Dr. Casia Zaharia is an associate professor at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. Areas of competence: over 15 years of teaching morphology, syntax and phraseology, but also German language courses. Since 2000 she is a collaborator of the German Cultural Center – Goethe Zentrum of Iasi, Romania. At the same time she undertakes researches in the field of phraseology, lexicology and semantics.