Yes! Check out this awesome video from YouTube. If you remember the one I posted just here last Friday then you can see there’s a new trend coming – the romaniophile! Best part: the “showing of the souvenirs”. Yes!! Actually I told a lie. The best part is that the woman in the video is a reader of this blog, who seems to be a … Continue reading In Fata Tronului
One of the few slang words I’ve been able to discover that have been created recently, as in just in the last 20 years or so, is the word naspa (nosh-pah). What’s interesting about naspa is that it is identical to a non-slang word, nasol, which just means anything ugly, unpleasant or of “low quality”. In other words, anything you don’t like is naspa or … Continue reading Slang Word of the Day: Naspa
Yes! After all the confusing grammatical rules on nouns and declinations and the dash mark and everything else, now time for something thankfully a lot simpler: verbs. Probably the most difficult language to learn in terms of verb conjugation is Italian, especially with their “passato remote” (distant past) tense. Compare the conjugation for Italian parlare (to talk) to the Romanian conjugation for vorbi. Quite a … Continue reading Romanian Verbs: Part 1
If you are at all a fan of this blog, you have to check out this hilarious videoclip. Best line ever: “It turns out it’s a real place with a language and a flag and everything.” DYLI? Continue reading Mandatory Viewing
Mercy… over all the years I’ve lived here I think the one consistant topic that I continually hear being discussed is poverty (saracie – sah-rah chee-eh). It’s something people who live here obsess over and it’s often one of the first thing visitors remark upon. Heck, I know I did the exact same thing. Many moons ago when I first came to Romania, my plane … Continue reading Poverty – Saracie
