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SUMMARY:One-on-One Personal Learning
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nWe offer private language classes which are tailored to your needs\, whether it’s for travel\, work\, or personal growth. With a focused approach on your goals\, we can help you gain the skills to navigate Romanian more efficiently. Set your pace with flexible scheduling! \nAll levels are welcome! \nWe offer online and in-person instruction in Seattle/University District. \nPayment\nRegister today for either a 5-hour or 10-hour module. \n 
URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/one-to-one-program/
LOCATION:In-person or Online
CATEGORIES:Adult Courses,Child Courses,Education,Fall Courses,Language Classes,Winter Courses
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413
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SUMMARY:Beginning Romanian 3 (Adults)
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nThis class is designed for students with no prior knowledge about Romanian Language\, but who have been exposed to Romanian culture and are interested to learn its language. It is an introductory Romanian Language course\, where students will learn the simple present tense\, greetings\, numbers\, dates\, time\, and other simple grammar. As a result\, students will be able to participate in a 2-way conversation and will know the basics of writing and delivering speeches. Groups of 4-5 students / 60 min\, weekly. \nScheduling\nTime: To Be Determined – We will work with students to find the best times and days that work for you. Please fill out the registration form to let us know your availability.  \nPayment\nTuition for this course includes 10 classes on Zoom (60 minutes each). \n\nScholarships\nWe offer scholarships to families in need. Please email us at contact@arcsproject.org prior to registration if you would like to be considered.
URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/beginning-romanian-3-adults/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Adult Courses,Education,Language Classes,Spring Courses
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413
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SUMMARY:Romanian Pioneers: Part 3
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOverview\nThis class aims to help students explore and embrace their Romanian identity and heritage. They will discover Romanian illustrous figures and find inspiration in their pioneer spirit\, courage and tenacity.  The students will interact with real Romanian role models while developing a global perspective of their place into the world as bilingual and bicultural citizens.  Basic knowledge of Romanian required. Groups of 4-5 students / 60 min\, weekly sessions \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScheduling\nTime: To Be Determined – We will work with parents and students to find the best times and days that work for you. Please fill out the registration form to let us know your availability.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPayment\n\nTuition for this course includes 10 classes on Zoom (60 minutes each).We offer scholarships to families in need. Please email us at contact@arcsproject.org if you would like to be considered. \nScholarships\nWe offer scholarships to families in need. Please email us at contact@arcsproject.org prior to registration if you would like to be considered. \nNext Course\nRomanian History\, Part I
URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/romanian-pioneers-3-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Child Courses,Education,Language Classes,Spring Courses
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260620
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SUMMARY:Beginning Romanian 3
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nThis class is tailored for students of Romanian origin nationwide who do not understand\, nor speak the language\, but who have been exposed to Romanian culture and are curious to find out more about their heritage. They will learn basic conversational skills in Romanian and will develop their pronunciation\, vocabulary\, writing and reading knowledge.They will gain confidence and will be able to connect with their Romanian family in meaningful ways.  No knowledge of Romanian required. Groups of 4-5 students / 60 min\, weekly. \nScheduling\nTime: To Be Determined – We will work with parents and students to find the best times and days that work for you. Please fill out the registration form to let us know your availability.  \nPayment\nTuition for this course includes 10 classes on Zoom (60 minutes each). \n\nScholarships\nWe offer scholarships to families in need. Please email us at contact@arcsproject.org prior to registration if you would like to be considered.
URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/beginning-romanian-3-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Child Courses,Education,Language Classes,Spring Courses
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260620
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SUMMARY:Beginning Romanian 1 (Adults)
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nThis class is designed for students with no prior knowledge about Romanian Language\, but who have been exposed to Romanian culture and are interested to learn its language. It is an introductory Romanian Language course\, where students will learn the simple present tense\, greetings\, numbers\, dates\, time\, and other simple grammar. As a result\, students will be able to participate in a 2-way conversation and will know the basics of writing and delivering speeches. Groups of 4-5 students / 60 min\, weekly. \nScheduling\nTime: To Be Determined – We will work with students to find the best times and days that work for you. Please fill out the registration form to let us know your availability.  \nPayment\nTuition for this course includes 10 classes on Zoom (60 minutes each). \n\nScholarships\nWe offer scholarships to families in need. Please email us at contact@arcsproject.org prior to registration if you would like to be considered.
URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/beginning-romanian-1-adults-sp26/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Adult Courses,Education,Language Classes,Spring Courses
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413
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SUMMARY:Beginning Romanian 1
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nThis class is tailored for students of Romanian origin nationwide who do not understand\, nor speak the language\, but who have been exposed to Romanian culture and are curious to find out more about their heritage. They will learn basic conversational skills in Romanian and will develop their pronunciation\, vocabulary\, writing and reading knowledge.They will gain confidence and will be able to connect with their Romanian family in meaningful ways.  No knowledge of Romanian required. Groups of 4-5 students / 60 min\, weekly. \nScheduling\nTime: To Be Determined – We will work with parents and students to find the best times and days that work for you. Please fill out the registration form to let us know your availability.  \nPayment\nTuition for this course includes 10 classes on Zoom (60 minutes each). \n\nScholarships\nWe offer scholarships to families in need. Please email us at contact@arcsproject.org prior to registration if you would like to be considered.
URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/beginning-romanian-1-sp26/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Child Courses,Education,Language Classes,Spring Courses
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SUMMARY:Improve Your Writing\, Reading and Speaking Skills: Part 3
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn this course\, students will read intriguing texts on the world’s inexplicable mysteries such as pyramids\, ghost apparitions\, huge marine monsters\, heroes with superpowers\, UFOs\, and many others. Since each text is accompanied by a recording and a dossier of activities\, students will have the opportunity to further practice writing and speaking in Romanian while trying to offer explanations to the mysteries they have read about. For this class\, students will keep a vocabulary journal and will write their own short texts or blog entries. Groups of 4-5 students / 60 min\, weekly.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\nTime: To Be Determined – We will work with parents and students to find the best times and days that work for you.\nThe times indicated in the schedule are only orientative.\nPlease fill out the registration form to let us know your availability. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPayment\nTuition for this course includes 10 classes on Zoom (60 minutes each).\nNew students must register for placement test.\nWe offer scholarships to families in need. Please email us at contact@arcsproject.org if you would like to be considered.
URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/improve-your-writing-reading-and-speaking-skills-part-3-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Child Courses,Education,Language Classes,Spring Courses
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260606T113000
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SUMMARY:Ferenike by Doina Ruști
DESCRIPTION:Books from Homeland\nOur next read for the book club is Ferenike by acclaimed author Doina Ruști\, who will join our virtual discussion! \nA limited number of signed copies of the book will be available for purchase at the upcoming art exhibit\, State of Color by Sanda Berar\, on May 9. Learn more here. \nAbout the bookFerenike is a confessional\, autobiographical novel built on the idea that no choice is entirely subjective. There exists a demon of grand History — a force that\, for Eastern Europe\, has always been a subtle architect of both individual and collective decisions. In the essential reality\, every choice is orchestrated. \nHaving as a starting point a childhood event\, the novel gradually outlines experiences related to our present. Every insignificant deed has consequences\, generates other events and a new perspective of the past. This premise leads to a gripping and powerful story about the discreet role that any individual has in the metamorphoses of great history. \nAn autobiographical novel\, Ferenike is also an experiment researching confession\, from its mystical to histrionic or manipulative areas\, with the stated intention of reminding the world that\, beyond intention\, there’s always the force of the storyteller. \nPlease RSVP to receive zoom link. \nAbout the author \nDoina RuștiDoina Ruști is „a writer of the first rank in today’s literature"\, in the words of Nicolae Breban \, and „a writer of great talent and intuition”\, as Norman Manea has described her\, distinguished by a powerful and vibrant style. Her novels and short stories have received major awards\, been translated into several languages\, and are studied in schools\, enjoying wide critical recognition. Her work is marked by the blending of the fantastic with stark social realism. Her landmark novel is The Ghost in the Mill (2008)\, a powerful fiction about Romanian communism\, included in the post-communist neo-Gothic both in J. A. Weinstock’s Routledge encyclopediaand in Studies in Gothic Fiction (Zittaw Press). Thematically complementary\, Ferenike (Humanitas\, 2025) is her most personal novel\, a political and autobiographical fiction about memory\, guilt\, and feminine resistance. Equally acclaimed is Lizoanca at Eleven (2009)\, a novel about child prostitution\, whose style was compared by Western critics to Camus’s The Plague (Il Libero)\, and which has been included in several European academic programs\, among them the Doctoral School of the University of Barcelona. The Phanariot Trilogy—The Phanariot Manuscript\, The Book of Perilous Dishes (Mâța Vinerii)\, and Homeric—has enjoyed wide popularity. These novels explore the 18th-century Balkan imagination in an original\, fabulatory mode that reinterprets history. Mircea Muthu devoted a chapter to her work in his volume Romanian Literary Balkanism. Among these\, The Book of Perilous Dishes is the most widely translated\, published in English in London (2022)\, recommended by EUFestival and featured by the Historical Novel Society.  Her distinctions include the Writers’ Union Prize (Bucharest Association\, 2007)\, the Romanian Writers’ Union Prize for Prose (2008)\, the Ion Creangă Prize of the Romanian Academy (2009)\, and the Hungarian Writers’ Prize (Budapest\, 2018) for Best Translated Book. Website: www.doinarusti.ro 📌 June 6 at 10amvirtual discussion with author Doina Ruști Please RSVP below to receive zoom link. About the author
URL:https://arcsproject.org/event/i-must-betray-you-2/
CATEGORIES:Literature
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