Is the Romanian language closer to Italian or Czech

[Corvus]

Or is it a mix. Can someone like me who is able to speak a little bit Italian and a little bit Czech easily learn it
Poll is coming

[Corvus]

Ok here are examples:

Italian:

[YOUTUBE]ZgAtkc1U8KQ[/YOUTUBE]

Czech:

[YOUTUBE]W8WYAL-WvRk[/YOUTUBE]

[Corvus]

I think Romanian is closer to Czech. There is some evidence to emphasize this allegation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_...ce_on_Romanian

[morski]

I think Romanian is closer to Czech. There is some evidence to emphasize this allegation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_...ce_on_Romanian

Most of the Slavic influence in Romanian is actually Bulgarian. They basically used Middle Bulgarian as an official language untill the XVII c.

[Sikeliot]

Italian of course.

[Dacul]

Is possible that old romanian language was mutually inteligible with old bulgarian,but were not same languages.Otherwise how it is possible that a common bulgarian-wallachian empire existed?

As another weird thing ,lots of wallachians migrated to Poland,there are villages of wallachians documentary attested in Poland around 1400 or so.They migrated because they feared the invasion of cumans and pechenegs.

[Sikeliot]

Well Romanian was "purified" of most Slavic words at some point and much of Italian vocabulary now consists of words that were chosen to sound more Italian or French.

[Anonym]

As Romanian native, I understand random Italian words from that video posted , but I don't understand almost anything from the Czech one.
We have loaned in Romanian language many Slavic words, though.

[RussiaPrussia]

its bulgarian italian mix

[rashka]

Let's take an interesting word: draga.
Which slavic countries use this word to mean dear, darling?