Ploiesti in the eye (AI) of the beholder

Ploiesti is an interesting town in its own right, best known as an intersection, a cross road, albeit a convenient one from where many other perhaps more interesting places can be reached. How would Ploiesti look like as  one hyperbolic, wondeful place? To top it all...

my interaction with Dutch: the joys, the struggles, the whole story

get to know the lingo

get to know the lingo

I am still learning Dutch with the aim of being fluent. I've been at it for almost two years now through a combination...

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A2

A2

I have finished the first stage of my training in Dutch and apparently my level is now A2, from the European language...

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Dutch and Romanian, who would have known

this is a list of Romanian and Dutch words sounding eerily similar or dutch words which are just interesting for a Romanian speaker

praz – prei [prɛi]
păstârnac – pasternak
mușcătură (bite) – hap
chel – kal
a da vina pe cineva – iemand de schuld geven
dop – dop