Word for the Travel Wise (06/07/06)

Before you proceed to find out what the word of today is I suggest you check out this photo on the Romanian tourism site. For some strange reason it blew me away. The brightly painted yellow colors from the trains railing to the young, smiling Romanian children seated up front makes for one of the best tourism shots I’ve ever seen. If I had the time and money to take off on the steam railway at Viseu du Sus I would do it in a heartbeat. The railway starts from a small logging town, runs through a roadless valley and is considered one of Romania’s finest heritage attractions. I provide no justice to even touching on the site, so please do yourself a favor and add this to your itinerary if headed to Eastern Europe.

Today’s word is a Romanian word used in Romania:

multumesc
– thank you

If you’d like to know some real practical basics visit this Easy Romanian site. They offer proverbs, months, numbers, and days of the week. As usual Pimsluer offers great audio methods and Lonely Planet has a pocket sized phrasebook for Eastern European langs. BBC has the quick fix holiday downloads with the very, very, basics of the language worth looking into.

Past Romanian words: ciocan, no roc

Word for the Travel Wise (04/03/06)

Of all my travels abroad one of
the places I miss more than anything is Romania, but that could very well be due to the special memories it holds as my
very first trip abroad. Before making my way over family and friends wished me well with tons of good luck as if they
were afraid something really horrific was going to happen. And while I hate to make yet another Dracula reference in my
Romanian lang lessons, it was almost as if they thought a vampire would come crawling into my hotel room and I’m sure
you can guess the rest or if you like you can use your imaginations and create a better ending. One where the young
girl returns home safely and later becomes a blogger for an online travel site and teaches words from various
lingos.

Today’s word is a Romanian word used in
Romania:

no roc – good luck

If you’d like to know some real practical basics visit this Easy Romanian
site. They offer proverbs, months, numbers, and days of the week. As usual Pimsluer offers great audio
methods
and Lonely Planet has a pocket sized phrasebook for Eastern European
langs. BBC has the quick fix holiday
downloads
with the very, very, basics of the language worth looking into.

Past Romanian words:
ciocan