Relja Vulanovic's Other Interests

LANGUAGES

Quot linguas calles, tot homines vales.

I have ranked the languages below from 1 to 10 according to the degree of my language competence: 1 means full competence (fluent speaking, reading, and writing), 6 is reading knowledge, and 10 is the knowledge of the basic grammatical structure and of a few words and phrases.

1. English^†*, Serbian^†* (mother tongue) or Croatian^†*

2. Russian^†*

3. Polish^†*

4. French^†*

5. Spanish^†*, Slovak^†*

6. German^†, Icelandic^†*/Old Norse*, Italian

7. Danish*, Norwegian*, Swedish*, Latin*, Bulgarian, Czech, Macedonian^†, Slovene, Ukrainian

8. Dutch, Portuguese^†

9. Gaeilge^† (Irish), Hungarian^†, Korean^†

10. Greek, Catalan, Sardu (Sardinian), K'ichee'

^† I have had conversations in these languages.

* I have read literary works in these languages.

TRAVEL

· I was born in Yugoslavia/Serbia.

· I have lived in Serbia, Bosnia, and the United States (Ohio and Maryland).

· A map showing the countries/territories I have been to can be found here.

SPORTS

• tennis
• table tennis
• cross-country skiing
• soccer

MUSIC

• I am an avid music listener. I like the music of the 70's and 80's and the less commercially popular electronic new age, progressive rock, modern jazz, and world music.