Talk Time — Learn Croatian With a Cultural Twist
●  Talk Time Croatian
Talk Time
● Zagreb, Hrvatska Tihana Klepač · University of Zagreb

Learn Croatian With a Cultural Twist

Stop studying Croatian. Start living it — the way the language actually thinks, feels, and belongs.

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Volosko, Croatia
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● Uvod · Introduction

There is something particular about Croatian that resists the usual methods. You can complete the app lessons, earn the streaks, work through a textbook — and still freeze the moment a real conversation begins. Not because you haven't tried. Because the tools you were given weren't built for what Croatian actually is.

Croatian is not simply English with different words. It is a different way of thinking, shaped by centuries of history, geography, and the cultural tapestry of Croatia — a country that has always known how to hold complexity without losing its soul. Once you understand the language from the inside, the grammar stops feeling like a wall and starts feeling like a map.

That gap between studying and speaking — that is what I work in.

01Poznato?

Does This Sound Familiar

You understand more than you can say, and the gap between the two is frustrating in a way that is hard to explain to people who haven't felt it.

Perhaps you grew up in the Croatian diaspora, with Croatian at the edges — at the dinner table, in phone calls that were partly understood, in the particular warmth of a language you heard more than you spoke. Perhaps you moved to Croatia and discovered, quickly, that the Croatian on language apps bears little resemblance to what your neighbours, your colleagues, your market vendors actually say. Perhaps you simply fell in love with this country and decided, at some point, that getting by was no longer enough.

The circumstances are different. The feeling is the same: you understand more than you can say, and the gap between the two is frustrating in a way that is hard to explain to people who haven't felt it.

You have probably tried the apps. You completed the lessons, earned the streaks, and still froze when the conversation moved faster than your translation could keep up. You watched YouTube videos, bought a textbook, told yourself you'd be more consistent this time.

The problem was never your consistency. The problem was that none of those tools were built for where you actually are — for someone who already has a relationship with Croatian, however complicated, and needs to understand it from the inside rather than collect it from the outside.

That is precisely who I made this for.

02Metoda

The Croatian Mind

How I Teach · The 4-Pillar Method

For twenty years I have taught language at the University of Zagreb. But the method I use here — what I call the 4-Pillar Method — did not come from the academy. It came from watching adults fail with Croatian, and asking why.

The answer, almost always, was the same: they were learning the language without learning how it thinks.

Croatian is not simply English with different words. Its grammar is not a set of rules to memorise; it is a way of perceiving the world, of marking relationships between things, of placing emphasis on what matters. When you understand the logic — the zašto, the why — the patterns stop feeling arbitrary and start feeling inevitable. That is what I mean by the Croatian Mind: not fluency as a performance, but Croatian as a natural way of being.

The four pillars that build it are grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and culture. Not as separate subjects, but as four expressions of the same underlying truth. The grammar reveals how Croatians think. The vocabulary carries what they feel. The pronunciation shapes how they are heard. The culture explains all three.

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Grammar

The structure of thought — not rules to memorise, but ways of perceiving. The grammar reveals how Croatians think.

II

Vocabulary

The emotional logic of words — idiom, history, the concepts that don't translate. The vocabulary carries what Croatians feel.

III

Pronunciation

The physical act of the language — rhythm, melody, the sound that earns trust. The pronunciation shapes how you are heard.

IV

Culture

The soul that holds the other three — without it, the language is a body without breath. The culture explains all three.

Four pillars, one foundation — after the square floor plan of the Church of the Holy Cross in Nin, Croatia's oldest cathedral

And it is in that fourth pillar — culture — where I think most language courses fail most completely. You cannot understand why a Croatian sentence works the way it does without some feel for the cultural tapestry of Croatia: the coastal patience, the continental directness, the literary tradition that gave this small country a disproportionately large sense of its own inner life. Language and culture are not two subjects; they are one thing, seen from different angles.

Strip any one of the four pillars away and you are left with something technically correct but emotionally hollow. Together, they give you the language the way it actually lives — in the konoba, in the market, in the particular silence before someone says something important.

— Tihana Klepač · Talk Time Croatian

03Kampus

The Talk Time Campus

Not a Programme. A Campus.

The Talk Time Croatian campus: the Church of the Holy Cross in Nin at the centre, surrounded by the Hall of Minds, Croatian Library, Croatian Cinema, Croatian Canteen and Croatian Voice Kickstart
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When you learn Croatian with me, you do not buy a course. You enrol in a campus. At its centre stands the Church of the Holy Cross in Nin, Croatia's oldest cathedral, and around it the buildings you learn in: the Hall of Minds, where I teach you how adults actually learn a language and what to expect at each level; the Croatian Cinema, with films I have made about Croatia; the library, where every book is retold and read aloud by me, so you can hear how Croatian sounds and say it after me; the canteen, where you cook from recipes in Croatian and English; the Voice Kickstart, for the sounds of the language. Between the buildings, the live classes, and a group of people walking the same road.

Every campus is built on a foundation, and this one began with the Croatian Quadrant™. I started there because nothing else holds without it. The church in Nin is a perfect square, four walls holding a cross at the centre, and the Quadrant is built the same way: four pillars, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and culture, raised together, one stone at a time, until they can carry weight. It is the foundational programme, and it is where the campus itself began.

Croatian Nexus™ is where it all converges. A nexus is the point where separate things meet, and this is the year where the grammar you learned, the words you collected and the country you have been reading about stop being separate subjects. It finally starts to make sense, and you finally start to speak.

It is the same campus. Quadrant and Nexus students walk the same paths, sit in the same Hall of Minds, cook in the same canteen. But as at any university, some buildings are open only to students in their later years. Nexus students have keys to a few more rooms, because they are ready for what is inside.

Two Doors

I am not going to place you. You know your own Croatian. And if you walk through one door and it turns out to be the wrong one, you have the first two weeks to move to the other.

Croatian Quadrant™

The Croatian Quadrant™

The Flagship Programme · A1–A2 · Live · One Cohort a Year

A1 through A2. One year. A cohort of people who take Croatian seriously.

The name is not accidental. The Church of the Holy Cross in Nin — Croatia's oldest cathedral — is a perfect square, four sides holding a cross at its centre. Four pillars. One foundation. The same logic that built that church is the logic that builds this programme.

The Croatian Quadrant™ is my flagship programme — a structured, year-long journey from first foundations to confident, living Croatian. It runs once a year, beginning in January, with a small cohort of learners who are ready to commit to the process.

I designed it around a simple conviction: adults learn languages best when the learning is coherent, sequential, and culturally anchored. Not lessons assembled at random, but a genuine arc — a beginning, a middle, and an arrival.

The people who join are rarely beginners in the casual sense. They come with history — a grandmother's voice they want to reach, a partner's family they want to belong to, a self that existed in another language before emigration carried it elsewhere. Many are heritage speakers who understand more than they can confidently say. Many have studied before and feel stuck somewhere around A1–A2. What they share is not a starting level but a seriousness — they want structure and depth, not entertainment.

Throughout, the sessions are live. The group is small. I know every student by name and by the particular shape of their Croatian struggle — whether that struggle comes from childhood, from relocation, or from the simple decision that this language deserves to be taken seriously. You do not need to arrive at the right level on the first day; Foundation is where most people begin, but the stages exist so you can find where you actually are and move through the year at the pace the language requires, not the calendar.

The Church of the Holy Cross, Nin — Croatia's oldest cathedral
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The Five Courses

A beginning, a middle, an arrival
01
Croatian Foundation
Beginning

The structural bones of the language, taught not as rules to memorise but as ways of thinking to understand.

02
Croatian Boost
Building

Vocabulary through idiom, history, and the specific emotional logic of how Croatians express things other languages struggle to name.

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Ponavljanje 1
A consolidation

A consolidation. A breathing-out. Reinforce the essential grammar and vocabulary from Foundation and Boost so every conversation feels natural.

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Croatian Continuum
Arriving

Where the language is no longer studied but inhabited.

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Ponavljanje 2
The final consolidation

The final consolidation. Review and refine your advanced skills to think, speak, and engage in Croatian seamlessly across any situation.

Your Part of the Campus Croatian Circle

The Croatian Circle

Everything here is content I teach you to use inside the Quadrant, to build your Croatian — not simply to browse.

Hall of Minds
I.Hall of Minds

Classes on how adults actually learn a language: memory, strategy, mindset.

Croatian Cinema
II.Croatian Cinema

Croatian writers, painters, towns, and museums, filmed and narrated by me.

Croatian Classics Library
III.Croatian Classics Library

Croatian classics adapted to A2, as downloadable PDFs and as audio I read aloud.

Student Canteen
IV.Student Canteen

Recipes in Croatian and English, to practise the imperative and attach language to taste and memory.

Live, Every Week Live Sessions

Live Sessions

Grammar Therapy, Tuesdays 08:00. Ćakula Café, Thursdays 20:00. A monthly masterclass on strategy and culture. Zagreb time, every week, all year.

The Voice Voice Kickstart

Voice Kickstart & Pronunciation Lab

Rhythm, stress and melody, until Croatian sounds like it belongs in your mouth. And every text read aloud by me, so you can say it after me.

The Table Community and Guidance

Community & Guidance

A private group, off Facebook, for the Quadrant only. I correct your homework there, you ask me directly and I answer, and the recordings of the live classes stay there for a month.

In Your Pocket

Talk Time Click & Speak. The words you need while you are standing in the actual place, each one in my voice.

Next cohort opens January 2027.

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Croatian Nexus™

Croatian Nexus™

For Going Further · A2 → B1 · Live · January Start

Ten months. Ten subjects. The place where it all comes together.

The name is not accidental either. A nexus is the point where separate things meet. In the Quadrant you raise the four walls one by one. In the Nexus you are already standing inside them, and everything arrives at once: grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and culture, carried by Croatian history, literature, song and the papers of everyday Croatian life.

Croatian Nexus™ is a year-long programme for learners at A2 who are moving towards B1. It begins in January and runs for ten months, each built around a single subject. Inside every subject there is a new piece of grammar, and you meet it because the texts need it, not because a table told you it was next.

The people who join have the cases and the tenses, even when they wobble. They can order, ask, explain, get through the phone call with the cousin. What they want now is depth: to read, to write, to speak about Croatia itself.

Every month the group writes a magazine, Naš Vijenac, with your name on your piece, edited by me. Writing is where you stop being a learner and become someone who has said something.

Radovanov portal, Trogir Cathedral
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The Ten Subjects

January to June, September to December
01
August Šenoa
Književnost Augusta Šenoe

The waking of a nation, Šenoa's family, Zlatarovo zlato, the paprenjak, and Vijenac.

02
Šibenik
Povijest i baština

The city, its cathedral, its fortresses, and Faust Vrančić.

03
Šibenik
Kultura življenja

The children's festival, Dražen Petrović, what Šibenik eats, Zlarin, Vesna Parun.

04
Emigration
Hrvatski emigracijski valovi

Departure, waiting, what was left to us, return or staying.

05
Remarkable Croatian Women
Znamenite Hrvatice

Dragojla Jarnević, Slava Raškaj, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Marija Jurić Zagorka.

06
Life Skills
Životne vještine

Renting a car, the mechanic, the travel agency, finding a flat.

07
Callings
Poziv i zanimanje

Marija Braut, Milka Trnina, Andrija Štampar, Žuži Jelinek.

08
Great Love Stories
Velike hrvatske ljubavne priče

The Zrinskis, August and Slava Šenoa, Dežman and Ljerka Šram, Stanko Vraz and his Ljubica.

09
Croatian Festivals
Hrvatski festivali

Dubrovnik and Split in summer, Đakovački vezovi, Vinkovačke jeseni.

10
Šenoa's Century
Šenoino doba

Branka, Vijenac again, and Šenoa's Zagreb.

Your Part of the Campus Croatian Cabinet

The Croatian Cabinet

The same buildings, furnished for your level, and one building only later-year students enter.

Hall of Minds
I.Hall of Minds

Classes on learning at B level, and on how to keep moving through the long middle.

Croatian Cinema
II.Croatian Cinema

Croatian writers, painters, towns, and museums, filmed and narrated by me.

Croatian Classics Library
III.Croatian Classics Library Adapted to the Nexus level · not the same as the Quadrant

Not the Quadrant library. A larger one, with its own books, each adapted to your level and read aloud by me.

Student Canteen
IV.Student Canteen

Recipes in Croatian and English, cooked while I narrate what my hands are doing.

Real Croatia
V.Real Croatia Later-year students only

A real Croatian document every week, a museum notice, a car-hire contract, a work order, a timetable, tied to what we do live that week, with an answer key beside it.

Live, Every Week Live Sessions

Live Sessions

Tuesdays 20:00 and Thursdays 08:00, Zagreb time, one hour for each side of the world. Every week, all year.

The Voice Voice Kickstart

Voice Kickstart & Pronunciation Lab

Everyone starts with the Voice Kickstart. Then every text of every month, read aloud by me, so you can say it after me, sentence by sentence.

The Table Community and Guidance

Community & Guidance

A private group, off Facebook, for the Nexus only. I correct your homework there, you ask me directly and I answer, and the recordings of the live classes stay there for a month.

In Your Pocket

Talk Time Click & Speak. The words you need while you are standing in the actual place, each one in my voice.

Only in the NexusNaš Vijenac

Naš Vijenac

Your own monthly magazine, written by you, edited by me. See the magazine ↓

Only in the Nexus

Chunk Bank, the pieces Croatian sentences are actually built from.

Croatian Nexus begins in January 2027.

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Naš Vijenac — February 2026
The contributors · February 2026

A U.S. high-school teacher reconnecting with his roots on the island of Brač. A Canadian polyglot educator with family ties to Dalmatia. An accountant from Vancouver with roots in Šumber, Istria. Her husband, an IT engineer building a life that bridges Canada and Istria. Four people, four stories, one language, written, edited and published together.

Only in Croatian Nexus™

Naš Vijenac · your monthly magazine

You will not just speak Croatian. You will write it.

Every month the Nexus writes a magazine, entirely in Croatian, and I am its editor. Each week you write a piece on the week's theme. I correct it in our group, so you learn from your own mistakes, but what goes into the magazine is what you actually wrote. That is the point: when the new issue arrives in your inbox at the end of the month, you can see, in your own sentences, how far you have come.

The February 2026 issue carried essays on why Croatian matters, on cities divided between two countries, on language as memory and belonging, written by a teacher, an educator, an accountant and an engineer, all of them in Croatian, all of them from abroad.

This is what the Nexus produces. Not a certificate. A body of work in the language you are claiming.

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Croatian Colloquium™

Croatian Colloquium™

For Speaking · B2 and Above

And if you have already walked through both doors? If you know your Croatian grammar, you are at B2 or above, and what you want now is simply to speak, then the Croatian Colloquium™ is for you.

Explore Croatian Colloquium
04Glasovi

Voices from the Table

What Students Say

I do not measure progress by grammar scores. I measure it by the moment a student writes to say they finally understood a conversation they would have smiled through and nodded at before — or that they walked into a pijaca, asked a question, and got a real answer, not a polite simplification.

Croatian was banned in my father's house. Just as it was banned in his father's house. My family fled discrimination and wanted to just be Canadian. In a way, this course is giving me back some of that. Each one of us who started in Croatian Quadrant was in a different spot with the language and culture. That did not matter. The programme brought us together to learn. Tihana is an expert in how adults learn languages — and she's built that programme with her expertise. Engagement does not drive progression here. Learning does.

Katarina Kristick · Adult educator, Windsor, Ontario — Croatian Quadrant™ 2024

A Student's Story · Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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Google★★★★★

I've had the pleasure of learning from Tihana over the past year, and her dedication to her students is truly exceptional. She has an incredible amount of patience with new learners, making even complex topics feel approachable. I've learned a tremendous amount under her guidance and highly recommend her instruction.

Brock Haywood

Google★★★★★

This was a wonderful introduction to the Croatian language. I have not come across another course in which I am able to learn about both the culture of Croatia and the language. Most noteworthy is Tihana's care for her students. This is not just a job for her. It is a passion to help students learn this language and thus experience the unique beauty of the country.

Heather Papich

Google★★★★★

I got a LOT of value from this course. Tihana goes above and beyond providing really good additional resources to help students understand how to express themselves correctly. Another great aspect is the comfortable atmosphere she creates among her students. Very quickly, it feels like a place to be yourself, ask your questions, and really have a good time while learning. Hvala lijepa!

Joan Clickner

Google★★★★★

Tihana builds a framework that is accessible to all levels of learners. She incorporates culture into language learning in so many ways: history, geography, recipes, music, dance. One result: my fellow students and I and Tihana have built a friendship that has transcended the actual weeks of the course. We have not stopped learning. This class offers so much.

Cathe Ostrowski

Facebook

I wake up thinking of the first lessons and tenses. My brain is drawing parallels between the two languages so that I may visualise it in an orderly way. I feel that it's part of me because it was part of many of my ancestors and still living relatives. Thank you Tihana.

John Begg

Facebook

I can't thank you enough for the intensity of your efforts to ensure that no child was left behind with your concise instructions. No doubt. You were born to be a teacher. Your dedication is inspirational.

Mary Kay Hoffman

Facebook

I have now started to think in the language rather than read the word and try to translate into English then back into Croatian. I found a few movies and short reels on YouTube and started watching them. When they speak a bit slower I can understand the gist of the conversation.

Facebook Student

Facebook

I honestly have learnt more in the short time I have actually given towards the 2 lessons I have attended than I have in 1 full term of face-to-face learning at a tertiary college — in Australia known as TAFE.

Vicki Huxtable — Australia

05Programi

Which Path Is Yours

All Programmes

The Croatian Quadrant™ is not the only way in, and it is not the right one for everyone at every moment. I want to be honest about where each programme sits — so you arrive at the right table.

01

Croatian Entry Point

A1 · Self-Study

The structured beginner course you can start today. Eight weeks of culture-driven lessons built on the 4-Pillar Method — grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and culture working together from the first lesson. Lifetime access. The ideal preparation for the Croatian Quadrant™ if January feels far away.

Explore Croatian Entry Point →
02

Croatian Quadrant™

A1–A2 · Flagship · Live

The flagship programme — a structured, year-long journey from first foundations to confident, living Croatian. One cohort per year, January start, small group. Whether your Croatian is made of household fragments and childhood echoes, or whether you are starting from nothing and want to do it properly.

Keep Me a Place →
03

Croatian Nexus™

A2 → B1 · Live · January

Where it all converges. A year-long programme, January start, ten months and ten subjects from Croatian history, literature and life, with a new piece of grammar inside each. Live twice a week, with a few more buildings of the campus open to you, among them Real Croatia.

Explore Croatian Nexus →
04

Croatian Colloquium™

B2 and above · Speaking

If you know your Croatian grammar, you are at B2 or above, and what you want now is simply to speak.

Explore Croatian Colloquium →
06O meni

I'm Tihana Klepač.

About Me

Tihana Klepač
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I am an Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb's Department of English — which may seem like an unlikely background for a Croatian language teacher, until you understand that studying how people learn other languages is precisely what taught me what is missing when adults try to learn this one.

In 2024 I founded Talk Time, where I teach Croatian online to heritage speakers and the diaspora.

I grew up immersed in Croatian not as a language to be studied but as a texture of daily life. The Istrian balun, the particular smell of a Dalmatian konoba at midday, the way a sentence in Croatian carries a weight that its English translation cannot quite hold. These are not decorative memories for me. They are the reason I teach the way I do — because you cannot separate the language from the cultural tapestry of Croatia, and I have never wanted to try.

My students come to me from many directions. Some grew up with Croatian in the house and never quite crossed from understanding to speaking. Some moved to Croatia for love, for work, for a life they chose, and found that the language kept them at a slight distance from the country they had committed to. Some simply decided, at a particular moment, that this language was worth understanding properly.

What I have learned, across twenty years of teaching, is that the gap between studying Croatian and speaking it is not primarily a gap of knowledge. It is a gap of permission — permission to speak imperfectly, permission to think in a language that does not yet feel entirely yours, permission to take the process seriously without treating it as an emergency.

That is what I offer. Not a shortcut. A path.

PRESSRazgovor

In Conversation with The Strategic Linguist

Featured Interview · Behind The Language · July 2026

Behind The Language: Talk Time Croatian — interview with Tihana Klepač in The Strategic Linguist
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Linguist Rebecca Wicker invited me to Behind The Language, her monthly conversation with the linguists of Substack. We talked about what happens when a language lives in your family but not yet in your mouth — and why teaching Croatian is never only about grammar.

“Language as the border between being understood and being let in.”

— Tihana Klepač, in The Strategic Linguist

  • Why heritage speakers understand Croatian but freeze when they speak
  • How language, culture and identity are woven together
  • Shame, permission and the psychology of learning a family language
Read the Full Interview →
TALKSNa hrvatskom

Znači, Ono, Budimo Realni

Two Public Talks in Croatian · Bookara & ZKM

Tihana Klepač speaking on stage at Zagrebačko kazalište mladih with Srđan Sandić and dramaturg Vedrana Klepica, ahead of the premiere of Simon Stephens's Svjetlo pada
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Two public talks in Croatian: on Roald Dahl at Bookara, a bookshop in Zagreb, and on British drama at Zagrebačko kazalište mladih, the evening before the premiere of Simon Stephens's Svjetlo pada. This is how educated Croatian really sounds when a person is thinking out loud, and it is the best listening practice I can offer a heritage speaker.

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07Početak

Free Resources

Start Here · Before You Commit · All Free

If you are not yet ready to commit to a programme — or simply want to spend some time with the language before deciding — everything in this chapter is free. Start with the Saturday Letter. Everything else follows from there.

● Start with this · Free · Every Saturday

The Saturday Letter from Zagreb

A weekly essay — about language, about Croatia, about the literature and myths and history the language carries. It is free, it arrives every Saturday morning, and it is, I think, the truest introduction to what learning Croatian with me actually feels like. Subscribe and it will find you.

Subscribe — It's Free
Free · Available Now

The Free Masterclass

An introduction to the 4-Pillar Method and the particular logic of Croatian grammar. It is free, available now, and will tell you quickly whether this approach is right for you.

Watch the Masterclass →
Free · Podcast · Slow Croatian

Ćakula Café

Slow Croatian — cultural topics, spoken at a pace that gives your ear time to settle in. It is not a lesson. It is more like sitting in on a conversation.

Listen on Spotify →
Free · Video

YouTube

Ćakula Café episodes, lessons, and films from Croatia — the language on video, in its own landscape, at its own pace.

Watch on YouTube →

New to Croatian? Start here: Learn Croatian: Where to Start

FAQPitanja

Frequently Asked Questions

Before You Write to Me

How do I learn Croatian if I already understand it but can't speak it?

That gap is the most common thing I see, and it is not a sign you are behind. It usually means your vocabulary and listening grew inside the family, but grammar, pronunciation and active speaking never caught up alongside it. The 4-Pillar Method works on all four together, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and culture, so the language stops living only in your ears. The Free Masterclass explains exactly why this happens and what to do about it.

Can I learn Croatian online with you if I live abroad?

Yes. All my programmes are taught online and live, so you are speaking Croatian with me from the first lesson, not working through a recorded course alone. Many of my students are part of the Croatian diaspora, or partners of Croatians living abroad. Both the Croatian Quadrant and Croatian Nexus begin each January, and every live class is recorded, so you can join from wherever you live.

What's the difference between the Croatian Quadrant and Croatian Nexus?

Both are year-long programmes that begin in January, and both live on the same campus. The Croatian Quadrant is the foundational programme: five stages that raise the four pillars, with the Croatian Circle as your part of the campus. Croatian Nexus is where it all converges: ten months, ten subjects, a new piece of grammar inside each, with the Croatian Cabinet as your part of the campus and a few buildings only later-year students enter. You choose your door yourself, and in the first two weeks you can still move to the other.

Is it too late to learn Croatian as an adult?

No. Adults do not learn languages badly, they just get taught badly, with flashcards and disconnected rules instead of something coherent and culturally anchored. Every student I work with is an adult. Commitment is the only real requirement, not age.

Do I need to already speak some Croatian to start?

No, though most of the people I teach do arrive with fragments, a grandmother's phrases, a feeling for the sound of it, even if the grammar was never explained to them. If that is you, Croatian Entry Point is built specifically to bring order to what already feels chaotic. If you are starting from nothing at all, the Free Masterclass is the right first step.

How is this different from a language app or an online course?

An app can teach you words. It cannot teach you why a Croatian sentence is built the way it is, or how to move between the formal Croatian of an office and the Croatian spoken at a family table. Grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and culture are taught as one connected system, live, with a scholar's attention to why the language works the way it does, because that is what actually gets you from understanding Croatian to living in it.

08Campus Week

Reserve Your Place at the Table

Talk Time Croatian Campus Week™ · Every January

Every year, before either programme begins, I open the campus for five free live evenings in the first week of January, at 8 PM Zagreb time. You walk the paths, sit in on the classes, meet me and the people you might spend the year with, and only then decide which door is yours, the Quadrant or the Nexus.

Leave your name and email below, and tell me where you are with your Croatian right now. It does not place you anywhere, it simply lets me see who is coming. In the week before we begin, you will receive seven questions, one a day, that help you see your own Croatian more clearly. There is no obligation, and you do not need a Facebook account: everything happens in one place, on my platform, and the recordings stay there for the whole week.

Already on one of my lists? Sign up here as well, so I can keep you a place in the Campus Week group.

A Different Question

Write to Me Directly

Not every message is about the Quadrant. If you have a question about another programme, something practical, or you simply want to reach me before deciding anything at all — write directly. I read everything myself, and I answer myself.

[email protected]
Campus Week, 4 to 8 January. Five free live evenings. Keep me a place →