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learning croatian

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:36 pm
by Simonov
algy wrote:
fraid my Serbian/Croatian/Slovenian can be summed up in a few words ...
pivo
voda
Zivjuli
and
"dobro cisse" (not sure if that's spelt right ...)


you say it "živjeli"=cheers and "dobre sise" or "dobre cice"=nice tits.ok?

so if you wanna learn croatian try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZMI6ngpkTM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFvNPyEquEE

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:37 pm
by heavycola
Not another croatianism thread please

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:38 pm
by Minister Masket
My keyboard can't do the weird letter things.....

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:12 pm
by mandalorian2298
heavycola wrote:Not another croatianism thread please


Who did the first one? :?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:42 am
by Skittles!
Minister Masket wrote:My keyboard can't do the weird letter things.....

You have to do alt + numberpad keys... if you didn't know.

Re: learning croatian

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:53 am
by AlgyTaylor
Simonov wrote:algy wrote:
fraid my Serbian/Croatian/Slovenian can be summed up in a few words ...
pivo
voda
Zivjuli
and
"dobro cisse" (not sure if that's spelt right ...)


you say it "živjeli"=cheers and "dobre sise" or "dobre cice"=nice tits.ok?

so if you wanna learn croatian try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZMI6ngpkTM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFvNPyEquEE

8) Thanks man.

A couple more questions for you (there'll be lots!):
Dobre oche - is this "nice eyes"?
Dobre dope - "nice ass"?

You can tell I spend my time learning lots of useful stuff ;) :lol:

I have a friend who lives 4km from Novi Sad - he taught me a few words ...

Re: learning croatian

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:22 am
by AlgyTaylor

I like the second one :lol:

I'm going to use some of those phrases at work today ... ;)

Re: learning croatian

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:55 am
by Simonov
A couple more questions for you (there'll be lots!):
Dobre oche - is this "nice eyes"?
Dobre dope - "nice ass"?


better say :
"lijepe ochi"= pretty eyes, "dobre" just doesn't sound well
"dobro dupe" or "dobra guza" = nice ass

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:39 am
by chessplaya
good for u

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:15 am
by Bertros Bertros
Dobre, Dobre.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:34 am
by nmhunate
I must ask, Why learn Croatian? I mean how many people speak it in the world? I'l guess very high and say 10,000,000 million people. Ok now how many people speak French? German? Spanish? Russian? Mandarin Chinese? How Important are these other languages compared to Croatian? I mean French was the language of diplomacy of hundreds of years. In the vaults of the Kremlin are French language letters between diplomats.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:53 am
by Bertros Bertros
World population July 2007 estimated at 6,602,224,175. There must be a lot of extra-terrestrial Croation speakers I was unaware of...

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:05 am
by AlgyTaylor
nmhunate wrote:I must ask, Why learn Croatian?

Why not? Been to Serbia the last 2 summers, fully intend to go to Croatia then Serbia next year ...... it's a beautiful area of the world, filled with really beautiful people - in every sense :)

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:07 am
by Simonov
nmhunate wrote:I must ask, Why learn Croatian?


algy wanted to i think. it can be usefull if you come here on your vacation.
by the way estimated population of croatia is 4,555,000 which when compared to world's population of 6,450,000,000 is 0,0007%.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:17 am
by AlgyTaylor
Simonov ...


Kako reci "You have ...." i "I want .... " na Hrvatskom? (What's "You have ..." & "I want ..." in Croatian?)

Always a useful thing to be able to say ... :)

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:21 am
by Simonov
AlgyTaylor wrote:Simonov ...


Kako reci "You have ...." i "I want .... " na Hrvatskom? (What's "You have ..." & "I want ..." in Croatian?)

Always a useful thing to be able to say ... :)


"imaš" (imash) = you have... and "želim" = i want
(listen to those videos for "pronounciation" of š and ž)
"pronounciation" - don't know how to spell that...

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:33 am
by AlgyTaylor
heavycola wrote:Not another croatianism thread please

I can't believe it's taken me nearly a day to get that .... :oops:


Damn brain, need to get a new one.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:37 am
by AlgyTaylor
Simonov wrote:"imaš" (imash) = you have... and "želim" = i want
(listen to those videos for "pronounciation" of š and ž)
"pronounciation" - don't know how to spell that...

Thanks :)

It's pronunciation - although you do 'pronounce' things ... it's one of those mad words which don't make sense to anyone! :P