The Romanian girl understood Italian, but not Russian, so I always thought Romania was more Mediterranean than Slavic.

Sorry but I don't even think they are Slavs or have anything to do with Slavs.I am 1/4 Romanian...but I don't speak Romanian...unfortunately. My mum did...

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Romance+languages

Romanian language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages Romance languages, group of languages belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Italic languages ). Also called Romanic, they are spoken by about 670 million people in many parts of the world, but chiefly in Europe and the Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Among the more important Romance languages are Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Occitan, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, and Spanish.