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livemocha

Live language exchange with real people at livemocha . Add friends, chat, learn by attending courses or doing exercises, teach others. The main advantage is that there are people who can correct any mistakes you make. Romanian courses are also available. They offer virtual keyboard for some languages but not for all, so one solution is to use gate2home . The other one is to configure your PC to support the languages you want to learn. I prefer the first solution because it's easier for me. On livemocha I use a lot the flashcards, the interactive lessons and sometimes the chat. If I want to study something new I have to ignore any chat requests but if I only practice I prefer speaking with people. I usually choose a song I like and translate it of course using google translate . We live in the Google's era. I create flashcards and then I record myself singing it. I already done this with Portuguese and I would also like to try with German, Russian and French. Because I love musi...

romanian poetry

The most famous poet is Mihai Eminescu . I've chosen from the linked site two of my favorites. Ode (in ancient meter) Hardly had I thought I should learn to perish; Ever young, enwrapped in my robe I wandered, Raising dreamy eyes to the star styled often Solitude's symbol. All at once, however, you crossed my pathway - Suffering - you, painfully sweet, yet torture... To the lees I drank the delight of dying - Pitiless torment. Sadly racked, I'm burning alive like Nessus, Or like Hercules by his garment poisoned; Nor can I extinguish my flames with every Billow of oceans. By my own illusion consumed I'm wailing, On my own grim pyre in flames I'm melting... Can I hope to rise again like the Phoenix Bird from the ashes? May all tempting eyes vanish from my pathway, Come back to my breast, you indifferent sorrow! So that I may quietly die, restore me To my own being! (1883, Translated by Andrei Bantas) Eve on the hill Dreary ...

monty python

My life philosophy is extracted from Monty Python's work. No very serious but surely healthy. The philosophy of laughter. I learned to "a lways look on the bright side of life". I learned how to pray: " Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock, Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok." I learned the difference between an argument and a contradiction. “No it can't! An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.” "And now for something completely different" repeat after me: - You're All Individuals! - "We're All Individuals!" - You're All Different! - "Yes. We are all different!" - [I'm Not]

I don't want to steal you

Florin Chilian's music is like life itself: sometimes beautiful, sometimes sad but always true and full of meaning. Listen to the song and read the lyrics. I will try a personal translation to this song. I don't want to steal you, I just want to meet you, somewhere in the middle, My heart in your heart instead to find. I don't want you to steal yourself, I only want you not delude yourself, somewhere in the middle, Between you and yourself, in the light of your heart to glance! I don't want you to steal me, I just want you indulge in receiving gifts from me, somewhere in the middle, In the serenity of your glance to whirl! I don't want you to steal us, I just want you to join us, somewhere in the middle, In the dream world that only in thought can be retrieved! I don't want you to steal me, I don't want you to steal yourself, I don't want you to steal us! I don't want to steal you I just want you to lavish me, somewhere in the ...