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Romanian has no Albanian influences. They do share some 200 words from a pre-Slavic Balkanite stratum, but these come from pre-Romanian, pre-Albanian times.
Romanian has about 15% Slavic origin words (but less than 10% in the basic vocabulary). However, it's unlikely "da" and "tak", common words for agreement in Slavic languages, are actually of Slavic origin. Most likely these words come from Latin "ita" and "itaque" respectively, meaning "and so" or "therefore".
Old Indo-european languages did not have a word for "yes", they used an idiom to express agreement (this can be seen in the Romance group, where each language chose a different word for "yes": French "oui" comes from "hoc ille", Italian "si" comes from "sic", etc. - all these Latin words are synonyms of "ita" and "itaque"). Words with the meaning of "yes" have spread relatively late (500 AD onwards), with Christendom and the medieval age.
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Agreed. I find that even with French I can read an entire text and get the gist of it, provided I take my time to do it of course. I agree with Dandelion regarding the closeness between English and Dutch, which is kind of funny in a way, considering that Dutch used to be the language of the Franks before they settled in Gaul.
"My name is The Patriot, my fatherland is Santo Domingo, my condition is Citizen, my religion is the love of truth and justice, and my occupations are to boldly attack vice and loudly praise virtue".
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I only agree that there is considerable similarity between the Romance languages and it helps you learn the others, if you speak one Romance language already. But it is still pretty hard to learn a new language, even a related Romance one. French seemed especially hard to me in school. I can't even converse in French unfortunately. I found it easier to pick up Spanish and Italian though. More simple grammar and spelling rules. I took to English better than to French in school, maybe because it was on TV all the time.
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