Why does volim te weigh more than I love you? These episodes by linguist Tihana Klepač, are about the Croatian words that carry feeling: endearments, scoldings, longing, code-switching, and the word a grandfather lived by. They also ask how to rebuild a language that kept your feelings but lost your words. Made for heritage speakers and anyone learning Croatian for the people they love.
The Language That Still Has Your Body
Why volim te weighs more than I love you, why a scolding from forty years ago still lands, and what to do about the language that kept your feelings and lost your words
Volim te — And It Lands
A short episode on emotional language, diaspora, and what it means to rebuild Croatian from the inside out
Volim te, sunce moje
On code-switching, heritage Croatian, and the moment that makes it all worth it
I Said Longing
The word you cannot hand to the people you love, and what is actually happening when one refuses to travel
He Sanded Them Himself
The word your grandfather lived by, and the small problem that it did not start out as a compliment