"Eu o spionez pe nepoata mea."

Translation: I spy on my niece.

[razvannikolas]

This sounds weird.

[ElRiXIV]

Not really in a place where spying on family and neighbors is still probably done (for the sake of old days Romania with secu and Germany with Stasi and Rusia with .....

[Sofi966016]

Well, bufnițele do not talk in Romania and we can find that kind of sentences in Duolingo, just fot the sake of practice and learn

[hippietrail]

It sounds illegal.

[Lixmage]

I thought so too. Couldn't understand the fascination with using such an uncommon word but ElRixIV's explanation makes a lot of sense.

[sarefo]

Yeah, maybe don't announce this on Duolingo! Regards, your superviser

[DzinYit]

So in Romanian, nepot/nepoata can mean both nephew/niece and grandson/daughter. That's interesting, because in my language, Shanghainese, it also works like this, but only with maternal ones.

[J.C.M.H.]

For sake of curiosity, how would you say nephew/grandson in Shanghainese?

[PhilipNikolayev]

OK, on the 10th iteration over this sentence, I must point out that when confronted with a sentence like "I spy on my niece/granddaughter" in English, the only thing that comes to mind is sexual perversion, incestuous voyeurism. "Spying" often means peeping. And there are lost of sentences with a spiona in this Romanian course, boys spying on girls, girls spying on boys, etc. Does it mean something else -- something socially acceptable -- in Romanian?

[MichaelDnc]

There are nieces, that are older than the uncle. As far as I know a relation is allowed, so not realy accepted in western world. In Turkey they have other rules....

[Corry467713]

I have been in Romania. This sound you also hear.
It depends on where you are. In Covasna they speak like the other woman

[Bert473677]

Creepy

[Colin220650]

Insight into the Ceaușescu era...