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21 hours ago
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Use It or Lose It (9): 10 Exercises to Practise Your Past Tense in Romanian

The past tense is undoubtedly one of the most useful in any language. In Romanian the standard past tense form is “Perfectul Compus”,...

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Use It or Lose It (8): 10 Exercises to Practise Your “Conjunctiv” in Romanian

Ilinca Stroe

Mar 9
2 min

Use It or Lose It (8): 10 Exercises to Practise Your “Conjunctiv” in Romanian

When it comes to Romanian verbs, there are tenses and moods. Of the latter, the most frequently used is the “conjunctiv”, not unsimilar...

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Romania’s Genders: What the Romanian Nouns Imply

Ilinca Stroe

Feb 12
4 min

Romania’s Genders: What the Romanian Nouns Imply

probably the most fascinating thing about gender in different languages is the relationship between natural gender and grammatical gender.

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Use It or Lose It (7): 10 Friendly Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

Ilinca Stroe

Jan 6
2 min

Use It or Lose It (7): 10 Friendly Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

10 accessible intermediate-level exercises. So that you keep your Romanian prim, trim and going.

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Standing out in the World: 5 Out of the Ordinary Things about Romania

Ilinca Stroe

Dec 9, 2020
5 min

Standing out in the World: 5 Out of the Ordinary Things about Romania

The European Union’s sixth largest country after Brexit and one of Europe’s most important agricultural producers, Romania inherited from...

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Use It or Lose It (6): 10 Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

Ilinca Stroe

Nov 3, 2020
2 min

Use It or Lose It (6): 10 Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

Practising your Romanian so it doesn’t go downhill can be fun and stimulating. See for yourself trying out these 10 short exercises.

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Romanian Sarcasm: The Case in Point of 9 Turkish loanwords

Ilinca Stroe

Oct 7, 2020
4 min

Romanian Sarcasm: The Case in Point of 9 Turkish loanwords

However, linguistically the Romanian language was remarkably welcoming of Turkish-origin words, which have been around for long enough to pe

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Use It or Lose It (5): 10 Romanian-language Exercises

Ilinca Stroe

Aug 17, 2020
2 min

Use It or Lose It (5): 10 Romanian-language Exercises

Fresh from the oven: this month’s dose of Romanian-language practice includes a new batch of 10 mixed-level exercises which will put your mi

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Use It or Lose It (4): 10 Short Romanian-language Exercises

Ilinca Stroe

Jul 16, 2020
2 min

Use It or Lose It (4): 10 Short Romanian-language Exercises

Ready for another shot of Romanian? This is snappy practise with 10 new exercises that will help you flex your Romanian muscle

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Romanian Moods: The Legacy of the Phanar in 8 Colloquial Words

Ilinca Stroe

Jul 4, 2020
4 min

Romanian Moods: The Legacy of the Phanar in 8 Colloquial Words

These words of Neo-Greek origin can be circumscribed to the area of moods, attitudes and dispositions, and today they are all used in the fa

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Use It or Lose It (3): 10 Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

Ilinca Stroe

Jun 15, 2020
2 min

Use It or Lose It (3): 10 Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

Do you feel challenged by these more advanced-level exercises to practise your Romanian?

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Use It or Lose It (2): 10 Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

Ilinca Stroe

May 15, 2020
2 min

Use It or Lose It (2): 10 Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

Your Romanian will stay in good shape with these 10 short exercises covering vocabulary and grammar.

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A Peek into Romania’s Soul: 8 Quasi-untranslatable Romanian Words

Ilinca Stroe

May 6, 2020
4 min

A Peek into Romania’s Soul: 8 Quasi-untranslatable Romanian Words

But any (good) translation is inherently an approximation and an adaptation. Hence the adage “traduttore, traditore”. There are words whose

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Use It or Lose It (1): 10 Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

Ilinca Stroe

Apr 15, 2020
1 min

Use It or Lose It (1): 10 Exercises to Practise Your Romanian

No practice, no learning. To keep your Romanian in good shape, here are 10 short exercises for you, covering both grammar and vocabulary (wo

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One word and beyond: “Rost” in 9 Everyday Romanian Phrases

Ilinca Stroe

Apr 8, 2020
3 min

One word and beyond: “Rost” in 9 Everyday Romanian Phrases

"Rost": a Romanian noun which is essentially untranslatable. Although as part of some phrases it can be easily rendered as “point",

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#StayHome and Explore Romanian. 4 Activities You Can Do Using StudyRomanian Online Resources

Ilinca Stroe

Mar 25, 2020
3 min

#StayHome and Explore Romanian. 4 Activities You Can Do Using StudyRomanian Online Resources

So we, at StudyRomanian, would like to assist you in choosing language-learning activities that you can carry out using our resources, so th

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One word and beyond: “Drag” in 9 Everyday Romanian Phrases

Ilinca Stroe

Feb 29, 2020
3 min

One word and beyond: “Drag” in 9 Everyday Romanian Phrases

There’s “drag” in English and “drag” in Romanian. The four-letter noun looks the same in both languages but the meanings are wide apart:

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One word and beyond: “Nas” in 11 Everyday Romanian Phrases

Ilinca Stroe

Jan 27, 2020
3 min

One word and beyond: “Nas” in 11 Everyday Romanian Phrases

It is the key word in a great deal of phrases and idiomatic expressions where the overall meaning has to do, somewhat surprisingly, not with

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What Do We Ask When We Ask Nothing? 10 Answerless Questions in Romanian

Ilinca Stroe

Dec 5, 2019
3 min

What Do We Ask When We Ask Nothing? 10 Answerless Questions in Romanian

In Romanian, we don’t have question tags. But we do have what we could call, generically, “rhetorical questions”: questions which don't

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Ilinca Stroe

Oct 25, 2019
3 min

One word at a time: “Păr”

In the mythology, fiction and arts of many cultures, it is a symbol of plentifulness, wellbeing, beauty and status, especially with women.

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