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| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5763 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes  Speaks: English*, French | Message 9 of 16 31 March 2009 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm pretty sure there's a Colloquial Serbian available, although I've heard that Colloquial and TY are similar anyway. On UK Amazon there seems to be a lot of second-hand Serbo-Croat resources available, I don't know if they'd be any good as I have no experience of this language, or knowledge of how Serbo-Croat varies from 'pure' Serbian (I'm just a compulsive window-shopper of books and the like :-) Edited by Dark_Sunshine on 31 March 2009 at 8:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Fazla Hexaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6260 days ago 166 posts - 255 votes Speaks: Italian, Serbo-Croatian*, English, Russian, Portuguese, French Studies: Arabic (classical), German, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 10 of 16 01 April 2009 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you want to use Croatian to impress a Serbian girl (great motive, and I seriously mean it), be sure she isn't too patriotic.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 11 of 16 01 April 2009 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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She may not even notice the use of Croatian no matter how patriotic/nationalistic she is. The native dialects of Prečani Serbs often sound or appear "more Croatian" than Serbian.
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| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5744 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 12 of 16 02 April 2009 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I started reading this thread and I was surprised that Pimsleur had a Croatian course. Using TY would be a good
idea as well as the Colloquial series. These are usually for beginners so I wouldn't count on them making you fluent. If you indeed are successful in going out with this girl, you will most likely improve in the language if you are interested in it at all from a linguistic point. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jordancrabb Newbie Scotland Joined 5800 days ago 17 posts - 17 votes | Message 13 of 16 03 April 2009 at 12:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks everyone, this has been really helpful...
I wasn't interested in it from a linguistic point previously, but it's growing on me. It may even rival my love of French... It also helps that I've got some motivation. :P I'm hopefully going to try speaking to her in Serbian some time this week. Would anyone be willing to upload sound files of compliments (you're beautiful etc. :D) in Serbian/Croatian? It would be a great help. Thanks again... Edited by jordancrabb on 03 April 2009 at 12:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Eduard Decaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6023 days ago 166 posts - 170 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, NorwegianC1, Swedish, Danish, English, German, ItalianB1, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, French Studies: Portuguese | Message 14 of 16 06 April 2009 at 8:27am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd go for anything from the BCMS-family (Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian) as you in any way are likely to get complimented for speaking any :-). Also thanks to Chung for a clear explanation on the subject which seems pretty accurate to me.
Keep in mind though that Serbian, being a Slavic language, can be tough to learn. It will take some time until you start feeling familiar with the language. But in the end, you will :). Be sure to listen to Serbian radio broadcasts or podcasts a lot so you will get used to the sound of the language. Keep us updated on your progression! :-D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5763 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 15 of 16 07 April 2009 at 12:27am | IP Logged | ||
The Berlitz phrase books (and probably many others) contain 'dating' phrases like this, and some of them come with CDs. At the very least they have phonetic transliterations to guide pronunciation. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jordancrabb Newbie Scotland Joined 5800 days ago 17 posts - 17 votes | Message 16 of 16 07 April 2009 at 12:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks...
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