Romanian
Este vară.
English translation
It’s summer.
Romanian · Absolute Beginner
Furnica și lăcusta
Adapted from The Ant and the Grasshopper
A grasshopper spends the summer singing while an ant stores food for winter.
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Scene 1 · Absolute Beginner
O furnică ocupată în timpul verii
A busy ant in summer
Romanian
Pe un câmp, o lăcustă cântă.
English translation
A grasshopper is singing in a field.
Romanian
O furnică trece pe acolo.
English translation
An ant passes by.
Romanian
Furnica duce cu greu mâncare spre casa furnicilor.
English translation
The ant struggles to carry food toward the ants’ home.
Romanian
Lăcusta vrea să vorbească cu furnica.
English translation
The grasshopper wants to talk to the ant.
Romanian
Dar furnica adună mâncare pentru iarnă.
English translation
But the ant is gathering food for the winter.
Romanian
Furnica îi spune lăcustei să adune și ea mâncare pentru iarnă.
English translation
The ant tells the grasshopper to gather food for the winter, too.
Romanian
Acum este multă mâncare.
English translation
Now there is plenty of food.
Romanian
De aceea, lăcusta nu vrea să adune mâncare pentru iarnă.
English translation
That’s why the grasshopper doesn’t want to gather food for the winter.
Romanian
Furnica merge mai departe și continuă să lucreze.
English translation
The ant goes on and keeps working.
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