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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4393 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 17 of 18 26 October 2014 at 9:25pm | IP Logged | ||
I've mostly just used materials for beginners really. I started with 'Teach Yourself Croatian', then moved onto 'Colloquial Croatian', which turned out to be a really poorly written textbook so I gave up and used the Hippocrene 'Beginner's Croatian' instead. That was a bit more advanced than TY and the descriptions of grammar etc are a lot more detailed. After that I got the two Ronelle Alexander books which are so comprehensive that I still haven't successfully worked through to the end of either of them yet. I started reading books when I was about halfway through those. Now that I've done quite a bit of reading I plan to go back and finish them. Once I've done that I want to study a book I bought in Zagreb: Pregled povijesti, gramatike i pravopisa hrvatskoga jezika 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gollum87 Diglot Newbie Yugoslavia Joined 3747 days ago 31 posts - 46 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English Studies: Italian | Message 18 of 18 02 November 2014 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Let me answer to some of your questions...
My advice is - Choose one variant (Serbian or Croatian) and learn the one of them first.. If you are a biginner it would make a mess if you learn both at the same time.. But if you know one, then it will be very very easy to learn another variant... The differences are only in “ekavian” and “ijekavian” dialects (for example DETE in Serbian is DIJETE in Croatian, VETAR in Serbian is VJETAR in Crotian... Serbian “E” becomes “JE” or “IJE” in Croatian variant)... 90% of words are the same.. and 10% of words are different.. and few gramatical constructions are different... About translations - The books from Yugoslav era have never been translated from one to another language... The books by Ivo Andric for example is in Serbian, and people in Croatia read them in original. But after the break of Yugoslavia Croats do translate Serbian newer books... But in Serbia we do not translate Croatian books... If you ask me, I’d say it is THE ONE language with different dialects, and beleve me, the official Serbian and official Croatian languages are way simmilar with each other then Serbian of Belgrade, and Serbian spoken in south of Serbia.... But however, most of Croats get angry when they hear anybody say it is the same language, while so many Serbs think it is the same language. But that is pollitical statement.. Of course the foreign books today have 2 translations.. For Croatia and for Serbia.. We use both alphabets in Serbia.. Cyrillic and Latin.. Cyrillic is the official alphabet of the country, so all documants and formal texts have to be written in Cyrillic script, but in any other case more people use Latin... I’d say that 80% of books in Serbia are in Latin script, and yes that makes so many toursist surprised when they visit Belgrade... If you have any questions about Serbian or Croatian, I am here to help you :) It feels great to know there are people who learn my languages. Because Serbian has never been very popular language to learn.. 6 persons have voted this message useful |
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