Beautiful....beautiful English. Make Agram strong again.

Ok. You Tarzan, me Cheetah
P.S. Why Good Friday be called those, I wonder?
Tomahawk.

Ahuh. Nope.
Agram be strong never. Soft power more our thing.
But Snowflake convince Ministry to like it, sooner or later

In style only. you shouldn't use pretty in formal or high style.

PS. Addition to the list:
Easter Monday Uskrsni ponedjeljak
to fast/fast postiti, post

I think labeling this level of English proficiency as Tarzan-like is quite insulting to just about every Croat who arrived in Australia/Canada 40-50 years ago, as what I displayed is identical (or superior) to their actual mastery of the English language.

What's so remarkable about a generic central/eastern European town? A cheap knock off of Vienna, Prague, Budapest, St Petersburg. In line with Ljubljana, Bratislava, Sofia, Bucharest.

The coast is where it's at - it's a travesty to even mention Zagreb in the same breath as Split, Dubrovnik etc.

Don't mean to be disrespectful, just my 2c worth.

Geez, Mr Serious, it was a joke, a pun, a word game...
I don't think I'm better or smarter than our parents' or grandparents' generations if I'm more proficient or skillful in the language.
It's just that we live in the global age where English serves as lingua franca, and there are simply more opportunities to learn it. Every tv series is in English, every song on the radio, English is a part of our world in a way it wasn't a generation ago. Especially behind the Iron curtain.
Loosen up a bit. I'm not making fun of anybody.

Everything about Zagreb is special. It's my home, a place drenched in memories, the only place I know all about, the only place I would ever know all about.
If you grade every place where you go like that, you will get yourself rip off of a real, authentic experience.
In every place there is something beautiful to see.
If you go only to so called A- class places, than you'll just see what everybody else is seeing, and, in my opinion, your image of the world will be too generic.
The same will happen if you travel through tourist agency, you become a small wheel in the tourist industry and your experience is exactly the same as those zillions of people went through before you.
The stories you tell and the view you take are so generic to me, no offence.
I love culture, arts and literature, but in the time of globalization there is a little left of authenticity in general.
And you'll find it best if you get off touristy routes.
Lastly, Zagreb is more beautiful than Vienna and it has me, what else can you ask for?

There is a certain quote from Charlotte Bronte, from Wuthering Heights.
I''ll paraphrase in Croatian.

Volim ga jer je lijep, zgodan, inteligentan i privlačan.
Pa postoji i ljepši i inteligentniji i mlađi od njega. Zašto ne voliš njih?

Go luck in your quest for authenticity and beauty, best of luck indeed
And make sure to grade everything correctly

There is beauty in all, there is absolute beauty in nothing and there is no authenticity unless you find it for yourself.

That one flew right over your head my friend...so there's a bit more to learn about the Anglo culture of "digs". Google "feigned indignation".
It was a backhanded/roundabout dig at the peasants who came here 40-50 years ago and still haven't expanded their vocabulary past 500 words.

You gotta take off your rose coloured glasses. I do it all the time. I have strong connections to 4 cities, but it doesn't stop me from saying that 3 of them are shitholes which I am fond of. But I don't go recommending them to unsuspecting visitors as my attachment to those cities is an attachment to memories and experiences which won't translate across to anyone else.

I rarely travel, don't do the "tourist thing" as I'm too much of a simpleton to appreciate the historic sights, architecture and "high culture".

I was just making an objective comment about Zagreb. If you really "had to" see Central Europe and it was a one-off trip, there's no way anyone could recommend Zagreb over Vienna, Budapest and Prague. Only for the seasoned "hipster" style traveller who wants to see placed they deem "authentic" (whatever that means). When my friends have asked me about Croatia, I've always been honest and told them to stick to the coast and not bother with anything else.

The only thing that has changed is that now we have the "Franjo Tuđman International Airport", which is probably the only reason why I'd visit. And not leave the airport of course.

Ministry, what is @snowflake's English like?

I think, she's the best here except the native speakers and those who live in English speaking area.

Indeed, she is very eloquent.

Her writing and grammar is exceptional. However, speaking is a different kettle of fish and the quality of it isn't easy to infer from someone's written English. You'd have to think that it's pretty decent though.

Ok then, but I've heard of people of Croatian descent who lived in Australia 50 years and hadn't learned a word of English.

That's so completely opposite from me. I knew it, I pictured you to be something like that.
The sea, cocktails and expensive hotels, boring
Don't get me wrong, I like people who get the world differently from myself, but you overanalyze. There is no such thing as objective opinion, except in science and even there it's doubtful.
So, your quasi objective opinion is really a subjective opinion the one with which I'm deeply displeased of course.
As I have said; if you can't hide from the subjective mode, then embrace it, and you calculate too much, my friend.
Nevertheless, you view at the world is interesting.
But I will turn you around. That's my evil plan.
P.S. Sorry for the late response.

My broken English, audio recorded.

Any comments, critics or advice?


http://vocaroo.com/i/s1QaThkpUSwN

Bolje ti je rec criticism nego critics. Criticism je ono sto ti ja kazem da valja ili nevalja a critic je onaj koje daje criticism.

Sluso sam tvoj recording.

Dobro si cito. Lipo i cisto. Keep up the good work.

A good tip. I didn't know the difference so far.

Cheers lider30. nemoj dodati so far u toj rjecenici ili kazes until now I didn't know the difference.

Hope that helps.

Kao sto je shodan rekao, critics su kriticari (plural od critic-kriticar).

Ko s kazete za učenje engleskog. Bravo.

Critique je izraz za kritiku ja mislim... To me podsjeća na ono moral i morale... Englezi različito pišu riječi istog korijena za različita značenja. To govori o tome da je engleski jezik znanosti i filozofije baš zbog ovih diferencijacija u gotovo nijansama. Critique/cricitc nije primjer, ali moral i morale jesu.

Critique i morale su ocito francuskog porijekla.

I Critic-critique , te moral-morale se ne izgovaraju isto.

Ne ulazeci u znacenja...

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