wa as in wash
oi - oi as in spheroid
ou - ou as in dough
uă - wu as in wuther
eai - yi as in yikes
eau - yow as in yowl
ieu - ieu as in lieu

The letter i at the end of a word is silent unless preceded by another letter i.

Other letter combinations are:

Ci, ci - chi as in chief
Ce, ce - che as in chess
Chi, chi - chi as in Chianti
Ghe, ghe - ghe as in ghetto
Ghi, ghi - gee as in geese
Ge, ge - ge as in genesis
Gi, gi - gi as in giraff