Learning Croatian - The Hardest, Easiest & Best Parts of the Language (for Native English Speakers)!
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I've been learning Croatian for a while now, and it's definitely not an easy language! In this vlog, I'm sharing the hardest and easiest/best parts for me, about learning Croatian from scratch. I don't have any Croatian roots, but I now have a Croatian husband, and three Croatian-Canadian kids :)
Here is what I found to be the hardest parts to learning Croatian:
1. Genders - In English we don't have genders for words, so that's something I find very difficult in Croatian. Croatian has 3 genders - feminine, masculine, and neutral. You always have to think about matching the adjective with the noun, and you have to know the word's gender ahead of time, in order to properly match them. It's just something that native English speakers have a hard time with, because we don't have a feeling for each word, and whether it's feminine, masculine, or neutral gender.
2. Cases - In English, we don't use cases like in Croatian. I find this the most difficult part of learning Croatian, because there are 7 cases, meaning every noun can change 7 different times depending on how it's used. It's definitely not something I'm used to. I'm working on it, but absolutely still have many mistakes!
3. Double negatives - This is something new, because double negatives in English just don't make sense. They make the sentence positive again! It's just something I have switch in my head when I'm speaking, in order to properly put together double negatives.
4. Tricky letters - Croatian has many tricky letters in their alphabet. The hardest ones for me are the č and ć. They're not hard to pronounce, it's just difficult to tell which one is which! They're very similar, so I often mix them up when I'm spelling words. I have the same problem with dž and đ. The hardest letter for me was lj. It's something completely different than anything we have in English, and it was very hard in the beginning to pronounce.
5. Prefixes - In English, prefixes often change the meaning of a word to make it mean the opposite. In Croatian, there are sometimes many words that look similar from the middle to the end, but a little prefix on the beginning completely changes the meaning of the word. In the video, I give an example of 9 words that are the same, just with different prefixes and then different meanings.
The easiest and best parts of Croatian language:
1. Each letter has only one sound - this is great, because in English, many letters have more than one sound, making it complicated to read and write for foreigners. In Croatian, it's never tricky to spell or read a word, because you can just sound it all out, letter by letter!
2. Word order - In English, there aren't many ways you can mix up words in a sentence. In Croatian, it's much more flexible and creative. Of course there are rules around how words should be put in order in Croatian, you don't have to follow them if you're in a casual conversation. It's great, because you can have 10 ways to say one sentence (and that's thanks to the cases - at least they have one benefit!)
3. Pronouns - In Croatian, you don't really ever have to use pronouns. In English, they're a must, or no one will know who you're talking about.
4. Multilingualism - Once you know Croatian, you automatically know Bosnian, Serbian and Montenegrin. It's amazing, because the languages are pretty much the same, and if you travel to one of those countries, you already know the language and can speak with the people there.
5. Sound of Croatian - Croatian has a very nice sound. It almost sounds like a song when I hear people talking around me. I also think it's adorable when I hear my kids speaking Croatian.
All in all, Croatian is a beautiful language and I'm happy to be learning it! It's a tough language, but it's also very nice!
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Thunder Bay maybe ??
Gle, dobro pričaš Hrvatski.
Hello Sarah ! I know russian well and Croatian sounds very similar ! When you spoke Croatian I understood a lot ❤️❤️❤️
@@vikchabukiani5929 👍👍👍
@@vikchabukiani5929 Aww, super!!
I'm impressed how fluent you are in Croatian. Keep it up !
Thank you so much! 😃 It took a while to get to this point, but it's a great (however tricky) language!
Aw Tym I live Croatia! 🇭🇷❤️❤️❤️
And also in Serbian and Bosnian and Montenegrian...
Hrvatski je lagan
@@cactussinekgaming6123 Hrvatski je lagan ako živiš u Hrvatskoj,pa ga odmah naučiš,ali kod Hrvatskog moraš paziti na č i ć,đ i dž,ije i je,na padeže...Tako da Hrvatski nije baš lagan jezik...
The only time you speak Croatian 100% correct, is when you are simply born into it, but this is probably the closest to perfection
Oh well i am from croatia if you ever wan't to go to vacation Biograd na Moru is very prety idk i go there evry sumer.
I am also from Croatia but I don't get why this one guy says you should visit some places here also I don't know why am I typing this in English when you are from Croatia or somewhere in balkan because your username it's in Croatian lol
This is where your wrong. You need to be born into it and study it. Like english, a lot of people speak false croatian, wich everyone understands, but sometimes it isnt gramaticly correct
@@Name-ch1fmit is not correct most of the times, mainly due to the slang, but also due to the fact that a lot of croats do not understand their gramatic rules. 'neznam' is the most common example. Al bitno da ubijaju, krvare i umiru za latinicu 😂
Harvatska is a Paradise on Earth ❤
POZDRAV Z POLSKA 🇭🇷🇵🇱✌
YOUR CROATIAN IS AMAZING
Pozdrav i Hvala🇭🇷🇭🇷
Hvala/Thank you
Hvala
Hvala
I šta onda/and than what
Ja sam Hrvatica koja zivi u Kanadi i puno sam puta pokusala svojim prijateljima ovdje pribliziti hrvatski i koliko je tezak, ali ne shvacaju padeze i kako funkcioniraju . Saro, vi rasturate! I izgovor vam je jako dobar!
Puno puno hvala na lijepim rijecima!! :D
Iskreno bolje pričaš hrvatski nego neki ljudi iz Hrvatske... Bravo!
Haha, hvala Filip!! :)
Slažem se
@@darkened_plays1213 govoriš, a ne pričaš .
Istina
@MyTheory Bitch khm mislim da je hrvatski u pitanju... Al sve je to slicno... Braca balkanci
Znaš sve što treba,govoriš bolje od 80% Hrvata.
:) Hvala!!!
Taman sam to htio reći.
@@box_zero Bas ste svi preljubazni :) Hvala!
@@box_zero Taman ?!
Slazem se
I'm Croatian, and I'm very proud of you! It's almost like you are Croatian, even if you don't have Croatian roots.
Thanks so much, Silvija!
Here are some tips:
Despite looking and sounding similar, the letters Č and Ć actually have nothing to do with one another. In native words, wherever there is Č, there will usually be a related word that has a K or C (ručni - ruka, učiti - nauka, pričati - prikaz), and wherever there's Ć, there will be a related form of the word with T (braća - brat, maćeha - mati), for suffixes there is no help, you have to learn them.
The glyph Ć is really unfortunate. It was borrowed from polish orthography where it makes more sense. If there is one thing I'd change about Croatian, I'd change the letter Ć to something like Ť or Ŧ.
For DŽ and Đ it's the same story, they have nothing to do with one another. Đ comes from D, so there will usually be a related word with D. DŽ, on the other hand is not a native Croatian phoneme, so almost all words with it are loanwords. It can only sometimes appear because of voicing assimilation (like in "udžbenik" or "promidžba"). (Fun fact, the letter F is also not native to Croatian, so almost all words with it are loanwords)
For loanwords, depending on the language they're from they usually contain only one of each pair:
for English loans it's always Č and DŽ,
for Italian loans it's always Ć and Đ,
for Turkish loans it's usually Ć and DŽ,
for Hungarian loans it's usually Č and Đ.
As for verbs with prefixes, they are equivalent to English phrasal verbs. Think of the difference between "to throw" and "to throw up".
"Ć" should actually be written "tj", as in Swedish, and đ as "gj" like they do in Albanian ("gy" in Hungarian). Of course ť and ď would also do, but this is not Slovakia.
Also in Italian there is Gl-Lj and Gn-Nj
I am really impressed how you have mastered the accent and pronunciation. Yes, a local can still notice it is not native, but I would say it is pretty close and would also add it is only going to get better for you.
Thank you for making this video and for your kind words.
Thanks so much for your sweet comment, Alen!! :)
Ja zivim u Hrvatski
I didn't even realise she isn't a native speaker when I watched her video about 15 things you can find in every Croatian household xD but now I can hear her accent is a bit off...
and how the fck u can know how we natives sound?
@@capx1741 Wow man, hold your horses. Why would you presume he doesn't know?
Bravo, uvijek se divim ljudima koji nauče hrvatski! :)
Hvala Gordan! :)
Bosnaski i Srpski isto
@@bruhmoment5219 to je isti jezik (srpski, hrvatski, bosanski, crnogorski, makedonski i slovenački). Samo drugačiji naglasci.
@@nekilik. NIJE ISTO
@@nikolina3624 nije isti naglasak. Jezik je isti. Svi smo mi isti narod.
I’ve been working in CROATIA 🇭🇷 for more than a year, and just for a week i got to speak also some words properly, i must learn for my Job,and its nice experence to learn croatian language ❤️
Sara, you are the best!! I am Croatian, living in France after 11 years in Brazil. You are just amazing!! ❤
Svaka čast! Izvrsno pričaš hrvatski. Mi Hrvati smo svjesni koliko je naš jezik težak i zato ti se divim na upornosti. Great job!😊
Puno hvala Sasa!
Mislis Srpski?
@@lule7449 da
Srpski je najtezi
@@RoyalCroatianTours Zabreg , poslije trece , najkasnije cetrvte godine postane Zagreb , barem je kod mene bilo tak .
Ne mogu Vam opisati koliko me ovo razveselilo! Čuti da je nekome hrvatski prekrasan kao pjesmica, a da nije porijeklom iz Hrvatske je sreća za mene. Poznajem nekoliko osoba koje su došle u Hrvatsku i isto tako uče hrvatski jezik bez znanja i jedne riječi u startu, ali moram naglasiti da ovu razinu još nisu dostigli. Odlično, samo tako nastavite, Vi ste meni prva liga! ;)
Puno puno hvala, Lorena! :) :)
Fantastično!🙏🏻👍🏼🇭🇷🇭🇷
Jel si ti hrvat?
@@mirelaivancic4848 jesam :)
I ja se slazem
I’m so impressed with your level of Croatian language. I had assumed you have Croatian ancestry hence some connection to the language. Super effort Sarah! I too will always sound like a foreigner to my Zagreb family and that’s ok because I was born elsewhere as a child of diaspora.
Thanks so much for your kind words :)
Sara,ti si stvarno prekrasna mlada žena.Primjer si svim strancima kako se voli i poštuje nova domovina u kojoj se živi.A da te utješim-ni mi baš ne razlikujemo đž i đ,dva nepotrebna slova.Želim ti sve najbolje,svoj tvojoj obitelji, a pogotovo dječici-preslatki su.
Puno hvala na lijepim rijecima, Tija :)
Zaboravio si ć i č pored đ i dž. To se učilo u prvom razredu osnovne. Ako si ostao nepismen , nemoj govoriti da su ta slova nepotrebna. Nama pismenima su potrebna a ti kako hoćeš.
Kapa do poda! Pričaš hrvatski fantastično!!! Bravo. 🥳 Hrvatski je izuzetno složen jezik, vjerujem da nije bilo lako. Odlično! Samo se opusti i nastavi dalje tako. Nemoj niti jedne sekunde razmišljati o greškama. 🤩👍
Mario, stvarno hvala puno na prelijepim rijecima :) Nije bilo lako, to je sigurno, ali zabavno je uciti!
Hvala jos jednom!
jezik se ne priča nego govori
@@RoyalCroatianTours Wow if i seen you write but never heard you speak Croatian i would think you are a Croatian!
@@Dominator00000 samo ga ti govori, ja cu ga u svom srcu pričati ❤️ a sloboda govornog jezika je ogromna.
Možda i umočiš:)
Hello Sarah! I am a original Croatian but I live in Austria since i am born! So you can speak better Croatian than me, even croatian is my mother languae! RESPECT !! I never heard a english native speaker who speak sooooooo (almost) perfect croatian!! I am impressed :))
Awww, thank you so much :) Really means a lot!!! :)
Bože, kako ste vi divna osoba. Ja vam čestitam na ogromnom trudu i uspjehu. Odlično pričate hrvatski!! ❤️
Hi, Sarah! It is amazing listening to you speaking so fluently our language, even with proper use of accents which I find the most demanding task for strangers. You understand problems of grammar very well and it must have been a hell lot of efforts from your side to conquer our difficult rules of speech. Congrats on that, honestly! It is felt in your videos that you have tremendous will and determination to present our country and folks in the best way and you are making this very well. There is no doubt at all that you have invested enormous energy and time, but we see in your example that there is strong love standing behind it as well. So thank you for your videos, you make us happy and proud people here, and keep on making new clips, they are simply gorgious!
Ovako naučiti naš jezik.....svaka Vam čast, gospođo! Vrlo malo Hrvata ovako dobro govori engleski, a učimo ga cijelu osnovnu i srednju školu!
Hvala puno na lijepom komentaru! :)
Meni kazes da malo Hrvata dobro govori Engleski?
U mojoj skoli 90% ucenika ne zna puno Engleskih rijeci, dok ja I moja bff pod Cijelim satom pricamo Engleski!
Malo ga sada sereš sa tim komentarom ali, ajde... Cura priča naš jezik odlično imajući na umu da je stranac, ali da zna bolje govoriti od domaćina, to je notorna laž. Razumijem da je želiš pohvaliti, i potaknuti da ga usavrši, ali ne vidim svrhu laganja.
Pozdrav s Ukraini. Hvala za video. Sve razumem. Također učim Hrvatski. Svaki dan, 5-10 minute. Čitam hrvatski vjesti, slušam hrvatski pesme. Nije težak jezik za slaveni. Ali nažalost ne imam sugovornika, prijatelja za komuniciranje. Ali nadam se, da moj hrvatski tijekom vremena će biti bolje nego sada.
Već sad je koliko vidim prilično dobar👍. Skidam kapu!
@@Ally2018. hvala. Ali do savršenstva još daleko. Kao već pisao hrvatski nije težak za Slaveni, jer ima puno slične riječe, padeži isto kako v ukrajinskim jeziku, čak slične zvuke- "č" i "ć" i tako dalje. Ali šteta da ne imam sugovornika pa učim hrvatski samo čitajući, slušajući pesme, prijevodim novi, nepoznati rječe. Strpljenje, znatiželja i sve će biti dobro. Sretno! I ne trebate skidati kapu jer možna prehladiti se. :)
Pa dođi na ljetovanje, hrvati su po prirodi brbljavi imat ćeš puno sugovornika😁
@@Ally2018. hvala za savjet. Ali Hrvatska daleko od Ukraini. Čak ovoj jeseni planiramo opet posjetiti Hrvatsku. Bili smo u Hrvatskoj u rujanu 2020, ne uspeli sve pogledati.
@@Ally2018. još htio bih dodati, odnosno brbljavi Hrvati, kada vozili od aerodroma Split do Brela, vozač Tomislav pričao sve put i mu je bio sve jedno razumijem ga ili ne. Usput, Hrvatice također brbljavi, ne manje nego Hrvati :)
Kakva predivna porodica i kakav sjajan sadržaj na vašem kanalu. Zaista pravo je uživanje pratiti vas. Veliko poštovanje za tvoj trud da naučiš hrvatski. Sva ta pravila, nastavci, rodovi, promene, padeži...Prosto se pitam kako bih naučio jedan takav jezik da mi nije maternji. Ti zaista izuzetno dobro govoriš, a kao što kažeš, sad kad znaš hrvatski, računaj da govoriš jezike još tri države u okolini. Puno sreće i uspeha želim tebi i tvojoj porodici.
Puno hvala na lijepim riječima! 🥰🥰🥰
Well done. I’ve been here 12 years. My Croatian is very poor, but this really inspires me to learn more! Svaka čast!
Thanks Paul. You can do it! :D
Your Croation is awesome pozdrav from Canada.
Thank you!! Pozdrav iz Zagreba :)
Wait guys im from croatia and are you guys teaching croatian language in the canada?
@@lukagalic7713 Nope, we're not teaching, this is just a short video about what I found easy/hard with the language while I was starting to learn it. We live in Zagreb :)
@@RoyalCroatianTours aha ok onda sretno sa sljedecim izazovima 👍
@@RoyalCroatianTours nasa gramatika, da ne spominjem..... pakao ...
Wow, your Croatian is beautiful! I've been taking classes since September and feel like I'll never get to that level.
Thank you so much! I promise it will get easier! Trust me, when I first started learning, I didn't think I'd get to this point, either. Hang in there. There will come a time when it all kind of clicks together.
I'm also thinking about making a video about how I got to the this point in Croatian. Stay tuned :)
@@RoyalCroatianTours I would totally be interested in that!! I want to give a speech to my Croatian future in-laws at my wedding in 2022!
@@Livingmybestlifeforever Awwww!! That's super sweet!! Ok, I'll definitely starting working on that video soon.
Nužda je najbolji učitelj, što više koristiti pa će svaki uspjeh podići samopouzdanje i dalje će biti lakše.
Necessity is the best teacher, the more you use it, so every success will raise your self-confidence and it will still be easier
I'm glad I found your channel :) I'm Italian with some distant Croatian roots (that is to say, none in my family speaks Croatian) and I recently decided to give the language another try after leaving it aside for years. I was very disappointed by the scarcity of online resources, especially from big and popular apps like Duolingo, so I'm putting together my own "textbook" from UA-cam and other media. As other people already pointed out, your Croatian is very fluent and sounds very clear and understandable, and English subtitles make it almost immediate :)))
Puno hvala!!!
That's great you're picking it up again! Yes, I totally agree about the lack of resources. I was disappointed throughout my learning journey.... I'm always on the hunt for some good stuff! Best of luck with Croatian!!
Pričaš odlično hrvatski. Lako za padeže, rod i sve ostalo. Govoriš super, sve se razumije i to je najvažnije. Svaka čast. Samo tako nastavi. 👍👍👍
People have no idea how hard Slavic languages are. Imamo 3 roda i 7 padeža!
Your Croatian is unbelievable, keep it up!
Thank you so much!
Imagine if she hears the north-croatian dialect
Its almost a whole other vocabulary
Ej štefek buš si gemišta popil 😂😂😂 ne želim nikoga uvrijediti ali kad čujem svoju rodbinu iz zagorja kako priča volio bi tako pričati😂😂😂
@@based_catholic_dude3071 jos su ti tvoji i dobri ak ih razumijes al ima nekih po ovim zaseocima, iz susjednih su sela al jedni druge nerazumiju
@@kulic57 da, kao da svako selo ima svoju verziju jezika 😂
@@based_catholic_dude3071 Cera mi se kunjado va ostarije nakramal 😂 Ista stvar kod nas u Primorju i Istri :D
@@CinemartMotionPicture Molim te prevedi ovo 😂😂
Kako odličan video, baš je zanimljivo. Svaka čast za trud, ovo mi je jedan od dražih kanala! :D
Ja Vas ne mogu prestati slušati.. Opisujete svoja iskustva na nevjerojatno zanimljiv način- iskreno, toplo i inteligentno. Hrvatski govorite perfektno, bez pretjerivanja ljepše mi je slušati Vas nego mnoge Hrvate. Baš sam zadivljena 💖
I thought you were going to mention rolling R haha. Impressive croatian ☺️
Haha, yes that can be tricky, but for some reason, I didn't have a hard time with it... I guess that's why it didn't even cross my mind to include it.
It would be easy for scousers.
I'm from Slovakia and understood everything you said in croatian, although i can't really speak croatian, good work !
Thanks, Martin!! Not sure that I'd be able to understand any Slovakian. Are there similarities?
@@RoyalCroatianTours a couple of years ago, while taking a break at a gas station in Slovakia, I had an entire conversation with the salesman - and he was speaking Slovak while I was speaking Croatian! If you speak one, you will understand 80% of the other.
@@ljiljanasrebrenovic9500 Wow, that's super interesting and amazing!! I'll have to try it out with one of my dearest friends whose from Slovakia!
@@ljiljanasrebrenovic9500 Desila mi se slična stvar i u Slovačkoj, i sa jednim slovačkim turistom ovdje :D
@@znjzblj7995 u Češkoj i Slovačkoj se nikad ne služim Engleskim!
Good job Sarah I don't know why I haven't seen this video earlier but all i can say is that I'm so proud and for the first time seeing somebody new speaking Croatian like this it's just beautiful and heartwarming thing to see. I hope that you're having a great time in Zagreb and I will for sure check more videos of you :D
Hvala Sara ❤️ na promociji našeg mentaliteta i jezika.
Nema na cemu
i'd like to give a little tip on the Đ/Dž ordeal -- they're usually the same sound in colloquial speech. their main purpose is to distinguish foreign words from native ones. for example: grožđe (grapes) and hrđa (rust) are native croatian words; nindža (ninja) and džem (jam) aren't. my recommendation is to pronounce it all like you would J in english.
also, in most spoken language dialects, Ć and Č are the same sound too due to a merger. in standard speech, however, they tend to represent how the word was made: Ć is T+J, while Č is K+J, but sometimes it really just is how it is. it's pretty hard to know why and how unless you get into the detailed linguistics of it (your children will in school so you might even learn something alongside them) and/or learn word by word as written, but if you never do just don't worry and simply pronounce them both the same way, as most of us do, and turn on autocorrect for spelling correction, again, as most of us do. :')
another thing: pronouns and word order are very useful for emphasis. this is something you'll eventually pick up intuitively, word order wise, but: baka mi radi pitu. / baka *meni* radi pitu. = grandma is baking me a pie. / grandma is baking *me specifically* a pie. if you want to emphasize the person, use the prolonged pronoun.
hope this helps a tad bit. you're doing extremely well for an english speaker and i wish you equally great progress onwards. sretno ti bilo :)
Wow, thank you so much for your detailed comment and tips!! You really explained everything so well!! I love the tip with Đ/Dž - seems pretty straightforward, and will definitely be useful! :) Again, thanks for taking the time to help me out (way more than a tad bit)! Much appreciated :)
Veliki pozdrav iz Zagreba!
@@RoyalCroatianTours Osim toga slovo Dž se vrlo rijetko koristi, odnosno ima ga vrlo malo u našim riječima, tako da se ne moraš puno zamarati s tim. Inače, odlično govoriš hrvatski...👍👍👍
Zašto mi je ovo toliko slatko 😂🥰
pre-SLATKO! 🙂
Ikr 😂❤️
Wow you're really amazing at Croatian! I am from Bosnia and I barley noticed any mistakes in your speaking. Even in some parts you couldn't even notice that you're not a native speaker. It's absolutely great and I am glad you are enjoying Croatia and it's language. Most things you've mentioned are actually difficult even for native speakers to fully learn and from what I've heard you've learned it really well. ❤
wow, I've been studying Russian for 8 months and curiously I understand a lot !!! can it be possible? Hahaha I love Slavic languages. Very beautiful and very fluid! How wonderful 💖
That's weird coz I think I'd only understand one in 10 words in Russian and maybe one in 4 for Slovenian which is the neighbouring Slavic country(I'm Croatian).
From Russian as a base you can understand a large part of any Slavic language (some will not agree,but russian is the base for all slavic languages.) The trick is to use some archaic expressions or similar words that on occasion have opposite meaning,but still you can get the point. I.e. dažd in russian is rain, in north croatia dežđ is also rain. That is why I had no problem learning russian and slovak and understanding any other slavic language.
If you know Russian then it is easier to catch Croatian and understand it. Reason? Because of all Slavic languages, Croatian and Serbian are the closest to an old Slavic /old church Slavonic language. Many our Slavic cousins moved forward and developed their language while still (not that often, use old words), and that is why for example Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Czechs, Slovaks, etc can understand us much better than we can understand them...
Odlično, wow! This is awesome. Would love to see more of you speaking Croatian in your videos! As an American with Croatian heritage, it’s encouraging to see how much fluency you’ve developed. Please share more content like this.
Thank you so much, Chelsea! I'll try to do some more all in Croatian in the future :)
@@RoyalCroatianTours Great, thank you! It’s also really good practice for me (and I’m sure for others) trying to improve my own Croatian skills :)
Jako dobro pričaš hrvatski! Svaka čast, verujem koliko je teško ali ide ti savršeno! Pozdrav iz Srbije❤️
Hvala puno na lijepim rijecima!!! Veliki pozdrav iz Zagreba :)
ne priča nego govori , kad ju već hvališ neka nauči govoriti hrvatski kako treba.
@@martinalabrovic7079 da, mnogo je drugačije😂. Želela sam pohvaliti ženu, koja je izuzetno dobro naučila jezik. Umesto mene da ispravljate, bolje i Vi učinite isto. Gramatika srpskog i hrvatskog se razlikuje, ali se razumemo i shvatili su svi šta sam želela reći, tako da su vaši komntari suvišni
@@martinalabrovic7079 Ovaj video je na youtube-u gospođo i njega može videti ceo svet, ne samo Hrvatska. Ja sam srpkinja i moj maternji jezik je srpski, ja sigurno neću pričati ili govoriti hrvatski zato što Vi kažete kako nešto nije ispravno. Vrlo dobro poznajem gramatiku svog jezika, a za toliko godina koliko posećujem Hrvatsku niko mi nikada nije skrenuo pažnju na to, tako da ne znam da li je stvarno toliko strašno što sam napisala onako kako se to kaže na mom jeziku. A da Vas pitam, gde sam ja to “gost”? Na youtube-u? Ja nisam u Hrvatskoj pa da budem gost, ja sam u svojoj zemlji, a UA-cam je dostupan i ovde ako niste znali.
Takođe nikoga ne učim hrvatski, daleko od toga. Pročitajte ponovo moj komentar, samo sam dala kompliment ženi koja je jako lepo naučila strani jezik
Lijepi pozdrav!Svaka čast.Ovo još nisam čuo.Bravo i puno uspjeha u daljnjem učenju jezika,iako nije više potrebno,sve ste savladali.Respect!
Puno hvala Tomislav! :)
Sarah čestitam... Ovo je sjajno. Obožavam kanal. Nisam ni razmišljala koje zamke smo namjestili😉
Prekrasna i simpatična, bravo!! 🤩🥰
Hvala puno Klara :)
You go girl! Your Croatian is reallllyyyy gooood ☺️☺️
Thanks, Ina!! You're so kind!
divan kanal, divna obitelj, popravili ste mi dan! keep up the good work Zabreg people :P
Puno hvala na lijepim riječima!
Svaka čast , super video ! Odlično pričaš !
bespredmetno je, pored svih komentara ranije, govoriti koliko vam je hrvatski dobar. sjajan je. ali, ono što je mene fasciniralo još više, jest analitički pristup. sve što ste izgovorili, analizirali, komparirali..., ostavilo me je bez riječi. zašto? svjedoči kako niste samo uz supruga 'skupljali' riječi i rečenice, već ozbiljno promišljali i čitali o pojedinim elementima hrvatskog. da ste se padeža uhvatili, to mi je bilo jasno, ali prefiksa, izostavljanja zamjenica... svaka čast! :) meni, recimo, govoreći engleski, nikada nije palo na pamet da zapravo stalno izgovaram zamjenice. bravo, bravo, bravo :)
Stvarno hvala puno na prekrasnim rijecima. Puno mi to znaci! Tezak je jezik, imam jos puno uciti, ali s vremenom! :) Hvala jos jednom!
I am so impressed by your Croatian. It is more than good enough and your accent is very nice too. So great to have your kids speak two languages. Their life will be so much richer just because of that. Keep posting great videos. Hope you never get bored of it!
Thank you so much for your sweet words! Yes, I'm so happy my kids have picked up both languages. Especially because my family in Canada doesn't speak a word of Croatian (since my roots aren't Croatian). Although it wasn't as easy getting them to speak English as I thought it would be. It took some time and work, but now they're great in both languages!
I am IMPRESSED! YOU ROCK WOMAN 😮🥰
Amazing! So proud of you!
Thank you so much!! :)
Love your video….I’m listening to it without the subtitles and I’m actually picking up some sentences which is great! Keep up your amazing work and inspiring us all to speak fantastic hrvatski jezik. ❤❤❤
Č i ć, ije i je mene muči, a ja sam iz hrvatske 🤣 :)
Hvala za podrsci, Vedrana!! :)
Yes it's a known problem in Croatia I've noticed lol. Even in written language. It seems to me a lot of Croatian people just say or write Č or Ć at random and they even sound more similair. In Serbian the difference is a lot clearer because our Č(Ч) is usually a lot tougher sounding so it is distinguished from Ć(Ћ) a lot easier .
Hopefully this comment doesn't start a nuclear warfare in the comments tho.. I didn't mean to offend anyone.
You speak the language very well.
Поздрав из Канаде. Pozdrav iz Kanade.
@@zx6r531 Yeah you're right. In Serbian and Montenegrian the difference between č i ć is a lot clearer. I'm from Montenegro so I know.🙂
@@zx6r531 Correct, but in coastal dialects is clear difference too. :)
Ma da, uopće nije bitno, svi izgovaramo neko srednje slovo između ta dva, kao i za đ. Plus u porukama ih niti ne koristimo 😅
Btw stvarno svaka čast
Poštovana gospođo, imate nevjerojatnu želju za učenjem ovog zahtjevnog jezika pa Vam čestitam na izuzetnom trudu, uspjehu i savladavanju gramatike! Divno se snalazite i vjerujem da ćete vježbom biti još bolja! :D
Srdačan pozdrav iz Istre 🤗
Hvala puno na lijepom komentaru i podrsci!! :)
I love the fact that you talk in Croatian the whole time. Subscribed!
Gosh your accent sounds so perfect to me... I'm so happy I found this channel!! I'm a beginner and it's so nice to find some help!
Respect for learning such a difficult language and as a fellow Croatian all I can say is that you're rocking it and it's wonderful hearing you speak. Accent just makes it better so be proud of it!
Aww, thank you Maria!! :)
Hi Sara ! Wish we could see more videos like this! Really good to hear you speaking Croatian ! Please. Hvala !
Jako lijepi,stvarno predivno.Želim ti puno sreće u daljnjem učenju.
Puno hvala Dejan :)
Jako ste slatki i simpaticni :) Dobro dosli u Hrvatsku
Hvala puno!! :) Volim Hrvatsku!
What an inspiring video! I can't explain how maddening - but also rewarding - it is to learn Croatian. I am a son of Croatian immigrants and was surrounded by the language growing up. But as I got older, I quickly became rusty and found myself tongue-tied in conversation. Because my folks now live in Croatia and I visit often, I became motivated to improve. What a journey. I have repeatedly taken three different home instruction courses. After much trial and error, I have finally progressed so that I am more confident in conversation and can read and write some. You are right. As intimidating as Croatian can be, it is also a beautiful language. When you first began speaking, I assumed you were a native speaker. Learning Croatian has also motivated me to learn more languages. While I can't speak to the difficulty level of other languages, I have feeling that if I can decipher Croatian then others may not be as hard. Fewer cases I hope!
Yes, I still get frustrated by it! lol but I do love learning the language. That's great that you're able to visit often and put your hard work to practice. I definitely underestimated how long it would take me to learn. I figured I'd be fluent enough in about a year - ha ha ha ha ha. But slowly, day by day, I improved. Here I am, almost 9 years later. I haven't been able to put much work into improving over the last 5 years as I have 3 small kids (5, 3, 1), but I'm hoping to find the time to take a class to improve my grammar situation, sometime over the next year or so ;)
I think you're right... if you can get through Croatian, other languages might come more easily (I think and hope :).
Veliki pozdrav iz Zagreba!
Meni je ovo super :D Baš me fino nasmijalo, a tebi, SarO, svaka čast! :D Sretno dalje :)
:D hvala!
Svaka čast Sarah!
I love it how you took an effort to learn the language. Respect!
Thank you so much, Matea! 😃 I really wanted to learn, so I kept at it. Still have a lot to learn, but it's going...slowly but surely :)
Ovaj video mi je uljepšao dan, svaka ti čast! Doći će i naglasak 😉👍
Aww, hvala puno na lijepom komentaru! :)
You are a very smart lady, we are proud to have you in Croatia!
Saro, izvrsno! Najbolja učiteljica. Hvala lijepa!
Svaka čast na uloženom trudu, samo naprijed i ne odustaj! 🥰
Hvala Andrej!
Perfect moment with your son when you start on padezi!! You are beyond amazing in Croatian, girl.
Haaa! The "lj" part :-). And 100% with you on the accent. Don't lose it...it's very charming.
Haha, I know, he's hilarious. And thank you!! XO
Draga Sara, jako ste draga i simpaticna, imate prekrasnu obitelj i odlicno govorite Hrvatski jezik ! Ja zivim u Njemackoj vec dugi niz godina, ali moj suprug nikad nije uspio izgovoriti jednu recenicu na Hrvatskom, iako mnogo razumije. Ovaj cu link podijeliti sa svojom kcerkom, da joj posluzi kao motivacija da poboljsa svoj Hrvatski. Bravo !! :-)
Aww, puno hvala na prekrasnim rijecima Vesna. Veliki pozdrav iz Zagreba!
Prekrasno!
Your Croatian is wonderful!
Svaka čast, super ti ide!!
Puno puno hvala!
Kako simpatičan video 😊👏
Hvala Katarina! :)
Svaka čast ovoj prelijepoj dami!
Sending this link to my Canadian kids so they can learn from you. Thanks Sarah!
🥰🥰🥰
Jako si simpaticna! Samo tako dalje! 💕
Hvala Petra :)
Ovaj video mi je uljepsao vecer, odlicno znate hrvatski, drago mi je da je neko dosao k nama i zavolio jezik, lijep pozdrav!❤
Puno hvala Barbara! Veliki pozdrav iz Zagreba!
Odlicno pricas hrvatski .....Super Sara !😊
Amazing... I don’t know how old you were when you came to Croatia but am talking from a personal experience when I moved from Croatia to UK with my family when I was 15 and it took me good few years to understand a language completely... Well done 👏🏼
Ey bro imas disc da igramo roblox ili mc?
Sometimes Croatians can have some troubles with č and ć and with cases too, the language is complex but as you said, it's beautiful. Bravo, samo tako nastavi!👐🏻😊
Hvala Mihaela :) It's definitely complex!
Any kajkavians especially or some chakavians too, because their native tongue doesnt have č and ć just č )(in kajkavian)
Thats bacause when the western south slavic languages split heres how it went;
First shtokavian split from the chakavo-kajkavo-slovene branch (Ill call it CKS)
Next, the CKS branch split into
Chakavian and Kajkavo-Slovene
In the end, Slovene and Kajkavian split from each other
So all the shtokavian speeches and of course all the standard languages in the Western Balkans are one branch, and Chakavian,Kajkavian, Slovene are another
Croatian is not one language technically, its made up of 3 different ones.
A Shtokavian Croat whos never heard Kajkavian before aint gonna understand too much lol
@@lil_weasel219 i grew up in slavonia where shtokavian is used and as u said i cannot understand kajkavians at all i have to stop for a moment to recollect thoughts haha
@@-.-3270 ys xD
especially Bednja speech
jeeesus frick thats like, Polish and Russian are more intelligible or smth
@@lil_weasel219 literallyy 🤣 im multilingual but i cant understand a dialect in my own language
Odlično pričaš, svaka čast a i objašnjenje je super! 🙂
I seldom comment on UA-cam but the one thing that comes accross when listening to you (in this video and other videos you did) is how gracious, kind and humble you are. It's beautiful to watch. You seem to love life in general, be it here in Croatia or in Canada and that is, I feel, a rare and beautiful attitude. I hope you'll always have that. And your children are so lucky to have such a mother ❤ Oh, and your Croatian is brilliant!!! As a teacher of English I'm well aware of both perspectives - that of a student and that of a teacher. Both have their hardships as well as beautiful moments. Best of luck to you and your lovely family 🥂👍🤗
Wow, thank you so much for the super sweet message and kind words Thea! All the best to you as well!! :D
here's a lifehack for sounding more like the natives in whichever language you want to learn: music, rap specifically but should work with other genres as well
basically if you like the music, some songs get stuck in your head and you naturally adopt the 'more natural' sound over time, hope it helps :D
I am super impressed of your mastery of the Croation language and am super jealous! My wife's parents are from Bjelovar and Velika Pisanica so the Croatian culture has been a big part of our heritage. After we came back from my first ever (My wife and son's were there in 2011 without me due to work) tour of Europe as a supporting parent of the Milwaukee Croatian Junior Tamburitzans, I decided that I needed to learn the language. I attended monday night language classes at St. Augustine church in Milwaukee for 3 years and it was one of the most rewarding yet frustrating things I have done. I had a fantastic teacher and a fun group to learn with. Wow is all I can say, and not even in Croatian. I don't know how you do it and at this point I have to say for myself that maybe I will try again when classes resume.
Thank you so much!! It's absolutely a frustrating and rewarding journey, learning Croatian! You've got that right. It definitely helps living here, as I'm surrounded by the language on a daily basis, so it forces me to practice, and listen, and it's just always in my ear. I don't think I could learn it without living here...so complicated! I hope your classes continue, and I really wish you all the best in your language learning journey!
Svaka cast,savrseno, congratulations!
Hoću učiti još, hvala Vam!🙏
This was so helpful!!! I am trying to learn Croatian because my boyfriend speaks it fluently (I’m from America). Can you please make more videos where you speak Croatian and have English subtitles like this? I find it easier to listen to someone speak Croatian who has learned it as a second language. Looking forward to watching more of your videos!
I'll definitely work on a few more in Croatian! :) Stay tuned!
BRAVOOO SARA!!!
Prvi put vidim ovaj Vaš kanal..i iskreno...super ideja,odličan pristup..i like it
Hvala!!
I'm impressed. You're really good at it! I'm from Montenegro, and it's really nice seeing people like you who are trying to learn other languages. I hope you and ur family are doing great❤️. Sorry if I have some mistakes my english is not pretty good but I can speak haha.
Svaka čast, jako lijepi izgovor. Sigurno je puno truda iza toga. Pozdrav cijeloj obitelji. Mali Mate isti ćaća :)
Haha legendo
Hvala puno!! Da, jako puno truda! Nije lako uciti Hrvatski!
@@RoyalCroatianTours pogotovo kada niti puno Hrvata ne govori hrvatski ispravno 😃
Sarah ovo je fantastično.
Nikada nisam čuo nikoga da kao stranac ovako tečno govori hrvatski.
Samo nastavite. Od sad pratim vaš video kanal.
Hvala puno na lijepom komentaru, Tadija! :)
Svaka čast
Really great that you are learning Croatian, samo tako nastavi i sretno😘😘
Odličan kanal. Subbed.
Super simpatična. Puno uspjeha!
Aww, puno hvala Zan! :)
You're amazing, you speak really well! I'm trying to teach Croatian to my Hong Kong friend, so I showed him your videos. Looking forward to more content in the future! :)
Odlična si, govoriš tako dobro! Pokušavam naučiti prijatelja iz Hong Konga hrvatski, pa sam mu pokazao tvoje videe. Radujem se budućem sadržaju! :)
Puno hvala!! :)
Girl you are so good! The accent is bearlly visable. And about č and ć, I noticed that even most Croatians get these mixed up. 💜💜
Svaka ti čast!!!! I was born in Croatia but moved to Canada when I was 5. I now speak what I call Crenglish, lol. I love this video! And you! You speak Croatian like a boss!
simpatična objašnjenja, osoba puna pozitivne energije, odlično savladala naš jezik
Hvala Dusko! :)
Sarah, izvrsni ste! Meni je čak i super kad se čuje strani akcent, to mi nekako doprinosi bogatstvu hrvatskog jezika i pokazuje da nam stranci donose svježu energiju. Znam strance koji godinama žive u Hrvatskoj i muku muče s jezikom, očito je da ste se vi ozbiljno trudili. Svaka čast!
Hvala vam puno puno na lijepim rijecima! Da, jesam stvarno potrudila, jako je tezak jezik i nema sanse da moze netko uciti bez ozbiljnog truda!