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01

Free Learning/Studying Apps

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Memrise memrise.com

Memrise is a really fast, fun, and free language learning app/website that is sure to get you hooked. There is a visual flashcard component that also incorporates audio from a community of native speakers. Memrise uses spaced repetition and is really effective at drilling vocabulary and phrases into your memory.

Learn Croatian by 50 Languages goethe-verlag.com

This app is great for beginners (A1, A2) to increase practical vocabulary which is useful for managing everyday situations (at a store, restaurant, bank, doctor, etc). With the free version, you will have access to 30 complete lessons.

Internet Polyglot internetpolyglot.com

This free app uses lessons, games, and pictures to teach foreign languages to beginners. Although Internet Polyglot is far from a standalone language learning tool, it is a useful supplement to help you to learn and retain vocabulary.

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Free Croatian Dictionary/Translation Apps

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Google Translate, iTunes, Google Play, Google Translate offers online text translation between 103 languages by typing, offline translation for 59 languages, camera translation for 38 languages, image translation for 37 languages, conversation translation in 32 languages, and translation of handwritten characters in 93 languages. The app also has a phrasebook that allows you to save translated words and phrases for future reference in all languages.

Dict.CC dict.cc

Dict.CC is a bidirectional dictionary offering 51 language combinations. The app can be used offline and vocabulary lists can be downloaded.

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Free Croatian Video Lessons

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Easy Croatian youtube.com

These YouTube videos are the work of a non, profit project which uses lighthearted street interviews as a method to teach languages. Each video has a topic and the host asks questions to native Croatian speakers on the street based on the theme. Each video contains subtitles in both Croatian and English.

LangMedia langmedia.fivecolleges.edu

LangMedia provides language learning resources, including, audio, study guides, etc. LangMedia is run by the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages and their mission is to share examples of linguistic and cultural diversity with language learners. In the “Language by Country / ” section of the LangMedia website, they provide videos which focus on practical aspects of everyday life (For Ex, Basic Communication, Shopping, Transportation, Culture and Social Life). The conversations often include colloquial language and all videos are accompanied by translations and transcripts. The “ ” section of the LangMedia website features video interviews with people of different ages and backgrounds. The interviews are primarily conducted by students and translations and transcripts are provided.

LangMedia youtube.com

LangMedia provides language learning resources, including, audio, study guides, etc. LangMedia is run by the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages and their mission is to share examples of linguistic and cultural diversity with language learners. In the “Language by Country / ” section of the LangMedia website, they provide videos which focus on practical aspects of everyday life (For Ex, Basic Communication, Shopping, Transportation, Culture and Social Life). The conversations often include colloquial language and all videos are accompanied by translations and transcripts. The “ ” section of the LangMedia website features video interviews with people of different ages and backgrounds. The interviews are primarily conducted by students and translations and transcripts are provided.

videos langmedia.fivecolleges.edu

LangMedia provides language learning resources, including, audio, study guides, etc. LangMedia is run by the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages and their mission is to share examples of linguistic and cultural diversity with language learners. In the “Language by Country / ” section of the LangMedia website, they provide videos which focus on practical aspects of everyday life (For Ex, Basic Communication, Shopping, Transportation, Culture and Social Life). The conversations often include colloquial language and all videos are accompanied by translations and transcripts. The “ ” section of the LangMedia website features video interviews with people of different ages and backgrounds. The interviews are primarily conducted by students and translations and transcripts are provided.

Croatian in Croatia langmedia.fivecolleges.edu

LangMedia provides language learning resources, including, audio, study guides, etc. LangMedia is run by the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages and their mission is to share examples of linguistic and cultural diversity with language learners. In the “Language by Country / ” section of the LangMedia website, they provide videos which focus on practical aspects of everyday life (For Ex, Basic Communication, Shopping, Transportation, Culture and Social Life). The conversations often include colloquial language and all videos are accompanied by translations and transcripts. The “ ” section of the LangMedia website features video interviews with people of different ages and backgrounds. The interviews are primarily conducted by students and translations and transcripts are provided.

CultureTalk Croatia langmedia.fivecolleges.edu

LangMedia provides language learning resources, including, audio, study guides, etc. LangMedia is run by the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages and their mission is to share examples of linguistic and cultural diversity with language learners. In the “Language by Country / ” section of the LangMedia website, they provide videos which focus on practical aspects of everyday life (For Ex, Basic Communication, Shopping, Transportation, Culture and Social Life). The conversations often include colloquial language and all videos are accompanied by translations and transcripts. The “ ” section of the LangMedia website features video interviews with people of different ages and backgrounds. The interviews are primarily conducted by students and translations and transcripts are provided.

Croatian 101 Lessons croatian101lesson.com

This website offers simple beginner Croatian lessons.

Croatian 101 Lessons youtube.com

This website offers simple beginner Croatian lessons.

Get by in Croatian eurolinguiste.com

This beginner video series by Shannon Kennedy will teach you the very basics of Croatian to prepare for a conversation during a trip to Croatia.

Get by in Croatian youtube.com

This beginner video series by Shannon Kennedy will teach you the very basics of Croatian to prepare for a conversation during a trip to Croatia.

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Free Croatian Audio Lessons

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Colloquial Croatian, The Complete Course for Beginners routledgetextbooks.com

This collection of 63 audio files, each a few minutes in length, provides concise and clear Croatian language instruction for beginners. These free audio lessons were made to accompany the Colloquial Croatian, The Complete Course for Beginners textbook By Celia Hawkesworth, which is a book aimed at teaching Croatian to beginners in a practical way to prepare them to effectively communicate with confidence in everyday situations.

Get by in Croatian Podcast eurolinguiste.com

This quick and easy podcast by Shannon Kennedy will teach you the very basics of Croatian to prepare for a conversation during a trip to Croatia.

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Free Online Croatian Courses

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HR4EU Courses hr4eu.hr

This website serves as a web portal promoting Croatian language learning, offering supportive learning resources, and most importantly several free courses. Additionally, you will find a lot of really interesting information about Croatian food, culture, history, geography, landmarks, and points of interest, all in a cool interactive map format. Beyond that, there is also detailed guidance for those looking to live and work in Croatia. In order to access the section of the website with free courses you must log in. HR4EU is brought to you by the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Zagreb with funding from the European Union Social Fund.

FSI Croatian Basic Course Volume 1 livelingua.com

This course is accompanied by an e, textbook with 642 pages and 24 audio files with a running time of 15 hours.

FSI Croatian Basic Course Volume 2 livelingua.com

This course is accompanied by an e, textbook with 677 pages and 44 audio files with a running time of 17 hours and 28 minutes.

Easy Croatian Course easy-croatian.com

The Easy Croatian website offers a course consisting of 50 successive units which aim to teach you how to speak Croatian well using a minimal amount of grammar. The course units are thorough, organized and offer very practical information. The course can also be downloaded as a PDF or AZW3 file (for Kindle) and all MP3 audio files are available to download. The author also created a grammar cheat sheet and verb cheat sheet (covering 205 important verbs), both of which can be downloaded as PDF files. You can also access the course using .

Memrise memrise.com

The Easy Croatian website offers a course consisting of 50 successive units which aim to teach you how to speak Croatian well using a minimal amount of grammar. The course units are thorough, organized and offer very practical information. The course can also be downloaded as a PDF or AZW3 file (for Kindle) and all MP3 audio files are available to download. The author also created a grammar cheat sheet and verb cheat sheet (covering 205 important verbs), both of which can be downloaded as PDF files. You can also access the course using .

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Other Free Croatian Resources and Services

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ielanguages.com ielanguages.com

This website offers free basic language learning text and audio instruction.

Learn101 learn101.org

This website features free beginner lessons to guide you through learning Croatian, step by step, starting with the Alphabet, moving on to grammar, vocabulary, and phrases, and finally offering simple quizzes to test your progress. These lessons are a basic introduction to the language and have images, text, and audio.

Ilanguages ilanguages.org

This site is designed to teach Croatian with free vocabulary, phrases, grammar, and flashcards while focusing on highly used words and phrases necessary for everyday living.

Omniglot omniglot.com

This site specializes in providing information about languages and their alphabets and writing systems.

Digital Dialects digitaldialects.com

This website makes learning vocabulary fun with interactive games.

Goethe Verlag goethe-verlag.com

This website offers 100 Croatian lessons for beginners, each with words, phrases and corresponding audio files.

Loecsen loecsen.com

Loecson offers a free mini, course consisting of fun lessons that provide a basic introduction to Croatian with the help of text, audio, simple illustrations, and quizzes to test your progress. You will learn high, frequency vocabulary words and commonly used phrases relating to 17 themes which are relevant to everyday life.

Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Croatian Tutorial fieldsupport.dliflc.edu

This Language Survival Kit Module for Croatian contains basic vocabulary with audio. Both the audio files and the PDF text can be downloaded.

Learn Croatian learncroatian.eu

This is a for, profit language school which happens to also offer some free Croatian learning resources that will be useful for students. A for travel with words and audio, a with 600 high, frequency words to test yourself, a and a with 60 questions to determine your level according to the CEFR (ex, A1, B1)

Croatian phrasebook learncroatian.eu

This is a for, profit language school which happens to also offer some free Croatian learning resources that will be useful for students. A for travel with words and audio, a with 600 high, frequency words to test yourself, a and a with 60 questions to determine your level according to the CEFR (ex, A1, B1)

Vocabulary Trainer learncroatian.eu

This is a for, profit language school which happens to also offer some free Croatian learning resources that will be useful for students. A for travel with words and audio, a with 600 high, frequency words to test yourself, a and a with 60 questions to determine your level according to the CEFR (ex, A1, B1)

Grammar Trainer learncroatian.eu

This is a for, profit language school which happens to also offer some free Croatian learning resources that will be useful for students. A for travel with words and audio, a with 600 high, frequency words to test yourself, a and a with 60 questions to determine your level according to the CEFR (ex, A1, B1)

Croatian Language Level Test learncroatian.eu

This is a for, profit language school which happens to also offer some free Croatian learning resources that will be useful for students. A for travel with words and audio, a with 600 high, frequency words to test yourself, a and a with 60 questions to determine your level according to the CEFR (ex, A1, B1)

Surface Languages surfacelanguages.com

This website helps you to learn words, phrases, and expressions in many different languages using audio, flashcards, language learning games and mini, courses.

LingvoSoft Croatian Phrasebook lingvozone.com

This site offers a basic phrasebook format with text and audio to help you learn essential Croatian vocabulary.

Croatian Phrasebook by WikiTravel wikitravel.org

WikiTravel is an online crowd, sourced travel guide with lots of useful information for travelers worldwide, including this Croatian Phrasebook.

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Practice Croatian with Native Speakers

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Lang, 8 lang-8.com

This free network is a nice tool to support your language learning. Native speakers are available to make corrections to your text and provide feedback. In return, you provide help to others.

HiNative hinative.com

HiNative is an app brought to you by the creators of Lang, 8 that allows you to ask questions to native speakers from around the world using your smartphone. HiNative was created to be used alongside Lang, 8 and is different from Lang, 8 in that it focuses on a Q&A type of learning while Lang, 8 is a journal writing experience.

RhinoSpike rhinospike.com

RhinoSpike is an interesting website that connects language learners from all over the world allowing them to exchange audio files to help improve pronunciation skills. It allows you to submit text that you would like to hear read aloud by a native speaker, and in turn, you receive the audio file. In exchange, and to speed up the process you can, in turn, provide audio files in your native language for other learners.

MyLanguageExchange.com mylanguageexchange.com

This online language learning community connects you with other learners so that you can practice speaking in your second language with a native speaker and vice, versa.

Italki italki.com

A community of over 2 million language learners that facilitates free language practice with native speakers. You simply exchange time teaching your native language for time learning a foreign language, making it mutually beneficial and free.

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Croatian Language News and Media

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Deutsche Welle dw.com

German broadcasting company DW provides news in Croatian.

SBS Radio Indonesian Program sbs.com.au

SBS is an Australian broadcasting company that targets non, native English speakers and creates programming in many languages. This podcast allows you to listen to interviews, features and community stories from the SBS Radio Indonesian program, including Australian and world news.

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Croatian Dictionaries and Pronunciation Guides

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Forvo forvo.com

This crowd, sourced site is a great tool to help with pronunciation as it allows you to listen to words and phrases spoken by native speakers.

Dict.cc dict.cc

A go, to Croatian dictionary and translation website which also offers crowd, sourced recordings by native speakers.

Tatoeba tatoeba.org

Tatoeba is a large, crowdsourced database of sentences and translations. This free resource allows you to search for a word and get results showing that word in sentences with translations.

Talkify talkify.net

This free, multilingual website is a very interesting and valuable resource that allows you to listen to text in foreign languages. Simply insert a URL into the search field on Talkify and it will automatically detect the language and read the text of that website aloud in a natural sounding voice.

Croatian National Corpus filip.ffzg.hr

The Croatian National Corpus is a database of contemporary Croatian texts which can be easily searched and allows you to find usage examples of words in addition to the case, tense or parts of speech.

Croatian Morphological Lexicon hml.ffzg.hr

Watch this video for instructions on how to use the Croatian Morphological Lexicon, which is a lexical database that allows you to find the correct citation form (or lemma) of a Croatian word.

Croatian Morphological Lexicon, Watch this youtube.com

Watch this video for instructions on how to use the Croatian Morphological Lexicon, which is a lexical database that allows you to find the correct citation form (or lemma) of a Croatian word.

Croatian Wordnet (CROWN) hnk.ffzg.hr

Watch this video for instructions on how to use the Croatian Wordnet, which is a lexical database which helps you to easily find synonyms for Croatian words.

Croatian Wordnet (CROWN), Watch this youtube.com

Watch this video for instructions on how to use the Croatian Wordnet, which is a lexical database which helps you to easily find synonyms for Croatian words.

CroDeriV croderiv.ffzg.hr

Watch this video for instructions on how to use the CroDerV. This database consists of 14, 000 verbs and allows you to check all verbs belonging to the same root.

CroDeriV, Watch this youtube.com

Watch this video for instructions on how to use the CroDerV. This database consists of 14, 000 verbs and allows you to check all verbs belonging to the same root.

Croatian Dependency Treebank, HOBS hobs.ffzg.hr

This database contains 500 Croatian sentences from the language coarse, making it a good learning supplement.

HR4EU hr4eu.hr

This database contains 500 Croatian sentences from the language coarse, making it a good learning supplement.

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Free Croatian Language Textbooks

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A Handbook of Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian by Wayles Brown and Theresa Alt seelrc.org

This Reference Grammar was created by the SEELRC (Slavic and East European Language Resource Center of Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill).

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar With Sociolinguistic Commentary muse.jhu.edu

This book by Ronelle Alexander covers the differences and commonalities between Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian, focusing on grammar, vocabulary, and accents.

Basic Croatian alvsmith.com

This 300, page introduction to basic Croatian was created by Daniel, the author of the and is a concise and clear resource for Croatian language learners.

Easy Croatian Course easy-croatian.com

This 300, page introduction to basic Croatian was created by Daniel, the author of the and is a concise and clear resource for Croatian language learners.

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Free Croatian Language Tests

3 RESOURCES
Learn Croatian Language Level Test learncroatian.eu

This test features 60 questions and takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.

Cactus Language languagecoursesuk.co.uk

This UK based language study abroad organization offers free online language level testing.

Goethe Verlag 50languages.com

Free tests in 25 languages and 600 language combinations. They offer 100 basic and 100 advanced level quizzes.