Does anyone here speak Croatian/Serbian?

[whathehell]

3. Hvala!

So you studied the language in the university?...I'm curious, what made you study it?

Moja Baka i moy dyed iz Mali i Veli Losing....but they spoke Italian (!) because they came from

the Dalmatian Coast, an area ruled by the city state of Venice for a few hundred years.

hey both left before WWI when the area was under the Hapsburg Empire

and so they identified as Austrian...As a kid, it was confusing to me, as they all had slavic last names, most

ending in "ich", but they spoke Italian and considered themselves Austrian!...I was thirty years old

before I discovered they were actually Croatian!.

As I'm sure you know, Serbian and Croatian (and even Bosnian, so I'm told) were all pretty much

one language, but they decided to identify as separate languages for poltiical and nationalistic reasons.

I've been there a few times and, because of my ancestry, am eligible for dual citizenship, so I've been

trying to learn the language. To je Tezak Jezik!