Dobar dan i pozdrav svima! I am very happy to announce that I have officially completed my study abroad at the University of Zagreb's Croaticum sponsored by their Filozofski Fakultet. I was enrolled in the beginner, A1 language course which I can say with confidence was the best choice because it is always great to start with the basics and work your way up from there! The course was structured in a way that there were intensive language/grammar classes everyday of the week (minus the weekends), a pronunciation class once a week, and cultural classes once a week which allowed for the students to learn about various cultural elements such as literature, art, and the performing arts which are important to Croatia and Zagreb.
At the end of the course, we also had the opportunity to take a language exam for our level of course, for me A1, which I am very proud to say that I passed with flying colors! The exam was composed of listening comprehension, reading comprehension and vocabulary, writing skills, grammar, and an oral presentation. My scores in each of the categories were as follows:
Listening Comprehension: 94%
Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary: 100%
Grammar: 98%
Written Production: 96%
Oral Production: 96%
And while I am incredibly proud of the fact that I passed my exam, I am more proud of the confidence that I gained during my time in Croatia. Little things like being able to order Burek by myself in the bakery without the workers switching into English, being comfortable stopping by the post office to ask a question about international shipping, and just being able to use the language more and more in the day-to-day situations I was faced with. Of course, there is still A LOT of work to be done and I would by no means call myself an expert in the language but I am much more comfortable now than I was at the beginning of the summer and I accomplished all of my goals that I had set for myself, so I would call this study abroad a massive success!
Thank you so much to obitelj Pavlovic for opening up their home to me while I was staying in Zagreb! Jako mi nedostajete ali znam vratit ću se.
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