Learn Croatian: Top 10 Words in Croatian for Tourists
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
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Heading to Dubrovnik? Rovinj? Istria? Zagreb? Split? Well you should learn a few words in Croatian before you go. It is an amazing country and is well worth visiting. Here we give you the 10 words that all tourists should know in Croatian so they can have an even better vacation in Croatia.
Filmed in Rovinj, Croatia
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I did, the place where we stayed and a nice lady in a shop helped me learn the words, they aren't perfect but no tourist will sound native :) hence why we are tourists, at least we try and that is the point!
Exactly!
I love it when tourists put effort into learning some basic words.. Even though the stress pattern is a bit wrong (as mentioned in the comments, the stress is usually on the first syllable) it is remarkable and people will most likely sympathize with you.
great job :)
That's normally how it goes. It always irritates me when someone asks me not to speak their language. I'm making an effort here man. No one is going to speak a language other than their own perfectly.
Thank you. When we get back to Croatia we will definitely stop by. Opatija was my mom's favorite town in Croatia so I am sure if we take the whole family we will be stopping by :)
Thank you for the kind words and we loved Croatia, the people, food, sights, towns, just a great vacation spot! Thanks!
thanks! I only learned the words from a nice old lady at shop who taught me on my first day there :)
Thank You! We are eating his favorite cereal and playing with his birthday toys while he laughs at himself in this video. Its looking like a good beginning of his 6th birthday
Thanks! We loved visiting Croatia. The people were great and we tried to speak a few words and everyone was so happy :) All the best!
That was going to be number 11 :)
Thanks for the help! and thanks for watching and commenting! All the best!
thanks! we loved it there!
Sweet! The view from there is beautiful. I hope the wedding party was a blast afterward! Thanks for watching and commenting! Hope my Croatian wasn't too bad... or maybe it was tourists good :)
Very cool! Just a hint: in all these words the accent is on the first syllable, except "oprostite", in which it's on the second, so it's pronounced "o-PROS-ti-te" I hope it helps! :)
thank you!
Thanks! We love the little guy :) Thanks for watching and commenting!
I am from Russia and actually I understand all the word because they are similar :D
Slavic languages have a same root and many words are similar.
I like Russian people.
Heheheh the kid is so cute and funny =)
Croatians really appreciate when tourists make an effort to speak our language because we know how difficult it is. Two thumbs up for trying =)
Awesome advice! Thanks! Hvala!
Great tips! I will use them my next visit to Croatia! We loved it there. Great people and great food... and about 10000 other great things :)
Thank you! I really appreciate it. We have tons more on the way from France, Italy, Austria, the US and few other random places :)... So subscribe and we should have 2 to 3 videos coming out a week until the end of the year :)
thanks :) we had a great time in croatia. thanks for watching and liking the videos! more are on there way :) thoguh I need to get back to croatia to make some more fun in the sun videos :)
Thank you for posting! Headed to Croatia in 2013.
thanks!
Nice vid Mark and Caleb!
With emphasis:
zdrAvo
mOlim
hvAla
žElim
kOliko kOšta
tOalet
oprOstite
pIvo vIno
thanks! we are trying to figure out a way to get back to Croatia next year and hopefully I can speak my 10 word vocabulary a bit better :) thanks for the help with the stress too on the words. A lady in a shop and the place where we rented our apartment were the ones teaching me :)
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I thoroughly recommend a visit to Međugorje (Medjugorje) in Bosnia-Herzogovina, near Mostar. Its a bit like Lourdes in France with reports of "Apparitions" with the difference that Medjugorje is happening now whereas the Lourdes events took place in 19th century. Even if you're not "religious" it's still worth a visit. The restaurants are cheap and the people welcoming. A conservative estimate puts the number of annual visitors at around 1,000,000. I think the actual number is much higher. I've been twice and on both occasions I didn't want to leave.
I hope we can get back soon. thanks!
I agree. in my love/hate croatia video i even mention it. loved croatia! thanks for the great country!
Gotcha... thanks for the heads up ;)
Going to Dubrovnik in two weeks! Super excited. Thanks for the video, and you guys are so cute :)
You will have a blast. We have a 5 love and hates of croatia video on here too. Fun country, great weather and food. Good tourist infrastrucutre. You will have a blast! Thanks for watching and commenting! Hope you will like and subscribe! we have some more croatia videos coming out later this year.
honestly I cannot say. To learn my 10 tourist words it was not hard and the people were really helpful so that makes it a lot easier to learn
thanks Matej! gdje is a tough one for sure :) thanks!
cool. i will check it out on my next trip to croatia. if we can get back to europe next summer we may spend a couple weeks exploring non-coastal town croatia
Im from Croatia Hvala puno(Thank you very much)
lets hope :) thanks!
just one thing...we don't say "zdravo" as hello...we used to when we were in Yugoslavia but not anymore...Hello could be translated in two ways:
1. if you come to,lets say supermarket,you would say "dobar dan = good afternoon,"dobro vecer = good evening" or "dobro jutro = good morning",depending of time of day of course
2. if you are friends with someone you could say "bok" which could be closest translation to word "hello"
greetings from Zagreb
johndoezg This one confused me. Most places suggest using Bok, but I guess Dobro Jutro/Dan/Vecer is better to use? I'm staying near Omis in October, so I am eager to learn.
Dobar dan is the one you really can't miss with most of the time, even when a bit drunk at 4 am. Dobro jutro is for 6 am untill 10 am, dobra večer is for 7 pm untill 02 am, but dobar dan works as well, always.
If you are out partying between 11 pm and 6 am then just do you, maybe best go with bok if it's a bar or a fast food place. Bok is really informal, similar to hi in English but a little bit more personal. I would usually not use bok if I'm not familiar with the people and place I'm walking in to but at around 3 am bok is the safest bet because everyone is more relaxed at that point.
+johndoezg Daj ne pričaj gluposti, "zdravo" je skroz normalan pozdrav u RH... možda se ne koristi najčešće al sigurno nema veze sa jugoslavijom ili srbijom... i sam ponekad kažem zdravo...
Your English is great! Yeah, my pictures sound like yours :) we were in Rovinj for 4 or 5 days and I think I have about 100 pics of the harbor with the church way up in the background. i just could not stop myself :) thanks again for watchingand commenting! hope you will like the video and subscribe!
Happy Birthday - SRETAN RODJENDAN!
Happy Birthday Caleb!!!
I will do my best. We may be moving this summer so our travel budget may limited :) we really do want to get back to Croatia though. Everything was so great there.
Your videos about Spain were ''responsible'' that I was there this September. The video about 5love n hate things in Croatia is so true..
I'm working in the Croatian tourist board in the town of Lovran (12km from Opatija). So if you ever want to stop here I would be glad to present you my old little town, or make some ''free tour'' because I I really appreciate your work and your videos.
Have a nice time in Croatia.
I think you did great! Slavic languages are difficult to learn.
Do not apologize, I was just saying! :) It is nice to see that foreigners are interested in our language and country!
Lijep pozdrav, i posjeti Hrvatsku ponovno! :)
(Best regards, and visit Croatia again!) :))
Nice vid.Greetz from Croatia
I have been wanting to visit Croatia for many years; it's on the short list for future trips. 😊 I always try to study the language a bit before a trip too.
I think you did a great job, thanks for sharing, Will be in Croatia for 10 days in July and I will use them for sure!!
it is a fun place. the food is fantastic too! all the best for your trip!
You should visit Zadar. It's beautiful. :)
Hello from Croatia :D
Nice video man,Greetings from Croatia
That's right. only "toalet" has last sylyble most stressed (strongest accent) because it is borrowed from french and we keep that things same.
RULE OF THUMB: Most of the words (and all except "toalet" in this video) have first or second sylable stressed.
--Overall, nice phrasing in pronounciation... :) Hope u liked your stay!
Thanks... my son taught me ;)
Croatia - Spectacular
Happy Birthday Caleb!
lovely video:) your kid is adorable!
It was tourist good :-))..enough to get what you need :-) ...view is beautiful,whenever i am in Rovinj to visit my brother i always take tons of pictures even i got them already,cant resist to take more..hope my english is ok.
no problem:) btw you guys have a great accent
I will be there May 2014...lots of pivo for me
You need to shorten the 2nd half of the words, say them faster with less emphasis. Hard to explain, but if you listen to Croatians speak you will understand. Still a good job, it can be hard for Americans to pronounce our words. Once you get the hang of it it becomes easy to pronounce and even read.
thank you! I know it was not perfect but I wanted to help tourists love Croatia even more. it is an awesome place!
Your kids are adorable. And I must say, Caleb pronounces words better then you. :)
Thanks! We loved our visit there. Great food, people, natural beauty, cute towns... we actually have a love/hate croatia video too. was hard to come up with the hates :) hope you will subscribe
Zdravo no one uses almost. Great job on learning new language! Slavic languages, especially Macedonian and then Monte negro, Croatia, Serbia they are one of the oldest languages in the world with sanskrit.
The top tourist places are in Dalmatia and Istria, you can say ''Gdje'' there like ''Di'' because it's in the dialects. It's a lot easier to pronounce as well!
Some words (like vino) remind me of words in Romance languages. Which surprised me since Croatia seems to be Slavic
looool its great I'm croatian and I love it hahaha :)
sorry, i really just learned a few words from a shop keeper and bartender. but i hope it worked ok if i spoke it in the bars and restaurants which eveyrone seemed to understand :)
Haha I love you guys.
Then come again... come in Gornja Stubica... best place in croatia for me :D
This is how Slavonia looks like: watch?v=eCn0jijqUec
The central Croatia is similar to Slavonia, just add more hills. If you like pastry, meat (and i really mean meat), heavy, greasy food, good wines and liquors (if you do, you have to try "rakija", but good one, not cheap), your stomach will be in paradise. There are lot of castles and fortifications because we were in war with Ottoman Turks for centuries, rich nature, swamps, farms and people are not so loud like in coastal Croatia.
I am from Croatia too.You speak Croatian very well . You have small problems with saying GDJE (where) . But expect that you speak perfect.
I speak fluent check so it is easy for me too speak croatian 🇭🇷 but I’m from America
Very useful video, very nice, your accent is wrong, but you spelled all words correctly. Croatian langauge isn't easy, has many rules, but for basic communication it's always good example of your video :) Cheers.
Nice try... only "Koliko kosta" is closely correct
Any way..Rovinj is good choice for vacation, try to go to Korcula island & Mali Losinj they are >Dream Point< in Adriatic sea...! Thx and greetings from Canada.
well... tourists will speak like tourists :)
This is so funny im from croatia i mean accent ;) :P
R4Z0R_ yeah... I was going for "tourist that has no clue what the hell he is saying" :) did I pull it off ;)
Nice. except one little tip to make it easier on you... you're stressing the second syllable. Stress should be on the first, for words like MO-lim & HVA-la. Great stuff, though!
Vaši naglasci su veoma čudni, mora da ste stranac :)
Tinakey23 pa je hahahhaha
I'm Croatian but sadly only know how to speak english since i was born here and have never been to Croatia. What would be a good website/program to visit to learn?
find some croatian online to chat and learn from for free :D
I can help u to learn :D
Samo malo!!?on je hrvat a nije roden u hrvatskoj ili zna hrvatski? Koji kurac
croatian is a very hard language to speak. i expected worse but you did a good job. it's hard on americans because they don't really speak pure syllables.
Kako-si (How are you)
You know croatians are great in english... every1 here will understand you and help you with something.. :D
I'm sorry, mate, oriontrail is having fun with you :)
"Di" is shortened "gdje" = where
"su" = are
and those two words are ok, but "peechke", i.e. "pičke" is a vulgarism for certain ladypart. Be careful if some young Croats want to teach you some Croatian words because it will mostly be vulgarisms and curses;it seems like a very joyful activity for youngsters in the Balkan region :)
Btw. thanks on your great reviews and, perhaps, come to visit some inland!
Greetings from Slavonia region!
the kid id so cuuuute! :)) may I clone him?;P
we tried... we ended up with his brother, he shows up in some of the newer videos too :)
you won't hear anyone saying "zdravo" in dalmatia...or rarely...rather use "bok" ...it's like HI and BYE (just like ciao in italian and salut in french)
good job though!
In Dalmatia people don,t say bok !!
Rijec bog je osnovi i u znacenju i na jugu izgovara sporo opusteno kao da ima dva o rijec bok vise na sjeveru korijen obje rijeci Bog God
ahahaha your son is going to be a geologist :)
so we will become collegue, have a nice day and thanks for this vid
italian greetings
“No, not me!” 😂❤️
peccato che ti trovi a Rovigno, chiesa di Sant'Eufemia, Istria, dove si parla l'italiano!
this is great, but your accend isn't really good, but that is great, because we have really hard gramatic
hello i’m croatian is bok?
Can you please tell me how to spell language in croatian please
You sound like medieval croatian it's funny but respect to your attemps,sir
zvucite poput srednjovjekovnog hrvata smjesno ali respekt prema vasim pokusajima gospodine,
pozdrav i dodjite nam opet, goodbye and come again
your accent us sou fun so i cant stop laughing hahahahha respect for trying learn our hard language. and if you are in Dalmatia you can call people "tovar"
I hope you, guys are having good time. If you need any help let me know. I believe I can find a way to help.
Please - molim te
my brother got married in that church behind!
Is croatian hard to learn
Hahahahaha...
Video is good but the kid is great.
:-)
Nice work,just a little bit more work on pronunciation. :)
You got this from google translate and didn't click the sound button....
Zdravo- Hello
Molim- Please
Hvala- Thank you
Zelim- I want
Koliko Kosta- How much?
Da- Yes
Ne- No
Gdje- Where is...
Toalet- the toilet
Oprostite- Excuse me
Pivo- Beer
Vino- Wine
nobody says zdravo :D just say bok
not really! we do say both 'zdravo' and 'bok'. Of course, 'bok' far more in use in north Croatia and in Zagreb
All the pronouncements are wrong besides kolko kosta (that was said pretty well) I do have to give you A for effort in learning some words because not everyone does.
croatian
This is pretty wrong. Zdravo is Serbian. Hello is either bok or dobar dan. Most Croats aren't fond of the word "zdravo." He is also emphasizing the wrong syllables.
I am Croatian and I use zdravo on a regular basis. But yes, it's used a lot more in Serbia
Zdravo is not a serbian word.
Why don't you show the right letters with the accent marks? Makes it confusing when you don't spell it right.
Very nice, but you are doing it with wrong accent! :-) Never mind tho, greetings from Croatia!
You've got the syllable stress wrong for almost all of these phrases.
Bas mi se svidja jugoslovenski jezik!
Ućićeš ga u Srbiji.
2:38 hahahahah but he is right ,he says it better than you ;)