I wish to further elaborate on the linguistic tutelage of Moldavian society, i.e. foreign languages assuming the role of official/national language in Moldova. After 1991 Moldova passed from the linguistic tutelage of Russian to that of Romanian, the latter being the closest variety to the local dialect. The Moldavian dialect, as it never had a…
The avid researchers of the Rare Book Project are Koncz Krisztina, Unger Ágota, and Zsifcsák Emese (Behind the camera and the project: Zsolt Almási). Have you ever found a hundred-year-old book at home? Did you feel that you were holding a piece of history? The English Department’s Rare Book Project allowed our research group to…
In Moldova apparently there has always been a cultural duality or rather a cultural tension since it became a modern state-entity: first as member state of the Soviet Union, than, from 1991, as an independent state. While a member of the Soviet Union, Moldova and its local culture were subdued to the Russian influence. This…
