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„Gostujuća“ kultura u jeziku „domaćinu“

Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integrations has a longtime successful practise of offering scholarships for Croatian language study programme in the Republic of Croatia to descendants of Croatian emigrants in the second, third and fourth generation. The people who apply for Croatian language study scholarships are mostly young people in their 20s from Latin American countries (Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Columbia, Peru). Croatian language courses which last one term (240 hours of teaching per semester) are offered and take place at the Faculty of Philosophy in Split. Since the majority of Croatian language course attendees lack any previous foreign language study experience, they start acquiring Croatian as an entirely foreign language, in addition to being in Croatia for the first time. Having in mind all these factors, the first phase of language acquisition can be exceptionally stressful and this paper shows the experience of introducing Spanish speaking students to Croatian language through the means of common cultural components of the “guest“ language and the “host“ language.

cultural competence ; native speakers of Spanish ; Croatian as a foreign

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