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work. The study help is performed every day from Monday to
Friday for 1 hour or 240 hours in total during the year.
The resources for implementing the programme are provided
by the European Refugee Fund and the European Fund
for integrating third country nationals as well as the Slovene
national budget.
INVITATION TO PRIMARY SLOVENE COURSE
TO WHOM IS THE COURSE MEANT FOR? All those are
invited who do not speak Slovene or do not speak it
well. We also welcome the persons who already speak
Slovene very well and would like to socialise and
communicate in Slovene language.
WHAT SHALL WE LEARN? At the course we will learn
how to greet a person, how to introduce oneself and
make contact with other people (personally or by telephone),
give and understand basic instructions regarding
the time, hour and date, space and direction.
WHERE DOES THE COURSE TAKE PLACE? In the library
of Asylum Centre.
WHEN DOES THE COURSE TAKE PLACE? According to
the schedule (on the library’s door).
Mrs. Saraa Djor who finished the advanced Slovene course in
November asked Professor Anja Tomazin a few questions.
Sara: »What is your name? «
Anja: »I am Anja. «
Sara: »What is your surname? «
Anja: »My surname is Tomazin. «
Sara: »What is your profession? «
Anja: »I am a professor of Slovene language and sociology.«
Sara: »How long have you been teaching Slovene? «
Anja: »The first time I taught at a Slovene course was five
years ago when I was still a student. That was for me
a fantastic experience. I immediately loved my work
and this has been my profession and pleasure for 3
years. «
Sara: »What is the difference between teaching Slovene for
foreigners and primary school children or secondary
school students? «
Anja: »Slovene language is the second or third language
for foreigners which means that they learn Slovene
also for communicating and due to the needs of the
environment. To the pupils and students the Slovene
is their first language (mother’s tongue). The difference
is enormous because when you teach Slovene as
the second or third language the teacher has to use
other methods, equipment and manner of work as in
the primary or secondary school”.
Sara: »How do you teach people from different countries?«
Anja: »Languages or the language spoken by an individual
is in the process of the beginning one of important
factors for learning Slovene. A participant of the
course, say from Japan, must first learn to pronounce
“r” and somebody from China “č” “ž” etc. You can
imagine that sometimes we laugh from the bottom
of our hearts. Individuals coming from the Slavonic
language environment have generally due to similar
phonetic and literal structures and the roots of words
as well as culture somewhat an easier job but it is precisely
this similarity between the Slavonic languages
that may lead to confusion.«
Sara: »What do you want to teach these foreigners? «
Anja: »Before each course we elaborate the projection
of work as regards who wants to learn Slovene, why
he wants to learn and how. I always wish to enable
an individual as best I can for everyday autonomous
communication. «
Sara: »Do you also teach Slovene culture and customs at
your courses? I mean the Reform Day you presented
today in the classroom. «
Anja: »Sure. The language and the culture (in the broadest
sense) are closely connected so learning the
language without the culture is something I cannot
imagine at all. We therefore learn the language and
the culture simultaneously. Already in the beginning
we learn how to greet a person and make a contact we
also learn the culture (since when do we say “good
morning”, when do we address a person in 3 rd person
plural, or 2 nd person singular etc.). Later when the
participants are capable of forming and understanding
more demanding texts they become familiar with
Slovene customs and holidays.«
Sara: »We know that you teach Slovene also the children
from Asylum Centre going to primary or secondary
school. Do you have problems with children? «
Anja: »I offer these pupils and students every working day
one hour of study help at homework, papers or reports
and help them if there is something they do
not understand. I have no problems with children -
we understand each other very well. I must say that
some pupils unfortunately do not take advantage of
my assistance often enough. «
Sara: »What would you like to say in the end?«
Anja: »I would like to kindly invite everybody to the Slovene
courses and all those who do so, I wish you lots
of success, endurance and good will. «
All the Cene Štupar staff encourages all the generations to
participate in life long education and raise the education
level of the population successfully.
We closely cooperate with several national and local institutions
like for example our founder municipality of Ljubljana,
Ministry of Education and Sports, Slovene Andragogy Centre,
Centre for Professional Education and Institute of Education
as well as other organisations for educating adults.
Authors: Laid Zagorsk Julio and Anja Tomazin,
Cene Štupar – Center za permanentno izobraževanje, Ljubljana
(Centre for Permanent Education)
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