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 also, haha romania, ok... yes, balkans people all tend to speak better english than the southwest europeans, mainly because actually more people in the world speak spanish than english, or at least it used to be this way

there is a strong migratory conection between balkans and the british islands, i mean, you probably know about bagpipes and roses and shipka tea and probably some french words are in your language such as etage and parter (well, in serbia they say sprat and prvi sprat, but etage and parter is used in bulgaria)

the other thing is that both romania and bulgaria have very vibrant telecoms industries, and i know that bulgarians and romanians are very competitive about this... the bulgarian urban network infrastructure was mostly built out in teh first place by gangsters selling access to pirate movies haha