#croatian language

[strongbabydoll999]

DOK PALIŠ SVIJEĆU PITAJ SVOJU BAKU ZAŠTO JE KĆERI RAĐALA U STRAHU ZAŠTO SU MNOGI ODABRALI GROBLJE NISU NAŠE MAJKE IZNEDRILE ROBLJE

[inbetweencoffees]

Last language session of '24

Numbers 11-20

Days of the week

Grammatical gender

For almost a year now I’ve been trying to teach myself Croatian, which turns out to be harder than expected. Don’t get me wrong- I know that Croatian is a hard language to learn. I gladly understand quite a lot since most of my family is from Croatia and I took Croatian lessons during elementary school. My problem is actually speaking the language. Finding resources that explain the grammar is difficult, finding revision materials is even worse. That is why I’ve been slacking off for quite a while now. But since I want to visit my home back in Croatia (it’s been almost 6 years…) after graduating I need to get back on track and start studying again.

That means: creating my own revision materials, review important vocabulary, learn to form simple sentences

[mavro-nation]

once again calling croatians for sram fic knowledge

how would you say “minute for minute” in croatian? google translate has told me at least 5 different things

are these nicknames viable?

Lovro -> Lovri (pls say yes i’ve written this so many times) and Lovrenčika (as a joke, i took a hungarian format for this which i just thought would be the same for croatian??? maybe not)

Matej -> Matti

Adrijana -> either Adri, Adi, or Jana but i’m willing to let this one go

Jakov -> Jaki (teasing)

Maša -> Maš

Pavo -> Pav

thank you for your time

[girlontheball]

@gvardiol Sorry to tag you in something out of the blue but as the anon asked you about stuff for learning Croatian and I think this might be the best way to get it to them! I also feel like they’ll be other people who want to know, I definitely started learning because of 2018 and I imagine it’s going to happen again.

So Duolingo hasn’t got a course (booooooo!) but 

Mondly is worth it for the daily lessons, it will give you vocab that’s completely randomised but it’s still vocab. Premium opens up all of it but it is PRICEY

Drops is my go to, it has topics that you work through in the 5 minutes a day you get (sometimes they give you more as a “gift” for like streaks, it’s Christmas or another holiday for example) I feel like this is the most coherent for beginners. Isn’t random vocab like Mondly, isn’t throw Grammar at you at least not in a “HERE! GRAMMAR!” way

Memrise. There’s no official course for Croatian on Memrise but there’s plenty of courses that teach you words which are important for speaking (3,000 words makes you conversational, and knowing words makes grammar examples way easier to figure out)

Outside of apps there’s some other useful resources

Croatian reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/croatian/) for language learning, specfically the films link they have on their resource list: https://croatian.film/en/

If you want to do a course, there’s also this, which was made with a native speaker: http://www.easy-croatian.com/

Depending on how serious you are, hunt Langblr for resource posts and you’ll probably be able to books for a reasonable price COUGHFREECOUGH that wouldn’t otherwise be readily available. Just throwing Langblr into the search finds you a bunch of neat people too 

And just from someone who learns languages for fun (including Croatian) if you really want to learn beyond the 5 minutes on Drops or the 15 minute lesson then interact with the language in a way that is fun for you. There are sites out there that have recorded football matches (Footballia comes to mind but you didn’t hear that from me) maybe try to find some with Croatian commentary, some definitely have Croatian leagues. I learned a lot of my language through songs and watching my favourite TV shows dubbed. It’s gonna make no sense at first but trust the process. Also if you want to speak then don’t neglect your speaking, it’s the hardest part, especially the less access you have to native speakers so even if you’re talking to yourself you’re still practicing.

Okay language nerd out, if you have any questions feel free to pop on my blog and ask them 

[foxyteah]

Every language has some saying about the inevitability of things, how some things just can't be helped and that's just how it is

Balkan languages also have several, but one of them is "every butt will have to sit on a toilet" and I think that's beautiful

[justdonotaskmewhy]

My naive brain: OK, I can learn the basics of Croatian myself

Blizu and pokraj: Hello, sweetie😘

[lukaszmichal]

I adore the fact that while one of the earliest phonological changes in the Proto-Indo-European language was the elimination of -tk-, -dg-type clusters (because you know, those were unpronounceable even for the users of a language that contained such a banger of a word as *septm̥dḱm̥tós,) some four thousand years later the Croatian language (which had to eliminate the Proto-Slavic -dl-cluster as it was too hard to pronounce) has changed the general Slavic relative pronoun “kto” (who) to “tko” jut for the giggles

[emmathompsonsmartini]

if any of my Goran/Flynn fans started learning Croatian, I’d love some links to what you’re using??