Btw, many romanian people speak french, don't they ?

Uh-oh, "you got me started" alert, combined with "I've got too much free time on my hands" alert! :)

There was a very strong trend towards speaking French until the end of WWII (quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Romania):

"Carol was crowned as the first King of Romania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Romania in 1881 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1881.

"The new state, squeezed between the great powers of Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian empires, with Slav neighbors on three sides, looked to the West, particularly France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France, for its cultural, educational, and administrative models."

After the communists came to power however, Romania stopped "looking to the West, particularly France", and instead started looking to the East, particularly USSR. :(

So, nowadays there aren't so many French speaking Romanians left, although it is one of the traditional languages being taught in schools (we learn two foreign languages during eight, respectively seven years until the end of high school, typically an assortment of English, French and German; I for instance studied French and English in that order, but I speak reasonable English while being almost fully incapacitated in French).

Incidentally, my wife speaks impeccable French, she works at Radio Romania International (http://www.rri.ro), the French branch. Maybe I would've spoken better French than I can, hadn't I married her: a couple of years back we went to Paris for three weeks, and she did all the talking, the only French words I said being "Une blanche!". :)

Gutza