"Zdravo" and "zbogov" are Serbian for "hello" and "goodbye" respectively, you see. Once you master that z sound at the beginning before the other consonants they fairly roll off the tongue.
Serbian and Croatian culture, as at-odds-to-put-it-mildly as they have been, both fascinate me. I think it's because the peoples have lived in a fairly small patch of land back in Europe, but have an expansive history. Interestingly my half-sisters are part Croatian, which is cool for them.
There's a guy with a YouTube account who seems to have a pretty good grasp of Serbian pronunciation. Unfortunately he also thinks he's funny, which is why I'm not putting the videos up here.
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I understand your fascination with the area. Nero Wolfe, a fascinating character, was from Montenegro.
Oh yes. I have to respect Rex Stout for making what was for the time a very counterintuitive move in having Wolfe be from Montenegro.
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