THE ROMANIAN LESSON

What attracted the Englishman to Bucharest?

Claudia Cirlig

Publishing house: Compania

The story of Ian Tilling fascinated me instantly, and thus when asked to teach him Romanian, I accepted straight away.

I believe I was just trying to find an answer to a simple question: that is, why should an Englishman get stuck, willingly, in Romania? No well-paid job in a multinational to keep him here… on the contrary, squatting in a small two-room flat next to Piaţa Iancului, which gave him a daily 'pleasant' opportunity to travel to his office by tram…

What makes him hang around here, in Romania, when so many of us want to get away from it…

Soon I discovered that all he had to teach me was much more important than having him pass a verb through all tenses, in Romanian. (Adina Kenereş)

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