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Are there differences between Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian?
Foreigners usually know Croatian and Serbian as one language: Serbo-Croatian. This term, however, doesn’t exist formally anymore. That was politic term related to the language spoken in Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija). Still, it’s in use only in the context of learning those languages as foreign. The fact is, they are so similar that foreigners sometimes don’t notice any difference.
However, there are some differences that you can see in more detail in this blog article. Here we’ll mention just the main ones: in Croatia, it’s used Latin script, while in Serbia, there are both Cyrillic and Latin in use. There are some differences in vocabulary: some words are completely different, while most of them are different only for ije/je (Croatia’s language and Bosnia’s language) and e (Serbia country language).
Is BCMS one language?
Still, Croats and Serbians, as well as people living in Bosnia and Montenegro, understand each other with no need for translation. So, I usually compare these languages with British, American and Australian English. You can check if you can hear the difference by listening to any of the audio stories. Each one includes both the Croatian and Serbian versions.
However, there is only one analysis per story for both versions since, as I said, the languages mainly have the same grammar structure, sentence order and other elements. If there are some differences, I note them and explain.
Is Serbo-Croatian easy to learn?
Learning the Croatian language and the Serbian language could be easy for some people. However, Serbian and Croatian are Slavic languages, which are known as more complicated languages than world languages such as English, Spanish, Italian, French, German… That’s because the language logic is different. Slavic languages include grammatical cases, and perfective and imperfective verbs. Those topics are the hardest to learn for students.
On the other hand, this is the view of the not Slavic native speakers. Students from Slavic countries such as Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, and others understand the language rules better than non-Slavic speakers. But Slavs still need to learn Serbo-Croatian grammatical case suffixes because they are not the same as in their languages.
Also, in many cases, there are some words that exist in their languages, but they have a different meaning.
What are Croatia and Serbia known for?
Serbia is the best known in the world of sport after its best tennis player – Novak ฤokoviฤ. Just like Modriฤ, he’s a winner of many awards and he’s still playing with his 37 years.
Nikola Tesla was one of the electricity inventor and he was born in Smiljan, Croatia, and he had Serbian origins. One audio story is about him – listen to it!
Croatia is the best known in the world after its football team. The captain of Croatian team – Luka Modriฤ – won many world awards and 39 years old, he’s one of the oldest still active players.
Did you know that famous Game of Thrones was filmed in Dubrovnik, Croatia?
The most popular Balkan alcohol drink famous in the world – rakija! It can be made from plums – ลกljivovica; pear – kruลกkovac; healthy plants – travarica, and there are more types, depending on fruit type.
There are many brands that produce that drink but people also prepare it by themselves at home. Every household has at least one bottle!
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