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Little Summer School at Filozofski fakultet

Written by Bonnie Nelson

Friday, 10 August 2007

My Little Summer School Class

Ja sam Bonnie Nelson. Ja sam iz Amerike, iz Minnesota. After four weeks of three hours a day language learning at the Filozofski fakultet, I feel like I am on the verge of a breakthrough in my Croatian language communication. I learned four of the seven cases in Croatian and the present, present perfect, and future tenses. So I can actually tell people what I did and what I want to do, instead of just what I am doing at the moment. This opens whole new realms of possibilities – now if only I could learn and memorize all the new vocabulary!! I also learned that everything in the Croatian language has exceptions. It got to be quite a joke as our teacher, Goranka, would tell us the rule and then add, “But … there are exceptions.”

I attended class with seven other students and our teacher, Goranka. It was a very diverse group with students coming from four different continents, ranging in age from 18 to 40, and coming from a wide variety of backgrounds – including students, a Catholic priest and a young man trying to start a business. In addition to language learning we also took several field trips and tours in Zagreb. In October, I hope to be back at the Filozofski fakultet for the fall semester.

But for the next two months, Ellie Beth and I will be working on our Croatian several times a week with Maya, a university student studying for her exams. She is an answer to pray as she is patient and kind with our mistakes while pushing us to improve our pronunciation, word base and communication ability. Please pray that Christ would clearly shine through Ellie Beth and me during our time with Maya. Dan and Lydia are working with another university student named Ana, who is also studying for her exams.

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