Via Kit, some funny American called Sam R. learned Romanian for seemingly no reason but to learn our language. He recounts the process in 37 easy steps.

Some comments:

• Step 11: So that’s why I say different numbers sometimes. I always meant to look this up some day.
• Step 19: Isn’t Suprize, Suprize the show where diaspora Romanians are reunited with the families they abandoned back in Romania? Where these people have been living in Ohio or something but are “too poor” to phone mom once in a while so some TV chick has to buy them a ticket home for a surprise meeting on TV? Also, I am ok on the icon quota for my place, but I am behind on the lace.
• Step 20: The last time I was in Romania, I had no idea what prices I was being charged. It felt like when I was in Tunisia and realized Arabic numerals here look nothing like Arabic numerals in Arabic countries. In both Tunisia and 2008 Romania, I was at the mercy of shopkeepers as I held out both palms filled with money and let them pick out what money they demanded.
• Step 26: Yes, I tried reading some Romanian fairy tales and the violence is certainly more bloody than what Wile E. Coyote could handle. Must make us Romanian kids immune to creepy shit that would make kids here have nightmares.
• Step 29: This is why I wish sometimes I grew up in Romania. I could sure use some righteous scolding on people here. Ok, I already do, but if only I could get out of my car and give those stupid poser truck drivers a piece of my mind.
• Step 34: Not yet at this step. I could barely manage telling “thank you” and “good night” apart in Saint Petersburg a few months ago.
• Step 36: I am Transylvanian but they don’t believe I am from there. The closest I ever got was being mistaken for a German.
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