meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5986 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map
| Message 89 of 96 21 January 2012 at 1:13am | IP Logged |
Please keep the discussion civil and focused on languages. Inflammatory or insulting messages will be deleted.
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Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5422 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese
| Message 90 of 96 21 January 2012 at 3:01am | IP Logged |
A society of people can call themselves whatever they like. And they can call
their language whatever they like too, unless that language is used by another society as
well, in which case it would be a rational decision to make up a compromised name. I
suggest Illyrian (as a foreign historical name) or Dinaric (after the mountain range that
spans throughout Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro), and that they add whatever
adjective they want before this name, after the model
American/British/Canadian/Australian English > Serbian/Croatian/Bosniak/Montenegrin
Illyrian/Dinaric. I rest my case.
Edited by Delodephius on 21 January 2012 at 3:02am
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Taiga Diglot Groupie Australia Joined 6329 days ago 81 posts - 85 votes 5 sounds Speaks: English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Serbo-Croatian
| Message 91 of 96 23 January 2012 at 5:30pm | IP Logged |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-HfIgr1QRc
another video of me speaking BSC :)
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Gallo1801 Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 4921 days ago 164 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Croatian, German, French
| Message 92 of 96 21 March 2012 at 9:06pm | IP Logged |
http://www.seelrc.org:8080/grammar/pdf/stand_alone_bcs.pdf
Found this on the internet. Haven't looked at it in much depth, but it seems to be dense
and possibly helpful. I'm too early to really get any use out of it, but maybe some
advanced BCS learners would like to have a look at it.
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Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4687 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 93 of 96 22 March 2012 at 4:02pm | IP Logged |
This grammar is pretty accurate (although more descriptive than normative) ;)
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5414 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 94 of 96 22 March 2012 at 4:05pm | IP Logged |
This Basic Croatian blog has been very helpful to me. I don't know if it's complete enough to be standalone, but it helps me clear up grammar points when I'm fuzzy on something.
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7175 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 95 of 96 22 March 2012 at 4:57pm | IP Logged |
That is indeed a very good blog, Kerrie. When I first found it, I was impressed by the degree to which the blogger made fairly little of Croatian's distinctiveness from the other variants while presenting helpfully how the grammar functions.
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Gallo1801 Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 4921 days ago 164 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Croatian, German, French
| Message 96 of 96 25 January 2013 at 11:31pm | IP Logged |
If anyone wants a good way to practice their BCSM, Al Jazeera has a BCSM language channel
you can watch online or on you iPhone. It's called Al Jazeera Balkans and it's
headquartered in Sarajevo. I'm def glad it exists as it's a great source of real info
too. Al Jazeera Balkans
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