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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 01 Alphabet and Pronunciaon 13 / 600

shown above.

A suggestion. I have to admit, the standard stress scheme is quite complicated,

even in my watered-down version. Try learning the standard stress scheme only if

you want to speak roughly as news presenters on Croatian Public TV, or you

really want to imitate speech from the shaded area. Otherwise, don’t bother with

it, and go for the ‘western’ scheme. You’ll sound roughly like someone from the

unshaded regions, which is not bad if your main goal is to communicate. Keep in

mind, stress is not marked in normal writing at all.

There are only couple of words that differ only by their stress, for example:

frizer freezer

frizer hairdresser

(Again, pay attention that both marks, for stress, and for i’s usually not pronounced

are just my inventions: nobody uses them in writing.)

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