Colloquial Croatian

Celia Hawkesworth

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781317306696
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Colloquial Croatian provides a step-by-step course in Croatian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Croatian in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:

• progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills

• structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar

• an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises

• realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios

• useful vocabulary lists throughout the text

• additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Croatian will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Croatian.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

1 Na putu

On the way

In this unit we will look at:

• the verb biti ‘to be’

• personal pronouns: ‘I’, ‘you’ etc.

• basic word order

• formation of questions

• introducing yourself

• nationalities

Dialogue 1 (Audio 1: 2)

Putnici se upoznaju

The travellers meet

Alan and Nora Cameron are travelling to Croatia for the first time. On the plane from London, they start talking to the man sitting next to Alan. Are Alan and Nora both English? Do they understand Croatian? What is Alan's neighbour called?

GOSPODIN CAMERON:	Dobar dan.
GOSPODIN ANTIĆ:	Dobar dan.
G. CAMERON:	Oprostite, govorite li engleski?
G. ANTIĆ:	Ne, na žalost. Razumijete li vi hrvatski?
G. CAMERON:	Samo malo. Učim. Vi ste Hrvat, zar ne?
G. ANTIĆ:	Jesam. A jeste li vi Engl ezi?
G. CAMERON:	Nismo. Ja sam Škot, zovem se Alan Cameron. A moja žena je Irkinja. Ona se zove Nora.
G. ANTIĆ:	Ja sam Marko Antić. Drago mi je.
G. CAMERON:	I meni, također.

Vocabulary

dobar (m.)	good	dan	day
drago mi je	pleased to meet you (lit: ‘it is dear to me’)	gospodin (g.)	Mr
		gospoda (gđa.)	Mrs
		govoriti	to speak (2nd pers. pl. govorite)
hrvatski	Croatin
i	and, also	i meni	and I (lit. ‘and to me’)
ja	I
je	is	jesam	I am
jeste	you are	li	(interrog. part.)
malo	a little	moja	my (f.) (m. moj)
na žalost	unfortunately	nismo	we’re not
ona	she	oprostite	excuse (me)
putnik (pl. putnici)	traveller passenger	razumjeti	to understand (1st pers. sing. razumijete; 2st pers. pl. razumijete
samo	only
ste	are (2nd pers. pl. of bi...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• THE COLLOQUIAL SERIES
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Map of Croatia
• Introduction
• Pronunciation and alphabet
• 1 Na putu
• 2 Razgovor o putovanju
• 3 Dolazak u Zagreb
• 4 Svatko ide na svoju stranu
• 5 Dolazak u hotel
• 6 Razgovor o stanu
• 7 Na pošti
• 8 U restoranu
• 9 Na ulici
• 10 Posjet prijateljima
• 11 Obiteljski odnosi
• 12 Putni planovi
• 13 U kazalištu
• 14 Pakiranje
• 15 Polazak
• 16 U kvaru
• 17 U kupnji
• 18 Prometna nesreća
• 19 Razgovor o svakodnevnom životu
• 20 Kraj
• Grammar summary
• Key to exercises
• Translations of main texts
• Croatian-English glossary
• English-Croatian glossary
• Subject index