Re: [Cz-L] Hello Baby Mademoiselle.

Thank you Hardy, this is very interesting to know.
Lydia.

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From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 1:27 PM
To: "Lydia Schmerler" <lydia.sch_at_dbmail.com>
Cc: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Hello Baby Mademoiselle.

>
> Yes, we learned at school.
> Sufficient for understanding songs like this.
> Insufficient for fluent talk or literature.
> Knowing French in pre-war Rumania was a status.
> All nobility and affluent people spoke French.
> They did not adopt the German language of Rumanian
> Royalty.
> French was the language of culture adopted by all the
> East of Europe . Until today many Rumanian speak French ,
> which miraculously outlived Ceaucescu.
> Hardy

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