You know even though I love to joke about it, learning the Romanian language was (and still is sometimes) a very difficult and arduous process. I’ve made every mistake there is and been laughed at plenty. Heck I still sometimes get messages from people telling me I can’t speak it. Still though, about one thing that never fails to cheer me up is listening to … Continue reading We No Speak Romaniano
Well my drunken landlord came over today speaking in his standard exaggerated way about the weather, making it seem like he had just mushed his way across the frozen tundra to get to my apartment. His hyperbole notwithstanding, he did remind me that it would be good to go ahead and make a short list of winter words in Romanian. Some of you might remember … Continue reading Winter Words
Today I happened to be passing by Piata Unirii here in beautiful but frozen Unicorn City and I briefly stopped and watched the circa 50 protesters do their thing, surrounded on all sides by bored but ever vigilant security officers. My brain working the inexplicable way it does, all of this got me to thinking about one of the rare compound words in Romanian that … Continue reading Word of the Day: Girofar
Well today (Thursday) is probably the greatest of all American holidays, translated into Romanian as Ziua Reconstintei but known in English as Thanksgiving. There’s a lengthy explanation of the origin of the holiday at the link (goes to Wikipedia) but there are some details missing, some of which I’ll elaborate on in a moment. Putting it very succinctly, a group of Europeans who had emigrated … Continue reading Word of the Day: Slava
Whew, enough posts about me! Let’s talk about a word you’ve likely been hearing a lot in all of those clips and debates, and that is dezvoltare. The word is fairly easy for English speakers to master because it looks a lot like its translation – development. In most cases, it has a very identical meaning and if you look it up in a dictionary … Continue reading Word of the Day: Dezvoltare
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