Here's the new addition to my pile of learning resources for "Languages I will, maaaaybe, some day, learn". Learn Romanian: Course for English Speakers (Do It Yourself) Gheorghe Doca
It's priced on Abebooks at £203 and $341 second hand at Amazon US. I got it in my local charity shop for... wait for it.... €1.
The table of contents is scary. It seems to be really a descriptive grammar for learners. See below for a close up of one chapter heading. This is certainly not Communicative Approach terrritory. Hopefully by the time I get to it (if ever), my taste for complex garmmar terminology has grown exponentially.
The visual design is painfully drab and very dense, but on scanning the text, it seems well written.
It's always a good sign for me if a book uses IPA, though some of the typesetting here seems non-standard to me.
Well for now it has settled into a spot on my "dormant and sometime-maybe never Languages shelf".
