As I’ve mentioned before, Romanian language is a little ahem *coughcough* fluid on the spelling of the language. This can get damn confusing if you’re ahem *coughcough* some hopeless idiot foreigner trying to LEARN it so I’m going to give you a super short primer in the hopes that you won’t have to suffer for years (literally) trying to sort it all out. To illustrate … Continue reading Hijinks in Spelling – Orthography Fun!
If you speak English and see the expression drum bun your mind conjures up a musical instrument for striking out rhythms combined with some kind of light bread style pastry and it makes NO SENSE. That being said, in Romanian it DOES make sense, sort of. Drum (pronounced droom) literally means a “road” or “path” and bun (boon) just means “good”. So drum bun literally … Continue reading Expression of the Day – Drum Bun
Hopa (pronounced hope-ah) is a tough word to translate because it’s used in two different situations. The most general way to think of regular hopa is something like “oops-a-daisies”. For example: Waiter drops some dishes – HOPA! Your friend stumbles on the sidewalk – HOPA! You spill beer on yourself because you’re drunk – HOPA! The other way it’s used is in the expression hopa … Continue reading Slang Word of the Day – Hopa
Step 1 – Speak Italian and Spanish and then laugh and dismiss with a wave the Romanian language. After all they’re all Romance languages, no? Practically all the same. Step 2 – Meet some Romanians in the United States, ask ’em to tell you a bunch of words. Only remember one – opt – meaning the number eight. Really. The first day I showed up … Continue reading How I Learned Romanian in 37 Easy Steps
I was riding my exercise bicycle, watching a new (to me) show called Breaking Bad. It’s an American TV show about a lot of arguing and yelling and tragic faces and whatnot. (Ok actually it’s a little more complicated than that – LOL) But I almost fell off of my bike because a minor character that appears only in the first (pilot) episode was “Bogdan”, … Continue reading Romanians in TV/Film – Breaking Bad
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