Learn how to ask for medical assistance
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| Romanian Survival Phrases. Season 2. Lesson 23 - Using Romanian to Get Medical Assistance |
| INTRODUCTION |
| Salut, and welcome to Romanian Survival Phrases, brought to you by RomanianPod101.com |
| This course is designed to equip you with the language skills and knowledge to enable you to get the most out of your visit to Romania. You'll be surprised at how far a little Romanian will go. |
| Now before we jump in, remember to stop by RomanianPod101.com. |
| There, you’ll find the accompanying PDF lesson notes and additional info in the post. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment. |
| In this lesson, we’ll introduce you to some phrases you’ll find useful in case you need medical assistance. When traveling, sometimes the body takes a little time to adjust, and the immune system is no different. In this lesson, we’ll go over some phrases that will help get you to a location where you can get medical assistance. |
| BODY |
| When a person feels sick, people usually start asking a lot of questions, in which case you might want to specify that you feel very sick. |
| We’ll start with the phrase “I feel very sick” |
| In Romanian, this is Mă simt foarte rău. |
| Let’s break it down by syllable. |
| (slow) Mă simt foar-te rău. |
| Let’s hear it again. |
| Mă simt foarte rău. |
| First, we have mă, which is a form of the pronoun “I”. In English, the word is translated as “I” in our case. |
| Next we have simt, a form of the verb that means “to feel”. |
| (slow) Simt. |
| Simt. |
| After this is foarte, meaning “very”. |
| (slow) Foar-te. |
| Foarte. |
| Then we have rău which means “bad”. |
| (slow) Rău. |
| Rău. |
| All together, we have |
| (slow) Mă simt foar-te rău. |
| Mă simt foarte rău. |
| Literally translated, this phrase means “I feel very bad” |
| To ask to call an ambulance, you can say Chemaţi ambulanţa vă rog. In English, this means “call the ambulance please”. |
| Let’s break it down. |
| (slow) Che-maţi am-bu-lan-ţa vă rog. |
| Chemaţi ambulanţa vă rog. |
| The first word, chemaţi, is a form of the verb “to call”. |
| (slow) Che-maţi. |
| Chemaţi. |
| After that we have ambulanţa, the word for ambulance. |
| (slow) Am-bu-lan-ţa. |
| Ambulanţa. |
| And at the end comes vă rog (please). |
| The whole phrase once again is: |
| (slow) Che-maţi am-bu-lan-ţa vă rog. |
| Chemaţi ambulanţa vă rog. |
| REVIEW |
| Okay, to close out this lesson, we'd like you to practice what you've just learned. I'll provide you with the English equivalent of the phrase and you're responsible for saying it aloud. You have a few seconds before I give you the answer, so mult noroc , which means "Good luck!" in Romanian. |
| “I feel very sick” |
| (3 sec)Mă simt foarte rău. |
| (slow)Mă simt foar-te rău. |
| Mă simt foarte rău. |
| “Call the ambulance please.” |
| (3 sec)Chemaţi ambulanţa vă rog. |
| (slow) Che-maţi am-bu-lan-ţa vă rog. |
| Chemaţi ambulanţa vă rog. |
Outro |
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| All right, that's all for this lesson! |
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| Pa! |
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