Learn Serbo-Croatian from Native Speakers

Learn Basic Serbo-Croatian

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The Serbo-Croatian Basic Volume I contains Units 1 through 25 and comes with 22 CD's and a 639 page textbook or 1 DVD with audio on MP3 and textbook on a PDF file.

The Serbo-Croatian Basic Volume II contains Units 26 - 50 and comes with 24 CD's and a 678 page textbook or 1 DVD with audio on MP3 and textbook on a PDF file.

The Serbo-Croatian Basic Combo contains Units 1-50 and comes with 46 CD's and two textbooks or 2 DVD's with audio on MP3 and textbooks on PDF files.

Serbo-Croatian is a Slavic language and as such belongs to the IndoEuropean (or Indo-Hittite) family of languages. This family includes languages from East Pakistan to Great Britain and the New World. Slavic is one of the branches of this family and includes Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Bulgarian. Other branches are: Germanic (English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, etc.), Italic (Latin, from which we get the Romance languages such as Rumanian, Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese), Celtic (Welsh, Irish, etc.), Hellenic (Greek), Armenian, Albanian, Baltic (Lithuanian, LatVian), Indic (Sanskrit, Hindi-Urdu, Bengali, GUjerati, etc.), Iranian (Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, etc.).

Even within the standard language there are accepted variations, which set off an eastern variety of dialect from a central one. Although they are the same language and mutually intelligible, there are enough differences between the two to make it more advisable for a beginner to learn one or the other, rather than mix the two. The eastern dialect is spoken in Serbia, the central in Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro and parts of western Serbia. The eastern type is standard for Belgrade and the central is the accepted standard in Zagreb, though the local dialect of the latter is somewhat different.

The eastern dialect is normally written in cyrillic letters and the central uses latin letters in Croatia, but cyrillic in Montenegro, and both cyrillic and latin in Bosnia and Hercegovina. In these units the Basic Sentence$ and Conversation drills are given in both latin and cyrillic, the version in latin letters being representative of central speech and that in cyrillic representing an eastern variety. Elsewhere latin letters are used but eastern speech.

These lessons are intended to give the beginner a useful oral command of the language and a reading knowledge somewhat broader than his speaking ability.

Unit 1 - Greetings

Unit 2 - Places and Directions

Unit 3 - The Hotel

Unit 4 - Friends

Unit 5 - Going Out

Unit 6 - At the restaurant

Unit 7 - Asking for information

Unit 8 - Meeting people

Unit 9 - Looking for Someone

Unit 10 - Where do you live?

Unit 11 - Where are you from?

Unit 12 - The family

Unit 13 - Going out

Unit 14 - The family

Unit 15 - City and environment

Unit 16 - Traveling by train

Unit 17 - In Belgrade

Unit 18 - A trip to Skopje

Unit 19 - Meeting a friend

Unit 20 - Seeing the sights

Unit 21 - Weekend

Unit 22 - The trip to Belgrade

Unit 23 - With some friends

Unit 24 - The market place

Unit 25 - In the garage