I’m not going to lie. I saw the movie Borat when it came out and laughed like hell. It’s definitely a funny movie and being American myself, I loved it when Sacha Cohen’s character of a (supposedly) naive and clueless foreigner exposed a lot of real foolishness (and downright racism) of the various Americans in the film. What I didn’t find quite so funny though … Continue reading Romanians in TV/Film – Borat
Ahh, the Hungarians. I lived here a long time before I even began to gain the slightest understanding about them and I don’t think I ever will fully understand them all the way. To understand the Hungarians in Romania, it’s essential to travel back through time to the beginning of the Hungarians as a separate race or ethnicity of people. At around the end of … Continue reading Hey, hey we’re the Hungarians!
If you look at a sea of printed Romanian, it can be quite intimidating to try to pronounce. One time I was in the town of Turda with a group of Polish tourists and I asked them to try and pronounce the cities on a destination board at the bus station and it sent me into gales of laughter. I wasn’t laughing at them (believe … Continue reading A Simple Guide to Pronouncing Romanian
Many years ago, in my struggle to get a grasp on the Romanian language, I picked up a book that was simply entitled Romanian Grammar. It was filled with all kinds of complicated words like “genitive” and “declension” and “vocative” and basically made no sense to me – until years later when I already SPOKE Romanian and by then it was pretty much useless. These … Continue reading Romanian Grammar 101: Noun Cases
Note: There may be some SLIGHT exaggerations in this story. Also, all names have been changed to protect the so-called “innocent” LOL I have a little confession to make. In my earlier post about drinking in Romania I did mention tuica but I neglected to inform you that yes… *sniff*… I am something of a tuica whore. There are two kinds of tuica in this … Continue reading How Tuica Almost Made Me Start World War 3, Completely by Accident and Totally Not My Fault
