Ok folks, more good news on the book front. The “regular” Amazon page for the paperback version is working now. It is here. PLEASE, please, if you have an account on Amazon, please log in there and write a review, even if you haven’t read the book. Just a few words mentioning that you like what I write (which hopefully you do, else why do … Continue reading Book News
Today is a big day in Romania – “Saint Nicholas’ Day”, known colloquially as Moş Nicolae, literally meaning “Old Man Nicholas”. In both Catholicism and (Romanian) Orthodox, today is a religious holiday to celebrate the acts of Saint Nicholas. In Romania, Moş Nicolae is roughly equivalent to Santa Claus (Brit: Father Christmas). Last night, little children all over Romania put boots (sometimes shoes) out for … Continue reading Moş Nicolae
Here in Romania as we head from autumn to true winter, we reach the gap where cold, freezing rain slowly but surely turns into snow. Just the other day, I heard someone use the word lapovita (lop oh-veet-za) and I knew I had to write about it on the blog. In Romanian, this word specifically refers to when it is simultaneously raining and snowing at … Continue reading Word of the Day: Lapovita
Well today is December 1, Romania’s big national holiday where this country celebrates its (brief) union in 1918 – not even 100 years ago! Woke up shocked to see the main Google page had the logo above. Actually today is a little bittersweet. In 1918, the union all of the various Romanian-speaking lands, which is what this day commemorates, did not last long. Today all … Continue reading Romania’s National Day – December 1
I wish I could take credit for assembling the following but it is from an excellent Romanian grammar textbook I found online (PDF). pac! a hit, a shot poc! a hit, a strike buf! the fall of (esp) a large and heavy object bum! an explosion, a loud boom trosc! wood breaking, a slap pleosc! a splash, the sound of something falling in water, a … Continue reading Imitative Interjections in Romanian
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