User:Uniquenick

I was born in Bijeljina, Yugoslavia (now Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina) in 1960 where I finished my elementary and secondary education (Lyceum Filip Višnjić). I have, since my early adolescence, always been an encyclopedia buff so the Internet and especially Wikipedia and other on-line reference resources have become part of my daily bread. Literally, because I am a (French) language teacher in a middle school. And symbolically, since humans do not live by bread alone, it is also a source of delight in the contributions of others but also challenge, as I still have to start making my own contributions wherever the need be and wherever I feel I can bring my expertise to the table. Apart from Linguistics, my interests are really manifold and I hope that there will be time for them to become manifest on this page and others, where this page will be pointing to.

Having lost my home in Sarajevo to the Bosnian civil war in 1992, I came to Canada. Apart from Serbian (a.k.a. Serbo-Croatian or Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin), I use both official languages of my adoptive country. I have undergraduate University degrees in French (University of Sarajevo), Education and Computer Science (University of Western Ontario), M.A. in Linguistics (computational, University of Belgrade) and I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics. To my education I will also add 10 years of formal music education (Elementary and High School of Music Vojisav Vučković in Sarajevo) which might explain some contributions I may make, especially in the area of classical guitar and lute music and construction. In my old country, I worked as a classical guitar teacher, translator radio editor and presenter, while in Canada, apart from many odd jobs that are part of most immigrants' work experience, I have worked in the information technology industry and in education.