In Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2.83% are officially illiterate, and we talked about literacy being much more than reading and writing in the new episode of the Hastor Foundation Podcast. We talked about this topic with Almina Šabanović-Kokot, a student at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo, who also awarded her the Golden Badge.
In everyday communication, especially official communication, we are moving further and further away from spelling and grammatical accuracy, explains Almina, who emphasizes the importance of approaching other people and the very act of communicating with them:
The way we communicate with other people gives an image of ourselves and how much we respect our interlocutor. In everyday communication with people, I learned not to look at mistakes, but to look at what they do well. It is important to me that when I talk to someone, I put aside the standard language and hear their dialect.
When we talk about literacy, it is most often reflected in the media, and literacy in the media was certainly one of the topics. However, the old way of literacy still seems to be the best way:
Reading is certainly one of the more efficient ways of literacy. While this process is going on, we may not even be aware of it. Only later do we see that we say a word, for example, that we didn’t even know we had learned. I believe that reading is primarily a way to expand our vocabulary, which is very important.
It is a special charm and benefit to do a job we love. A saying goes that if we do a job we love, we never go to work. Almina enjoys her profession with all her heart, and click on the link to find out what else she shared with us:
