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Romanian Verbal Mannerisms - Why Do We Say "Dacă e"?

Ilinca Stroe

Jun 8, 2017
2 min

Romanian Verbal Mannerisms - Why Do We Say "Dacă e"?

This jocular yet pragmatic series of posts focuses on verbal mannerisms in contemporary Romanian to give you a bit of a picture of where (on earth) they might come from, why they have come to be popular with Romanians today, and how exactly they might come in handy to you, too, at some point of your Romanian experience. While scrutinising “hai, pa!” (Part I) and “nu-mi spune!...” (Part II), we were able to trace their Latin-hearted ancestry down to South American soap operas

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The Assimilation of Anglicisms in Romanian

Enida Cincora

May 30, 2017
3 min

The Assimilation of Anglicisms in Romanian

Introduction Since December 1989, Romanian has experienced a constantly growing intake of English loanwords, and their pervasiveness is perceived differently by native Romanian speakers. Whereas younger Romanians and their English-speaking compatriots see Anglicisms as part of the common Romanian lexis, one which is particularly effective and “cool” in certain communication contexts, linguists may tend to disapprove of them [1]. However, to ensure correct and coherent use of

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INTERNATIONAL HOUSE BUCHAREST, AN ANNIVERSARY OUTLOOK

Ilinca Stroe

May 18, 2017
2 min

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE BUCHAREST, AN ANNIVERSARY OUTLOOK

History often has its way of channelling private enterprises smoothly towards large-scale endeavours. While we at International House Bucharest are celebrating our 15th anniversary this year, our country is enjoying its 10th year as a full member of the European Union. Moreover, as Romania is getting ready for its 100th anniversary as a nation next year, we too will be hailing in 2018 a decade of full membership in the European Association for Quality Language Services (EAQUA

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Ilinca Stroe

May 11, 2017
4 min

Why Learn Romanian?

Looking back, the Roman Empire was quite a slack manager of its linguistic effects. Or else you wouldn’t be reading in the non-Romance lingua franca that it did not bequeath to its north westernmost province, Britannia, about the Romance language it did generate in its (roughly) north easternmost province, Dacia. Generated, or rather dropped and then fled. For, just as this map of Latin-derived languages shows, (Daco-)Romanian, although pictured in pink, looks like a fight-or

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Iulia Andreescu

May 8, 2017
4 min

Romanian Weddings

Nowadays, Romanian weddings are an interesting combination of old and new, religion and tradition. When a couple decides to get married, there are lots of steps and procedures which have to be followed before this event. First of all, they should set up the date and check for the availability of the people from the city hall (for the civil wedding), the priests (for the religious one), as well as for the venue of the wedding party. After all being set, the couple has to find

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Romanian Verbal Mannerisms - Why Do We Say "Nu-mi spune!"?

Ilinca Stroe

May 4, 2017
2 min

Romanian Verbal Mannerisms - Why Do We Say "Nu-mi spune!"?

This humorous yet pragmatic series of posts focuses on verbal mannerisms in contemporary Romanian to give you the bigger picture of where they might come from, why they seem to be popular with Romanians today, and how exactly they might come in handy to you, too. Having looked into “hai, pa!” last time, let’s now puzzle over “nu-mi spune!...” Used quite often by generation X (aka pre-millennial) Romanians, this slippery-as-an-eel and baffling-as-a-platypus little phrase has g

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Veronica Negru

Apr 19, 2017
1 min

Romanian open courses

„Happy learners are effective learners” – it’s the motto which guides the teachers at International House in preparing and teaching a lesson of Romanian language. Join now and find out how we motivate an expat to study our language and how we design a lesson which has this effect: “Cool, when is the next lesson?” Romanian open courses are organised in groups of minimum 4, maximum 10 persons and take place in our school, Tineretului area. The first two training sessions are FR

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Veronica Negru

Apr 14, 2017
2 min

Romanian Easter

The Romanian Easter is an Orthodox holiday. Easter (or the Resurrection) celebrates Jesus’ ascension to Heaven. This is always a Sunday holiday and the Monday after is usually a free day. The word for Easter in Romanian is Paște, with its other form Paști. The most commonly known Easter tradition in Romania is painting eggs. How the eggs are painted will vary from one region to the other. Red is the traditional colour (it symbolizes Jesus’ blood), but in modern days Easter eg

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Ilinca Stroe

Apr 13, 2017
3 min

When the Easter Egg Teaches the Sapiens

Ready? Steady. Hold it right! You hold it honest! No cheating. Ready? Yup. “Christ is risen!” “He is risen indeed!” CRACK! Little did we Romanian children know that our Easter eggs, dyed by mother on Holy Thursday in the steamy kitchen where the roast lamb was in a very hot get-perfectly-cooked race against the cozonac [1], had come down through the mists of Time all the way from - where else? - Africa, cradle of all sapiens. Back then and there, humans reportedly decorated o

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Andra Firoi

Apr 13, 2017
1 min

Duminica Floriilor – The Palm Sunday

Vin Floriile cu soare Și soarele cu Florii! (Vasile Alecsandri) Palm Sunday is a Christian feast celebrated on the last Sunday before Easter which is called in Romanian Duminica Floriilor or simply Florii. This is the day that commemorates Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The holiday has roots before Christianity, when pagans used to celebrate Floralia, dedicated to goddess Flora, the goddess of flowers. The Roman festival of Floralia is dated in 238 B.C and it used to

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Romanian Verbal Mannerisms: Why Do We Say "Haide, Pa!"?

Ilinca Stroe

Apr 13, 2017
3 min

Romanian Verbal Mannerisms: Why Do We Say "Haide, Pa!"?

This humorous yet pragmatic series of posts focuses on verbal mannerisms in contemporary Romanian to give you the bigger picture of where they might come from, why they seem to be so popular with Romanians today and, last but not least, when and how exactly they might come in handy to you, too. We’ll have a look at language bits such as “haide, pa!”, “nu-mi spune!...”, “dacă e…”, “nu e ca şi cum” and, taking the biscuit, “gen”. While some of them will probably be forever stru

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Vlad Țepes or the Demythization of a Myth

Veronica Negru

Apr 13, 2017
2 min

Vlad Țepes or the Demythization of a Myth

The name of Vlad Țepes (Vlad the Impaler) has become in time synonymous to Dracula’s. This superposition has its origins in the onomastic confusion between Vlad Dracul (Vlad the Dragon, lit. Vlad the Demon), his father and the gothic novel Dracula, written by the Irish writer Bram Stoker in 1897, an international best-seller since its appearance. This name association is stronger than the fact that, while the novel story is set in late 19th-century Transylvania, Vlad Țepeș w

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Veronica Negru

Apr 13, 2017
1 min

UK Ambassador`s speech

His Excellency Mr. Paul Brummell - UK Ambassador to Romania, delivered this beautiful anniversary speech in the press conference organized by IH Bucharest on the 3rd of March 2017 in the context of celebrating 15 years of International House in Bucharest and over 60 years of tradition in teaching foreign languages worldwide. IH Bucharest team is honored by this anniversary speech, delivered in an accurate, fluent and convincing Romanian language. #Romaniancourses #studyRoma

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Veronica Negru

Apr 13, 2017
2 min

WORKSHOPS FOR CULTURAL INTEGRATION

Integrating a foreign manager in the Romanian work environment can be accomplished naturally and effortlessly through two structured methods: a cross-cultural workshop, which can be approximately two days long, and/or a Romanian course, which is also a kind of cross-cultural workshop in itself, as beyond the vocabulary, phrases, grammar, communication exercises and conversation role plays (at the office, on the phone, in the taxi, at the restaurant, with the house owner, duri

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Veronica Negru

Apr 13, 2017
1 min

Our teaching method

The method International House has been using since its beginning and which makes us unique on the market, as providers of Romanian-as-a-Foreign-Language Courses, is based on the exclusive use of Romanian during the teaching process. Therefore, no intermediary language is used, which makes for a fast and extremely efficient way of learning. The use of stimulating visuals and audio course materials also serves to permanently expose students to the language in its natural form.

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