- 22 December 2023
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Learn Romanian at the Romanian Cultural Institute!
16 years of Romanian language classes
ROMANIA(N) IN A NUTSHELL -Romanian Language Classes for Foreigners
If you want to study Romanian for your business, for your job or for fun, the
language courses offered by the Romanian Cultural Institute are the best
choice!
We plan on giving you the opportunity to travel and discover, step by step, the mysteries revolving around one of the roman(t)ic languages.
For 2024 the Romanian Cultural Institute offers:
· Courses (in classroom and online) for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners;
· Demo lessons (during the year);
· Individual courses (by individual request);
· Conversation workshop Let's sit over a glass of wine!;
· Romanian Language, Culture and Civilization Courses - Summer school in Brașov;
Courses for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners *(based upon the regulations and principles issued by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment) are available for all the series.
The study groups comprise 8 up to 12 students. In order to be able to set up a study group for each of the levels indicated above, we need to have a minimum of 6 students enrolled per group.
Duration of one module: 40 hours of study. Regular courses consist of two hours of study/twice a week.
In order to assess the level of Romanian correspondent to the enrolled candidates, an initial placement test will be taken by the prospective students. According to the results of the evaluation, the study groups will be assembled for the beginner level (A2 – A2.1 and A2.2), intermediate (B1 – B1.1, B1.2, B1.3, B1.4, B2 –B2.1, B2.2, B2.3, B2.4 ) and advanced (C1- C1.1, C1.2, C1.3, C1.4) levels.
Please note that the participants not familiarized with the Romanian language, thus corresponding to the A1 level, will not be submitted to a free placement test.
The scheduling for the 2024
Morning and evening online and classroom courses!
Module I
January 22nd – April 01st (morning beginner level A1 and pre-intermediate level A2.1– Mondays and Wednesdays from 9.30 AM until 11.30 AM and evening ones from 6.30 PM until 8.30 PM; deadline January 17th, 2024)
January 23rd – March 28th (pre-intermediate A2.2 and intermediate B1.1, B1.2 and B2.1 and advanced levels C1.1 - Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9.30 AM until 11.30 AM and evening ones from 6.30 PM until 8.30 PM; deadline January 17th, 2024)
Module II
April 15th – June 26th (morning beginner level A1 and pre-intermediate level A2.1 Mondays and Wednesdays, from 9.30 AM until 11.30 AM and evening ones from 6.30 PM until 8.30 PM; deadline April 10th, 2024)
April 16th – June 25th (morning pre-intermediate A2.2 and intermediate B1.1, B1.2, B1.3 / B2.1 and advanced levels C1.1 - Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9.30 AM until 11.30 AM and evening ones from 6.30 PM until 8.30 PM; deadline April 10th, 2024)
Module
III
September 16th – November 20th (morning beginner level A1 and A2.1– Mondays and Wednesdays from 9.30 AM until 11.30 AM and evening ones from 6.30 PM until 8.30 PM; deadline September 12th, 2024)
September 17th – November 21st (morning pre-intermediate A2.2 and intermediate B1.1, B1.2, B.1.3/ B2.1, B.2.2 and advanced levels C1.1 - Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9.30 AM until 11.30 AM and evening ones from 6.30 PM until 8.30 PM; deadline September 12th, 2024)
„Let's sit over a glass of wine!” – Conversation morning and evening classroom workshops – 20 hours
May 13rd – June 17th (A2.2 / B1.1 Mondays and Wednesdays from 10.00AM until 12.00 AM and from 6.30 PM until 8.30PM, deadline May 9th, 2024)
All of the aforementioned courses will take place in the two classrooms within the ground floor of the Romanian Cultural Institute. The address of the RCI’s new building is 21-23 Biserica Amzei Street, Bucharest.
Applications must be submitted to the following e-mail address limbaromana@icr.ro with a cc to roxana.dinca@icr.ro or in hard-copy, at the headquarters of the Institute (21-23 Biserica Amzei Street, Bucharest). Please scroll down for the attached application forms.
The course fee:
· classroom courses: 1000 lei or 200 EUR
· online courses: 800 lei or 160 EUR
The price comprises the placement
test and the material.
Payment conditions:
The fee should be paid before the deadline of the enrollment, after receiving the confirmation of the class formation. Please make sure to write explicitly your full name and the designated address for the receipt/bill on all the documents related to the bank transfer process. Note that all supplementary bank charges fall under the responsibility of the applicants.
Method of payment:
In EURO: using the bank account IBAN RO63RNCB0072049713640004, open at Banca Comercială Română SA, 155 Calea Victoriei, Sector 1 - Bucharest, Romania, BIC/SWIFT CODE: RNCB RO BU
In LEI: using the bank account IBAN RO47RNCB0072049713640001, open at Banca Comercială Română SA, 155 Calea Victoriei, Sector 1 - Bucharest, Romania, BIC/SWIFT CODE: RNCB RO BU
Institutional data: Institutul Cultural Român, cod fiscal (CIF) 15726657, address: 38 Aleea Alexandru, 011824, Bucharest
Conditions for the withdrawal from the course:
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If you inform the ICR team in writing, before the course starts, we will be
able to refund you the course fee, minus an administrative charge of 10%.
• If you inform the ICR team in writing, during the first week of the course,
you will get a credit report and will be reimbursed for the costs of the
remaining unattended classes minus 25% of this amount, charged as
administrative costs.
• No credits are reimbursed after the ending of the first week.
The Romanian Cultural Institute does not assume responsibility for granting visas in the case of the non-EU citizens that apply for a visa in order to participate to the Romanian Language Classes in Bucharest. Moreover, the Institute does not have the obligation of providing accommodation in Bucharest for the foreign participants that do not reside in Romania, during their stay for the courses, this task falling under the applicants’ personal concern.
For further information, please contact: Roxana Preda - tel. (004) 031 7100 672, limbaromana@icr.ro.
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Instructors
Marinela
Bota (born in 1984) is a PhD student at the Doctoral School in Letters,
University of Bucharest, working on regional pragmatic variation in the use of
the discourse markers. She is a graduate of the Master program "Advanced
Studies in Linguistics" at the Faculty of Letters, University of
Bucharest, and a graduate of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
University of Bucharest, specialization Spanish/Romanian Language and
Literature. She is an assistant researcher at the "Iorgu Iordan - Al.
Rosetti" Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy and she teaches
Romanian as a foreign language within the Faculty of Letters, University of
Bucharest, at the Romanian Center Studies. Since 2020 she is a collaborator
professor of the Romanian Language Classes Program organized by the Romanian
Cultural Institute.
Ilinca Busurcă (born in 1979) graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, specialization Russian Language and Literature - Romanian Language and Literature. She graduated the Master on Russian Cultural Studies and Business Communication and the second Master "Culture and Mentality in the European Integration of Romanians". Currently she works at the Department for Students' Services from the University of Bucharest. Ilinca taught Romanian Language at the Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi Institute (Center) for the Romanians Living Abroad. She has a qualification as a trainer and she has a 10 years experience in teaching Romanian language for foreigners. In January 2011 she took up, as her colleague Ana, a specialized course in teaching Romanian as a foreign language, organized by the Institute for the Romanian Language as a European Language and the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.
Enida Cincora (born in 1990) graduated from the Faculty of Letters (Romanian Language and Literature specialty - French Language and Literature) of the University of Bucharest in 2012. Between 2012 and 2014, she attended the Master's Degree in Advanced Studies in Linguistics - the structure and functioning of the Romanian language. Since 2019 he has been a doctor in Philology. Since 2015 she is a university assistant at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest, where she teaches practical courses in Romanian as a foreign language to students enrolled in the Preparatory Year. Since 2018 she is a Romanian language teacher for foreign students in the Summer courses of the Romanian language, culture and Romanian civilization of the University of Bucharest. She published syntax articles of the old Romanian language, reviews and researches on second language acquisition.
Ioana Negrău (born in 1972) graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, specializing in English Language and Literature and Romanian Language and Literature. For his Bachelor's Thesis, he chose "The Study of Masks in William Shakespeare’s Plays". He attended the Master's courses in Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Bucharest, defending the master's thesis "Teaching foreign languages to children". During the faculty she worked as an English teacher at Nicolae Iorga Kindergarten, between 1995 and 1999, she was an English teacher at ASE at the Department of English Language and Business Communication as well as at the Foreign Language Center "Prosper Ase" where she taught both Romanian for foreigners as well as English. She taught English conversation courses at the University of Bucharest from 1995 to 1999. She taught Romanian as a foreign language at the American government organization "Peace Corps" between 1997 and 2005, where she also held the position of Director of Training for American volunteers. She taught Romanian at the Japanese organization JICA-JOCV between 2000 and 2002, as well as at many multinational companies in Bucharest: Deloitte, Hilti, Max Boegl, Colgate Palmolive, Viticola Corcova, OMV Petrom, Saaten Union Romania, Ecovis Romania, Mivan Kier, Unilever Romania, S&T Romania, Allianz Tiriac Life Insurance, Luxoft Romania, Fokker Engineering and Aerospace. She has been teaching Romanian language courses since May 2018 at the French Cultural Institute in Bucharest. She has collaborated for teaching Romanian with the Embassy of Austria, the Embassy of Poland, the US Embassy, the Embassy of France, the Embassy of Germany, the Embassy of Qatar, the Embassy of Canada, the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and the South Korean Chamber of Commerce.
Andreea Mastu (born in 1993) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest with a Bachelor's degree in Philology (Romanian and English language and literature), followed by the Master 'Advanced Studies in Linguistics'. She is currently a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Letters at the Faculty of Letters, UniBuc, working on a thesis on the semantics of nominal genericity in Romanian. As a researcher, she is interested in a variety of domains like Romanian as a foreign language, formal semantics, linguistic geography and, recently, the expression of inclusive language crosslinguistically. Between 2020 and 2022 she taught Romanian as a foreign language as a collaborator teacher at the Centre of Romanian Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest. She is currently teaching Romanian to Ukrainian refugees at the Romanian-Finnish High School from Bucharest. She has been a collaborator of the Romanian Cultural Institute since 2021.
Alumni who wrote us:
"I came to Romania two years ago. When I arrived here, I did not know Romanian language at all. Then I decided to study at ICR and after some courses, I am convinced that ICR is the best choice if you really wish to learn Romanian language, in a very nice atmosphere, with an easy and effective method. However, the most important fact is that ICR has a very professional female team, integrated by five enthusiast teachers who are always willing to help you. They are teachers highly qualified, with a deep knowledge of Romanian language and every time they show their best disposition to encourage you to improve your performance and have success to learn Romanian language. " (Juana Nunez, Mexico)
Application form for the ONLINE COURSES Application form for the CLASSROOM COURSES
