Well it’s been a tough year all around the planet, starting with a devastating series of earthquakes in Japan (which will never happen in Cernavoda) to the wholesale looting of Greece to deadly riots in England and the ongoing “Occupation” of every major American city. I had the “pleasure” last night of listening to the latest projections on food price increases on the radio and … Continue reading God Bless All The Universe
Hey it’s almost Christmas, it’s cold outside and trying to snow, so who wants to have a lengthy discourse about English grammar? Just me? Oh well :P If Romanian is not your first language but you’re trying to learn it, the good news is that verb tenses and conjugations are extraordinarily simple. In fact, about the only time you’ll ever hear me say Romanian is … Continue reading E4R: Modal Verbs In The Past Tense
As you know, I’ve been searching for an apartment lately. So far I haven’t had much luck, mostly due to my cats, which I might write about later. But with all the various trips to different agencies, I’ve been spending a lot of time in Romanian offices, something I haven’t done in a while. I watch a lot of documentaries and somewhere buried on the … Continue reading Papers Please
Wow! Okay apparently last night they ran the episode with me on ProTV again. I assume it’s the same footage as I don’t own a television and nothing on their official website tells me differently (original video here). Kind of ironic I’ve been on television a dozen times in 2011 and yet never seen myself LOL A lot of people have been interested in the … Continue reading Back Once Again With the Iubesc Behavior
Probably one of the hardest things to learn in a foreign language are pronouns because they never “translate” one for one. English has a complicated relationship when it comes to transportation and pronouns and the only way to learn it is just to memorize it. If you try to understand why someone is “in” a car but “on” a bus you’ll just go insane and … Continue reading E4R: Transportation Pronouns
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