Is the Romanian language closer to Italian or Czech

[Dacul]

By vocabulary, closer to Italian since there have been major romance imports since the 17th century and efforts of "de-slavization".

By pronunciation, probably closer to Czech. We have to take into consideration the geographical proximity of the 2 nations and their ethnic and linguistic development over the centuries. Italian had a very specific accent while Romanian is closer to a generic Central European accent.

Lol, how is closer as pronunciation to the Czech language?
Have you ever tried to pronounce Czech?
It was a lot more consonants and is quite difficult to pronounce for a Romanian native speaker.

[Dna8]

I would say Romanian has an Italian heart and soul, and in comparison, merely a Czech skin tone..

[Dacul]

Romanians can pronounce South Slavic languages, without problems.
Eastern Slavic languages, comme ci, comme ca. As a Romanian you will have problem with hard and soft consonants, because we do not have hard or soft consonants.
Western Slavic is most hard to pronounce for native Romanian speakers, from the Slavic languages.
So the question is just lol.