Croatian/Serbian Level 5, is an Elementary course for students who have already studied some Beginners courses, or the equivalent of a Level 4 course at IH London.

Lessons take place once a week.

Course Content

Communicative Aims

• Saying ‘happy birthday’, chatting at a party

• Talking about food and drinks

• What do you eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner?

• Describing food shopping

Linguistic Aims

• Cardinal numbers 5 – 20

• Cases of nouns: instrumental

• Genitive and accusative plural

• Dative of personal pronouns – short forms

• Sviđa mi se (I like)

• More impersonal statements – Hladno mi je. (I am cold)

Socio-Cultural Aspects

• Food and drinks in different parts of the Balkans

• Summer holidays in Croatia

Based on the coursebooks:

Complete Croatian Unit 5

Croatian for Beginners A1, Units 7 & 8

This language course includes

• Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
• Support and advice from Croatian/Serbian language teachers
• Croatian/Serbian language study tips

Croatian/Serbian Level 6 is an Elementary course for students who have already studied some Beginners courses, or the equivalent of a Level 5 course at IH London.

Course Content

Communicative Aims

• Eating at a restaurant, ordering food

• Saying what food you like best

• Getting around a city – ask for and give directions

• Describing your street, part of town

• How old are you?

• Describing your family

Linguistic Aims

• Dative of personal pronouns – long forms

• Existentials ima/nema

• Ordinal numbers

• Imperative

• Introduction to verbal aspect

• Possessive adjectives – Markov, Marijin

• Numbers 20-99

• Demonstrative pronominal adjectives – ovaj, taj, onaj

• Locative of country names ending in -ska, -ška, -čka

Socio-Cultural Aspects

• Families and relatives

• Life in former Yugoslavia

Based on the following coursebooks

Complete Croatian Units 6 & 7

Croatian for Beginners A1, Units 9 & 10

This language course includes

• Access to our online platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
• Support and advice from Croatian/Serbian language teachers