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| SuburbanGinger Newbie United States Joined 5274 days ago 15 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 1 of 3 16 July 2010 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am just starting lesson six of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian: A Textbook and Basic Grammar (I also have the CDs and blue grammar book) and I was wondering if this set will get me to proficiency. Thanks.
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| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5302 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes  Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 2 of 3 17 July 2010 at 12:14am | IP Logged | ||
It will not. This is one of the harder Indo-European languages. I also highly advise you to avoid "Bosnian" and stick to either the ekavian "Serbian" variant or the ijekavian "Croatian"/"BiH"/"Montenegrin" variant , or better yet pick up a bit on both. The "Bosnian" may add quite a few words from Arabic/Turkish that people outside of (the Muslim community of) Bosnia wouldn't understand. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7185 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 3 of 3 17 July 2010 at 8:26am | IP Logged | ||
Probably not on its own, however you'll get a very good foundation from the set (definitely better than what you'd get from Assimil, Pimsleur, Teach Yourself or Colloquial on their own). You'll need to supplement what you've learned by exposing yourself to unstructured BCMS/Serbo-Croatian (e.g. meeting people from the former Yugoslavia, travelling there, read books or watch movies in the target language) for a certain time to get yourself to proficiency. The course by Alexander and Elias-Bursac is only one component in your studies. And don't worry about not learning Croatian or Serbian per se. By learning Bosnian, you're pretty much learning the grammar and the bulk of the lexicon of Croatian or the Ijekavian variant of Serbian. Those books that you're using should also make it very clear to you how similar Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian are (indeed you'll probably find that almost all of the transcripts of the content in your textbook have been triplicated while the grammatical notes deal with virtually everything as the same communicative code). The biggest difference comes with exposure to loanwords of Arabic, Farsi or Turkish origin which are far fewer in "Croatian" and "Serbian" but these are more noticeable in religious jargon instead of secular environments. A possible secondary difference is that a singular focus on Bosnian may leave you unaware of the prescriptions of "correct" Croatian (e.g. "zrakoplov" over "avion", "šport" over "sport", strong reluctance to use "da") but in many cases when you speak "Bosnian", don't be surprised if native Croats or Serbs ask where you learned to speak "Croatian" or "Serbian" so well. Unless you go to Bosnia and buy stuff whose titles are something like "čitanka bosanskog jezika" or similar, you're more likely to find in the USA something that has "srpskohrvatski", "srpski" (in Latin script) or "hrvatski" in its title. That will do quite well to get you toward fluency in "Bosnian". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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