http://www.ilr.ro/category/atestate/aplicatii-si-nivel-prag/ - here you can find example tests for self-evaluation for all levels A1 to C2. Besides, you can find the certificate exam tests from 2009 and 2010. In that way, you'll get a better idea about the structure of the Romanian language exam. The last section are tests which will check the knowledge of the foreign students who learn Romanian. The format is similar to the other European language exams.
Are you learning Romanian for your job, studies or to communicate with your friends or family? Are you a beginner or intermediate student, who struggles with the grammar and with getting speaking practice? If your answers to both questions are yes, you are welcome to contact me. What I can give you is grammar explanations, speaking practice, helpful advice and a lot of encouragement from a person, who has also been through the Romanian learning process and who has struggled being understood about why he would like to learn this amazing language.
Many students of German complain about one thing - grammar, grammar, grammar. These complicated cases, these complicated verbs at the end of the sentence, the cases confuse the learners and they start complaining about this "extremely difficult language."
My learning experience in high school wasn't like that. Unlike English grammar, I found a lot of advantages, which made learning German easier for me:
- a straightforward sentence structure, which is not as flexible as the structure of the sentence in English, the Romance and Slavic languages and other languages. When you build a sentence you have a very limited set of options: Subject(actor)-Verb(action)-Object and Object-Verb-Subject. This makes the task easier. If you are comfortable with maths or exact sciences, think of it as a model you need to follow in order to make the equation. Think of the the different parts of the German sentence as building blocks, which can make the house stable in only one or two ways.
- unlikely English which differentiates more than 10 verb tenses, each of them expressing a different nuance of the time, the German verb system is quite simple. There are only 2 simple tenses - Present and Past, 2 compound perfect and 2 compound future tenses (which aren't used that often).
-the cases are only 4 and there are repetitive forms in the declination tables, f.e. "die" is the article for feminine and plural nouns in Nominativ and Akkusativ. They are used to express the relation between the different actors in one sentence. Think of them as a formula, after which the building blocks will make the house stable.
In my opinion it's as fruitless to study grammar without trying to speak the language as it's to only speak and not learn the rules. I recommend the German learners to learn it step by step, starting from simpler structure. However, the italki system focuses more on speaking and it's normal to need to express yourself in a more complex way even in the beginning. Try to use shorter sentences and to learn only one pattern at a time. When you feel comfortable applying it, move on to the next one.
Are you struggling with the German grammar? We can nail it down together in a couple of lessons :)
