Romanian Pronunciation Basics: Part 3 (Diphthongs) | Romanian Academy

welcome all Romanian enthusiasts to part three of the phonetic season today we talk about diff tongs and this video will be slightly slightly longer than the usual phonetics episodes just because we have so much ground to cover today we will talk about syllables semivowels vowels which one they are and all the possible examples with words

that begin have in the middle or end with those D ton this is not going to be a long introduction but as always if you enjoy this and if you want more content like this please like the video or subscribe to the channel for more episodes of Romanian that gets an explanation also check all our links in

the description and let's dive into D tongs so D tongs in Romanian we're talking about D tongs in Romanian and I wanted to specify that from the get-go because D tongs may be different depending on the language that we're speaking the reason is basically the definition of the DI Tong that we will cover in a

second but more importantly is how they are structured really and that means syllables D tongs depend on syllables and they depend on vowels and we will see how they depend on vowels in a second but most importantly they depend on syllables now the thing is about syllables and dongs is that in Romanian

for example in school we learn how to split words into syllables for about four years or maybe more so it's a really long process of learning how to split into syllables you have to get used to them you have to get familiar with them you have to really get a lot of practice to learn how to do this

process of splitting words into syllables I can just show you very quickly the Wikipedia page and here only from this so without even taking like a proper uh book or a source we just look at Wikipedia and we see how many different rules there are to split words into syllables which is quite crazy so