My ex-gf was Romanian and she said the same thing preproman said. She lived in Italy for a while and spoke Italian and it seemed like most Romanians have a very positive opinion about Italy and the Italian language.
Romanian IS a romance language, regardless of any recent efforts to further romanticize it. As to Romanians being Slavs, they are, like all other Europeans, a hodge podge. But they also have more in common genetically with Italians than any other population in the Balkans, and more in common with Greeks and Italians than they have in common with other populations traditionally thought of as Slavs. Where are you getting your information?
When I went to Romania I could understand quite a lot of the signs from my general knowledge of Romance languages (I have learned quite a lot of French and a small amount of Spanish, as well as some phrases in Italian, but never any Romanian).
I am a romanian and I know fluent italian, my mother knows fluent italian, my best friend's parents and so many people speak italian in romania. And a lot of romanians also visit italy a lot. Romania is the country with most italy visitors
Having the number of speakers and the percentage that represents was big help. By working out the total population based on those two I got Romania and Albania.
Rewording the description to "total number of people" would make the distinction more clear. I also took "most people" to initially mean the percentage of the population.
I totally missed this one because all I could think of was Vatican and San Marino, where almost everyone speaks Italian but only percent wise. Could you make that more clear ? It is the number of people and not the percentage of the population ?
People from Baltic countries (Estonia Latvia Lithuania) are often associated to Slavs though, they are closer than Slavs and Romans.
Hungarians are not indo-europeans at all (not originally at last)
Can you Correct That?