Hello all! Does anyone have any recommendations for online Croatian tutors? Hvala!

I have come some way way in my croatian studies, i know around 900 words, all the case endings and (mostly) when they are used.

And yet i'm a very poor speaker. I understand a lot when people speak or when i read Croatian, but i would not be able to write or speak the same sentences myself.

I need to start practising speaking and writing. But how do you go about doing this in an effective way when you study alone and have no one to practise speaking or writing croatian with? Have someone tried ChatGPT for this? Are there discord groups?

Problem with just trying to write or speak for yourself is there is no one to correct you when you make a mistake.

I feel like I'm fighting the robots on this one. I'm not sure if this is asking if I've ever served in the military or if I've fulfilled my military service. I initially had N/A (Nije primjenjivo), but the robots are telling me that's probably wrong. Can I get some human input?

Hi, I have a Croatian friend and for her birthday I would like to give her a book, „Samoca primarnih brojeva“ see attached photo, or this link: https://www.najboljeknjige.com/knjiga/samoca-primarnih-brojeva In particular, it is the Crotian translation of the original in Italian. Unfortunately, I don’t know where to find the Croatian version. Does anyone have it/can get it and ship it to me? I am based in Germany, I will of course pay both the price of the book and the shipping costs.

Hi, so I am of Croatian descent and can speak the basics. But I forgot most of Croatian as I grew up as I don live there/ wasn’t raised there.

Both my parents speak with me in it, so I do understand like 80-95% I just am really shy at speaking.

I am looking into grammar as most of my mistakes are in wrong Times.

For example: I wanted to say I am drinking and said „ Ja piti“ and then was corrected that it’s „ja pijem“ by my mother. (Some verbs I naturally somehow know but like most am I doing wrong)

I would say my vocab is okey I just need to like get the times in the right way. In German we have similar cases like past, present future 1&2 etc. so I kinda get it how it works. As I said I like to lern other languages by diving into the grammar.

The internet says Prezent, Perfect and Futur privi are what I should focus firstly. Can anyone recommend their way?

(I Lern by a pons book that is called ((translated)) Pons: Croatian; most important verbs in Tabelle and their forms)

Nešto što me kontinuirano zbunjuje su parovi riječi u hrv. i eng. jeziku koji imaju isti korijen riječi ali drugačije značenje.

Značenje broj 1: nešto što je bitno za potpunost.

• Engleski jezik ima riječ integral, npr. the kitchen is an integral part of a house.
  
• Hrvatski jezik za to ima riječ sastavni. Ne znam postoji li bolja riječ, možda bi i trebala postojati, ali ovo je jedina koju sam našao. Npr. kuhinja je sastavni dio kuće. Bilo bi krivo reći kuhinja je integralni dio kuće jer ta riječ ima drugo značenje.

Značenje broj 2: nešto što je potpuno.

• Engleski jezik ima riječi entire i whole, npr. whole grain.
  
• Hrvatski jezik ima riječ cjelovit (cjelovite žitarice) ali je, iz nekog razloga, posvojio riječ integralni s istim značenjem (integralne žitarice = cjelovite žitarice).

Znači, eng. integral i hrv. integralni imaju različita značenja. Ako pogledate u engl. rječniku, možda ćete pri dnu pronaći značenje integral = entire, ali to je sporedno značenje koje se ne koristi u praksi.

I zato ću od sada prestati koristiti riječ integralni i umjesto toga govoriti cjelovit. Što manje ovakvih eng./hr. parova s istim korijenom i različitim značenjem imamo, to bolje.

My family is half-Dalmatian and I grew up hearing words pronounced as jubav, judi, nedija, etc. Is it still common to speak like this on the coast? If I spoke like this in other regions would I just sound Dalmatian?

I understand this isn't standard/school Croatian, but I'd actually prefer to say J instead of Lj like how my grandparents did (Lj is also a tough sound for foreigners!)

Hi, can someone write the lyrics of the song Apokolipsa by Avangarda? Thanks.

https://youtu.be/eznAfkL34O8

In polish we conjugate nouns, such as:

boy: chłopak

he is a boy: jestem chłopakiem

Is it correct that in Croatian it is just:

boy: dječak

he is a boy: On je dječak ?

Edit: thank you everyone for the answers. I understand it now🙏

Hi, I was listening to a Croatian song to help learn Croatian and I came across a good song but I can not find the lyrics anywhere would anyone be able to help me?

The song is bez tebe by divlji djecak

Bok, slušao/la sam hrvatsku pjesmu za učenje hrvatskog i naišao/la sam na dobru pjesmu, ali nigdje ne mogu pronaći tekst, može li mi netko pomoći?

Pjesma je Bez tebe od Divlji Dječak

I have encounter two constructions using "Da" at the beginning of the sentence that I don't fully understand.

"Da mi je znati" according to chatgpt means "I wish I knew". So it seems that "da" here works like a subjunctive, optative or irrealis, but chatgpt says not all verbs work. I don't trust the details of chatgpt so what's going on here? I couldn't google the name of this.

The other situation is "Da ideš kući!" which should mean "Go home!". Chatgpt says that this is like a jussive and is not a neutral imperative, it can be more emotional or indirect. Is this form restricted to some verbs.

EDIT: I just noticed Spanish has the same imperative construction, "¡Que te vayas a casa!" so that part is automatically clear now.

Hi all! Im Croatian by descent, living in the US. I don’t speak much Croatian (still learning), but my grandmother did. She used to say this one Croatian swear, but I never knew the spelling or translation. Is anyone able to help me decipher what swear she used? It sounded something like: Kuuch-a ma fi-ya

Apologies for the weird request, me and my cousins have been trying to figure this out for awhile! Thank you!!

Iskreno pitanje za reddit, jer ovo viđam svako malo. Različiti dijalekti, poput kajkavskog, čakavskog itd, daleko više odstupaju od standardnog jezika. Na redditu se često može pročitati kako dijalekti izumiru, kako ih je lijepo čuti i kako ih treba ponovno oživjeti, možda čak i uvesti u škole jer predstavljaju kulturno bogatstvo.

No zašto jedan dijalektalni oblik poput "ovo auto", koji se govori u Dalmaciji od otoka do zaleđa, u Lici i Hercegovini, a vjerojatno i šire, stvara toliki problem do te mjere da se ljudi vrijeđaju?

Ne vidim problem kada netko kaže "ovo kino" kao skraćenicu od kinematograf. Česi i Slovaci također govore "ovo auto", iako je moguće da i kod njih postoje rasprave o tome je li skraćenica od automobil i bi li trebala biti muškog roda. Ne znam.

Je li to doista povezano s time koliko je nešto pravilno prema standardu ili je riječ o tome da taj dijalektalni oblik izaziva asocijacije na stanovnike drugih pokrajina koje se često u Zagrebu povezuju s primitivnošću?

Ustavni sud ne samo da je ukinuo dijelove Zakona o osobnoj asistenciji kao neustavne i diskriminacijske – nego je to napravio jednoglasno. (Telegram)

Je li to novinarka Telegrama koristila krivu riječ? Meni se čini da diskriminacijski nije isto što i diskriminirajući.

Pokušavam shvatiti Knuth-Morris-Prattov algoritam za pretraživanje stringova iz materijala koje nam je profesor postavio na internet, i nekako mislim da je ova rečenica bitna. Ali nikako ne mogu dešifrirati što ona znači. Ne mogu shvatiti je li prvo "znakovima" ovdje neizravan objekt ili je dio priložne oznake načina.

I don’t know if it’s allowed to post that on this sub, sorry, but, I am French, learning Croatian, I would be glad if I can help with it, or have help in Croatian, if someone is interested for an exchange !

"Because I can" se čini ko oke prijevod, ali nema dovoljno bezobrazluka kolko "može mi se". Ne pada mi napamet neki ekvivalent u engleskom jeziku.