Comments on: Lessons from Romania

By: Maritza Meza Hernandez

Maritza Meza Hernandez — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:08:37 +0000

This video talk about: Why the Romanian speaks English so well? And what kind of tips they have used to improve their abilities to speak English?
I think that this video is very interesting because show us different forms for learning English. For example: reading some books in English, listening to music, meet native speakers and speak with them.
The reasons which the Romanian young people speak English so well are: They are very interesting in the language and the use what they like to learn; if you like to sing, you try to understand the songs you prefer or if you like to read, you can read deferent kinds of books that help you to learn deferent grammar rules and be familiar with different words and situations.
One of them said that reading books helped him to improve his abilities in English, for me this is a method that aloud me to learn the language I like more than the traditional method. The most important in the learning is be interesting and dedicated and what ever you choose to learn.

By: Iuliana

Iuliana — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:52:35 +0000

I’ve just watched your video from Romania. Really nice of you. I would have liked to know the impresions that Romania left you guys. I am out of the country, I am in Mexico, and watching this video mad eme feel closer to my Bucharest.

By: tam thanh ngoc nguyen (vietnam)

tam thanh ngoc nguyen (vietnam) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:10:32 +0000

oh ohhhhhhhhhhh,that’s so cool.i love it and i need more more video like that. thanks so much

By: steer

steer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:18:06 +0000

3rd message.after all,the alternation between the images,with peeling roofs and tin shops and the beautifully pronounced interviews does have a message-as a poem goes,Dont u know /that only mud-bottomed lakes/breed water lilies?Or in street vocabulary,dont judge a book by its covers.Or in T shirt language-Sometimes,MORE is less.comfort and richness at times breed nothing but boredom,laziness,slowness of the spirit.(and economic crisis).You know what they say Beethoven s mother was pretty insane and his dad a drunkard.The idea that can be squeezed out of here(for those who like to squeeze ideas out of everything)is that we humans should pay more attention to all poor children of history-that s where hope might come from,from the least expected places.There.Now we can go on playing

By: steer

steer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:46:56 +0000

im rather young,but I studied english in both regimes_i started as a student in the communist one and have continued to this day.This might entitle me to an opinion u might want to hear and learn from.In my opinion,Romanians DO happen to have extraordinary native ability to learn foreign languages.it must be smth in their brain…Another thing that helps tremendously is the fact that most shows in English are subtitled-not dubbed,and the Romanians are very open to the world-wE have Oprah,Mc leod s daughters,lots and lots of films-mostly what is on in the world.,we tend to have iton TV-therefore,we are generously exposed to hours and hours of listening to English,to lots of accents ,dialects,colloquial and formal styles-u name it.ONE thing I would like the whole world to consider is this_i think that,paradoxically,the study of English in Romania started to lose its quality with the advent of these new methods,ie the ones focusing on communication,easy,cheap dialogues,etc.There should be a measure of old style teaching,translating and grammar-some students simply learn this way-they are visual learners or really need repetition in order to learn certain things.If I were to start Chinese now.,i would definitely learn more if the teacher translated in my native tongue,not by letting me guess that certain sounds accompanied by a wave and a smile are very likely to mean Hello.actually,I think that only using the taught language in class is a mistake and a waste of time,frustrating and discouraging.Also,one thing we do in Romania-using Cambrige manuals meant for adults and mostly self study rather than simpler books ,with shorter texts and a more didactic approach (focusing on teaching,rather than testing)would be more effective.If u think Romanians have an excellent level of English,then please consider the fact that it is so including due to old school teachers of English,who were shaped through old school teaching techniques.We shouldnt be so fast in dismissing the old ,as the most mature of u would have already discovered.(Wouldnt it be nice if some ppl from our ministery of education read this too and their English were as good as our students”)have agood spring

By: steer

steer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:29:17 +0000

Ive just watched the video and read a few comments.What does poverty have to do with the topic of the video?It made me remember a video from Italy.A guy (who happened to be Romanian)was shot in an Italian subway.He was shot by accident,a bunch of Italians wanted to shoot a guy from a rival herd of Italians.For about half an hour the man lay on thecement of the italian subway ,with his wife yelling for help and waiting for the ambulance-and with NO Italian stopping to give them either help or attention.the guy died.I have often asked myself if this would have ever happened in Romania,you know,the country of Gypsy thieves and all those clichees(which ,of course,appear in this liittle video too).What good Italy s glamour-past and present-if it has led to nothing more than indifference to human life .i guess even animals would stop and sniff an wounded animal.,at least to see if they can eat the fallen one…So there.Its OK for any European to come to Romania,we can cater for all tastes.If what happened above is what civilisation means,Im sure we can cope with European standards.Moreover,our English is excellent

By: Victory

Victory — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:32:33 +0000

I will like to comment on providing enough teaching aid for the teaching of English.
Nice job keep it up!

By: Momen

Momen — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:26:31 +0000

I think the most important step to learn english and speak it well is trying to talk to people in English as possible as you, try to spend your spare time speaking and reading english text in aloud and talk even to your self
I think it helps alot, because i tried to do that and i’ve succeeded to improve my languague skills more than before!!

By: M.Alessandra Agostini

M.Alessandra Agostini — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:08:43 +0000

I’ve never been to Romania, even if I travelled a lot around Europe. Watching the video, I thought that Romania is still poor. Some images of it are quite miserable. Anyway, the English of the Romanian students was really excelllent, especially if I remember my Italian students and their pronunciation.
Their advices were very interesting and they denote a real interest in learning English, a thing which is not common to the Italian students. I don’t know why, but I think they are overall lazy!!!!!

By: Clara

Clara — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:56:47 +0000

Thank you very much to all the organisers of this little educational trip to Romania! I am currently studying here, in England, and believe me it makes my heart pound seeing that there are actually people who want to improve our image as a post-communist country and show off that we have great people, with lots of potential and skills in spoken and written English Language.

All my respect & all the best!