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I hear often that Romanian sounds close to Portuguese, or Italian, or that it seems like Italian spoken by a Russian, or that it sounds like Albanian.
Obviously, none of these language sound that close to Romanian, even the Romance languages. Both Portuguese and Italian have a musicality that is missing in Romanian, Albanian has sounds that are not found in Romanian, and Russian has a very specific accent. To me, Romanian has a neutral accent, and a rhythm that reminds me more of Latin than other Romance languages.
See these short clips and vote the closest language to Romanian.
Romanian
listen to the Romanian female politician, starting at 0:20
Italian
Portuguese
Albanian
Russian
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