The “Central Cultural German Cluj Napoca” has announced A1-level German tests in April. Exam date: 24 of April, 2026. Last day to sign up, 20 March, 2026. Now, they advertised this exam…
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Learn Chinese language and traditional Chinese instruments at UBB.
Institutul Confucius (at UBB) is offering courses in chinese language, caligraphy, and music. The deadline to sign up is 2 March 2026. Chinese language courses Beginner Tuesday, 7-8.30 For other levels, see…
Japanese courses start tomorrow at UBB
It may be too late to sign up… but in case you already are, we thought it might be a good idea to remind you. It appears that courses will be taught…
Learn Polish or Chinese in Cluj
At Cluj’s UBB, you can study more languages than just Romanian. We tried their summer school, and were mostly satisfied. The courses at the Middle East center are a little out of…
American energy drinks have undeclared ingredients
Did you think you were safe because you avoided Nestle products? Well, the Swiss food giant is not the only one caught selling contaminated products. American companies are being caught all the…
Maidan plays in Cluj
Over the next few weeks, there will be Maiden plays in Cluj. “Theatru in centrul Clujului.” These plays will feature an actor that you might know from the Romanian Theatre, and a…
Fruit’s origin false: not greek, but Egyptian
Fruit that pretended to be imported from Greece was actually imported from Egypt. These fruit were sold in many supermarkets in Romania, including hypermarkets. Some had been treated with chemicals, past the…
Mircea Bravo’s dad protests against 8 hour work day
The actor who played the father of the Mircea Bravo character in Nunta pe Bani joined a protest, reported the Monitorul newspaper. (Monitorul means “the monitor, so it feels redundant to call…
Stray dogs: fact of myth?
There was apparently a rumor that Romania was filled with stray dogs. Then, that was changed. But has it changed back? According to Dog Desk animal action there are 900 million dogs worldwide. …
Irregular plurals in English
We love watching foreign influencers who tell us about life in Romania (or Romanians who tell us life in their country.) Well, not all of them. Immigrant expats are more interesting than…