Learning Croatian: SAYINGS AND EXPRESSIONS (IZRAZI)
Aha! U tom grmu leži zec!
Every language has its peculiar sayings - full of meaning, but often not following the grammar rules, and often a literal translation doesn't make any sense.
In English, I can immediately think of "He bit the dust", "She's too cocky for her own good", "The sky won't fall in", "I must get straight back on the horse.", "Backs to the wall", and "I wouldn't trust him as far as I can throw him".
And, of course, there are proverbs.
To make sense of a conversation in the coffee shop, sometimes we have to be alert to the fact that such an expression has been used. And then we have to understand what it means.
Throwing these expressions into our own conversational dialogue is probably the ultimate test of having "arrived". But that is two levels higher than just recognizing them.
In the pages in this section are a few of them .....
I am going to practise using just one of them, and wait for an opportunity to throw it into a conversation (ever so casually) at an appropriate time.
The question is, which one? Hmmm .... Aha! U tom grmu leži zec. .... U tom grmu leži zec. .... U tom grmu leži zec. .... U tom grmu leži zec.
Got it. I'm ready and waiting ..................
Aha! U tom grmu leži zec!
Every language has its peculiar sayings - full of meaning, but often not following the grammar rules, and often a literal translation doesn't make any sense.
In English, I can immediately think of "He bit the dust", "She's too cocky for her own good", "The sky won't fall in", "I must get straight back on the horse.", "Backs to the wall", and "I wouldn't trust him as far as I can throw him".
And, of course, there are proverbs.
To make sense of a conversation in the coffee shop, sometimes we have to be alert to the fact that such an expression has been used. And then we have to understand what it means.
Throwing these expressions into our own conversational dialogue is probably the ultimate test of having "arrived". But that is two levels higher than just recognizing them.
In the pages in this section are a few of them .....
I am going to practise using just one of them, and wait for an opportunity to throw it into a conversation (ever so casually) at an appropriate time.
The question is, which one? Hmmm .... Aha! U tom grmu leži zec. .... U tom grmu leži zec. .... U tom grmu leži zec. .... U tom grmu leži zec.
Got it. I'm ready and waiting ..................
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