You might have heard that the Romanian government has frozen the rise in minimum wage for 2026. Some businesses apparently asked for that. Things are getting tight for everyone, taxes are rising,…
Author: Fatca Pop
Fatca Pop is a dreamer, adventurer, cook, and blogger. Fatca was a hairdresser, company secretary, and teacher.
How retired people help the economy
A few industries, especially the vice industry, would have us think that older adults are a drain on the economy. Those who want to cut pensions, who have less compassion for the…
Peaceful Protests in Romania
Romanian literary figures criticise new year 9 Romanian language curriculum Something is wrong with the new language curriculum, apparently. Over 200 members of the Romanian language academy have problems with it, claiming…
Finnish education information
There is a lot of misinformation about studying in Europe. For European union citizens, some countries are free to study at. Some students come to Romania from western Europe because the cost…
Can AI be used to learn languages?
Some languages have more regular prosidy than others, or are more phonetic than others. English and French have a common phonomenon that doesn’t really exist in Romanian (and probably not much in…
Update on the Mississippi Miracle
This is about Cluj, not Mississippi, right? Well, as we’ve shown before, Cluj businesses which claim to provide services in English (including those that translate advertisements into English), use bad English that…
How medical refugees come to Romania
Different countries have different attitudes toward refugees. The process in many European countries seems backwards. Many people who are allowed to live in Belgian, for instance, are not allowed to apply for…
24b is a bilingual bus
You may have heard a few languages in Cluj. We often hear French, German, and of course Hungarian in addition to Romanian. A few people speak English, but when we hear it,…
“Chaos” as card machines go offline at Auchan
There was an announcement shortly after 3pm this afternoon at the Auchan’s in Cluj. It was in Romanian, but here is a rough translation. “Dear shoppers. We are sorry to inform you…
How new tarriff rules could tax expats
A Latvian once told me a joke about a Russian family on vacation. The Russian family went far over the baggage allowance, but somehow everything fit on the plane. When they arrived…