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| tennisfan Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5350 days ago 130 posts - 247 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: German | Message 1 of 3 08 September 2012 at 2:31am | IP Logged |
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I just stumbled on a nice little resource for us Romanian learners---TAROM (Romania's national airline) posts their magazine editions for free on their website. It's just that little typical airline magazine in the back of the seat that you can flip through. But every article they have is in Romanian and English, side-by-side. So if you like that kind of thing, it's a wonderful resource as it's modern, colloquial, well-written language. They produce a new issue every two months, and on their website they have an archive going back to 2005:
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6693 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 3 08 September 2012 at 6:56am | IP Logged |
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Good idea! I have often used those bilingual airline magazines as a study resource, and mostly the translations are fairly parallel which is a condition for being of relevance - but I haven't thought of looking for them on the internet.
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| tennisfan Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5350 days ago 130 posts - 247 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: German | Message 3 of 3 08 September 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged |
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Yes... as I don't live in Romania, I don't get the chance to speak often, so most of my exposure to new vocabulary is through reading. But more than any other language I've studied, Romanian literature (even contemporary) is full of words that people don't often use in every-day conversation. The grammar is the same, but the vocabulary often is not. And there's really no way to know unless you say the word and someone looks at you weird and says "we don't say that, instead we say..."
But of course these kinds of magazines are different as they are more colloquial and digestible. And despite being made for airlines, they have all sorts of pieces, on travel, general lifestyle, health, technology, etc. With the English text right next to it! It's a wonderful resource and will stop me from stealing the magazines from the planes now. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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