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.