If you want to learn Romanian, the Romanian Cultural Institute offers the opportunity to enroll in extensive courses, either in-person or online, starting from December 30, 2024. These courses, held in Bucharest from January 27, 2025, are available at all proficiency levels – from beginner to advanced – in accordance with the guidelines of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
The application form (see below) can be submitted via email to limbaromana@icr.ro.
Extensive online and in-person courses are available both in the morning and in evening, according to the following schedule:
Module I -deadline January 17th, 2025
January 27th – April 2nd (morning beginner level A1 and pre-intermediate level A2.1– Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:30 AM until 11:30 AM and evening ones from 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM;
January 28th – April 3rd (pre-intermediate A2.2 and intermediate B1.1, B1.2 and B2.1 and advanced levels C1.1 - Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 AM until 11:30 AM and evening ones from 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM;
Module II -deadline April 11th, 2025
April 28th – July 2nd (morning beginner level A1 and pre-intermediate level A2.1 Mondays and Wednesdays, from 9:30 AM until 11:30 AM and evening ones from 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM;
April 29th – July 3rd (morning pre-intermediate A2.2 and intermediate B1.1, B1.2 / B2.1 and advanced levels C1.1 - Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 AM until 11:30 AM and evening ones from 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM;
Module III -deadline September 12th, 2025
September 22nd – November 26th (morning beginner level A1 and A2.1– Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:30 AM until 11:30 AM and evening ones from 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM;
September 23rd – November 27th (morning pre-intermediate A2.2 and intermediate B1.1, B1.2, B.1.3/ B2.1, B.2.2 and advanced levels C1.1 - Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 AM until 11:30 AM and evening ones from 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM;
In-person courses are held at the Romanian Cultural Institute, at its secondary location on Biserica Amzei Street no. 21-23, Sector 1, Bucharest.
Each module consists of 40 hours of courses. Groups are composed of 10 to 15 participants, with a minimum of 10 participants required to form a class.
Additionally, the Romanian Cultural Institute offers individual courses upon request throughout the year. Enrollment for the individual courses will be available starting December 23, 2024, with schedules tailored to meet participants' needs. The fee for individual courses is 110 lei per hour.
Important Information:
To assess their Romanian language proficiency, participants will take a placement test (written and oral), which will determine their group assignment. The placement test is free of charge.
The participants not familiarized with the Romanian language, thus corresponding to the A1 level, will not be submitted to a free placement test.
Costs:
1000 lei for a 40-houronline or in-person module.
The fee includes the placement test and course materials for each level.
Certification sessions for Romanian as a foreign language are conducted in Bucharest, at the Romanian Cultural Institute's branches, and at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.
The consortium formed by the Romanian Cultural Institute and Babeș-Bolyai University became a full member of ALTE, being the first and, at the moment, the only representative of the Romanian language in ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe). Together with Babeș-Bolyai University, examination sessions are organized within our institute for people who want to obtain a certificate of linguistic competence in Romanian with international accreditation.
For more information, you send an e-mail to limbaromana@icr.ro or you can visit the website: https://roexam.com/.
Conditions for Payment of the Participation Fee:
The participation fee for each course module should be paid after receiving the confirmation of the class formation. Please make sure to write explicitly your full name and the designated address for the receipt/bill on all the documents related to the bank transfer process. Note that all supplementary bank charges fall under the responsibility of the applicants.
Method of payment:
In EURO: using the bank account IBAN RO63RNCB0072049713640004, open at Banca Comercială Română SA, 155 Calea Victoriei, Sector 1 - Bucharest, Romania, BIC/SWIFT CODE: RNCB RO BU
In LEI: using the bank account IBAN RO47RNCB0072049713640001, open at Banca Comercială Română SA, 155 Calea Victoriei, Sector 1 - Bucharest, Romania, BIC/SWIFT CODE: RNCB RO BU
Institutional details: Romanian Cultural Institute, Fiscal Code (CIF) 15726657, Address: Aleea Alexandru no. 38, Sector 1, Postal Code 011824, Bucharest.
Conditions for the withdrawal from the course:
If you inform the Romanian Cultural Institute – Romanian Language Department in writing, by sending an email to limbaromana@icr.ro before the course begins, you will receive the paid amount minus 10% of the fee.
If you inform the Romanian Cultural Institute – Romanian Language Department in writing, by sending an email to limbaromana@icr.ro within the first week after the course begins, you will receive the paid amount minus 25% of the fee.
After the first week of courses, no refund will be made.
The Romanian Cultural Institute does not assume responsibility for granting visas in the case of the non-EU citizens that apply for a visa in order to participate to the Romanian Language Classes in Bucharest. Moreover, the Institute does not have the obligation of providing accommodation in Bucharest for the foreign participants that do not reside in Romania, during their stay for the courses, this task falling under the applicants’ personal concern.
Certification sessions for Romanian as a foreign languageare conducted in Bucharest, at the Romanian Cultural Institute's branches, and at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.
The consortium formed by the Romanian Cultural Institute and Babeș-Bolyai University became a full member of ALTE, being the first and, at the moment, the only representative of the Romanian language in ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe). Together with Babeș-Bolyai University, examination sessions are organized within our institute for people who want to obtain a certificate of linguistic competence in Romanian with international accreditation.
For more information, you send an e-mail to limbaromana@icr.ro or you can visit the website: https://roexam.com/.
Contact:
International Relations Department – Eunic and Multilingualism Department:
Phone: 031 7100 672
Teachers
Marinela Bota (born in 1984) is a PhD student at the Doctoral School in Letters, University of Bucharest, working on regional pragmatic variation in the use of the discourse markers. She is a graduate of the Master program "Advanced Studies in Linguistics" at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, and a graduate of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, specialization Spanish/Romanian Language and Literature. She is an assistant researcher at the "Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti" Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy and she teaches Romanian as a foreign language within the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, at the Romanian Center Studies. Since 2020 she is a collaborator professor of the Romanian Language Classes Program organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute.
Ilinca Busurcă (born in 1979) graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, specialization Russian Language and Literature - Romanian Language and Literature. She graduated the Master on Russian Cultural Studies and Business Communication and the second Master "Culture and Mentality in the European Integration of Romanians". Currently she works at the Department for Students' Services from the University of Bucharest. Ilinca taught Romanian Language at the Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi Institute (Center) for the Romanians Living Abroad. She has a qualification as a trainer and she has a 10 years experience in teaching Romanian language for foreigners. In January 2011 she took up, as her colleague Ana, a specialized course in teaching Romanian as a foreign language, organized by the Institute for the Romanian Language as a European Language and the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.
Enida Cincora (born in 1990) graduated from the Faculty of Letters (Romanian Language and Literature specialty - French Language and Literature) of the University of Bucharest in 2012. Between 2012 and 2014, she attended the Master's Degree in Advanced Studies in Linguistics - the structure and functioning of the Romanian language. Since 2019 he has been a doctor in Philology. Since 2015 she is a university assistant at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest, where she teaches practical courses in Romanian as a foreign language to students enrolled in the Preparatory Year. Since 2018 she is a Romanian language teacher for foreign students in the Summer courses of the Romanian language, culture and Romanian civilization of the University of Bucharest. She published syntax articles of the old Romanian language, reviews and researches on second language acquisition.
Ioana Negrău (born in 1972) graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, specializing in English Language and Literature and Romanian Language and Literature. For his Bachelor's Thesis, he chose "The Study of Masks in William Shakespeare’s Plays". He attended the Master's courses in Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Bucharest, defending the master's thesis "Teaching foreign languages to children". During the faculty she worked as an English teacher at Nicolae Iorga Kindergarten, between 1995 and 1999, she was an English teacher at ASE at the Department of English Language and Business Communication as well as at the Foreign Language Center "Prosper Ase" where she taught both Romanian for foreigners as well as English. She taught English conversation courses at the University of Bucharest from 1995 to 1999. She taught Romanian as a foreign language at the American government organization "Peace Corps" between 1997 and 2005, where she also held the position of Director of Training for American volunteers. She taught Romanian at the Japanese organization JICA-JOCV between 2000 and 2002, as well as at many multinational companies in Bucharest: Deloitte, Hilti, Max Boegl, Colgate Palmolive, Viticola Corcova, OMV Petrom, Saaten Union Romania, Ecovis Romania, Mivan Kier, Unilever Romania, S&T Romania, Allianz Tiriac Life Insurance, Luxoft Romania, Fokker Engineering and Aerospace. She has been teaching Romanian language courses since May 2018 at the French Cultural Institute in Bucharest. She has collaborated for teaching Romanian with the Embassy of Austria, the Embassy of Poland, the US Embassy, the Embassy of France, the Embassy of Germany, the Embassy of Qatar, the Embassy of Canada, the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and the South Korean Chamber of Commerce.
Andreea Mastu (born in 1993) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest with a Bachelor's degree in Philology (Romanian and English language and literature), followed by the Master 'Advanced Studies in Linguistics'. She is currently a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Letters at the Faculty of Letters, UniBuc, working on a thesis on the semantics of nominal genericity in Romanian. As a researcher, she is interested in a variety of domains like Romanian as a foreign language, formal semantics, linguistic geography and, recently, the expression of inclusive language crosslinguistically. Between 2020 and 2022 she taught Romanian as a foreign language as a collaborator teacher at the Centre of Romanian Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest. She is currently teaching Romanian to Ukrainian refugees at the Romanian-Finnish High School from Bucharest. She has been a collaborator of the Romanian Cultural Institute since 2021.
Valentina COJOCARU (born in 1988) is a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy "Iorgu Iordan - Alexandru Rosetti" and assistant professor at the Center for Romanian Studies within the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest where she teaches Romanian as a foreign language. As a researcher, she is involved in several ongoing projects at the Institute of Linguistics, among them the drafting of the Dictionary of the Romanian Language (DLR) and the Grammar of the Spoken Romanian Language (GVLR). She obtained his PhD in Linguistics in 2016 with a study on Discourse markers in the Romanian language spoken in Moldova: pragmatic and sociolinguistic approaches. She is particularly interested in discursive markers and their multifunctional character, the influence of bilingualism at the level of the spoken language, the grammaticalization and pragmatization, problems related to the acquisition of the Romanian language. At the same time, she participated in numerous conferences, workshops and training courses held in Romania and abroad (Cambridge (2015), Leiden (2015), Heidelberg (2015), Utrecht (2018), Bergamo (2019), Tenerife (2022 ), Cosenza (2022), Louvain-la-Neuve (2023) and obtained a Fulbright scholarship for a research internship at New York University (2024). Valentina is the author and co-author of studies such as "The use of discourse markers by foreign students learning Romanian" (2020), "Some Aspects of the Grammaticalization of the Romanian Verb a (se) porni 'start'" (2021), "English discourse markers in spoken Romanian: pragmatic borrowings or a code-switching phenomenon" (2021), "Discourse markers in context of bilingualism. Aspects regarding the use of Ro. anyway, Engl. anyway and Ru. po-lyubomu" (2023), published in prestigious journals such as Revue romaine de linguistique and Linguistic Studies and Researches.
Recommendations:
If you are in Braşov and want to take a Romanian language course, the Romanian Cultural Institute recommends the Center for Learning Modern Languages within Transilvania University of Braşov. More information is available here:http://www.cilm.ro/romana.html
The Romanian Cultural Institute (RCI) also organizes online or in-person courses at many of its branches abroad, as well as at partner universities:
ICR Branches:
Accademia di Romania in Rome
Romanian Cultural Institute "Titu Maiorescu" in Berlin
Romanian Cultural Institute in Beijing
Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels
Romanian Cultural Institute in Budapest
Romanian Cultural Institute "Dimitrie Cantemir" in Istanbul
Romanian Cultural Institute in Lisbon
Romanian Cultural Institute in London
Romanian Cultural Institute in Madrid
Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
Romanian Cultural Institute in Paris, in collaboration withthe École Roumaine de Paris
Romanian Cultural Institute in Prague
Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm
Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv
Romanian Cultural Institute in Warsaw, in collaboration with Școala Calitate in Krakow
Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice
Romanian Cultural Institute in Vienna
Partner Universities:
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) – Japan
Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia
University of Łódź – Poland
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