Romania’s Treasures: the Actors
If we were to search back in time for images of the first Romanian actors, we might well have to put up with scattered blurry memories of...
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Ilinca Stroe
Aug 15, 20183 min
Making Wishes in Romanian: Occasions and Phrases
If you’re an expat who has lived in Romania for a few good months, you are very likely to have been told, when you got a haircut or a new...
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Ilinca Stroe
Aug 8, 20183 min
Recognising and Expressing Moods: Putting a Phrase to the Feeling
Among the trending topics recently popularised in glossy magazines and in the world of publishing there are two emotions: hygge, marketed...
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Ilinca Stroe
Aug 2, 20183 min
Proof of Endearment: Diminutive Suffixes in Romanian
Those of you who are naturally inclined to read a restaurant menu not only for nutritional purposes but also to pick on typos,...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jul 30, 201814 min
Romania’s Treasures: the Humanists
Any piece of writing dealing with the humanities must necessarily start out by reminding its readers that the status quo of the...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jul 18, 20184 min
Peaceful Weekend Getaways: Three Monasteries
Personally, I love visiting cathedrals. Integrated into the urban landscape and yet cutting out a section of it which is emotionally...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jul 12, 201819 min
Romania’s Treasures: the Athletes
How long have Romanians done sports? That can be answered highly accurately: not as long as the Greeks. For we didn’t invent the Olympic...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jul 4, 20183 min
Dead Funny Up North: Săpânţa’s Unique Cemetery
It probably takes comedian Hugh Laurie’s straight face to be able to announce serenely, “This lovely summer we warmly recommend that you...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jun 27, 201814 min
Romania’s Treasures: the Film Makers
Popcorn and movies – such a match made in heaven. Don’t ask when Romanians took to popcorn just to find out when cinema appeared in this...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jun 20, 201811 min
Romania’s Treasures: the Scientists
Scientists tend to be eccentric figures. Especially in popularisation articles like this one. Some Romanian scientists over the last two...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jun 13, 201811 min
Romania’s Treasures: the Writers
Once upon a time, Romanians put pen to paper... To be more specific, it was 1521 when the first known piece of writing in Romanian (with...
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Ilinca Stroe
Jun 6, 20186 min
Romania’s Treasures: the Inventors
What have Romanians been up to, innovation-wise, over the last two centuries? In no particular order but some for-fun categorisation, let...
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Ilinca Stroe
May 16, 20184 min
Romania’s Treasures: the Musicians
There can be little doubt that Romania’s contribution to the World’s music is fairly substantial, as well as wide-ranging, for an...
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Ilinca Stroe
Apr 26, 20183 min
Today’s a Little Time Machine: What Romania Makes of Its Communist Past
Weekend holidaymakers and locals strolling on Bucharest’s Calea Victoriei on 1 April 2018 experienced the thrill of losing their way...
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Ilinca Stroe
Apr 19, 20182 min
One Word at a Time: „Dor”
Sensibilities have changed significantly among Romanians in the last few decades: for example, the music of the late ‘80s/early ‘90s,...
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Veronica Negru
Apr 5, 20182 min
Bucharest's Spring Festivals/2018
12-15 April: Spotlight The fourth edition of Spotlight Bucharest International Light Festival will take place between the 12th and 15th...
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Ilinca Stroe
Mar 22, 20182 min
Time in Romania: the Widespread Present Tense
Learners of Romanian who are familiar with the phrase “sfertul academic” may have also realised that punctuality, by which one generally...
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Veronica Negru
Mar 8, 20182 min
Brâncuşi’s Hometown: The Museum City
At the foot of the Parâng Mountains, in the southern sub-Carpathians, almost 300 km away from Bucharest, lies one of the most beautiful...
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Ilinca Stroe
Mar 1, 20182 min
Breaking News: Mărţişor Declares a State of Spring
There was once a Roman offspring On Momma Dochia’s braided string. Handsome and news-some, Stuck to the ladies’ bosom, Love, luck and...
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Ilinca Stroe
Nov 9, 20174 min
1917: Romania’s First Female Second Lieutenant [1]
How did she, one of eight siblings born to villager parents in Oltenia, (still) a poor region of her country, become the woman that the...
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