One question that bugs me is who was #StrapungereSilvestru or #SilvestruStrapungere? He’s not on Wikipedia and Google doesn’t know him either, yet he has a street named after him (wikimedia).
So, I did hour one of the 34 hour language challenge. I chose Romanian, because I’ve wanted to learn it for a little while but never actually took steps to do so. I figured this is a decent way to start that.
My favorite new word of the day is liliacwhich is the Romanian word for bat, like the animal.
Good luck with your challenge and I hope you come out as a Romanian pro!
can’t decide whether you want to learn a romance or a slavic language? here u go. have both
next time dragostea din tei comes on you can impress all your friends by knowing the words. it’s iei not yay you fools
you get to say âand î which is weirdly addictive. i sometimes say câine, mâine, pâine under my breath while waiting for the bus
diăcrițicș ăre fun
it’s pretty phonetic and the pronunciation isn’t too difficult
you will get an absolute bucket ton of new music. seriously, there is so much good romanian music out there and it sounds super catchy. my romanian playlist is twice as long as my english one
you get lots of new youtubers, comedians etc (btw you’ll never forget the first time you get a joke without having to look it up. bonus points if the joke was made by a guy dressed up as satan visiting a romanian middle school)
it’s an eastern romance language with influences from slavic languages and loanwords turkish, albanian and hungarian, while preserving some grammatical features from latin, making the whole thing a wonderful linguistic marvel
If you’re looking to practice a bit and remember your target language better… here are tons of free worksheets/workbooks for 34 languages (Japanese, Spanish, Korean, French, German, etc, etc.)
upfront & obvious disclaimer: account required
It’s the same type of “fill in the blank” workbook across all of their languages but the magic in actually rewriting things over and over is that the words end up sticking. Plus, there are English sections where you’ll have to force yourself to remember and write the word/phrase in the target language - which is even better for your memory (called active recall - forcing yourself to remember). I’m personally a big fan of this approach and I’d do similar to pass vocab quizzes in my HS & uni language classes.
This is the first feature-length science fiction animated film made in Romania, a sequel and continuation to a Romanian animated series of the same name directed by Victor Antonescu, with characters drawn by Călin Cazan and Mircea Toia.
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