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Category Archives: education
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 the confucius institute’s website. You will find options … Continue reading
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 through Romanian, as the meme is advertised in … Continue reading
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 The courses at the Middle East center are a little out of date. They used to include classes in Greek … Continue reading
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 tourist expats. A lot of tourist expats claim … Continue reading
Expats or immigrants?
Why do English speakers call themselves Expats instead of immigrants? The use of the term expat goes back in two directions. In American English, it was often used to refer to those who came to America from other countries as … Continue reading
The cancelled Romanian curriculum, reviewed.
Some authors were seen as too hard for students. Why? Well, they were presented in chronological order. At first, this sounds crazy. If you were teaching English, you wouldn’t start with Bede. If you were teaching French, you wouldn’t start … Continue reading
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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 of living here can be lower. That said, … Continue reading
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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 German, Dutch, Estonian or Hungarian either.) That is … Continue reading
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 no native speaker can understand. Therefore, we think … Continue reading
What Romania can learn from Mississippi
Mississippi has traditionally rabked last in literacy in the USA. Perhaps that’s because the state name is so hard to spell (even if it only takes a second to say), and their towns within are even more difficult, that students … Continue reading