Updated: July 2010

Croatian is the official language in Croatia. It is a South Slavic language and along with Serbian and Bosnian it belongs to the Central South Slavic diasystem. It is written with the Croatian alphabet, which is a variant of the Latin alphabet. The alphabet was modelled after the Czech alphabet and contains one letter of the Latin script for each sound in the language (30 letters in total).

A foreigner may learn Croatian in one of the private language schools offering Croatian for foreigners.

List of language schools and language centres (in English and Croatian)

Croatian courses offered by the University of Zagreb

CROATICUM, Zagreb –  Croatian for Foreigners – semester and monthly courses at beginner, intermediate and advanced level

Lingua Croatica – Croatian language courses in Zadar

Croatian for foreigners in Split

Croatian language courses in Rijeka

Ad Hoc – Croatian language courses in Osijek

Croatian language courses in Dubrovnik