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Post by Slatkica on Feb 18, 2006 11:28:29 GMT 1
no we just shout in English ;D do you just do that for fun when you are there are are you actually english lol?!
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Post by lojalnost on Feb 18, 2006 13:56:22 GMT 1
C'mom Croatian's impossible!
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Post by Slatkica on Feb 18, 2006 19:32:23 GMT 1
C'mom Croatian's impossible! lol, so what do you do then, can you speak a little? are you out there now?
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Post by lojalnost on Feb 18, 2006 22:07:02 GMT 1
nah! you can't get good curry!
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Post by Raul on Feb 18, 2006 23:51:19 GMT 1
Ucim Hrvatski jezik, but it's very hard! Here is a survival kit for tourists in Croatia: www.visit-croatia.co.uk/croatianfortravellers/(but don't be to enthousiastic, once Croats hear their language, they start to speak very fast, you can not follow! )
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Post by Ribaric on Feb 19, 2006 9:40:39 GMT 1
I struggle with it but I make a positive effort to improve. I have 1-2-1 lessons and, at 50K per hour, it isn't going to break the bank. I'd say my ability to speak and understand is the biggest single aid to being comfortable here. I can't yet chat or gossip "brbljavati" (what a great word!) but my advice would be...learn it, go for it and enjoy it but you'll need patience. It seems to me that locals appreciate the effort and respond well to my ramblings.
Can you get a babel fish here?
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Post by Slatkica on Feb 19, 2006 9:52:17 GMT 1
I struggle with it but I make a positive effort to improve. I have 1-2-1 lessons and, at 50K per hour, it isn't going to break the bank. I'd say my ability to speak and understand is the biggest single aid to being comfortable here. I can't yet chat or gossip "brbljavati" (what a great word!) but my advice would be...learn it, go for it and enjoy it but you'll need patience. It seems to me that locals appreciate the effort and respond well to my ramblings. Can you get a babel fish here? thats very cheap in London they have lessons going for £60 an hour
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Post by Ribaric on Feb 19, 2006 10:06:42 GMT 1
Yikes!!! 60 quid an hour? Where are you looking?
If you go to the Croatian Language School (CLS) in Ealing, you can get 1-2-1 lessons with the school's profesorica (Linda Rabuzin) for less than 30UKP, less than that if you join a group.
It's a great school, I did weekly lessons there for a year and it has helped enormously. It's not "tourist" Croatian, it's the full monty! Grammar... the works!...I'm not an ejerkated geeza and this was a problem but not insurmountable.
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Post by lojalnost on Feb 19, 2006 20:52:09 GMT 1
I struggle with it but I make a positive effort to improve. I have 1-2-1 lessons and, at 50K per hour, it isn't going to break the bank. I'd say my ability to speak and understand is the biggest single aid to being comfortable here. I can't yet chat or gossip "brbljavati" (what a great word!) but my advice would be...learn it, go for it and enjoy it but you'll need patience. It seems to me that locals appreciate the effort and respond well to my ramblings. Can you get a babel fish here? thats very cheap in London they have lessons going for £60 an hour £60 an hour! Where? Why? My God why? What for!
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Post by elaine on Feb 22, 2006 18:04:00 GMT 1
Ribaric, methinks thou dost under-sell thyself previse! Onetoten - Mrs Als must be brilliant (up with you I would not put!), dodgy or not!
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Post by Slatkica on Feb 22, 2006 18:18:33 GMT 1
Ribaric, methinks thou dost under-sell thyself previse! Onetoten - Mrs Als must be brilliant (up with you I would not put!), dodgy or not! can you speak good croatian elaine?
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Post by Ribaric on Feb 22, 2006 23:35:29 GMT 1
Forsooth! for is it not false modesty that giveth succour to the vain? (Henry 9th, part 2 ) I do have a "bag" of words big enough to get myself understood but people will insist on replying to me with words not in my bag. I should have a printed list and give it to people with the instruction..."Talk to me please but you can only pick from this vocabulary" I'd be alright then.
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Post by jujevic66 on Feb 23, 2006 15:58:02 GMT 1
Ucim jezik...mitz po mitz. Razumiem samo malo, ali gramatika je verlo tesko za meni. Imam puno vrijeme... ;)
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Post by gmh on Feb 23, 2006 18:39:43 GMT 1
Learning language bit by bit, I understand only a little but grammar is very difficult for me, I have a lot of time.
Only 2 spelling mistakes. Razumijem vrlo
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Post by elaine on Feb 23, 2006 19:10:17 GMT 1
Ribaric - you're catching up with Als on the 'making me laugh out loud-ometer'. Indeed, this may be because you have some railway-type blood in your veins? Seriously though, I have to agree that a large card with all 'permitted' words would be a great idea ....... it's so embarrassing to have to keep telling people I'm learning the language, but have only got to page 56 in the book!!! Renovating the new flat has helped enormously, though. Now I know lots of swear words as well as various building terms - I'll be a riot at the next party I attend!!
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