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Learn Croatian with The Pimsleur Method

Speak Croatian like a native!

It’s now possible to speak and understand a foreign language effortlessly. The world-famous Pimsleur Method™ combines well-established research, most-useful vocabulary and a completely intuitive process to get you speaking right from the first day. All Pimsleur® courses feature real-world context and flexible vocabulary enabling you to learn your new language in a fluid, natural way. Pimsleur gives you everything you need. It’s the simplest way to start speaking a new language today.

About the Croatian Language

Croatian, a member of the South Slavic branch of Indo-European, is the official language of Croatia.  There are approximately 4.5 million speakers in Croatia and an additional one million speakers in other parts of Europe (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, and Serbia), the US, and Canada.  There are three main dialects: 
 
*  kajkavski,
*  čakavski,
*  štokavski (ijekavski), the official dialect, which is taught
    in this course.
The dialects are mutually intelligible, up to a certain point.  As the official dialect becomes more common through TV and its use in education, it is not unusual to hear Croatian speakers of different dialects switching back and forth.
 
Some linguists consider Serbian and Croatian as dialects of one language.  Serbian, however, is usually written using the Cyrillic alphabet, while Croatian uses a modified form of the Latin alphabet.  They are mutually intelligible, as is Bosnian, which is also written in the Latin alphabet.

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Croatian-Speaking Countries

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