hello! 16 year old student here. i'm currently learning french in school with the help of our local alliance francaise. just last month, i went to saint-malo with my school and it has truly been an amazing experience! i lived through every aspect of french life meaning that i got to stay at a local family, i would go everyday to school and take B2 courses of french, and so on and so forth. i'm not usually one to comment on any youtube videos at all, but i wanted to share my love for france just as you do for romania. i hope that one day i can become an international student in Paris, but until then i thank you for learning so much about our country! :)
The French influence in Romanian society began in 1848. This influence is particularly noticeable in southern Romania, where the bourgeoisie would send their children to study in Paris. This is the explanation. Thus, the French system was replicated in Romania, especially evident in education. In contrast, in Moldavia (Iași) and Cluj, children were sent to Vienna, where the influence was Germanic. These influences still exist today. Transylvania and Banat maintain strong ties with the Vienna region and southern Germany, particularly Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, while the southern part of Romania is more connected to France. The south leans towards socialism and remains closely attached to France, whereas the north is more liberal and aligned with Germany and Austria.
Strange. The Moldavians also sent their children to Paris, it seems that Wallachian and Moldavian students in Paris got together and decided the two principalities should unite, thus starting the unionist movement. But the first to introduce the French language and culture to the Principalities were the tsarist troops garissoned there, before that the landed gentry spoke Greek as a foreign language (after a century of Greek rulers from the Phanar).
@@mimisor66This is the beautiful story crafted about the unification of the principalities. In reality, Bucharest was chosen as the capital through deceit. Moldovans were more connected to Chernivtsi than to Bucharest. Generally, the population in the south is more vocal, seeking to stand out; however, being loud doesn’t necessarily mean being right. Even though some may have passed through Paris, the Germanic influence in Moldova is evident. Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817-1891) - University Humboldt din Berlin, Titu Maiorescu - Berlin, Mihail Eminescu - Viena, Should I continue? Alexandru Ioan Cuza, although he studied in Paris, maintained his circle of friends predominantly Germanic and passed away in the Baden-Württemberg region.
Before 1865, the adoption of the Napoleonic Code in Romania, the Romanians were applying the Justitian's Code, and the revised version of it called Basilika, Bazilicale in Romanian, "The Imperial Law" in English. The Napoleonic Code it's based off these codes, a modernization if you will. The Napoleonic Code, although very modern in many ways, infringed on the inheritance rights of the Romanian women and the right to own properties, which was not the case with the old Roman Law. Equal rights for inheritance for all children including for those out of wedlock, and theirs's descendants, meant basically a constant Games of Thrones in the premodern Romanian states.
In the same time it is the beginning of the industrialization, the modernization of the society, development of the city, the "Conservative liberalism", the secular world, the divorce, schools for the household economy and industry, the beginning of the women businesses, the well known predecessor of the haute couture and luxury industries, the movement of the young women with their family capital. The world of Thornton Wilder in "Hello, Dolly!"
I read a lot about Romania on Wikipedia. It says that the Boyar system was artificially installed by the Turks. Prior to the Boyars, Romanian villages were governed by obște - which is a slavic word describing a system of communal management of the terrain that predated slavic contact. The page for this describes an unwritten set of common laws, obiceiul pământului ("custom of the land"), How does this compare with the Basilika system you describe?
@@DavidHerron the boyars were the usual feudal ruling class, the warlords, the national aristocracy, the landlords. Some of them were patriotic, loyal to the prince or king, others were traitors to gain more wealth and power. Some of their territory was still part of the Byzantine Empire, others were vassals or associated to it. Being related to the people of the empire and having the same religious denomination as the same cultural heritage they adopted the laws and kept it even after the fall of the empire and being defeated by the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire only took over them as they occupied the lands and the people. Many of them were martyred. There were regions of free peasantry the yeomanry who were subject only to the authority of the prince, king or governor. They were organized as you described. In fact most of the Europeans were organized like the knights of King Arthur 's Round Table, definitory for the Europeans, or even more democratic. They had practically an "elderly" council and a mayor. Other peasant villages were not free but in serfdom, they were belonging to the warlords, to the landlord, they had to pay taxes to support the military defense and to work also for the landlord and to develop the region as it was organized. They were organized like the others but had a lot of riots and civil wars.
@@DavidHerron No, it was not imposed by the Turks. The society was composed by slaves, serfs and land owners. A boyar was a land owner who worked for the state either in administration or in the military. The boyar titles reflected more or less the byzantine court titles. Land and other proprieties (mills, inns etc) were personally own or family own. A village was very small and most of the people in it were related. What was commonly own and administrated were mostly forests and pastures. "The law of the land" was applied for the local, day to day, cases, even that one was specifically Romanian, and had very strong Roman influences. In the neighboring countries it was called "The Vlach Law". When it was an important case, the prince, which was the first judge was following the the Roman law, because it was nothing else in that time so elaborated with that much jurisprudence.
I was thinking why your room seems so familiar to me, I don't have such a big library and the position of the door is not the same, but then I saw the Orthodox icons on the top left shelf and I understood why. :)
In the cold season, try to get sunshise exposure every day that is not cloudy. The sun does wonders to the body and mind. Few things are better than a 45-60 min walk in cold sunny days.
I was gonna jump on you for talking about Romanian wine but not about Tsuica (I know that's not how it's spelled, but I don't know how to make the "ts" character) -- but then a few minutes later you talked about it. The best place IMHO to buy tsuica/palinca is in the market, in a plastic bottle that says Coke or something entirely different. It's available in the stores, at a high price, and I have no idea whether that stuff is any better than what one finds in the market. Any idea? As for French influence -- Some schools, like that high school in Craiova (where my Magda attended), teach in French. And, I understand that many of the leaders of the 1800s were sponsored to go to France to study.
I think home brew is the best, so probably the market.. I don't drink spirits so it's not of interest to me, but my neighbours regularly offer me Tuica!
Bounjour . First to comment her. You know that we Romanians we were attached to French language, culture before communism. I was good on French , because French was the first language I learned in school besides Romanian language of course. I ve learned French, English and Latin language. Now in Romania you can not distill as you want or sacrifice a pig as you want at home. Now you must respect some rules and regulations for this 😉. Romania is the number one producer of natural gas in 2024 in European Union 😉. Thanks for the video. Have a nice weekend… and I do not skip the ad on your videos 😉☝️👏😊
Russian was never dropped, it was one of the 4 options (French, English, German and Russian), classes were assigned a foreign language based on the availability of teachers and was studied in school up to December 1989, but because it was very hard to find books in Russian nobody bothered to actually learn it past getting the passing grades. English was the most in demand, then French. German was pushed hard by the government because they needed chemical engineers able to read German :-) but it was not very popular. During Ceausescu's time if you could not pass a rather undemanding Math and Physics exam you could not get to the university. Romania was never the breadbasket of Europe, the port of Galati through which Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania exported grains was the breadbasket of Europe, at least until 1856 when Chicago overtook it in grain exports and became the breadbasket of Europe ;-).
@@livinginromania well, before like 1914 most countries in Western Europe were very concerned about food security, and finding a source was important. Before the USA set their country in order :-) one of those sources was Romania, there was even a well known spy and troublemaker, David Urquhart, who spent time in Southern Romania and sent home enthousiastic messages about how much food could be bought in exchange for coal and pig iron when he wanted England to save the Ottomans, then later complained about the heat and the dusty plains of Wallachia ;-). Romania did export some grains but mostly maize, the climate is too dry for good wheat, but the harvest was not consistent from year to year ... same as it exports today. That is why England got involved in the Crimean War, then suddenly appeared to lose interest in Romania ... the exports from USA replaced the Romanian exports, and the Russian and Turkish exports too. The company who built the railway from Cernavoda to Constanta (there was no Constanta at the time, only a fishing village and no port) during the early 1850s (that is before Dobrogea was given to Romania) even started a campaign to redirect to Romania German emigrants passing through England on their way to USA in order to increase grain production in Romania when the grain traffic proved to be very small, not enough to make the railway line pay back the investment :-D.
If I understood correctly you live in Craiova. So your comparison is based in that area of Romania. I would not generalize it to the entire country. Very few people speak French in Transylvania, Bucovina and Basarabia. After 1918, the influence of the old Kingdom, where French was widely spoken, started to spread to the "new" territories, but since we were never left alone, this spread did not take effect.
About “procuror “ are you sure is the lower court judge? I thought is the state attorney. People aren’t supposed to sell anything tax-free, they just do it because is customary: these lands were once stateless and post-tribal necessarily pacified by the need to exchange genetics among neighbouring villages- you can’t attack the village where your own daughter got settled or your son-in-law comes from.
I refer to "procuror" as the "juge d'instruction", who is indeed the prosecuting state attorney. They are not judges, but the French nomenclature may be confusing. In the USA they would be referred to as the "district attorney". The lower court judge is the "judecator". I don't think the tuica is necessarily sold, although it may be. In the UK it is illegal to even distill alcohol without a licence. This is not the case in France or Romania.
@@livinginromaniait's very easy to understand if you are studying we may say the medieval taxation of a foreign occupied territory. Before the modern times for a few centuries at the end of the Middle Ages the national provinces were vassals under foreign administration. The taxation without any representation was purely robbery and torture for the benefit of the enemy and a foreign empire against the national development. It stayed all the time repressive and oppressive. It had to "feel free" and different in a national state built by the tax payers.
@@livinginromania For tsuica, I suggest you go to Piata Centrala and look around, especially in the fruit and vegetable hall. There are several folks selling tsuica/palinca in one corner of that hall. There's also a couple people who sit at tables outside selling tsuica/palinca. In Bucharest, I know of a few sellers at Piata Domeni. The price is generally 10 lei / liter, which is a fraction of what you'll pay in Kaufland.
Despite the social similarities between France and Romania their language and temperament is still closer to Spain. This is what makes Romania a “natural curiosity “😂 I still prefer… Scotland 😂
Russian wasn't dropped after the 60s. I had Russian in the late 80s and early 90s (after the 89 Revolution). My parents had Russian. It wasn't dropped or, at least, not everywhere.
Very interesting. I don't know any schools in Craiova where it is on offer, although, bizarrely Korean was on offer because of Daewoo's investment in the city.
@@gigihentz5510 I was born in Neamt county, so were my parents. One of them was born in '56. Both of them to had Russian in school. In 93-94 I was in the 5th grade an I had French and Russian. Now I lived in a village and the Russian teacher was some old lady waiting to retire (so she wasn't fired by the school system based on the fact that nobody learned Russian anymore). Seeing that in the 5th and 6th grade I was still learning Russian, my parents transferred me to another school where I started learning some English. Point is, in some parts of the country, in the late 80s and early 90s Russian was still taught, uninterruptedly. Also Russian was the lingua franca of the Eastern block (there are stories about the Polish tourists coming to Romania and selling, on the side of the road, out of their car booth, wonderful things we had no access to, such as clothing - jeans - and what not and people were haggling in the little Russian they had). So, it is not true that Russian disappeared from Romania in the 60s. This article says that "Dostoevsky's language was, for the last time studied in Sibiu in the 1992-1993 school year" (hotnews.ro/adio-rusa-819637); which is consistent with my story about the old lady still teaching it in some forgotten Moldavian mountain village school in early 90s. Travel abroad was restricted for Romanians during communism but no so much in the SSSR. So some Russian came in handy for those purposes as well. But there is some truth to the claim made in the video (adevarul.ro/stiri-interne/societate/limba-rusa-se-intoarce-fundatiile-finantate-de-1554350.html#google_vignette): "După 1965, limba rusă nu a mai fost obligatorie, dar a rămas cea mai studiată limbă străină la noi în ţară." (After 1965 Russian wasn't MANDATORY anymore but it remained the most studied foreign language in our country").
@@mariarevnic6415how come it remained the most studied? I went to school in the 70s and 80s, most of the schools in the neighbourhood had either French -German or French -English on offer. I know some people my age that studied Russian in school, but they are a minority. And the level of the Russian teachers was quite low, those people only have basics of Russian, while my English and French teachers were very good and committed.
@@mimisor66 The fact that the level of Russian teachers was quite low doesn't mean that the Russian wasn't studied. I was "advanced" in French and I know no French. And my English is mostly self-taught. So that is not an argument. As for the rest, I was quoting an article.
The marking out of 10 is quite logical because is more accurate than out of 20. I’ve got for example a mark of 9.12 which represents 91.2%, in between 18/20 and 19/20. The math- phys education was a communist attempt to rebuild from ground up: since all engineers and architects were imprisoned, the populace needed learn maths and physics first. The technical high schools were like the rediscovery of tap water- too new and untested to be considered reliable.
@ Essentially the marking applied today is /100 while maintaing the looks and the compatibility with the old marking /10. Marking /20 is as strange to me as 21 shillings in a pound sterling is when compared to say 100 cents in a dollar. This is where we should all be tolerant with each other before even we understood different ways to address same issue.
hello! 16 year old student here. i'm currently learning french in school with the help of our local alliance francaise. just last month, i went to saint-malo with my school and it has truly been an amazing experience! i lived through every aspect of french life meaning that i got to stay at a local family, i would go everyday to school and take B2 courses of french, and so on and so forth. i'm not usually one to comment on any youtube videos at all, but i wanted to share my love for france just as you do for romania. i hope that one day i can become an international student in Paris, but until then i thank you for learning so much about our country! :)
St. Malo is a beautiful port with fantastic seafood. Enjoy your French and thanks for watching.
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The French influence in Romanian society began in 1848. This influence is particularly noticeable in southern Romania, where the bourgeoisie would send their children to study in Paris. This is the explanation. Thus, the French system was replicated in Romania, especially evident in education. In contrast, in Moldavia (Iași) and Cluj, children were sent to Vienna, where the influence was Germanic. These influences still exist today. Transylvania and Banat maintain strong ties with the Vienna region and southern Germany, particularly Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, while the southern part of Romania is more connected to France. The south leans towards socialism and remains closely attached to France, whereas the north is more liberal and aligned with Germany and Austria.
Very true. Thanks for watching.
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Yes! That is quite true! // Este adevarat ce spuneti.
Strange. The Moldavians also sent their children to Paris, it seems that Wallachian and Moldavian students in Paris got together and decided the two principalities should unite, thus starting the unionist movement. But the first to introduce the French language and culture to the Principalities were the tsarist troops garissoned there, before that the landed gentry spoke Greek as a foreign language (after a century of Greek rulers from the Phanar).
@@mimisor66This is the beautiful story crafted about the unification of the principalities. In reality, Bucharest was chosen as the capital through deceit. Moldovans were more connected to Chernivtsi than to Bucharest. Generally, the population in the south is more vocal, seeking to stand out; however, being loud doesn’t necessarily mean being right. Even though some may have passed through Paris, the Germanic influence in Moldova is evident. Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817-1891) - University Humboldt din Berlin, Titu Maiorescu - Berlin, Mihail Eminescu - Viena, Should I continue? Alexandru Ioan Cuza, although he studied in Paris, maintained his circle of friends predominantly Germanic and passed away in the Baden-Württemberg region.
Impressive knowledge of your adoptive country...good job Sir!
Thank you so much for watching and for your kind comment.
Due to your calm and nice voice and tone, you would do a great work as grandfather !
I can't wait, but it's not up to me: my children have to get on with things!
Before 1865, the adoption of the Napoleonic Code in Romania, the Romanians were applying the Justitian's Code, and the revised version of it called Basilika, Bazilicale in Romanian, "The Imperial Law" in English. The Napoleonic Code it's based off these codes, a modernization if you will. The Napoleonic Code, although very modern in many ways, infringed on the inheritance rights of the Romanian women and the right to own properties, which was not the case with the old Roman Law. Equal rights for inheritance for all children including for those out of wedlock, and theirs's descendants, meant basically a constant Games of Thrones in the premodern Romanian states.
In the same time it is the beginning of the industrialization, the modernization of the society, development of the city, the "Conservative liberalism", the secular world, the divorce, schools for the household economy and industry, the beginning of the women businesses, the well known predecessor of the haute couture and luxury industries, the movement of the young women with their family capital. The world of Thornton Wilder in "Hello, Dolly!"
I read a lot about Romania on Wikipedia. It says that the Boyar system was artificially installed by the Turks. Prior to the Boyars, Romanian villages were governed by obște - which is a slavic word describing a system of communal management of the terrain that predated slavic contact. The page for this describes an unwritten set of common laws, obiceiul pământului ("custom of the land"),
How does this compare with the Basilika system you describe?
@@DavidHerron the boyars were the usual feudal ruling class, the warlords, the national aristocracy, the landlords. Some of them were patriotic, loyal to the prince or king, others were traitors to gain more wealth and power. Some of their territory was still part of the Byzantine Empire, others were vassals or associated to it. Being related to the people of the empire and having the same religious denomination as the same cultural heritage they adopted the laws and kept it even after the fall of the empire and being defeated by the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire only took over them as they occupied the lands and the people. Many of them were martyred. There were regions of free peasantry the yeomanry who were subject only to the authority of the prince, king or governor. They were organized as you described. In fact most of the Europeans were organized like the knights of King Arthur 's Round Table, definitory for the Europeans, or even more democratic. They had practically an "elderly" council and a mayor. Other peasant villages were not free but in serfdom, they were belonging to the warlords, to the landlord, they had to pay taxes to support the military defense and to work also for the landlord and to develop the region as it was organized. They were organized like the others but had a lot of riots and civil wars.
@@DavidHerron No, it was not imposed by the Turks. The society was composed by slaves, serfs and land owners. A boyar was a land owner who worked for the state either in administration or in the military. The boyar titles reflected more or less the byzantine court titles. Land and other proprieties (mills, inns etc) were personally own or family own. A village was very small and most of the people in it were related. What was commonly own and administrated were mostly forests and pastures. "The law of the land" was applied for the local, day to day, cases, even that one was specifically Romanian, and had very strong Roman influences. In the neighboring countries it was called "The Vlach Law". When it was an important case, the prince, which was the first judge was following the the Roman law, because it was nothing else in that time so elaborated with that much jurisprudence.
interesting perspectives 💁🏻♂️
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I was thinking why your room seems so familiar to me, I don't have such a big library and the position of the door is not the same, but then I saw the Orthodox icons on the top left shelf and I understood why. :)
Love it! I am romanian and my fiancée is french, we watched the video together 😊
Thanks for watching and may I wish you both casa de piatra, when the moment comes!
@livinginromania Multumim mult de tot!
In the cold season, try to get sunshise exposure every day that is not cloudy. The sun does wonders to the body and mind. Few things are better than a 45-60 min walk in cold sunny days.
I quite agree. I do at least 10k steps a day whatever the weather.
I was gonna jump on you for talking about Romanian wine but not about Tsuica (I know that's not how it's spelled, but I don't know how to make the "ts" character) -- but then a few minutes later you talked about it.
The best place IMHO to buy tsuica/palinca is in the market, in a plastic bottle that says Coke or something entirely different. It's available in the stores, at a high price, and I have no idea whether that stuff is any better than what one finds in the market. Any idea?
As for French influence -- Some schools, like that high school in Craiova (where my Magda attended), teach in French. And, I understand that many of the leaders of the 1800s were sponsored to go to France to study.
I think home brew is the best, so probably the market.. I don't drink spirits so it's not of interest to me, but my neighbours regularly offer me Tuica!
@@livinginromania The stuff I'm talking about in the market is home brew rather than factory made ;-) methinks.
Bounjour . First to comment her. You know that we Romanians we were attached to French language, culture before communism. I was good on French , because French was the first language I learned in school besides Romanian language of course.
I ve learned French, English and Latin language. Now in Romania you can not distill as you want or sacrifice a pig as you want at home. Now you must respect some rules and regulations for this 😉. Romania is the number one producer of natural gas in 2024 in European Union 😉. Thanks for the video. Have a nice weekend… and I do not skip the ad on your videos 😉☝️👏😊
Thanks for watching. I am sure there are rules but ....!
Thank you! 😂
Cu placere!
Russian was never dropped, it was one of the 4 options (French, English, German and Russian), classes were assigned a foreign language based on the availability of teachers and was studied in school up to December 1989, but because it was very hard to find books in Russian nobody bothered to actually learn it past getting the passing grades.
English was the most in demand, then French. German was pushed hard by the government because they needed chemical engineers able to read German :-) but it was not very popular.
During Ceausescu's time if you could not pass a rather undemanding Math and Physics exam you could not get to the university.
Romania was never the breadbasket of Europe, the port of Galati through which Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania exported grains was the breadbasket of Europe, at least until 1856 when Chicago overtook it in grain exports and became the breadbasket of Europe ;-).
Very interesting, . In social mythology however, Romania is and was referred to as "the breadbasket of Europe".
@@livinginromania well, before like 1914 most countries in Western Europe were very concerned about food security, and finding a source was important. Before the USA set their country in order :-) one of those sources was Romania, there was even a well known spy and troublemaker, David Urquhart, who spent time in Southern Romania and sent home enthousiastic messages about how much food could be bought in exchange for coal and pig iron when he wanted England to save the Ottomans, then later complained about the heat and the dusty plains of Wallachia ;-). Romania did export some grains but mostly maize, the climate is too dry for good wheat, but the harvest was not consistent from year to year ... same as it exports today. That is why England got involved in the Crimean War, then suddenly appeared to lose interest in Romania ... the exports from USA replaced the Romanian exports, and the Russian and Turkish exports too.
The company who built the railway from Cernavoda to Constanta (there was no Constanta at the time, only a fishing village and no port) during the early 1850s (that is before Dobrogea was given to Romania) even started a campaign to redirect to Romania German emigrants passing through England on their way to USA in order to increase grain production in Romania when the grain traffic proved to be very small, not enough to make the railway line pay back the investment :-D.
If I understood correctly you live in Craiova. So your comparison is based in that area of Romania. I would not generalize it to the entire country. Very few people speak French in Transylvania, Bucovina and Basarabia. After 1918, the influence of the old Kingdom, where French was widely spoken, started to spread to the "new" territories, but since we were never left alone, this spread did not take effect.
It is indeed based on Oltenia. Of course in Transylvania, German would be the normal accompaniment to English.
There was peace on these lands before there was a state.
Sir, I am saying this as a Romanian, we might have to go back in France soon.
Cine stii?
About “procuror “ are you sure is the lower court judge? I thought is the state attorney. People aren’t supposed to sell anything tax-free, they just do it because is customary: these lands were once stateless and post-tribal necessarily pacified by the need to exchange genetics among neighbouring villages- you can’t attack the village where your own daughter got settled or your son-in-law comes from.
I refer to "procuror" as the "juge d'instruction", who is indeed the prosecuting state attorney. They are not judges, but the French nomenclature may be confusing. In the USA they would be referred to as the "district attorney". The lower court judge is the "judecator". I don't think the tuica is necessarily sold, although it may be. In the UK it is illegal to even distill alcohol without a licence. This is not the case in France or Romania.
@@livinginromaniait's very easy to understand if you are studying we may say the medieval taxation of a foreign occupied territory. Before the modern times for a few centuries at the end of the Middle Ages the national provinces were vassals under foreign administration. The taxation without any representation was purely robbery and torture for the benefit of the enemy and a foreign empire against the national development. It stayed all the time repressive and oppressive. It had to "feel free" and different in a national state built by the tax payers.
@@livinginromania For tsuica, I suggest you go to Piata Centrala and look around, especially in the fruit and vegetable hall. There are several folks selling tsuica/palinca in one corner of that hall. There's also a couple people who sit at tables outside selling tsuica/palinca.
In Bucharest, I know of a few sellers at Piata Domeni.
The price is generally 10 lei / liter, which is a fraction of what you'll pay in Kaufland.
@@livinginromania thank you for your answer. Clarifications were needed and are appreciated.
Despite the social similarities between France and Romania their language and temperament is still closer to Spain.
This is what makes Romania a “natural curiosity “😂
I still prefer… Scotland 😂
Or Italy if you are in Oltenia like me. Enjoy the rain!
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Great comparison!
Thank you for watching.
Russian wasn't dropped after the 60s. I had Russian in the late 80s and early 90s (after the 89 Revolution). My parents had Russian. It wasn't dropped or, at least, not everywhere.
Very interesting. I don't know any schools in Craiova where it is on offer, although, bizarrely Korean was on offer because of Daewoo's investment in the city.
in my school in Buzau, in the '80, there was no Russian choice of language....only French and English..
@@gigihentz5510 I was born in Neamt county, so were my parents. One of them was born in '56. Both of them to had Russian in school. In 93-94 I was in the 5th grade an I had French and Russian. Now I lived in a village and the Russian teacher was some old lady waiting to retire (so she wasn't fired by the school system based on the fact that nobody learned Russian anymore). Seeing that in the 5th and 6th grade I was still learning Russian, my parents transferred me to another school where I started learning some English. Point is, in some parts of the country, in the late 80s and early 90s Russian was still taught, uninterruptedly.
Also Russian was the lingua franca of the Eastern block (there are stories about the Polish tourists coming to Romania and selling, on the side of the road, out of their car booth, wonderful things we had no access to, such as clothing - jeans - and what not and people were haggling in the little Russian they had).
So, it is not true that Russian disappeared from Romania in the 60s. This article says that "Dostoevsky's language was, for the last time studied in Sibiu in the 1992-1993 school year" (hotnews.ro/adio-rusa-819637); which is consistent with my story about the old lady still teaching it in some forgotten Moldavian mountain village school in early 90s.
Travel abroad was restricted for Romanians during communism but no so much in the SSSR. So some Russian came in handy for those purposes as well.
But there is some truth to the claim made in the video (adevarul.ro/stiri-interne/societate/limba-rusa-se-intoarce-fundatiile-finantate-de-1554350.html#google_vignette): "După 1965, limba rusă nu a mai fost obligatorie, dar a rămas cea mai studiată limbă străină la noi în ţară." (After 1965 Russian wasn't MANDATORY anymore but it remained the most studied foreign language in our country").
@@mariarevnic6415how come it remained the most studied? I went to school in the 70s and 80s, most of the schools in the neighbourhood had either French -German or French -English on offer. I know some people my age that studied Russian in school, but they are a minority. And the level of the Russian teachers was quite low, those people only have basics of Russian, while my English and French teachers were very good and committed.
@@mimisor66 The fact that the level of Russian teachers was quite low doesn't mean that the Russian wasn't studied. I was "advanced" in French and I know no French. And my English is mostly self-taught. So that is not an argument. As for the rest, I was quoting an article.
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Tata Marin!
The marking out of 10 is quite logical because is more accurate than out of 20. I’ve got for example a mark of 9.12 which represents 91.2%, in between 18/20 and 19/20. The math- phys education was a communist attempt to rebuild from ground up: since all engineers and architects were imprisoned, the populace needed learn maths and physics first. The technical high schools were like the rediscovery of tap water- too new and untested to be considered reliable.
Interesting. So why not just mark /100? Agree with your assessment of the importance of maths and physics.
@ Essentially the marking applied today is /100 while maintaing the looks and the compatibility with the old marking /10. Marking /20 is as strange to me as 21 shillings in a pound sterling is when compared to say 100 cents in a dollar. This is where we should all be tolerant with each other before even we understood different ways to address same issue.
I suggest you talk lower, i can still hear u
bet the girls are fit over there
I wouldn't know. I am a happily married man. But Romanian women are said to be very beautiful.