Despite having written a lengthier post about the film project and what I am doing and what I want to accomplish with it, I keep getting a certain style of comments from people, therefore I am going to address it here in a short and succinct manner. Folks, I have filmed hours and hours of footage, including over 80 interviews with people. The short clips … Continue reading Tip of the Iceberg
You know, a lot of the times my Word of the Day series focuses on either obscure or unusual or linguistically interesting words and I realize this may not be of much use to the person who is just beginning to learn Romanian. If this is you, today you are lucky because the word zebra (zeh-bruh) is not only easy to pronounce but also easy … Continue reading Word of the Day: Zebra
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been riding a lot of inter city buses lately as well as speaking with fellow passengers who are “old hands” at the system. And I have to be quite frank – the inter-city bus system in Romania is pretty awful. The only bright spot is that there is a rather comprehensive website that details just about every … Continue reading The Wheels on the Intercity Bus go Round and Round
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