Bucharest Schools

The leaves of Ottom, and bilingual kids

by Craig Turp November 1, 2010 Bucharest

  Three or four years ago, when number one son’s class started learning English at (his then) kindergarden, we overlooked – for the first few weeks – the fact that he was being taught English by a woman who had an accent thicker than Ion Iliescu. Like Iliescu, her English was in fact excellent – [...]

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Romanian Schools: First Semester Report

by Craig Turp January 29, 2010 Bucharest

 With number one son today celebrating the last day of his first semester at school, we present – for the benefit of nobody – our first impressions of the Romanian education system (or at least, our impressions of the school our son attends). As our regular reader – a Mrs. Trellis of North Wales – [...]

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