Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) is regarded by many as the greatest Romanian poet, and when you…
Bernard O'Shea

Bernard O'Shea
Bernard, sometimes known as Bernardo or Bernardinho to his Romance language friends, or Bernardescu in Romania, is a journalist based in Sydney, where the Aussies tend to call him Bernie. He is the travel editor at www.timetowander.com.au and at The Australian Women's Weekly magazine.
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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…
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How often do you look up at the stars? In the garish neon lights of…