Invitation

[CarmenT]

Hello, On this forum there is not activity. I saw there are a lot of people who can speak English on our forum. Please come here and talk with us. I'd like to know who are all this person who are registered here. I saw there are some one from Toronto, other from US etc. We'd like to know you.

[Andreea Neagu]

Toronto and US... hmmm... I believe you've met the spammers They'll be gone by tomorrow evening.
Cheers,
Andy

[Andreea Neagu]

There you go! All gone now. Looks like we'll have to wait some more to meet our English-speaking members.

Andy

[Jacqueline]

Hello Andreea, CarmenT and anyone else on this topic who wants to reply back. My name is Jacqueline. I'm totally blind and I'm very interested in Romania, especially Romania in the middle ages which was called Valachia. How is everyone?

[Andreea Neagu]

Hi Jacqueline! Welcome to the forum!
Please tell us more about your interest in Romania / Valachia. It's quite rare that I meet people from other countries, let alone other continents, that are interested in the middle ages of this place. How did this interest arise, if I may ask? Was it Bram Stoker, or perhaps a major / minor in History?
Best regards,
Andreea

[Jacqueline]

Well, I've been totally blind since birth and I'm engaged to a wonderful sweet man who is the light of my life. He's sighted, but he loves me no matter what.
I'm very happy to have him in my life. My interested in Romania and Valachia came about after watching a documentary on Vlad Tepes, the real Draculea. Is that how you really pronounce his name? Or is it dracula? Anyway, after watching it, I started to wonder more about the princes who ruled Valachia and also about Vlad's brother radu.
Do many people know english here? I can post in romanian but I'll have to use google translator and I hope people would understand me.
Take care.
Jacqueline

Oh if anyone has msn or yahoo messenger, add me at my yahoo address, jaxware82@yahoo.com or my msn, tullfan2010@hotmail.com there is also a site called rs games that has many games and I can't find the link. If you google blind games rs games you will find it.

[CarmenT]

Hello and wellcome on our forum. I think that it is ok to post in english. There are a lot of people talking enghlish here...

[Jacqueline]

so it's okay if I post in english on the romanian forum subjects?
Anyway, I love hearing romanian names, like Vlad, Radu, Mircea, Mihnea, Mihale, Lidia, Andreea, and other names.
I'm sure there are many called those names here. I'd really like to make many new friends here.

[Andreea Neagu]

Hi Jaqueline,
I think it's best to keep the posts in English, regardless of the language of the topic. Google translate is still "young" for Romanian, and gives way to confusing and/or hilarious translations. For instance, in the message you posted in Romanian you have just stated that you've been a set of window blinds since birth
Don't worry, I'm sure everybody on the forum will be able to cope with the English messages.
Cheers,
Andreea

[Manu]

Talking here, we can also improve our English.
I deleted the translated message in the other topic, it couldn't be understood, the Google translated so strange...

[Jacqueline]

Oh my gosh! I am so sorry. I feel so bad now. I didn't know this translator is so bad. there needs to be another or something.

[Andreea Neagu]

Don't worry about that, it's no problem. Google Translate works far better from Arabic to English, or Romanian to French, for instance, yet even there it still has some glitches. It can't beat human translation, as what it does is mostly word-by-word translation, sometimes with little semantics involved.
Anyway, keeping the conversation in English is surely a welcome exercise for the members of this board.
As for another way of translating between the two languages, I'm sure that some of us can act as a buffer between the English speaking part of the board and the non-English speaking one, should the need arise.
Cheers,
Andreea

[Jacqueline]

It's good that people can speak english here. I'd like to meet friends from romania as I'm very interested in your history, language and other things like that.