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Title: Barron's Travelwise Croatian by Dusan Vitas, Kathleen Luft, Barron's Publishing, Barrons Educational Series ISBN: 0-7641-7093-7 Publisher: Barrons Educational Audio Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Phrase book is solid, but the cassette is superfluous
Comment: BARRON'S TRAVELWISE CROATIAN is an very helpful phrasebook with a clear layout, comprehensive list of phrases, and a concise overview of Croatian grammar and pronunciation that is nonetheless compact and lightweight. I brought it along on a trip to Zagreb this past summer and was very happy with it.
However, I would recommend buying the book alone, and not the book-and-cassette combination. Croatian pronunciation is much like Spanish or Italian, and the orthography is so simple that anyone should be able to read out loud words they've never encountered before. Cassettes for this language aren't necessary and only add to the cost, and they also add unnecessary bulk to one's suitcase.
This was my first purchase in Barron's Travelwise series of phrase books and I was quite impressed. I'd recommend this phrasebook above all others for anyone going to Croatia.
Rating: 4
Summary: Book yes, cassettes questionable
Comment: There aren't many books available for those seeking to learn Croatian. I was certainly happy with the book. I also got the cassette, and I found it to be useless. It doesn't follow the book at all. In fact, it is a completely separate conversation, following a separate booklet included in the package. Cassettes are usually useful, especially when they follow the lesson plans in the text. Not in this case!
Rating: 4
Summary: a good phrasebook with a great grammar section
Comment: This book is mostly designed as a standard travel phrasebook, with useful info for dealing with hotels, restaurants, travel, making conversation, and so on.
But amazingly enough it also has a great 20-30 grammar section at the back which is the best explanation for some of the things that have stumped me on Croatian grammar in other textbooks designed to teach the language... a great quick reference for stuff like when you use the different cases of nouns, which case goes with which preposition, what all the prepositions mean, how to construct past, present & future tense of verbs, how to conjugate many common verbs; and so on.
This book is great!
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Title: The Rough Guide to Croatia (Rough Guides) by Jonathan Bousfield, Rough Guides ISBN: 1858285445 Publisher: Rough Guides Pub. Date: 30 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Croatian by Pimsleur, Pimsleur Language Programs ISBN: 0671581899 Publisher: Pimsleur Intl Inc Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
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Title: Croatia (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by Dorling Kindersley Publishing ISBN: 0789493306 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Croatia (Croatia, 2nd Ed) by Jeanne Oliver ISBN: 1864503327 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Langenscheidt's Universal Dictionary Croatian by Langenscheidt Staff, Langenscheidt Publishers ISBN: 088729183X Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishing Group Pub. Date: July, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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