All of the following are real sentences that I’ve heard spoken with my own ears. Your job is to correctly guess the “school book” or standardized translation. Good luck! 1) Yesterday I went at the mall a) Yesterday I physically attacked the mall b) Yesterday I began to yell at the mall c) Yesterday I went to the mall d) Yesterday I began to argue … Continue reading E4R: Pop Quiz!
In Romanian, the logic is absolute. Any time you buy something with money, well… you buy it with money. Ex: Am cumparat cartea lui Sam cu doar 30 de lei! However in English, as odd as it sounds, and as infrequently as it is used here, one always pays for things (with money). Ex: I bought an awesome book for only 30 lei Ex: I … Continue reading E4R: For a Fistful of Dollars
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
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
It’s fairly axiomatic that adjectives in English are always singular, even when the noun is plural. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Romanian say “I have three greens shirts” or something. Sometimes however adverbial phrases have nouns that are used as adjectives and there is a strong tendency for Romanian speakers to pluralize these. The simple rule of thumb is that if a word … Continue reading E4R: When Nouns Are Adjectives
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