Sign up for free online courses. Check out both www.livemocha.com, as well as learn-croatian.com to take advantage of free language lessons. Live Mocha offers visual and audio courses. It also requires users to submit writing and speaking samples for peer review, using the teaching skills of native-born speakers.
Download and review mp3 recordings. Learn--croation.com offers free downloadable travel phrases. Use these recordings on a daily basis to immerse yourself in a new language, as well as to begin speaking these phrases out loud. This is invaluable for continuing your learning away from the computer.
Get a language exchange partner. Multiple language exchange websites are now available, at no cost, including www.livemocha.com, and www.xlingo.com. These sites connect people across the globe, linking skype or email penpals who hope to teach each other their native language.
Read Croation newspapers online. Start using your new language skills by reading the news daily in Croatian. Hrvatski Information Center is available for viewing online. For more reading, www.theworldpress.com allows user to search through periodicals in a variety of languages.
Watch Croatian language films and tv shows. Search Youtube.com for cartoons, parts of films or popular TV shows in Croatian. By studying and immersion, you will be speaking simple phrases and understanding speech in no time.