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| lachy01 Newbie Australia Joined 4652 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 1 of 2 27 February 2012 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hi guys
Can anyone recommend or comment about using either of the following three texts for learning Croatian. 1, Colloquial Croatian, Celia Hawkesworth. http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Colloquial-Croatian-Celia-Ha wkesworth/9780415450812 2, Croatian - A complete course for beginners, Living languages http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Croatian-Living-Language/978 1400019915 3, Teach yourself complete Croatian, Ribnikar http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Teach-Yourself-Complete-Croa tian-Vladislava-Ribnikar/9781444102321 I've read alot about the TY series and am leaning towards that one........ Lachy 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 2 of 2 28 February 2012 at 3:48pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Avoid. Answer key is incomplete, not all grammar is explained well.
This is probably the best of the three books that you've listed. I've never used it but reviews on amazon.com are positive and ellasevia seems to have had a good impression of it so far.
I'd take a pass on this on if you can get Spoken World Croatian. I used this to completion for my first course but when working through other beginners' courses later on, I became a bit disappointed. TY Croatian is rather middling and doesn't have a lot of exercises and the explanations seem a bit too short. If you're not obsessed with learning just Croatian but insist on staying within the TY series, then take a look at TY Serbian. Croatian and Serbian are about 95% the same when you stick to using the Latin alphabet and frequently replace -e- ("ekavian") with -(i)je ("(i)jekavian") when you see something in TY Serbian. (TY Serbian teaches mainly Belgrade's variant which is "ekavian" while the lesser-known variant is used mainly by Bosnian and Croatian Serbs and is "(i)jekavian" like the Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin standards). For some reason, TY Serbian covers much more material with better explanations than TY Croatian which is rather odd when both standards derive from the same subdialect. TY Serbian is about 100 pages thicker than TY Croatian with similar font and layout, and this isn't because the authors are devoting the extra pages to teach Serbian Cyrillic on top of the Latinic alphabet used in Croatian and Serbian (and Bosnian and Montenegrin). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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