How I Learned to Speak CROATIAN in 6 Steps (The Unconventional Way to Learning a Language)
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Many people have asked me recently how I learned to speak Croatian (after seeing a few video clips of me speaking the language). I've been living in Croatia for 9 years already, and had to learn the language from scratch (as I don't have any Croatian roots, and had never heard the language before moving to Zagreb).
I learned Croatian in my own, unconventional way, and I've broken it down into 6 steps. It's NOT grammar-focused, I'll just give you some simple grammar beginnings, and then many helpful ways to increase your vocabulary and get you speaking.
I'll also share some tips to how I improved my written Croatian and worked on my grammar when I was ready.
I hope you find some helpful tips in here and are able to use some tricks to improve your Croatian!
Here's a link to the phrasebook I used:
LONELY PLANET PHRASEBOOK - amzn.to/3aGAGJS
Here are a few children's books in CROATIAN!
amzn.to/3v17BBC (Sweet Dreams, My Love)
amzn.to/2QrlXw7 (I Love My Dad)
amzn.to/33TKMnK (Sleep Tight, Little Wolf - this one has both English & Croatian text on each page, which is helpful!)
amzn.to/3u13Nz4 (In Here, Out There - this one also has both English & Croatian text on each page)
It makes me really happy seening someone learning my language ☺️
Ima ih puno, ja ih ucim iz Amerike, Australije, Engleske ❤️
@@natalijanatalija7381 ❤️❤️
Same
Same. I was learning my cousin from canada when she came to croatia 5 years ago
@@blueberry3210 i'm Peruvian-Croatian and just started to learn
My boyfriend is Croatian, so i am learning so i can speak to his parents (who don't speak English)
Glad I found your channel 😊
Yes!! That's one big reason I wanted to learn, too! My husband's parents also don't speak English, so it was nice when I could finally speak to them :)
Sometimes it's better not knowing what people are saying about you🤣
@@olympicsongcontest7117 Nah
I wanna know 😂
@@TaylorAvant14 sweetie I'm bi and had a foreign bf - good luck to you and your boyfriend - "non normal" relationships can be difficult, but once you tune out everybody else and become secure in your relationship nothing else matters. Good luck with your Croatian btw (to hear gossip I suggest learning swear words and descriptive terms first)
That's so nice
Ako ti nije jos nitko rekao, jako si lijepa!
Joj, hvala :)
Sigurno su Sari to mnogi ljudi rekli, a pogotovo njen Ivan! Očito je da je lijepa, to moraš primijetiti.
Im happy when someone from other country atleast says ''hi'' in my language, then i can't describe you how am I happy when the person actually learns it like you did :D
Aww, thanks Nikola!
I am learning I’m English
Indonesian learn Hrvatski. The only phrase I can say over and over again is 'trla baba lan, da joj prođe dan'. It's a beautiful language and the pronunciation is suitable for my tongue. Grammar is another level, but I like to learn more of it!
Everyone who tries to learn our language has my respect. We Croats know that our language is hard and difficult...the grammar drives even us sometimes insane :P So we feel the pain and there is no reason to be mean to foreigners if they say something incorrect.
Everyone who learnt one or two languages knows how difficult it can be and if it is nothing similar to your native language it can be even harder. Well English is def easier than croatian but till this day there are words that are hard for me to pronounce.
Also your croatian sounds pretty amazing.
Svaka čast :D
Hvala!
Wow, interesting you would say that bc we have a lot of slang. Not to mention…they, there, their , they’re. Bought, brought , buy, by, bye.
@@teresamance8381 every language has its own slangs which is normal and sure for foreigners who dont live in those places where a certain language is the native one wont necessarily pick up the slang from the get go BUT most of us still achieve to learn the grammar properly and know how to speak the "proper" way/ standard language (idk if I can say it like that 😅).
They, there, their can be confusing in the beginning but the thing is if you have someone who teaches you the language properly from the beginning and you understand the differences it wont be a problem. Also a big plus is if you have the chance to use the language you are learning often or even every day.
I had the luck when I used to live in Germany as a kid that my english teachers were very good and had some great advice how to differentiate words that sound same or similar. One I will remember for ever. In German you would say "he, she , it das s muss mit" which basically means " he, she, it the s has to go with it". That was a great thing to remember when using he she or it to put a s at the end of the verb in the present form.
I for example picked up some american slang by watching their movies and shows and even music. With time you will pick up some stuff by watching things or interacting with people due to work for example.
At the end of the day it also depends how dedicated you are while learning a foreign language and how willing you are to learn it properly.
I have to say although I am Croatian I grew up in Germany till I was 16 and when we moved to Dalmatia, southern part of Croatia I had my problems as well since I didnt know how to speak in the dialect and certain slang but with time I learnt that as well. I did have to ask for translation to the proper language to understand what some people said to me 😅🙈
So I can understand her how she felt when she came as a complete foreigner.
@@Niki91-HR do you know of a FB in Croatia I could go to to learn the language? Or if there’s a TV program I can watch or News reports in Croatia on a Fb page?
@@teresamance8381 with FB you mean Facebook right?
Hmm... I am not sure about pages where you can learn croatian. I could imagine that there may be on TH-cam videos like I have seen for korean or thai or other languages.
HRT is our national broadcaster that has a FB page, NOVA TV is the most popular channel.
I will look up what I can find to help you :)
Ono kad gledas tutorijal kako pricati svoj jezik 😂😂
Hahah :)
To i treba većini. vidim po internetu, puno, puno Hrvata je nepismeno hahah
totalno :D
A stas kad nije lagan hrvatski englezima
@Matej Pecha - I ja sam se pitao, zašto konjugiram sa Sarom glagole biti i imati, kao da sam jučer izašao iz jajeta. xD
I met for Croation language lessons every Monday evening for 3 years at Sacred Heart Chruch im Milwaukee from 2013 to 2016. After seeing this video...."hvala vam vrlo". I have hope in 2021 to learn more!!!
Aww, that's great!! Best of luck!!
I really like the method. Hahaha. It is very unique and effective way to learn Croatian. Ja sam iz Hrvatske i mogu reći da ste odlično svladali naš težak jezik :)
Thanks Ivan!! :) Definitely a unique way of learning! lol
A bivši "premijer" Tihomir Orešković je GLUMIO da je "zaboravio" materinji jezik.......SRAMOTA !!!!!!
@@RoyalCroatianTours ...dobra,predobra,NAJBOLJA !!!
As ukrainian learning Croatian with grammar is easier because ukrainian cases and conjugations = croatian cases and conjugations :)
Slavenski Jezici!
@@stipe3124 А также древнее значение слова «язык» - народность. Я, русская, тоже понимаю 75-80% хорватского.
THANK YOU!!! I moved to Croatia in 2011 and went right into learning. I spend so much time and enough kuna (enough to build a castle lol) on tutors, books, and courses. I found that just speaking without caring if you made a mistake was very helpful. My friends basically said I spoke CroEnglish LOL.... Right when I started to understand 50% of the conversations my friends were having, I moved to Hungary!!! Now, I am back in Croatia and will use your technique to learn this time. You are so right, Croatians are kind and LOVE it when they hear a foreigner "try" to speak Croatian. HVALA FOR THE MOTIVATION!!!
Aww, thank you so much! I'm so happy the video motivated you! :) Best of luck! You can do it!!
G - in English it sometimes sounds like Đ (gemini) , in Croatian it's always G (gas)
That's true :)
I call them impossible letters (c, ć, č, z, ž, đ) for they all sound kind of same to me, although otherwise the pronouncing is pretty much the same as in Finnish. But she made them sound so easy, so I hope this helped.
As a Croatian, I can say that this is a really good method that I'd recommend to everyone. Croatian can be difficult to master, but with this method it should be quite easy to become quite conversational. And I fully agree and confirm you shouldn't bother with difficult grammar, it will just hinder your progress. Grammar will come over time.
Thanks! Yes, the grammar can wait! It's important to get speaking :D
Hvala! As an aspiring Croatian speaker, this is vrlo korisno.
Super!!
Jako mi je drago da si naučila moj jezik. Bravo!
Im so glad that you learned my language. Great!
Thank you!
@@RoyalCroatianTours Nema na čemu!
WOW! You are such a BIG motivation!!!! (im Cro expat in Germany learning German ..OMG!) super super motivation!!! Hvala Sarah!
Aww, thank you so much for your sweet words!!
That’s funny you say omg about German! Ja! I agree though I really try since we have dear friends there and visit two times a year. Hope you’re mastering it, as I quickly try and learn some Croatian for our trip next week there. I’m excited and this is so helpful! Prost 🙋♀️
I'm curious to know if many Croats understand or speak German as a foreign language?
I'm American and I'm sad to say that my father's parents were from Croatia and my father grew up speaking Croatian. Since my mother didn't speak Croatian, I didn't often hear the language at home. I learned German in college and would love to learn a bit of Croatian now.
Your Croatian is amazing!! I’m really impressed, like most of the viewers here. 😃 I’m from Slovenia, but I don’t have a clue about the Croatian language (spent my early childhood in Germany). I understand 80% of it, however I’m not able to put a proper sentence together. 🙈
Thank you so much! Well, I can say your English is amazing!! 😃
Tvoj hrvatski je književniji od 70% hrvata jer, dosta dalmatinaca, zagoraca i starih zagrepčan puno grijesi u književnom, zato svaka cast
Kako nece gresiti kad su kajkavci i cakavci. Zamisli da je nama stokavcima cakavica (dobro je znam) nametnuta. Ca deladu tude po sufini po cil dan? Prevedi to.
@@zoranorlic2423 ne kužim čemu skačeš kada sam napisao njen književni je bolji, u školi bi se trebao ucit knjizevni i vecina knjiga tj.lektira su na književnom
Hvala puno!! :)
@@zoranorlic2423 budi miran srbo, štokavica je tebi nametnuta a ne nama, prije te isperverzirane vukove verzije štokavice koju nazivate "srpskim" ste u pašaluku torlačili ko bugari i makedonci.I dan danas tamo po nišu gutate padeže ko cigani, toliko o tome kome je nametnuta štokavica 😆
Your approach is awesome sarah- especially when you deemphasize the grammar/cases etc/ to build little at a time/ keep at it/ and you are even a better example as you learned from scratch-
Appreciate all your help and encouragement-
sve naybolje i hvala vam velika/
Thanks so much, Jack!! Sve najbolje!
Sinoc sam otkrila da imate youtube kanal. Svaka vam cast kako dobro pricate nas jezik, ja sam odusevljena, i imate super naglasak, nemate toliko puno onaj engleski naglasak. Sve vas se fino razumije, a nas jezik je tezak i jos 7 padeza. I jako ste lijepi,prelijepi ste i simpaticni. ❤️❤️❤️
And again, Sarah, you make my day so easy when I try to teach my Canadien friends Hrvatski jezik! ! Keep with good job and Good speed !
Thank you Tomislav! 😃
Thank you so much for making these videos. I am also a blonde American girl married to a hrvat!! He is from Otok Krk. We live in Florida now but we visit every year and I have really struggled with the language barrier. I have decent vocabulary and ear for language (I sing in many languages) but I am so embarrassed to string words together and actually speak. I do okay at restaurants or grocery stores... anything around food or drinks lol! Anyway, thank you for your encouragement and tips. It’s so inspiring to see you living there and speaking so beautifully!! I am hoping to do a concert there this summer so maybe we could meet someday. All the best! Cheers/ živjeli 🥂
Thanks Heather! I know what you mean about it being hard to just start stringing words together, but as soon as you do, it'll just get so much easier! It's hard to lose that fear though, I understand. And yes, if you're around this summer, let's definitely meet up :)
@@RoyalCroatianTours Sounds great! When you used the app Memrise, did you learn Slovenian? It doesn't have the option for Croatian. I know there are some differences like gladan/lacen = hungry
Your video is great! I use the same method to learn languages, and now that i have to live for a year in Zagreb because of work I am learning croatian. I'm gonna follow the same steps and I'm sure i will be able to speak it in a couple of months. Thank you for your tips!
Please do more language videos because it’s so encouraging that you managed to learn it.
I LOVE your channel. Your personality, how fun you and your husband are together on your vlogs ( Ofcourse your kids are adorable and so well behaved) and the content! Thank you SO very much for all you share! We just found your channel and are binge watching to learn all we can for our Croatia trip next week. I love learning languages, ok words anyway, before a trip to a new country since it’s so fun to try and converse or at-least understand a little and feel it’s just respectful and fun to try. You’re great at presenting all of this and I hope I do you proud as I venture to markets and cafes next week! Thank you!!!!!!
I've always felt ashamed about not knowing my language hrvatski, but now I'm putting my full self into learning more! This video is very helpful!
Same
Same
Impressive! Coming from a primary school teacher, those are actually some amazing methods. Thank you for sharing this. Love your channel!
I am sure you would be able to understand my comment if it was written in Croatian but since you've shown so much respect to our Croatian language I thought it would be nice of me to do the same for you. God bless!
Aww, thank you so much Dajana for your sweet words!! Lijep pozdrav!! :)
svaka cast - hvala ti puno!
Thank you so much. This was very motivating. I grew up with my dad who spoke some words, but I never became conversational. I am motivated to learn more. It is a goal to become (at least) conversational. I just found your videos and I was so impressed with your Croatian. Brings me back to my childhood when my Baba and the rest of her generation used to speak. I love your videos.
Thanks so much for this, I think this is going to be really helpful for me, I'm going to follow your pattern :)
Odličan video, bravo!
Hvala puno!
Thank you so much! Going to Croatia to meet my grandparents this summer and I'm trying to learn it. Very useful :)
Wonderful! So happy you found it useful! I hope you have a beautiful visit with your grandparents! How lovely!!
You'd be a great teacher! Thank you for put effort and learn our language. Even better - you motivate others to learn Croatian. Nice of you.
Thank you Branislav!
You're doing amazing with your Croatian! I'm actually someone from Zagreb who plans on moving to Canada soon, and your channel just warms my heart! ❤
Awww, thank you so much!!! :)
Čitam komentare i gledajući tvoj tutorial, odlučila sam pisati na hrvatskom jer toliko ga divno pričaš, tečno, lagano.. Svaka čast na upornosti i želji za učenjem. Hrvatski jezik je zaista težak jezik. A što se tiče ovih prvih usporedba abecede na hrvatskom i engleskom jeziku koje si pokazala, preodlično. Stvarno uživam u svakom tvom videu koji dijeliš. Samo hrabro dalje i veselim se tvom sljedećem videu. P.s. Divno si opisala moj rodni grad Varaždin kada si ga posjetila. Vrati se još koji puta.🤗🤗🤗🤗
Awww, hvala puno Mia na prelijepom komentaru! I da, volimo Varazdin :)
I'm from Poland and I'm also learning Croatian 😀 *interesting movie* 👏
Thanks! 😃
Kako ide, buraz? 😀
@@jebatevrana Ide dobro, učim polako 😀
@@PrawdziwaChorwacja Ae, nego kako. Samo lagano i uživaj.
@@jebatevrana hvala :D
Sarah, sve je prekrasno na vašim filmovima.. jedva čekam / cant wait!! sve odgledati .. nikako da nađem, moj Zadar?;- i na kraju rezerviram neko putovanje preko vaše agencije; Sretno i dalje i budite tako vrijedni i veseli.
Dokaz ste da se svaki ali baš svaki jezik može savladati uz želju trud ljubav i malo talenta. Vidimo se u Zadru, čim mi dođete !! Cheers #
Zadar ide ovu subotu:) Hvala na podršci
Thank you! My mother spoke Croatian and I grew up not learning any of it but I decided I might go visit there and I would love to be able to speak a little bit. This was a really great video with lots of information so thank you I screenshot the alphabet and the conjugation of the “ to be” verb! Thank you 😊
Thank you so much. I really like your way of starting out. I’m hoping I can learn a few things for my trip in 4 months 😊❤️
It is great. I'm learning Croatian too, and it's very hard. But this video gives me the courage and the power to continue. Thanks Sarah!
Happy to hear that!! You can do it!!
Sretno s tim 😁
This is the most helpful video for learning Croatian I have ever seen! Hvala vam puno!! 😉
Thank you so much!!! 😃
This is the video that is worth watching about learning Croatian. Blessings!
Oh, this is so good. We have had property in Croatia for 15 years but for an older person who was never allowed to learn a 2nd language, it has been almost an impossible task. This year I got to spend more time there and I am determined to learn so I can speak with my neighbors and people on the island. I was tripping up on all the things you said to leave well alone. I shall watch more videos to try and improve along with the learning guide I am using. Thanks.
Here on holiday from Scotland addicted to your videos....so inspiring x
Super je tutorijal! Odlično si savladala jezik, svaka čast! 👏
Pozdrav od susjeda iz BiH
Hvala puno!! pozdrav iz Zagreba :)
dijelim ovo sad sa svojim frendovima ircima :D hvala na ovome :) pozz od hrvata iz Dublina :) cheers :)
Hvala! Pozdrav iz Zagreba!!
Such a helpful video Sarah, thank you! Languages are my passion and I’m fluent in 5, but Croatian sure isn’t one of them! I’ve been finding it hard finding a good app to start learning so your video has been a great starting point (even though I still haven’t completely worked out memerise - they don’t have an official Croatian course). Your level of Croatian is fantastic, (especially your r’s, which I still struggle with at times after 18 years of speaking Spanish fluently). I like your approach of not worrying about Grammar at the start - one of my biggest mistakes in the past was not speaking to locals before I felt I was ‘perfect’ enough.
This is awesome, thanks for your help I have moved to Zadar 1 year ago with my Croatian wife and I’m really struggling this has helped me so much I have written it down and will practice what you have said, please please can we have more of this every week maybe??
Nick i Irena
Aww, you're so sweet!! I'm so happy you found it helpful! I'll try to do more of these videos in the future :)
Thank you for this video, as a Filipino, it will really be a big help on starting to learn croatia since I just started working here.
Svaka cast Sarah!
This is great, thanks for sharing. I'm hoping you'll mention the dialects in one of your videos about our language one day. I live in Croatia and some of them are barely understadable when it's real thick ^^. I also hope you would cover slang one day. I learned english when I was a kid, and I can say that my vocabulary and grammar improved significantly by reading books in english. The hardest words to learn are the one less used, like names of trees and fish IMO. Next up, I would say words that imply a multitude, like a flock of birds, a hoard of gold or a gaggle of nuns. It would also be fun if you translated some of the city, town and village names into english, all you need is a good map!
Well done, Sarah!
Thank you sooooo much for putting out this video and showing this method to people. I learned English the same way (and now I'm level C1, both in written and spoken english)! this method does actually work, and - for me at least made learning much less frustrating than learning it in school for example. Currently, I'm learning Croatian, and this video reminded me how much fun it is to actually learn a language, so thank you very much again! Or puno hvala 😏😄🥰
You should do a Q&A about your story on how you came to be in Croatia and everything! I’m also living in Croatia, I’m from America but I’ve been here for almost 3 years now! It is really comforting to hear an English speaker sharing their stories and experiences with Croatia and the language it makes me feel less alone knowing there’s other expats here haha😂 thanks for sharing! 😊
Not a bad idea about the Q & A. We'll definitely consider it for an upcoming video :) Yes, I also love hearing other expats' stories, it's comforting for me, too :)
Hi! I'm a Canadian from Quebec and my girlfriend is Croatian Canadian. She really loves your approche to learning Croatian and is so impressed with your prononciation.
Tank you for this helpful guide.
Liked and subscribed 🤗🇭🇷🇨🇦
Thank you so much! ❤️❤️
Love your video !!
Thank you so much for the tips! Excited to show my consumers/residents what little Croatian words i know!
Zanimljivo da u ovoj abecedi koju ste prikazali u videu slovo ć ide prije slova č. Inače je obrnuto. 😁 I nisam siguran, možda je do mene, ali izgovor slova "č", "ć", i "dž", "đ" kod Vas zvuči vrlo slično. Ako nisam krivo čuo, ako je to stvarno tako onda mali savjet, kada izgovarate č, dž onda podignete jezik, a kada hoćete koristiti ć, đ onda jezik spustite. I naravno, svaka čast na trudu i napretku. Već ste toliko dobri da možete druge učiti hrvatski jezik. 😁 Pozdrav!
Najbolje da joj objasnimo i koja su slova bilateralna koje palatalna koja dentalna itd...
Sarah, your video is SO helpful! You speak to some really basic guidelines ("grammar in doses", etc.) but it makes sense. You seem to share a "common sense is not so common" approach, great for someone like me who tends to overcomplicate things. Just learning biti and imati in the present with the subject pronouns, and the adverbs of frequency and some simple expressions of time, can already take you a long way. Many, many thanks!
This is great system to learn any new/foreign language. My teacher in elementary school (40 years ago) used it to teach us German, and later I applied it to learn self-learn Spanish and Portuguese. Personal Pronouns, To Be, To Have...once you learn how to use these (+ learn how to read alphabet to expand the vocabulary) - you have a foundation to converse in any language. I loved your initial instuctions to your viewers not to get intimidated with imperfections in grammar. Way too many adults never learn the new language as they are affraid to make basic mistakes that other pple would consider inappropriate and stupid.
I hope my wife (Brazilian) will start following your channel and instructions about Croatian language and experience of the country from the perspective of the non-Croatian, curious person.
Respect!!!! Wooow so cool! Greetings from Zagreb! 🇭🇷❤
Thank you 🙌
your tips are great, thanx, you encouraged me
My grandparents were born in Croatia. In May I will be traveling to their home town to research genealogy, and then will travel around the Central Dalmatian coast. Your videos are perfect for me. Thanks so much for posting them.😊
Keep up the good work! :)
Thanks, will do!
Pretty good advice I would say. I am about to pick up croatian and that video was very usefull, thank you very much 🙂
This is really good advice. As a native English speaker who only speaks English, I am having a very hard time with padezi. My vocabulary isn't extremely developed, and I find it so hard to just jump in and write and speak whilst making mistakes. I feel like everything I say has to be grammatically correct, and that's probably why I haven't progressed as far as I'd hope. I am starting an online Croatian course 3 days a week though, so I am very excited. I just need to learn to be okay making mistakes.
Hmmm.
When I started to learn French I was like (no way / impossible!)
Actually it is possible.
Just Believe in Yourself. No Matter if you make mistakes.
And even if some Croatians around you, they're trying to correct you...(it's just for your good)
🍀
Super-helpful !! - Thank you so much !! - 🙏
mh husband is croatian, and we recently visited croatia. i am very interested in learning the language . this is very helpful.
You are such a tremendous resource, Sarah!! I think so many language instructors here focus on the grammar first which is a big mistake. I am going to follow your methods and am confident I will finally improve. Though the phrase and story writing might not happen 😉.
Awww, thanks Katherine!!! You're so sweet! You can do it, and I promise, the story writing is fun!!! No joke!
I am very happy to have found your channel! You are great, I am impressed! We love your videos because my boyfriend is learning Croatian and your presentation is great. If you can, just keep going. I would also like to see a video about the city of Vinkovci, given that it has the title of the oldest city in Europe. Thank you for presenting my home country and know that we are really looking forward to each of your videos! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts 🌞🌈👼. Best wishes from Ireland 💚
Aww, thank you so much for your sweet message!! :) Glad you like the videos!! Best wishes from Zagreb!
@@RoyalCroatianTours My pleasure, thank you too :)! All the best,🌞🌈
I’m from Chicago living with Croatian wife , thank you so much for everything you have explained to me... I really thinking about moving to Karlovac but I little scared... Money ? Language ? Staying busy ? A ton of questions
Karlovac is small town, about 50 000 people, 35 miles from main city Zagreb. Karlovac is mainly known as "City on 4 rivers".
Don't know much else since I rarely go there.
I presume that buying a house there is cheap, especially relative to American prices (judging by Property Brothers show 😄).
English is second language for everybody who went to school in 1990 and forward, so that can set your expectations about communication.
Thanks so much Sarah, this is really motivating and helpful! great tip with memrise, we'll look into that straight away. We've been using duolingo for other languages, however they don't have croatian.
I love your video's! Trying to learn croatian because my boyfriend is croatian :) I already learned a language almost like you so this will definitely work for me! Thanks. Also can you maybe suggest a few series in croatian or youtubers so I can practise hearing? 😊 would be very helpful :)
Hmmm, for series in Croatian, try to search on TH-cam - that might be your best bet! I know you can find almost all cartoons in Croatian (dubbed), and cartoons usually have simpler language, so that might be a good way, too!
I love your approach Sarah!
I've learned conversational Croatian by ear over 22 years but now I'm living here I'm trying to learn it grammatically and I'm really struggling. Even though I'm a TEFL teacher I agree with you that the easiest way to start with Croatian is to cram vocabulary first and then try to find a competent person to teach you the grammar. I think I'll start translating my 8 year old daughter's storybooks. That's a great piece of advice! Lijepi pozdrav.
Thanks so much!! Yes, I really think the most important thing is grow your vocab! Your daughter's books are a perfect way to do that!! :D
My mum is Croatian and im trying to learn the language so I can talk to my relatives there for once lol
thank you this has helped a lot
Hello Sarah! Thanks a lot for great video! Greetings from Toronto! Hopefully we shall be in Porec around next Saturday. Dobriy Dan ! Cheers! P. S. Subscribed!
I TOTALLY agree with this method. I am a teacher and this is the way I am learning Croatian. Brilliant!
I am half Croatian, living in Canada and do not speak Croatian anywhere near as well as you do. I have no problem reading Croatian but get lost when I don’t understand a couple of words in some conversations ! I sing a couple of songs on TH-cam and wonder if I sound like a foreigner to Croatian born people ! Now I am waiting for my daughter to wake up , we are going to attempt to make Oblande for the first time !
Oh, yes I know what you mean! Reading and writing is easier than speaking because conversation moves so quickly!! Enjoy the Oblande :)
This video is GREAT!! Puno hvala!!! :)
So happy you enjoyed!! Hvala Tomas :)
Uči se kroz pogreške..dakle pogreške su dobrodošle...svaka ti čast još jednom👑 p.s. iste se metode, baš kao što si spomenula na početku videa, mogu primijetiti i pri učenju nekih drugih stranih jezika..sve što si ispričala mogu definitivno potvrditi u slučaju učenja švedskog jezika.
I think these are _excellent_ tips!
Thanks! :)
Your Croatian is amazing. Wow. I am so impressed. I am Austrian 🇦🇹 and live in Vienna. I love learning languages and took the challenge to learn Croatian. I have been learning it for 1,5 years now. But it's soooooo difficult. You are a true inspiration. Thank you for your videos. 🤩I love watching them. ❤️🤍💙✨First I tried to study the grammar but then I decided to learn it by using the language. Reading, listening... and as you said, concentrate on it later on. There is still enough time. 🤣
Thank you so much for your sweet words!! Yes, grammar can wait... better to not stress over it, and just get speaking :)
I THOUGHT OF YOU!🤣🤣🤣
Thanks fir the video
I agree 1000% not to go crazy with grammar. Good teacher. Slažem se 1000% da ne mošemo poludjeti s gramatikom.
Bravo Sara!!👏👏👏👏👏
I am polish and I can say that from the first point of view croatian is very similar to polish ( " I drink" is like 99% the same like in polish ) but also includes tricky words - I mean the same pronunciation but different meaning Like for example "I love" in croatian is almost the same like "I prefer" in polish and "I eat " in croatian is almost the same like "I drive" in polish.
I am going to visit Croatia soon and you encouraged me to learn the basics.
Kind regards for you and all Croatians !
Hi Sarah, I have to say that I’m really impressed with your level of Croatian! I’ve been learning Croatian for just over a year now, and I can totally relate when you say that it’s a difficult language to learn! I’m Australian (living in Australia) but I’m also Croatian through my maternal grandparents. They lived in Crikvenica, where I was also christened as a baby. I also speak Spanish and German, but despite my experiences in learning these languages, Croatian is definitely the hardest. I think your learning methods are really good, as I too use Memrise and such methods. I have weekly lessons with a native Croatian speaker using italki.com. I tend to write a lot of Croatian: usually a few paragraphs every week about something I enjoy. I find that has expanded my vocabulary quite a bit. Jedva čekam govoriti hrvatski tečno, ali znam da jezik nije jednostavan. It took me a little over 3 years to reach C1 level in Spanish, but I think it’ll take me a lot longer in Croatian!
Anyhow, apologies for my ramblings! I really just wanted to comment on how much I enjoy your channel!
im glad because i have been trying to learn my grandparents language for years, but kept giving up realising that i was never enough around it to pick up on it and that the only chance i had was when i was at their place, this will make it a little easier and then i can ask them more and more slowly the more i learn
Why would anyone give a thumbs down to this video? Those people are either mean or competition. Sarah, I was an exchange student in US back in 1987/88. I approve of your method. The most important thing is to expose yourself to the vocabulary. Words, many words. Verbs are the most important. Nouns are second, adjectives are at the bottom of the list. Good job! I hope to meet you. We live in the same city.
You've done a great job learning the language. One thing I would add when learning a language is once you have the basics, work to read simple texts to see how sentences are formed. It helps to increase one's vocabulary and leads you to more advanced texts. Magazines and books work great. By the way, I always describe nj as in New or News. Haven't thought of an english word for lj usage 😂. A friend of mine, whose mom is Slovenian, pronounces Ljubljana as lube-lah-nah, cracks me up.
Thanks for the tips!
Hi! thank you so much, I found this video very helpful to know what to try and what not to try. I want for a friend I think it would make her happy if I could also speak her language! Much love! ❤
Thank you so much.I always watch your videos. It's very good for me because I'm learning English and Croatian languages too. I have an English and Croatian teacher but these languages are very different. My English knowledge is "intermediate" and Croatian is beginner. I don't give up.
Thank you so much for your kind words! You'll get there, so like you said...don't give up! 😃
And your first language is ?
☺️ I guess you are from Hungary. I am learning Croatian too... but ehh it is so hard..
@@mirjamban796 Do you want me to teach you some croatian curse words ?
@@charlespancamo576 My native language is Hungarian.
Well done Sarah.. You speak very well.
Thank yoU!
Great video. Thanks for the tips. My wife and I speak Croatian but our kids don't. We plan to travel and stay in Croatia for a year. You've given me some ideas how to get my kids started learning the language.
That's great, glad you found some ideas in the video!!! :)
Djeca kao takva brzo uče jezike. Ja sam npr rođena u dijaspori, iako već dugo živim u Hrvatskoj. Moji su me prvo naučili hrvatski i prije nego što sam trebala u predškolsku mater me naučila njemački. Kaže da sam ga savladala u nekoliko mjeseci. Tako da mislim da će i tvoja dica brzo naučiti jezik. I lipo je znat svoj maternji 😊 još ako se budu družili s djecom gdje već budete živili , pohvatat će hrvatski još brže 😉
@@Niki91-HR to sam i mislio. Slabo govorim Hrvatski sa djecom a trebao bi uvijek.
@@ivicabajic893 nikad nije kasno 😊
Čitam ove komentare kad ti gledam video.
Jako mi je drago što neki ljudi poštuju i vole našu zemlju.
Pozdrav iz Splita.
Da se nisi obazirala hejterima koji ti se rugaju super si!!!
Hvala Ivan! Veliki pozdrav iz Zagreba!
Vi ste jedna vrlo pametna žena. Želim vam mnogo sreće. Pozdrav.
Glas ti se bas promijeni kad zamijenis jezike btw bas razumljivo i bez velikog naglaska pricas hrvatski🥰
Hi Sarah. I have already followed a few of your videos and I like them a lot. I have no specific reason for learning Croation but I just would like to know a bit about it. Firstly I have already understood that it ranges under the difficult languages in Europe (I speak 6 already). About your method, it is not so unconventional. It's almost the way kids learn their mothertonge.I guess the first impoortant thing is to listen, so I would ask people to speak slowly. As they are speaking now, I cannot even distinguish each word!! Please be so goiod to continue this series. Thanks.
Thank you Sonja! :) Very nice that you're learning Croatian. You must have a really great ear for languages :)
we need more such warm and good people🤗🤗🤗
Thank you so much for making these videos! My partner is from Zagreb and I wanted to learn the language since visiting last summer. Your videos have really helped in showing clear steps to take in becoming fluent, I couldn't find this kind of advice from a native English speaker anywhere else. One question I have is, how long did it take you to reach a conversational level? Grammer not included.
Hvala!
I'm so happy you're finding them helpful! I also found that when I was learning, there weren't many videos or anything that were very helpful. I think it took around a year or so to get comfortable speaking about everyday things (with zero grammar! I literally didn't even attempt to learn the cases until after that point... I spoke completely case-less! lol)
@@RoyalCroatianTours One year is really impressive! Seeing you speak so beautifully has really motivated me to learn. I brought the phrasebook u recommended and it arrived today!! Really looking forward to seeing more of your videos. Hvala vam puno!
@@rabbittyb7019 Oh that's amazing!!! Let me know how it goes! :D
Super video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This is so helpful, thank you! You'd mentioned you used the Memrize app, however I'm not seeing Croatian as an option there. Do you recommend selecting another similar language? Thank you!