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 the reading knowledge, 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)
10. Greek, Hungarian, Catalan, Sardu (Sardinian), Korean, K'ichee'

*I have read literary works in these languages.

TRAVEL

• Lived in Yugoslavia/Serbia and USA.
• Visited the following countries/territories:
• in Europe: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom (England and Scotland)
• in Asia: China, India
• in North America: Canada, the Caribbean (Dominican Republic, Jamaica, St. Martin/Maarten), Mexico

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, modern jazz, and world music.