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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Getting translations in Cluj

The following are extracts from people who translate into English: “The contact is ensured by the technical equipment we possess, the communication instruments and channels: mobile phone, e-mail, written message. Instantness and dissolution of borders, language barriers are a part … Continue reading

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Bible words that aren’t used in polite English

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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