I learned a new word in Romanian today – cutremur – which means earthquake. There…
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Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) is regarded by many as the greatest Romanian poet, and when you…
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Whenever I am in a Romance language country I enthusiastically buy little anthologies of poetry,…
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Of all the words I learnt while doing my summer language course in Sibiu in…
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An Australian thing has been named the world’s ugliest creature and I can assure you…
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One Romanian word that soon became a favourite among my classmates doing a summer language…
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The Romanian language has many quirks, and life there can throw up amusing incidents too.…
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OK, who wants to listen to sad old songs in French with a bit of…
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Romanians often laugh when they hear a foreigner try to say mâine, which means tomorrow,…
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In 1981, in a dismal attempt to improve my French, I spent a month in…