”Hello!
I’m Yulia, a third-year student at Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University. And I finished my first semester the University of Greifswald in Germany under the Erasmus+ programme.
I often shared posts about my student life in Germany, but I never wrote about my stay in Germany specifically as a university student.
The training took place face-to-face on the territory of the Faculty of Philosophy. I attended lectures, seminars and courses I had previously chosen for myself, and the form of assessment was also the one I chose which helped me to pass the exams.
I attended numerous educational events where I personally met lots of new people.
First of all, I want to mention Vira Makovska – a teacher of Ukrainian language and Slavic didactics at Greifswald University and just a very good person who helped me and supported me throughout the semester. I personally met Dr. Roman Dubasevych – a professor at the Department of Ukrainian Cultology at Greifswald University, who gave a very instructive lecture on the topic “War is (im)imminent? – The cultural background of Russia’s attack on Ukraine” (“Der (un) vermeidliche Krieg? – Kulturelle Hintergründe des russischen Angriffs gegen die Ukraine”). I also worked with Ksenia Borodyn – candidate of philological sciences from the Ukrainian Catholic University, who was working at the university under the Erasmus program for teachers.
I had the opportunity to talk with Lidia Nagel at the translation workshop and discuss the peculiarities of translation from Ukrainian to German and vice versa.
And I was also pleasantly surprised to meet Salvatore del Gaudio – an Italian by origin who worked in Kyiv universities as a teacher of the modern Ukrainian language. I am very glad that he told his story and shared his experience in learning and teaching the Ukrainian language.
The meeting with the representative of the Ukrainian consulate in Germany, who came to the university to meet with students studying the Ukrainian language, was very special for me. This event was probably the most anxious but everything went very well and we had a nice chat with them.
I am sure that thanks to Drohobych University, I will meet even more people in the new summer semester who are interested in learning the Ukrainian language!”
Yulia Savchak
student at the Faculty of Ukrainian and Foreign Philology