All our course material comes directly from NTIS, notice their price is $520 for Volume I and II, our price is $19.95!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a picture of our Serbo-Croatian Basic Course Cassettes that we mastered using the Tascam Pro Audio equipment below. Double click the images to see a detailed image.

 

Learn Serbo Croatian Language

Language Experts agree, our courses are the most complete and thorough self-instructional language course available. Repetition, vocabulary, sentence structure are the building blocks our course utilizes to teach a language. Lots of repetition drills. Dialog drills. Pronunciation drills. Vocabulary. The audio material is from native speakers and the corresponding textbook is your guide. Our Methodology, Guided Imitation, sets the student on a path to a certified level of fluency. We no longer sell our courses in Volume I and Volume II, so there's no up sell for the next level. You will receive the entire course material, on DVD, for the lowest price we can afford to produce, $19.95. Our shipping cost is $5.45 for domestic shipping and $16.45 for international shipping, which is the exact price we pay the U.S. Postal Service to ship priority mail. We do not make money off of shipping, and ship priority mail because it is the fastest and least expensive way to ship. The DVD will play in both a PC or MAC, and the audio can easily be saved to an IPOD or other MP3 device. You will need Adobe Reader to access the PDF textbook.

Our Value Proposition

The Serbo Croatian Basic Course, as you can see, sells for $520 from NTIS, the United States printing service for audio/visual materials; however, they only sell it on audio cassette as you can see from our screen capture of their shopping cart. We purchased the material from NTIS, as evidenced by the screenshot provided of the original Serbo Croatian Basic Course Audio Cassettes, and did the remastering work. We had the textbook professionally digitized into a PDF file. And then we spent countless hours remastering the cassette to a digital form, now we are providing this course to you for less than 4% of the cost of original material. Only $19.95!

Our Quality Proposition: It's all about the Remastering!

We used Tascam Pro Audio equipment to do the initial digital remastering from cassette to compact disc. Once completed, we converted the compact discs into an uncompressed WAV file. We copied what would have been on Side B of the Cassettes, to the end of Side A, creating one continous file, saving again as a WAV file. We used audio software, like Nero and Audacity, to clean up the audio even more. This multi step process includes converting the mono file to stereo, normalizing the volume across the entire WAV file, removing "clicks and pops", doing a low frequency filter, then a high frequency filter, truncating silences to 3 seconds to ensure the audio is quick to begin and end without dead space, normalized the volume again, and outputting the file as another WAV file. We used an MP3 encoder to convert the WAV file to an MP3 file, and we tagged all files with Subject, Title, Copyright, Volume I, Volume II data.

What does all this mean?

The remastering process and filter work means that silence sounds like silence. And in this case, silence truly is golden. Our product is of unparalleled quality, and we can honestly make the claim that no one has spent more time making these courses sound as good as our courses sound. We have provided significant improvements to the sound quality versus the original masters, and even the material we were selling just a year ago, thanks to current technology. All you have to do is open our files in a sound editor and see that silence is a straight line, not wavy, and this means clarity.

About the Serbo Croatian Basic Course

Serbo-Croatian is a Slavic language and as such belongs to the IndoEuropean (or Indo-Hittite) family of languages. This family includes languages from East Pakistan to Great Britain and the New World. Slavic is one of the branches of this family and includes Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Bulgarian. Other branches are: Germanic (English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, etc.), Italic (Latin, from which we get the Romance languages such as Rumanian, Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese), Celtic (Welsh, Irish, etc.), Hellenic (Greek), Armenian, Albanian, Baltic (Lithuanian, LatVian), Indic (Sanskrit, Hindi-Urdu, Bengali, Gujerati, etc.), Iranian (Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, etc.).

Even within the standard Serbo Croatian language there are accepted variations, which set off an eastern variety of dialect from a central one. Although they are the same language and mutually intelligible, there are enough differences between the two to make it more advisable for a beginner to learn one or the other, rather than mix the two. The eastern dialect is spoken in Serbia, the central in Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro and parts of western Serbia. The eastern type is standard for Belgrade and the central is the accepted standard in Zagreb, though the local dialect of the latter is somewhat different.

The eastern dialect is normally written in cyrillic letters and the central uses latin letters in Croatia, but cyrillic in Montenegro, and both cyrillic and latin in Bosnia and Hercegovina. In these units the Basic Sentences and Conversation drills are given in both latin and cyrillic, the version in latin letters being representative of central speech and that in cyrillic representing an eastern variety. Elsewhere latin letters are used but eastern speech.

These lessons are intended to give the beginner a useful oral command of the Serbo Croatian language and a reading knowledge somewhat broader than his speaking ability.

Learn Serbo Croatian 1 - Greetings

Learn Serbo Croatian 2 - Places and Directions

Learn Serbo Croatian 3 - The Hotel

Learn Serbo Croatian 4 - Friends

Learn Serbo Croatian 5 - Going Out

Learn Serbo Croatian 6 - At the restaurant

Learn Serbo Croatian 7 - Asking for information

Learn Serbo Croatian 8 - Meeting people

Learn Serbo Croatian 9 - Looking for Someone

Learn Serbo Croatian 10 - Where do you live?

Learn Serbo Croatian 11 - Where are you from?

Learn Serbo Croatian 12 - The family

Learn Serbo Croatian 13 - Going out

Learn Serbo Croatian 14 - The family

Learn Serbo Croatian 15 - City and environment

Learn Serbo Croatian 16 - Traveling by train

Learn Serbo Croatian 17 - In Belgrade

Learn Serbo Croatian 18 - A trip to Skopje

Learn Serbo Croatian 19 - Meeting a friend

Learn Serbo Croatian 20 - Seeing the sights

Learn Serbo Croatian 21 - Weekend

Learn Serbo Croatian 22 - The trip to Belgrade

Learn Serbo Croatian 23 - With some friends

Learn Serbo Croatian 24 - The market place

Learn Serbo Croatian 25 - In the garage

Learn Serbo Croatian 25 - In the garage

Learn Serbo Croatian 26 - Housing conditions

Learn Serbo Croatian 27 - In the department store

Learn Serbo Croatian 28 - About cultural life

Learn Serbo Croatian 29 - At a dinner party

Learn Serbo Croatian 30 - About schools

Learn Serbo Croatian 31 - Dressing

Learn Serbo Croatian 32 - The population and ethnic nationality

Learn Serbo Croatian 33 - Traveling in Winter

Learn Serbo Croatian 34 - How the country was created

Learn Serbo Croatian 35 - A trip to Skopje

Learn Serbo Croatian 36 - How the country was created

Learn Serbo Croatian 37 - Conversation with a peasant in a field

Learn Serbo Croatian 38 - How the country was created

Learn Serbo Croatian 39 - Promenade

Learn Serbo Croatian 40 - How the country was created

Learn Serbo Croatian 41 - Soccer Match

Learn Serbo Croatian 42 - The geography of the country

Learn Serbo Croatian 43 - International Fair

Learn Serbo Croatian 44 - The geography of the country

Learn Serbo Croatian 45 - At the doctor's office

Learn Serbo Croatian 46 - The geography of the country

Learn Serbo Croatian 47 - In Visa Section

Learn Serbo Croatian 48 - Reformation

Learn Serbo Croatian 49 - The economy

Learn Serbo Croatian 50 - The XIX Century Renaissance

About the Serbo Croatian Language

Serbo-Croatian is spoken in the territories of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. Their geographical positions at the beginning of 1992 comprise when they were parts of the former Yugoslavia. The standard literary form of the Serbo Croatian Language is called "stokavski" and can be classified in two variants. One variant of the language is called the Eastern Variant and is spoken largely in Serbia, while the other is called the Western Variant and is spoken in Croatia and most of Bosnia-Hercegovina. However, it is not an easy task to describe exactly where the border runs between them. Serbo-Croatian, as spoken in Montenegro, for example, contains features of both variants.

The two variants of the language are so close that a thorough knowledge of the western variant will enable you to understand and communicate with a speaker of the eastern variant. Native speakers tend to avoid the lengthy title Serbo-Croatian "srpskohrvatski" in favor of the shorter titles Croatian "hrvatski" and Serbian "srpski". The shorter titles reflect their national identity.

Serbo-Croatian is an easy language to spell and pronounce. Each letter is pronounced separately, and each word is spelt as it is pronounced. The alphabet has 30 letter.