The paper named „Methodological coordinates of teaching Romanian as a foreign language”, presents how Romanian can be teacher, in an active way, as foreign language. The study has been made with the special guidance of Sapientia University from Tg Mureş. The study was carried out on students from the „Translation and interpretation of hungarian-romanian” department from the University mentioned above. The first part presents the most defining features of Romanian and Hungarian languages, vocabulary, morphology and syntax elements. The second part presents the role of intuitive material in language development: illustrations, drawings, Power Point presentations. The conclusion of the study is that Romanian language as a foreign language is studied under different conditions than Romanian language as native language.