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Language/30: Serbo-Croatian

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Don't be confused by the reviewer who claims that there is no such thing as a Serbo-Croatian language. This miscomception is often spread by nationalists of one side or another. The differences between Serbian and Croatian exist, as they exist between dialects of other languages (such as Italian and German). This guide leans toward the Croatian dialect, which is appropriate as one is more likely to travel in Craotia and one is more likely to be badly received for speaking Serbian in Croatia than vice versa. (In Bosnia it would depend on what part of the country one was in, but people aren't quite as uptight as they once were about using the "wrong" word or pronunciation in their particular area).

It is especially useful for travelers and those with a general interest in learning the language. Unfortunately, there are very very few materials out there for the serious student of the language spoken in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro.

This book & audio tapes are useful for those who are traveling in Croatia and need to know tourist information. The tapes are great to learn the pronunciations. However, this book & tape combination is not for those who want to learn and become fluent in the language.

EXCELLENT PRONUNCIATIONS, AND I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS SET TO ANYONE INTERESTED IN SERBIAN OR CROATIAN. THISW IS AN EXCELLENT COMPANION TO HAWKESWORTH'S COLLOQUIAL CROATIAN AND SERBIAN COURSE.

The book is OK for the beginner. The pronunciation is not the best. If you want to go to Croatia buy a different book, Croatian only, this one is more serbian than croatian.

This set is a decent value. For your money, you get a fairly broad range of phrases and vocabulary. However, the organization of information assumes that you can keep interest listening to a bunch of discrete phrases repeated one after the other with no conversations or anything remotely natural. If you can, in fact, maintain interest while listening to these tapes repeatedly, then you'll do well with this set. If, on the other hand, you need something more dynamic, you might do well to look elsewhere.

there is NO such thing as SERBO CROATIAN language! these two are separate languages and should not be mixed.unfortunately there are too many people who are not aware of this fact and ignore it.so please take it into consideration before you buy this artificial language dictionary!