hey. 

as a fellow central/eastern european, my advice is to try to talk with a toothpick (or cigarette if you smoke) in the corner of your mouth. i am not really familiar with exact romanian pronunciation rules, but you may be familiar that speaking hungarian involves a lot of hard, clear cut vowels including those rolling "r"-s (i am under the impression romanian has them tho', judging from the accent of a romanian youtuber i follow). to me the key was to learn how to speak with a "loosened" jaw-stance and a lot less articulation that my native language requires. I've managed to squeeze myself through a Cambridge CAE test several years ago, and people usually compliment me on my highly "americanized" accent - this was the way how i picked it up. :) 

Tom

Hello there.

I never really tried to achive precisely what you're trying to, but I've been learning English for quite some time in online groups, but I think you need something (a goal on a group level) to make these people stick together. This could be the motivation of learning itself, or something entirely different too, like in my case. Without a solid reason to show up on a regular basis the group could and will shrink and eventually die out, so if you're not talking about gathering only a few of your friends this is pretty much a real factor.

The primpary way of practicing my English was through gaming, and there this issue also exists, however I think it is also easier to overcome, since you're looking for "clan members" ( = gaming buddies) after all. The recruitment process varies with every game, but if someone is at least a little bit social it is easy to find a few players who are willing to team up. My experience is that as long as the group is having fun, and while doing that they have a common goal to "fight for", people will likely to stick around - regardless of language or nationality (assuming they are able to communicate in the first place). I was playing a game called "World of Tanks" on a daily basis in a group with first Polish, later British majority, and I can't even begin to describe how much it helped me with both in terms of listening and speaking skills.

So my final words would be try to set goal for the group, where everyone - even the native speakers - have something to gain. the group could play chess online, or tabletop RPGs. You may try to gather people with interest in history for example and share and discuss articles, books, etc... you get the point. :)

Cheers,

Tom

Hi,

My house and my garage are yellow.

"A házam és a garázsom sárga."

a = def. art. = "the" in English

ház = house, házam = my house. (Hungarian is an agglutinative language, we use a lot of suffixes to express the situation we are trying to describe.)
és = and
garázs = garage, garázsom = my garage,
sárga = yellow.
Note, the "is/are" is missing. In Hungarian, we leave it out on purpose when we are talking in simple present tense, and they only show up in other tenses, to highlight we're talking about the future or past, or in conditional, etc. For example if i were saying that "My house was green" (before), i'd say "A házam zöld volt." The word "volt" is the equivalent of  "was" (and in some situations "were").

I hope it helped,
Tom

Otthon vagyok. (correct!)

Tanítok magyarul / magyart.

Ülök a kanapén.(correct!)

Most este van és már sötét van. - (to be honest you could get away with using "van" only once if you modify the srtucture a bit).