Croatian for Kids
Croatian for kids is an online Croatian language learning website and app for kids by Dino Lingo.
Best methods to learn Croatian: How to teach children Croatian
Online Croatian lessons for kids: dinolingo.com Get fairy tales and storybooks in Croatian online or from your local library Children love shared reading time and regardless of language acquisition, they will always remember the time they spent with you reading books. Try to find books with good illustrations. Look at the pictures with your child,
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Croatian Children’s Stories
Popular children’s stories in Croatia are those written by the Grimm brothers – Cinderella, Hans and Gretel, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Little Red Riding Hood, and so on. Hans Christian Andersen stories are told to little children. The Ugly Duckling, The Princes and the Pea, and others are favorites. Croatian children’s stories by
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Croatian Travel Destinations
Croatia has many beautiful places that are worth a visit. Even though Croatia is a small country, it has seven national parks. These are parts of nature that are protected from harm by law. The oldest national park is Plitvice, or Plitvička jezera (Plitvice lakes). They are made from 16 wonderful lakes. The Source: Google
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Croatian Cuisine and Traditional Foods
Each part of Croatia has a different cuisine. You can taste something new every day. Croatian people have three main meals in the day. Breakfast is light. People drink coffee, tea, or chocolate milk, and eat bread with jam. Lunch is the biggest meal of the day. It usually has a soup, meat with vegetables
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Traditional Croatian Music and Musical Instruments
Croatians are a proud people who love their history. We said that they like to be in folk clubs and societies. In these clubs, they dress like people used to dress in villages. They sing old songs and dance like people used to. The folk tradition is different in different parts of Croatia. The part
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What should I wear? Croatian Fashion and Traditional Clothing
Croatian people used to wear traditional clothes. Women wore dresses, and men wore shirts and pants. If they lived in a village, they usually wore white clothes made from rough fabrics. They would decorate it with hand-made patterns, lace (Pag lace), or golden buttons (dukati). Women sometimes had complicated hair-dos. It is interesting that a
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Croatian Etiquette: Proper Behavior and Manners
Croatian people are very friendly. When you meet someone who is Croatian for the first time, you shake hands with him or her and look them in the eye. When you become friends with them, you can kiss girls quickly on each cheek one time, or hug boys and pat them on the back. The
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Common Croatian Words and Phrases
Croatian seems like a hard language to learn, but it’s not really. It’s easy to read because each letter is always read the same way. When you are in Croatia, there are some common words and phrases you can use to get around, and they’re not too difficult to learn. Greeting people depends on the
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Common Croatian Names (boys and girls)
Most popular Croatian name is definitely Ivan, and variations of that name. Ivan is a name for boys. In English, it is the same as John. Ivan can come in many variations. They could be Ivo, Ivano and Ivica for boys, or Ivana, Iva, Ivona for girls. “I” in those names is read like ee
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Croatian Alphabet and Written Character History
The Croatian language is a Slavic language. That means it is similar to Czech, Slovakian, Russian, and it is very similar to Serbian. There are three different dialects in Croatian. You can say “what” in three different ways – “što” (shtoh), “ča” (tscha), and “kaj” (kuy). Three Croatian dialects are called after these three words.
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Croatian Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations!
There are a large number of Croatian holidays that are connected with Catholic holidays. Christmas and Easter are big holidays when people get a few days free. Children get three weeks off school for Christmas and ten days for Easter. Croatian places have their parishes. Each parish has a church that is named after a
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Croatian History and little known facts!
Croatia has a long and interesting history. The archeologists found skeletons of cave people. During the Roman Empire, people left many buildings in Croatia. When the Roman Empire was coming to an end, a lot of the tribes were moving through Europe. The legend says that the Croatian tribe came to where Croatia today is,
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Croatian Heritage and Culture
Through history, Croatia has often been under the rule of other nations around her. Even under the rule of others, Croatians remained proud. They cared about their language and their heritage. Even today, there are a lot of folk clubs and societies where people dress like their grandparents in the villages did and sing old
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Croatian Geography and Location
Croatia is a very small country in a shape of a bird when you look at it on the map. It is placed almost in the middle of continental Europe, right next to Italy. Croatia has three parts – sea, mountains, and plains. The part where the sea is getting hot summers and it almost
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