Nataša Pirih Svetina, PhD, from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana was the guest at the Faculty of Philology in Banja Luka on Friday, 9 February.
She graduated in Slovenian and history of art at the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana. In 2001 she defended her doctor’s thesis ‘Development of language possibilities when learning Slovenian as a second language’. She worked as an expert associate at the Centre for Slovenian as second/foreign language at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University in Ljubljana, while she is a Slovenian proof-reader at the Department for Slovenian studies and an associate professor for subjects on Slovenian as a foreign language. She publishes expert articles in local and foreign magazines, while she was guest lecturer in Zagreb, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Klagenfurt, Padova and Krakow.
Lecture is Banja Luka was entitled ‘Different faces of Slovenian, or Slovenian and Serbian in contact’. The guest was greeted by Biljana Babić, PhD, teaching Serbian-Slovenian language parallels at the Faculty of Philology. Students of Serbian and Russian were interested in differences and common characteristics of Slovenian and Serbian, and there were no language obstacles. We hope that the guest lecture supported by Association of Slovenians Triglav Banja Luka, was just the beginning of close cooperation between the faculties.
Barbara Hanuš
