I am currently working on a project for which I would like to know people's experiences of learning Croatian as a second language.
The project consists of writing a handbook of Croatian grammar designed to make the process of learning the language easier for foreigners, focusing on the areas that they struggle with the most.
I got the idea for this project both from my own experience learning the language, and from this paper, which remarks that an appropiate Croatian grammar handbook for foreign learners has not yet been published.
CROATIAN WITH OR WITHOUT GRAMMAR
Vesna Požgaj Hadži; Maša Plešković; Tomislav Ćužić; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenija
https://hrcak.srce.hr/77309
My Serbian wife and I wrote such a course to learn Serbo-croation from Dutch (see: www.astrovdm.com/srpski.htm).
The grammatical cases were certainly the most difficult thing to learn! But also the sometimes illogical word formation like "duhovnik" = spiritual person, "govornik" = speaking person, "grešnik" = sinning person, but "hodnik" is not at all a walking person. Very confusing!
Hello! Are you still looking for help? Croatian is my second language.
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