Hi everyone! I don't usually post on Reddit, and to be honest I don't know if this even is the right subreddit for this, but here we go:
First off a bit of background: I absolutely love comparing languages and finding out the etimologies of words. Especially with romance languages.
My native language is Romanian 🇷🇴 and it's considered a romance language, but the more I dig into it, the more slavic I find (I should probably mention that I don't hate slavic languages, they're beautiful and there are romanian words of slavic origin I absolutely love - like crin (lily), lebădă (swan), prieten (friend) etc.)
What I hate is that if you know romanian you can understand quite a lot of the written other romance languages, and in some cases even some of the spoken language (easiest to understand being italian), but from what I've seen, italian, spanish, portuguese and french people can't really understand us and it's partly because we mostly use the conjunctive to replace the infinitive (îi place a vorbi => îi place să vorbească.- he likes to talk) but also because of most slavic words (because of these a lot of people also forget romanian completely when mentioning romance languages)
And sometimes I don't understand why some slavic words were borrowed even though we already had the latin equivalent
I'm really sorry if this sounds offensive, I don't mean to offend anyone, but I would just like to know if disliking your native language is normal? (I prefer english over romanian way more, for example)
Thanks and sorry for this being so long!
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