#romanian

Sure let’s do that ❤️

(Also sense I don’t know Romanian I will be using Google translate, so I am sorry if it doesn’t seem right)

The freak circus x Foreigner Mc (Romanian 🇷🇴, but I’ll keep it more broad for the others reading)

Pierrot

Honestly, the only thing that bothers him when you accidentally switch your language is that he can’t understand his lady… and it’s torture for him… his lady is right in front of him trying to talk to him and he can’t even understand how useless is he ?!

Even though most of the time he’s not allowed to talk, he would definitely ask you to teach him because he wants to understand you… honestly it was very sweet he was like a sad little puppy… so it really was not your fault when you agreed you accidentally again switched to your native language “normal că te ajut!” (of course I’ll teach you).. and then quickly had to translate to the poor thing…

It did take him quite some time (months or more… honestly he might just be acting that he doesn’t understand so you spend more time with him) to start saying anything fluently because he most of the time can’t speak, but he was the most enthusiastic out of everyone

Harlequin

He refuses to act like he doesn’t understand…. He doesn’t…. But he will be nodding along to whatever you said when you switch like he understand perfectly… honestly it took you some time to understand he didn’t catch half the words you have said to him this past week… he still tried to refuse not knowing 

So you decide to test him by saying something in Romanian and see if he could translate it “Arlechin, de ce tot spui ca înțelegi ce spun ?” (Harlequin why do you keep saying you can understand what I’m saying)… he just kind of stared at you for a moment and then just said “ you are so handsome Harlequin ~”… safe to say he didn’t understand sh*t

So you offered to teach him if he wanted and he refused… then also you have been seeing him spying on you and Pierrot when you teach him your language… probably should not let Pierrot know about that…

Jester

Honestly, there are only two possibilities with him. He either already knows how to speak your language or figure out what your language was and learned it… because he actually understands what you’re saying… It is actually kind of nice you can speak to someone without having constantly trying to speak in English…

He is very good at this… like suspiciously good… when did he even learn your language? Did he know it before because maybe they have gone to Romania with the circus before, but he denied that… so he learned an entire language… because he wanted to speak with you ?… that is actually very sweet…. Even though he will deny it till the day he dies.

One day when you were sleeping over at the circus… just about to wake up you heard his voice near your ear as he whispered “Te iubesc lumina mea” (I love you my light)… you don’t know if he knows you know but you are too scared to bring it up

Ticket taker

Similar to Jester… he actually knows how to speak your language… you don’t know how but he does speak to you about how he learned it pretty quickly and he knows a lot of languages… after all if he knows where the circus can go next (lies…he wanted to speak and impress you)

You’re too actually have pretty nice long conversation in your language… it’s actually pretty nice to just speak normally even when you’re not home… he is actually very good company to be around… though you’re pretty sure your grandmother would like speaking about about tea and embroidery more than you…

He speaks incredibly formally “Sărut mâna, vizitatoarea mea preferată, ce imi aduce plăcerea de a te avea pe tine aici, ai vrea să te conduc la cortul cu oglinzi ?” (good evening, my favourite visitor, what do I owe the pleasure of you being here, would you like me to do escort you to the mirror tent ?)… yep your grandmother would have loved him…

Doctor

He’s actually pretty fascinated of you speaking in a different language… your vocal cards must be incredibly healthy and flexible… actually could you let him examine them specifically when you are speaking in your language?

You have to explain to him that you can’t speak with a rod on your throat because humans feel like birds have gag reflexes… and he suggested to help you get rid of the gag reflex… you offered to teach him your language so he can test it on himself….

He actually picked it up pretty quickly… and being a bird, he can actually do the accent better than a new one. Your teacher would have been proud, and the first thing he said to you when he finally could speak fluently was “învățând această limbă mi-a dat o perspectivă despre respirație și corzile vocale, o să fie folositor pentru experimentele mele” (Learning this language, give me quite the insight when it comes to breath and vocal cords, it will be useful for my experiments)… well it is doctor so you don’t know what you expected…

I hope you enjoyed it, and again since I don’t know the language I used Google translate so if something didn’t sound right I’m sorry 🙏❤️

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