This is indeed a resource to be used here.
It is an official language in Romania, Moldova and the autonomous region of Vojvodina in Serbia.
I'm always amazed us Americans can learn anything but English since we're raised in such a monocultural environment. I'm proud of my parents for learning some Spanish in their "old age"! :) Gosh and my father has spoken nothing but English his entire life with maybe a "grazie" or "merci" mixed in there.
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Superficially, it seems closest to French - just having seen Romanian written.
Or is it much diff't than Spanish, Portugese, French, and Italian altogether - ie a whole different branch from these four which share more with each other than any of them - individually do - with Romanian?
Poemless, you are very kind. My Bulgarian is good, but not yet fluent.