First notebook entry: Introducing myself

i am learning romanian because at my boyfriend's home they speak much romanian and thats why i want to learn it.

If I understand you correctly, this is similar to "don't","wouldn't","you'd" etc. For example "m-am" means "I made something with myself" "m" implies the self and "am" is the auxiliary from Perfect Composed tense of Indicative. For example "M-am dus in parc." Means "I went to the park". Here the subject which is the self is "M-" "Nu-i" means "it isn't" or "Nu este" A common difficulty is with the construction: "ia" vs "i-a" "ia" means "take" (2nd person vocative) while "i-a" is in the Perfect Composed and means He/she did smth to/for him/her. Example: "ia cartea aceea de pe raft" (take that book from the shelf) "Paul i-a cumparat o carte" (Paul bought him/her a book) I hope this clarifies it a bit.