Category Archives: education

Words and lemmas

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Fatca Pop

What is a word?  Well, I used four words to ask that question, right? But people who create spaced-repetition apps, and create word frequency lists, to learn languages don’t understand what a word is.  A single word, in the dictionary, … Continue reading →

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Romanian vocabulary for biblical reading (B2-C1 level) 2 Corinthians

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Fatca Pop

by Fatca Pop 25 September, 2023 If you can read to B2 level, you still may have trouble understanding the Cornelescu or Romanian Orthodox Bibles.  Some of the words in them are archaic perhaps, but many just aren’t taught in … Continue reading →

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Proven Yoga breathing techniques – and others to avoid

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Fatca Pop

When most people think of Yoga, they think of impossible stretches.  Others may know of the religious background to yoga. Romanian Mircea Eliade was the first European to study yoga in depth.  Eliade,  studied Yoga for his PhD.  He later … Continue reading →

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Bible words that aren’t used in polite English

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Fatca Pop

Hey Cluj!  Hello fellow English learners. So, some of you may be learning English, like me, through self study.  We may watch Netflix, or read books, or newspapers, and think that those help us speak like a native. Well, you … Continue reading →

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Learning Hungarian in Cluj

Posted on August 2, 2023 by James

When we mentioned apps to learn Romanian, one of our readers mentioned a desire to learn Hungarian. Classes If you do a quick Google search for live classes of languages in Cluj, the results might make you pleasantly surprised.  However, … Continue reading →

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Did you miss the 20 thousand lei Solar power subsidy?

Posted on June 14, 2023 by eReporter

According to the Bucharest and Iasi based accountancy firm, Expert Mind you could have received up to 20000 lei subsidy for solar energy through the ‘Casa Verde’ program. Their fee for helping get this subsidy was 490 lei. word of … Continue reading →

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Academic work sales to become illegal.

Posted on May 5, 2023 by James

When I lived in the UK, there was a big push by the government and universities to help academics, universities, and students “monetize” (or profit from) their academic research.  It appears that in Romania, there is a push for the … Continue reading →

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Overcrowding to become illegal

Posted on February 20, 2023 by eReporter

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.  She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.  Well, if that shoe is in Romania, some of them will have to move. You might have seen the … Continue reading →

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What do you call a fast food capital in Romanian?

Posted on January 10, 2023 by James

Is Cluj the fast food capital of Romania?  Făclia de Cluj called Cluj the “champion” of Romania in fast food on its front page on the 9 January.  The residents of Cluj (including ex-pats and perhaps tourists) ordered 42,372 cheeseburgers in … Continue reading →

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Cluj Art degrees worth millions

Posted on December 7, 2022 by James

A graduate of the University of Art and Design (UAD)  in Cluj, Andrian Ghenie, has sold a painting in Hong Kong for seven million Euros. UAD is supposedly the lowest ranked University in Cluj Napoca.  How do they do the … Continue reading →

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