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| Bbcatcher 08 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4420 days ago 130 posts - 154 votes  Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 20 02 November 2012 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello,
Currently, I am interested in picking up some Serbo-Croat (Bosnian to be exact), and was wondering how difficult is is to get the grammar down?I have friends who are from over there, and have been teaching me for a while, however I would like to take it to the next level. Thanks all Edited by Bbcatcher 08 on 02 November 2012 at 10:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7158 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 20 02 November 2012 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's not inordinately difficult. At least I never felt it to be so.
In the end though it's all up to you. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4846 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 3 of 20 02 November 2012 at 10:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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What exactly is your question?
Learning the vocabulary will be harder for Serbocroation than for e.g. Dutch, because Serbocroatian is a Slavic language. Nevertheless, it won't be as hard as learning Mandarin vocabulary. Is that what you wanted to hear? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bbcatcher 08 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4420 days ago 130 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian | Message 4 of 20 02 November 2012 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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No, the grammar as in the rules. Some times, I forget rules, and mix up words so my
sentences don't sound right and they're grammatically incorrect. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4846 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 5 of 20 02 November 2012 at 10:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Okay, but if you want to know about grammar, you shouldn't ask for "vocab". :)
Serbo-Croatian is a highly inflecting language. Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are declined according to six cases and nouns also have one of three grammatical genders. Verbs are conjugated according to three persons (sg./pl.) in seven tenses and two verbal aspects. Especially the latter ones may be difficult in the beginning. I noticed that - according to your profile - you haven't learned an inflecting language yet, so Serbo-Croation could be difficult at first. Especially cases and aspects might give you a hard time. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bbcatcher 08 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4420 days ago 130 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian | Message 6 of 20 02 November 2012 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | ||
I fixed it, I mean't to say grammar :) I have not updated my profile 100%, however the only language I have true background in is Latin, so I am assuming that it will not help me much? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4846 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 7 of 20 02 November 2012 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, Latin might be a help insofar as you know about gender, cases, and verb conjugation. It might nevertheless be hard to apply those concepts actively in your everyday speech. But I don't say you can't make it. It will only need a lot of practice. I am learning Russian - which is related to Serbo-Croatian - at the moment, and although it isn't always easy, I'm seeing it as a great, exciting adventure in a whole new world. I think you should see it that way and learning grammar won't be that bad any more.
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| Bbcatcher 08 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4420 days ago 130 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian | Message 8 of 20 02 November 2012 at 11:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Do you have someone to practice Russian with every day?
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