#romanian stuff

[moonstone-vibe]

Un mic mărțișor 😉

@estbela

[witchspeka]

Good morning

Start your day off with cafelutsa from the only Boy ever

[maia-radfemdu]

bonding with my Pakistani friend about how much Romanians love old hindi movies...I literally have a neighbor named after a character in an old hindi movie 😭

[honeykuwu]

Here's the link to the petition :

so about this post and this post i've seen in the #romania tag : (ikea's race for the last of Europe's old-growth forest) and (Romania is home to 60% of Europe's remaining old growth forest)

i've looked for something to do and found this petition (it seems to me that only people from Romania can sign, if someone wants to correct me on this please do):

it has 12.627 out of 15.000 signatures

it's adressed to ikea, kastamonu, romanel, massiv, expansion, succes, losan and yildiz entegre

it's asking these companies to refuse wood from virgin forests, reservations and national parks

why sign now? because it's starting to be too late to do something

because the goverment isn't doing anything

because virgin forests, natural reservations and national parks are the most important when it comes to sustain life and biodiversity (these forests formed after the last Ice Age and kept their properties so far)

because the protected parks aren't treated as requested by IUCN and the goverment finds reasons to legalise their harmful exploatation

because virgin forests are destroyed faster than they're able to be protected by law

because virgin forests make up only 2% of the country anymore

because the factories consume more wood than it can be legally extracted out of forests already in the economic cycle

because the factories mix the wood, making it impossible to track it's origins

the foreigner and local companies need to be more responsable. doing the minimum won't help anymore. the companies need to involve themselves actively in avoiding the wood from virgin forests, natural reservations and national parks

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[aylaphantom]

Hatsune Miku goes to Maramureș!

[yuikomorii]

// I love this illustration, everyone looks so cute as children but I can’t believe how straight up DARK it actually is??

Basically, this came out in 2019 and I was a bit confused why Ruki was there, since he’s Ayato’s rival and has nothing to do with the Sakamakis but I didn’t try to pay much attention to that detail, therefore I considered it a mere coincidence. However… after Young Blood was released, I can’t look at this picture the same anymore——

Rejet definitely knew what they were doing when they put only Ruki, Shu and Subaru in the same frame as Ayato because it’s giving “ Top 10 moments before disaster “. 😭😭

[alanturingdeservedbetter]

Un coleg de liceu voia sa studieze in state asa ca a trebuit sa dea SAT si intr-unul din eseuri a inventat un citat din John Branch. He got into Harvard.

Tag yourself! I’m Johnny Branch

Keep reading

[kalashnikovlobotomy]

NOT TBE FUCKING PINTEREST HEADCANONS.. my old hetalia board is FILLED with them and a bunch of others from tumblr

im sorry confederacy

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about Transylvania, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

[witchspeka]

De ce traducerea cuvântului condescending nu înseamnă același lucru în romana?? Ba chiar înseamnă opusul??? Its driving me insane

Aparent condescendent înseamnă respectuos, și mi-l da ca traducere pentru condescending, deși înseamnă lucruri diferite

Nu înțeleg de ce și nu găsesc niciun răspuns pe net. help.

[maia-radfemdu]

crazy that we live in an era where "baby, tu ești idealul meu transpus" it's a manea lyric....

[bluehourskyeli]

doodles while listening to Re: Dracula

[spotsupstuff]

I really like your spearmaster design because it does really make them look like they were made by an iterator, just like the segmented look of its body reminds me of how iterators bodies look which gives off the vibe of suns while creating this creature using how iterators were built as a basis for how a creature should be constructed, which leaves it with this artificially constructed look rather than a natural slugcat look.

Idk if this ramble made any sense or if these elements of the design were intentional but I think it's cool visual storytelling.

hehe thank you!!!

yes they were indeed intentional! segmented body to signal that it is artifical has been a thing for my version of it since the beginning

that all plus the idea of it being a vampire have been my #1 Spearmaster priorities when working with them

[achillessulks]

I've read your 'guide' on how to read faster, but I have a few questions of my own, if you would have the time to answer, please! And thank you, in advance, should you do it.

So sorry if you have answered any of these beforehand.

How many languages do you speak, exactly? I've seen you write in korean, english and french, but I assume there's at least another two? Also- do you have any tips on learning languages faster? I am currently learning french and russian, although they come a little easy to me since my mother tongue in romanian, and I live in a very russian-populated area.

And, what did you study in university, if you attended? I'm assuming something to do with classic literature and/or linguistics?

Thank you again if you've read all this :3 Have a good night, or day!!

Hi, I’d be glad to answer those questions!

How many languages do I speak, actually?

Well, I usually say I’m only functionally bilingual, because I’m only comfortable in French and English. And I’m better at reading and listening than I am speaking (as is the usual situation). I also know Arabic (Jordanian and MSA), on paper, but I’m very out of practice.

I can read and understand most Romance languages thanks to having studied Latin, but I’m best at Italian and Occitan. I know German and Russian pretty well, mostly due to having German- and Russian-speaking friends. I studied Korean for several years, but my knowledge of Chinese is entirely self-taught, and any understanding of Japanese I have is from knowing kanji (as hanzi) and knowing how translation works in general. I studied Ancient Greek for an embarrassingly long time. Technically my first word (‘more’) was in sign language!

Tips on learning languages faster:

This is an impossible question, really, because linguistic comprehension is so inevitably individual. Vocabulary flashcards might work for some people; for others (myself included) they’re useless. The uncomfortable truth about language acquisition is that there’s no ‘secret’ to it, no ‘cheat code’ or ‘one weird trick’ to make it quick and easy. It’s hard, grueling, thankless work. It’s also the best and coolest thing in the world, in my opinion, but it’s not something that can be ‘hacked.’ That said, here are some things that have helped me.

Study the linguistics and grammar of your target language’s family. Knowing how to construct a sentence will be much more useful than having a wide vocabulary; you can always talk around a specific word (‘you know, that thing that you use for doing this?’ etc.), but if you don’t know how to ask for clarification, you’re screwed.

Do as much total immersion as possible. Spending time around normal people who are normally speaking your TL will do more to improve your comprehension than almost anything. Make like a little baby who doesn’t know anything.

Read a dictionary in your TL. This will help flip the switch from mentally ‘translating’ (SL -> TL) everything to defining terms in the TL: e.g., instead of thinking of ‘cauchemar’ as ‘coșmar’ but in French, think of ‘cauchemar’ as ‘rêve pénible dont l’élément dominant est l’angoisse’ (for example).

Listen to music in your TL. Any media will be helpful (movies, TV, radio, podcasts, etc.), but music works the best. Listening to an album or podcast while you sleep is good, if you’re the kind of person who does that. (Personal anecdote: I remember one time when I had a dream entirely in Korean, including with words that I didn’t consciously know, and then when I woke up I just knew those words. Human consciousness is weird.)

Keep in mind that your brain can only absorb and process new information at a certain pace; trying to force it to go faster is only going to slow it down. If I could impart one single piece of advice on aspiring polyglots, it would be to spend as much time as possible immersing yourself in your target language, both listening and speaking.

In general, however, as I said, there isn’t really a way to ‘skip the queue’ when it comes to learning a language. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

What I studied in university:

I studied a very generic ‘classics’ degree, but my specific area of expertise was ‘Euripidean and later interpretations of Homeric canon’ (to paraphrase a very elaborate dissertation title). Functionally this meant that I read a lot of Euripides and Homer and complained about how different scholars throughout history have misinterpreted their corpora. I also did a lot of courses on translation studies. Often it surprises people to learn that I never specifically studied literature or creative writing; I come by that naturally (reading ridiculous amounts of books whenever possible).

Hopefully this all has been at least somewhat helpful/informative, and as always let me know if you have any other questions!