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Singing with Smiley

January 29, 2018by Keeping up with the Carpathians Leave a comment

I’ve been a fan of Smiley for a while now, even before I moved to Romania. He usually produces simple pop songs and they’re easy to learn the words and […]

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learning romanian, music, pop culture, romania

Song of the Moment

May 29, 2017by Keeping up with the Carpathians Leave a comment

  Are you learning Romanian? Then I have an awesome song for you. This one is courtesy of “Domnu’ Smiley” 🙂 It has a great rhythm and simple-ish lyrics that […]

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learning romanian, pop culture

Learning Romanian: Memory Palaces

December 7, 2016by Keeping up with the Carpathians 3 Comments

I’ve mentioned before the love I have for the book “Fluent Forever” – it gave me some great tips on how the process of language learning works in the brain. […]

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language resources, learning romanian, romanian culture

Cursuri de Limba Română

October 29, 2016by Keeping up with the Carpathians Leave a comment

I’ve started my Romanian classes and so far I am really enjoying them. They’re intensive, so some days it can be overwhelming, but I feel like I am learning so […]

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learning romanian, romania

Culture Shocking

July 21, 2016by Keeping up with the Carpathians 1 Comment

When I was in grad school, I wrote a short story about an immigrant couple who moved to America. The man left his non-English speaking wife at home every day, […]

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learning romanian, romania, romanian culture

Carla’s Dreams

May 13, 2016by Keeping up with the Carpathians 1 Comment

One of my favorite bands for learning Romanian is Carla’s Dreams. I listen to a lot of pop music because the lyrics are repetitive – and while that helps me […]

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learning romanian, music, pop culture, romania

Song of the Moment: Berceuse Roumain

April 9, 2016by Keeping up with the Carpathians Leave a comment

A big thank you to Nico over at Learn Romanian with Nico for sharing this beautiful song.

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learning romanian, romania, romanian culture

Sunt Scriitoare!

March 26, 2016by Keeping up with the Carpathians Leave a comment

    Delta Dunării e localizată în sud-est-ul României. Este o rezervație naturală protejată de UNESCO.   Delta Dunării are multe animale. De exemplu, are pelicani și broaște țestoase.   […]

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learning romanian, the great outdoors

Happy birthday, dredges!

March 9, 2016by Keeping up with the Carpathians 1 Comment

Google translate wishes you a Happy International Women’s Day!   In Romania, they say La multi ani for everything. Birthday, New Year, Women’s Day. Dragelor is dear ones. Maybe Google […]

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learning romanian, romanian culture

-uri

February 29, 2016by Keeping up with the Carpathians 1 Comment

I’m fascinated by the suffix -uri. Well, I don’t know if it’s a suffix in Romanian or not, but it seems that way to English-speaking me. -Uri is magic. You […]

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language resources, learning romanian, pop culture, romanian culture

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