Questions & Answers about Eu vorbesc româna și engleza.
Why does the verb a vorbi change to vorbesc here?
A vorbi (to speak) belongs to a group of verbs ending in -i that use the special suffix -esc in the present tense. To say 'I speak', you take the base of the verb (vorb-) and add -esc to get vorbesc.
Will the -esc part of vorbesc change if someone else is speaking?
Why do the languages end in -a (româna, engleza) instead of -ă (română, engleză)?
The base words for these languages are română and engleză. Changing the final -ă to -a attaches the definite article 'the' to the end of the word. When talking about speaking a language, Romanians usually add this 'the', literally saying 'I speak the Romanian and the English'.