{"id":3168,"date":"2014-12-19T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:29:21","slug":"why-im-learning-romanian-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/en\/news\/why-im-learning-romanian-in-january","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m learning Romanian in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case <a title=\"Why I\u2019m learning German this January\" href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/why-im-learning-german-this-january\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liz<\/a>, <a title=\"Why I\u2019m learning Thai in January \u2013 a poem\" href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/12\/why-im-learning-thai-in-january-a-poem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve<\/a> and <a title=\"Why I\u2019m learning Icelandic in January\" href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/17\/why-im-learning-icelandic-in-january\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nat<\/a> think we\u2019re letting them\u00a0have all the fun, I thought I\u2019d chip in with my reasons for taking part in the EuroTalk <a title=\"Can uTalk a new language in one month?\" href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/27\/can-utalk-a-new-language-in-one-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Year uTalk challenge<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I initially thought about learning Welsh, as I was born in Wales, so I thought it\u2019d be a nice way to re-connect with my roots. However, having been informed that Welsh wasn\u2019t added to <a title=\"uTalk - learn a language\" href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/app\" target=\"_blank\">uTalk<\/a> yet (although it will be soon!), I ended up changing my mind, and decided on Romanian for my language.<\/p>\n<p>So why did I choose Romanian? Well, I have to say the main reason is that I can try out my newly learned phrases on our reception superstar, Ioana! Everyone in the EuroTalk office knows that I like learning random words and phrases in their language and trying them out. I always like to greet Ioana with \u2018noroc\u2019 (cheers) if we have a drink together, but I thought perhaps I could manage a little better than that and at least add some basic conversational phrases to my repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I\u2019m hoping that I can make a trip to Romania in the not too distant future, and would definitely like to be able to get around without embarrassing myself too much.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3175 size-medium\" style=\"margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/romania4-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Romania\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How about you? Which language will you be learning this new year?<\/p>\n<p>Alex<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case Liz, Steve and Nat think we\u2019re letting them\u00a0have all the fun, I thought I\u2019d chip in with my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,972,794],"tags":[246,750,937,2,222,316,265],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelearning","category-romanian","category-utalk","tag-app","tag-challenge","tag-january","tag-language","tag-new-year","tag-romanian","tag-utalk"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":3168},"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"Language Learning"},{"value":972,"label":"Romanian"},{"value":794,"label":"uTalk"}],"post_tag":[{"value":246,"label":"app"},{"value":750,"label":"challenge"},{"value":937,"label":"January"},{"value":2,"label":"language"},{"value":222,"label":"New Year"},{"value":316,"label":"Romanian"},{"value":265,"label":"uTalk"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Richard Howeson","author_link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/en\/news\/author\/richard"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Language Learning","slug":"languagelearning","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":254,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":254,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Language Learning","category_nicename":"languagelearning","category_parent":0},{"term_id":972,"name":"Romanian","slug":"romanian","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":972,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":13,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":972,"category_count":13,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Romanian","category_nicename":"romanian","category_parent":0},{"term_id":794,"name":"uTalk","slug":"utalk","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":794,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":78,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":794,"category_count":78,"category_description":"","cat_name":"uTalk","category_nicename":"utalk","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":246,"name":"app","slug":"app","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":246,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":19,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":750,"name":"challenge","slug":"challenge","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":750,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":34,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":937,"name":"January","slug":"january","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":937,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":8,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2,"name":"language","slug":"language","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":86,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":222,"name":"New Year","slug":"new-year","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":222,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":20,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":316,"name":"Romanian","slug":"romanian","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":316,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":265,"name":"uTalk","slug":"utalk","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":265,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":62,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10880,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/10880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}