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Learn Romanian
by ear

Hear a native speaker. Type what you hear. Immediate character-level feedback. Spaced repetition brings back what you missed β€” at exactly the moment your brain needs it.

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Works on your phone Β· No account needed Β· Desktop: macOS Β· Windows Β· Linux

Desktop works on a plane. Works anywhere.


Proof
C1

The developer of this app reached C1 Romanian using this exact method β€” daily short-sentence dictation, spaced repetition, no grammar courses. That's the result the method is built around.

Like Anki, but for your ear. SRS (spaced repetition) is the best-proven method for long-term retention β€” but Anki requires you to build your own flashcard decks, and it doesn't have real native audio. SiteDictation gives you pre-built spaced repetition with thousands of native speaker sentences. No card creation. No setup. Just practice.

How it works

Not flashcards. Not lists.
Just listening and reproducing.

The bottleneck in Romanian fluency is the ear β€” native speakers talk fast, use contracted forms, and don't wait for you. No amount of vocabulary study fixes that. Active listening does.

01

Listen

A sentence from a native Romanian speaker plays. No text shown. You listen.

02

Type

Reproduce what you heard. A character-level diff shows exactly where you went wrong β€” every missing diacritic, every mishear.

03

Repeat

The algorithm schedules each sentence to return at the exact interval your brain needs to consolidate it.

04

The ear sharpens

Over thousands of repetitions, Romanian sounds that once blurred together become automatic and precise.


Why this method

Romanian diacritics matter.
This app enforces them.

In Romanian, diacritics change meaning: fată (a girl) vs fata (the girl). Most apps ignore this. SiteDictation doesn't — strict grading is the default for Romanian, because getting it right actually matters.

Intensive dictation closes the gap. Every sentence you hear and write is one active repetition of your auditory system against real native speech. Not passive consumption β€” active processing, with immediate consequences for every error. After thousands of repetitions, Romanian stops sounding like noise and starts sounding like language.

Download

Free. No account.
Works offline.

Native speaker audio and English translations are bundled in the app. Practice without internet. Your data stays on your device.

Free shareware

macOS (Apple Silicon)

1,000 sentences from Romanian native speakers. English translations included.

Download for macOS
Free shareware

Windows

Same 1,000 sentences. Windows 10 and later.

Download for Windows
Free shareware

Linux x86_64

AppImage. Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and others.

Download for Linux
Pro β€” full corpus Β· €12

Open Dictation Romanian Pro

21,000+ sentences β€” the full validated Common Voice corpus. macOS and Linux. One-time purchase; download links emailed immediately after checkout.

Get Romanian Pro β€” €12

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For teachers

Want students who can actually hear Romanian?

This app does the rote perceptual training that no classroom can efficiently provide at scale β€” immediate personal feedback on every sentence, hundreds of times per session. Assign it as homework. Data stays on the device.

Read about the method for teachers β†’