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!LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6819 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish	Message 1 of 25 19 June 2008 at 10:10am \| IP Logged
	Hi everybody! So I decided I want to learn Bosnian and I was wondering what you think is the best way to do that. Since I haven't seen any materials for Bosnian, I'd need to use materials for Croatian and Serbian, though. I have Pimsleur Croatian and Magner's book here, I'm also planing to buy TY Croatian and TY Serbian as well as Ronelle Alexander's two books. A can also download FSI Serbo-Croatian. What other materials would you suggest? How about podcasts, does anybody know about any good podcasts? I thought of using Pimsleur Croatian (it's only 10 units) as a nice introduction into the language. Then I'd use TY Croatian and TY Serbian simultaniously to get a good grounding in the language before moving on to Ronelle Alexander's books. As a last step I might use FSI Serbo-Croatian. What "strategy" would you suggest? Where/when can I use Magner's book? Where/when should I use FSI Serbo-Croatian? Would I need to use it at all? Regards, Ilhan 1 person has voted this message useful
Makrasiroutioun Quadrilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Canada infowars.com Joined 6104 days ago 210 posts - 236 votes Speaks: French, English, Armenian, Romanian, Latin, German, Italian Studies: Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Arabic (Written)	Message 2 of 25 19 June 2008 at 11:47pm \| IP Logged
	My advice would be to stock up on Serbo-Croatian material, become comfortable reading and speaking the language, and then get a book or two specifically dealing with Bosnianisms and Bosnian phonology. 1 person has voted this message useful
!LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6819 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish	Message 3 of 25 20 June 2008 at 12:03pm \| IP Logged
	Thanks for the answer, but this doesn't help me a lot. Thanks anyways :) Regards, Ilhan 1 person has voted this message useful
pookiebear79 Groupie United States Joined 6028 days ago 76 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Swedish, Italian	Message 4 of 25 20 June 2008 at 5:23pm \| IP Logged
	I'm sure you've already thought to check for online sources, but I thought I'd put this out there anyway. Out of curiosity after reading your first post, I did a google search for 'Bosnian Language' and came up with several sites. The one I checked out was on the (English) wikipedia site because it had several links near the bottom which you might find useful. Wikipedia entry for Bosnian Language Since I'm not learning the language, I can't offer anything specific about learning it, I just thought that you might have better luck finding online resources to help you, (to supplement your learning of Croatian/Serbian) since you said you can't find anything in print. As for podcasts, I didn't see anything specifically for learning the Bosnian language (but then again, i didn't search for long, but merely out of curiosity and because I like a good challenge,) I just saw one thing out of Australia There didn't seem to be much there, but it did appear to be in the Bosnian language and not English, (though I couldn't be 100% sure because I didn't listen.) At any rate, good luck. I hope this was at least a little bit helpful. :) Edited by pookiebear79 on 21 June 2008 at 12:36am 1 person has voted this message useful
!LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6819 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish	Message 5 of 25 20 June 2008 at 5:34pm \| IP Logged
	Thanks a lot for the help :) Regards, Ilhan 1 person has voted this message useful
!LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6819 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish	Message 6 of 25 29 June 2008 at 12:45pm \| IP Logged
	Any other recommendations? Regards, Ilhan 1 person has voted this message useful
Eduard Decaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6023 days ago 166 posts - 170 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, Norwegian^C1, Swedish, Danish, English, German, Italian^B1, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, French Studies: Portuguese	Message 7 of 25 07 July 2008 at 1:39pm \| IP Logged
	I'm currently also polishing my knowledge of the languages formerly known as Serbo-Croatian, stressing Croatian yet also including other forms of this language family. I recently bought TY Croatian from Amazon, which is pretty much the same as in the 1990s when it was called TY Serbo-Croat. I also ran the Pimsleurs Croatian in my car and now I know all about ordering drinks at a restaurant. This course doesn't bring you a lot further than that but at least it gives you an idea of the pronunciation and word order. By the way, as I see that your native language is Turkish: Bosnian (depending on where it is spoken) is basically very close to Serbian and Croatian, with the big difference of having incorporated loan words from Turkish. I guess you'll just have to remember which of your native words are used in Bosnia and if they have the same or a different meaning. Another thing: I have the feeling that the usage of Turkish loan words in Bosnian is basically restricted to colloquially spoken language. When checking a regular Bosnian website (newspaper, television site), it looks like these words are used a lot less in print. Frankly, to me it looks so much like Ijekavian Croatian (or any of the other Ijekavian dialects) that I can hardly tell the difference. In the Wiki about Bosnian I found this link: http://www20.sbs.com.au/podcasting/index.php?action=feeddeta ils&feedid=28&catid=1 with podcasts in Bosnian. This may be good for getting used to listening to the language. Just play them in the background when doing other stuff. :) 1 person has voted this message useful
!LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6819 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish	Message 8 of 25 07 July 2008 at 5:08pm \| IP Logged
	Thanks for the help! How would you rate the quality of TY Croatian and how it teaches the language? I also heard that TY Serbian is supposed to be better. Do you think that's true? Regards, Ilhan 1 person has voted this message useful

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