First piece of good news. The Institut Francez website is back on schedule! Acasă On the 5th of October, they will be at the International University fair at Grand Hotel Napoca. So,…
Learn German at UBB (senior discount)
Until tomorrow, you can sign up for Germa classes with the German club at UBB, or the Deutschen Kulturzentrum Klausenburg (aka Last Clean Newt). Yes, the deadline is 2 October to sign…
Happy Independence Day Cyprus?
We need to install a Greek language app into our phone. Why do Cypriots speak Greek? Well, hopefully next year, we’ll know better, but for now, we’ve learned that even before Alexander…
Chinese and Polish classes open for enrollment at UBB
By UBB, we mean University of Babes Bolyai, in Cluj Napoca. We just found out there is a UBB in Poland, University of Bielsko Biala, which also offers courses in Polish for…
Correction: Calea, not strada moților
I think we got the address wrong. Copy-Paste failed us, we should have done our own research. But we got it from the horse’s mouth? Well, I think the horse was wrong. …
What can Romania do to ready its military?
We see the writing on the wall. The larger powers are asking and taking. A Canadian province that never had a referendum before might vote to break up. (We knew that Quebec…
The weakness of online job boards in Cluj
I don’t remember ever getting a job from a job board. In Britain, I remember walking up to the company directly and hand my CV to the recruiter, or, more often, filling…
Has Voyo improved? 2026
Let’s start with things you might be interested in if you live in Cluj. You know Mircea bravo? his films are set here, and a few of his features are on Voyo,…
Gratitude phrases in Romanian (for the book fair).
I remember when my aunt told me that the Argentinian comic book character always said, “please,” “thank you,” and “you’re welcome.” Well, she must have said a Spanish equivalent, which has been…
Should Romania adopt school uniforms?
If I understand Adevărul newspaper correctly, it seems that Romania has adopted school uniforms. The parties that some have labelled as extremists, PSD and AUR, have voted in the very British thing….