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Before I get into this I know they're not necessary but I feel I'm missing out on a chunk of the language by not having learned them considering other aspects of my pronunciation are pretty good. Does anyone know any actually good resources for this that don't just assume you know it already? I have trouble hearing and replicating it especially when it's just natural speech around me (I'm in Zagreb). Hell I'd even appreciate someone just kinda sitting down with me who can do it and just telling me whether I'm doing it right or not at this point.

How would a native speaker pronounce the name of former Chicago mayor and Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael A. Bilandžić ?

Does the letter “i” always make the sound “ee” in Croatian?

Thank you!

I hope you all can recommend a few Croatian authors that have made the jump onto the world stage and can be found in English. The period or content of the authors is less important than the writer’s background as I’m hope to better understand my heritage through literature (fiction/poetry). Thank you! Hvala!

Kako se pravilno kaže kad prilaziš skupini momaka?

Zdravo, I finished the making of my bot supposed to be the most complete of its kind on Character AI to learn the Croatian language! It can communicate fluently in both English and Croatian, knows Kajkavski, Štokavski and Čakavski and is by default on Štokavski
It is specialised in:
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Nesto razmisljam kako u engleskom jeziku oni imaju (po meni) super stvar, pri nabrajanju stvari odvajaju zarezima kojeg stavljaju i prije zadnje stvari ako ih je tri ili vise, npr.:

"I will bring my clothes, makeup, and iron curler."

• to bi kod nas islo "Ponijet cu odjecu, sminku i figaro." - znaci bez zareza prije i

Razlog zasto mi se to cini zgodno je jer nekad dvije ili vise stvari ubrajamo u jednu pa moze doci do nesporazuma ili nepreglednosti, npr.:

"Kupit cu cokoladu, kruske i jabuke i sir." - i sad tu imamo dva i pa djeluje da su kruske, jabuke, i sir sve u istom kosu. Nekako mi izgleda preglednije:

"Kupit cu cokoladu, kruske i jabuke, i sir."

Znam da za razliku od engleskog jezika mi imamo druge rijeci koje mozemo koristiti (npr. "te"), ali svejedno mi se ovako cini preglednije.

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I’m fluent in Russian (native language)

Hi all, As I am learning Croatian (complete beginner) I try to follow some insta acounts but I cant yet understand if someone speaks Croatian or Serbian and sometimes I find out that I follow a Serbian account instead of a Croatian one. Some write their location in their biography so I can understand but are there any quick tips that I can say "Aha this is Croatian!" Hvala 💖

So, as many of you know, I'm behind the web site easy-croatian.com. A part of that site is a list of "essential" verbs. Each verb / pair / triplet includes key forms and the most common uses, with example sentences, with cases highlighted by colors (when you move your mouse over it or tap on it, if using a touchscreen). This is an example:

Essential verbs: R-Š. razbijati

I'm working on the list slowly, when I have time. Currently I'm at, give or take, some 286 verbs / verb pairs / triplets or so. The plan is to reach 300 sometime in May, and then make it available as PDF.

So, are there any verbs you would like on the list?

As in, “stop daydreaming”. Or “Hes daydreaming”

Why do some people say “more” instead of “može”? 😁

Trebala bi mi preporuka za vama najbolju hrvatsku gramatiku jer nemam pojma što je danas dostupno. Što tražim:

• da je pouzdana (nije nejasna, ideološka ili populistička)
• da je vrlo detaljnija, precizna i rigorozna (da nije neki basic školski priručnik)
• preferiram što suvremeniji znanstveni pristup (ako toga uopće ima)
• preferiram da je lako dostupna (npr.u prodaji)

Hvala!

Has the online course website been down for a few days now too for you guys?

https://a1.ffzg.unizg.hr

I can't find anything useful on the Internet about the names "Umag" and "Magadenovac", and they look like they could be related. I've read somewhere that "Umag" comes from an ancient name "Humagum", but that seems to be impossible, as Proto-Slavic /u/ never gives /u/ in modern Croatian, right?

My grandfather was Slavic. He just called it the old country as his mother immigrated here. She was from Grad Gospić, Licko-Senjska, Croatia. ( yugoslavia then). He used to call me.. forgive the spelling , I'm going by phonics alone

Kachee or cotchee and the only other word i know.. again spelling.. is cocasaya???? I think the 2nd means hello.

Thank you for your help

Zdravo svima! I'm interested to learn Croatian and become fluent in it in the near future. My parents speak it fluently but they dont really care to help much :( so I gotta learn most of it myself. Fluent in English and also know a bit of Russian if that matters.

Any reccomendations? A free course? Music? Radio/Podcasts? Audiobooks? I'll take anything at this point. I plan to study a lot! Hvala 🤍

Let's say my e-mail was altana @ bird .com English I would say altana at bird dot com.

If I were to tell a Croatian person my e-mail address. I know the dot part is točka, right? So altana (something) bird točka com.

EDIT: I am doing the spaces around the @ and .com because Reddit links them.

So as you can tell by the title, my knowledge is highly limited, but I've at least understood that "c" is pronounced something like "ts", which in turn makes me wonder why it's not used in the example above (I'll refrain from writing it again to spare your eyes from what I can only assume must look like a monstrosity)

Hvala!

Hello everyone, I have a question about a phrase my Baka used to say to my mum she’s from around herzegovina-dalmatia area the phrase sounds approximate to ‘phy-a-nis-oos’/‘fia-nisus’

I’ve been trying to find a definition/phrase that matches but none of the dictionary’s have a match I was wondering if perhaps I had misheard what she said for another greeting or perhaps it might be some sort of dialectal phrase.

For starters, I speak French, English, some Arabic and some Russian. I find my Russian knowledge helps me understand the grammar because it makes it way less foreign to me.

They both seem similar. But are they the same like some other people are telling me? I’m used to Russian and Ukrainian, where both sides get offended if you say their language is like the other, would that be the same for Serbian and Croatian

Hello everyone, I just began learning Croatian. It is a very beautiful language. Any tips for a new beginner like me? Thank you:) Hvala 💖

I want to get a tattoo that translates well to “live life,” as in ‘go out and experience things,’ kind of like ‘live life to the fullest.’ What works best and why? Thanks in advance:)

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Hey sorry to write this in English, but I wanted to ask the difference between the verbs that translate roughly to ‘to remember’ I’ve heard ‘sećati se’, ‘sjetiti se’ and then ‘pamptiti’ ‘zapamptiti’ ‘upamtiti’.

I was more so focused on the first two verbs as I know these last 3 kinds translate to a different aspect of memory.

I had recently heard in conversation ‘setim se’ where I kinda expected ‘sećam se’ to be so I was just wondering if they’re interchangeable or have a difference in Croatian.

I'm talking about the soccer chants like bjezite ljudi, bjezite iz grada, and u boj u boj and things like that. I've seen pjevati and skandirati but which would you use for this context? And how would you write it? Nogometno pjevanje?

How does one say “I would like” in Croatian? Do you just say Želim? Is there a more polite way?

Pozdrav, htio bih pitati, da li u nekoj Hrvatskoj internetskoj knjižari mogu kupiti neke e knjige za moj Kindle uređaj. Ne živim u Hrvatskoj i nemam puno mjesta za skladištenje knjiga onda e knjige su za mene bolje :)

Hello, I want to learn Croatian, but I do not know what to start since Duolingo does not have Croatian lessons. For now, I just want to build up my vocabulary, so any resources to help me build my vocabulary would be great. thanks <3