This video is interesting. By the way, I'm from Zagreb and we don't have a lot of black people. One day as I was walking I saw a beautiful black woman. I stared at her because her hair was beautiful to me, after that I realized that a woman might think I was thinking something bad about her. That’s why I approached her and told her how beautiful she was and that’s why I stared. That woman was very kind and we even talked.
I am a black women from South Africa and my man is Croatian, we have been apart because of the pandemic for longer than we have wanted to but he was down here over the festive season in 2020. Loved watching your video and your experience. I was there for 6 months in 2019 and loved it.
@@Anitadamjanic Hoping to very soon, in the next month or so crossing fingers. Would love to meet you when I do come by that side. Keep going with your videos, they are great. xx
I’m going to Croatia in August. My boyfriend is Croatian so I’m visiting his family. We have been together for 2 years. I agree with you learning Croatian is so hard, but it’s fun to learn.
Hey Taylor, just commenting here. What I do find easy about learning Croatian is that you say everything the way you spell it. It is definitely a lot easier than learning French for example, or in my case at least LOL. x
Thank you for sharing your interesting experiences and views with us! I’m very glad that you’re feeling good in our country! Wish you and your family the best!
Hi Anita (my namesake😁)! I'm Zimbabwean/South African and came across your video by chance. What a great video. I've been married to a Croatian for 24 years but only moved to Zagreb 2 years. I'm a mother of 3 and am still finding my way here. The staring/gawking is more out of curiosity than rudeness. Croatians are a curious people and are interested in ALL outsiders. In my opinion it's never malicious. Good luck to you!
@daniiel mlinarics Yeah i've seen grandparents walking their grandkids so many times it has become a norm for me to see at least once a day. I love this tradition.
@@Anitadamjanic and one more thing as soon as your child start walks, introduce him to all the neighbors and feel free to give them the “right” to pull it kid by the ear if it’s not good in return, the entire neighborhood will look after your child even when you are not around
Earthquakes are terrifying but they do not occur so often in Croatia. In fact the last one was like 1880 or thereabout. So do not worry much about it as much it is devastating. Weather-wise maybe Nigeria did not yet experience climate change but it occurred in Croatia. I live in Split (much warmer then Zagreb) but it can get unpredictable as well. Be prepared to feel the real heat soon enough, you will miss this weather. BTW i love your mother land Nigeria and its people apart from "Boko Haram" (English translate in "western education is the devil and sin"). Warm welcome to Croatia.
150 godina nije bilo potresa i baš te potrefilo sad :) Dobrodošla i drago mi je da imaš lijepa iskustva u hrvatskoj. Ja se nadam da ću jednom imati šansu posjetiti Nigeriju. Gledao sam dosta fimlica na RU-vid o Nigeriji i Lagosu i zemlja izgleda prekrasno. Ovo sam napisao na hrvatskom čisto da možeš malo vježbati :) Puno pozdrava
As a Croatian who lived in many countries and speak multiple languages I think Croatian grammar need overhaul and simplification. Food in Croatia is great and it actually taste like food compared to for example US where fruits and vegetables don’t have taste, Croatia like you mentioned is also safe and that’s huge plus. Wetter is great for me as I love four seasons and if you need warmer wetter you can always move closer to Adriatic coast. My wife is Asian and when we visit Croatia people do stare at her but that’s OK as is not with bad intention, she kind of feel special when she goes there. I am sure if someone from Croatia would visit Nigeria people there would also stare. Anyhow good luck to you, it looks like you have good in-laws and you are accepted well.
This video was interesting to watch since I am croatia and ngl we don’t have a lot of black people here so it was interesting seeing what a black person thinks abt our country!
So I just got an undergraduate scholarship to study in croatia and I'm just watching videos on how the people are, so happy I came across your video I'm from Ghana and will be staying for 4 years wondering how it feels to be a black living in Croatia
I'm Ghanaian too and I'm just about to apply for an undergraduate scholarship in Croatia and I want to know how being black in Croatia will be like. Do you want to exchange contacts?
Our "staring" is not with bad intentions, there are not many blacks here and then when we see them we are interested in their hair, facial features, lips… believe me that there is not much racism here and that you will always be welcome no matter what skin color you are❤️
I live in Melbourne (Australia). I have noticed Croatian cultural centres here. The one I most recently noticed is in Footscray. I hear Serbo/Croat spoken in Melbourne. I don't understand it, but can recognise it when it's spoken.
the helpful fact that you explained thanks. I'm struggling these days to get my family to Croatia if are able to do a video about the cost of living in Zagrebwi be worthful. I'm black too and from Sri Lanka
as for staring,it really depends in which part of croatia you live,but for example from where i am from there is just one single black woman in the whole city so seeing someone like that is interesting honestly,there are not much people with different skin color in croatia.based on the food i guess you live somewhere in dalmatia. and yes croatia is safe crimes like murder for example are so rare you barely hear of it.when it happens we talk about it for years to come
@@Anitadamjanic Croatia is small country and young and middle age population speak English which they use for the tourism of which most survive last 40 - 50 years. In order to practice the Croatian language, I suggest you go to Dolac. Kumice (one ne pricaju Engleski) will be fun for you and along the way make a useful thing, buy fruits and vegetables that you need on daily bases. 😂😂
@@Anitadamjanic that is even better your got chance to learn knitting from those ladies😂😂 (that traditional knitting is unique in the warld and recognized from UNESCO) + nice croatian language slangs with ...."ca ovo", "ca ono".😂😂 In town Pag (walking over old bridge) was my first job after school. Enjoy your self there, summer time there will be perfect for you. Don't go back to Zagreb before September. Lots of people from Zagreb traditionally do have weekend houses all over island Pag and they spend summer holidays there. Enyoj 😂😂
Croatia is the safest country in Europe according to Eurostat. The statistics of the European Statistical Office are based on the number of reported cases of crime and violence, ie vandalism in the neighborhood, conducted by Eurostat for 27 members, and for Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.
Don't mind me just adressing some things in the video. Weather. People didn't survive like this for 1000s of years here, beacuse if you talk with older people, even our parents, the weather was pretty stable. It had seasonal changes, the winter were harsher and summers cooler overall, but really.. The mess of a weather we are experiencing now is sadly the climate change. Croatian cases. Some people make such a big deal of cases. I'm learning Chinese and my teacher who plans to live here has the same headache. The point of language is to understand each other, not for it to be grammatically correct. Just say everything in Nominativ or Akuzativ or whichever form springs to your mind first. We will understand. With exposure and practice they will be easier. (And if they are never 100%, just remeber neither are they for native speakers). I think smart people like you are great assets to our country :D
Yeah, the weather changed and is becoming more unpredictable. For example I can’t remember last time when we had snow for Christmas in Zagreb. Probably more than 10 years.
I am born and raised in Croatia, and never, ever did I have a Earthquake, in last few years, there were few but not whole of Croatia, as Croatia seems small on the map it is acctualy pretty large, and coast line is beautiful and very hot, we have over 1000 islands
Ah, as far as the weather it is all due to the climate changes...it wasn't use to be like that and it drives locals up the wall too. It use to be more stable in the sense we had separate seasons. I think the weather has just gone bonkers. But you know how Prince singes "sometimes it snows in April" ;)
why dont like weather... croatia have one oft best weather in europe.. what would you say when you would live in england , germany or skandinavia ? you have summer feeling from may -end ocober.. winter arent strong ( at the adriatic sea )
I completely understand her Winter weather in Zagreb is a disaster if there is no wind, low clouds gather (thermal inversion), it is almost dark, a total depression that can last up to 20 days without sun
The only thing I personally disagree with is calling English the hardest language to learn. Maybe it is from your perspective coming from Nigeria and that is totally valid but personally English was very easy to learn as a Croatian. I struggle more with Japanese and Chinese than I did with English
To each their own. Learning English never ends when you take it all the way to the advanced level. I learnt Korean in 6 months and could speak and write fluently. Don’t know about Chinese nor Japanese but I know English is a whole library of a language
Octopus with potatoes was in old times poormen's food, now it's a delicacy. Also, Mrs.Anita You do look a little like a Croat woman. Seriously, women from Nigeria have some facial features like Croatian women. Criatia had political and busibess ties with African countries when it was a member of Non-Aligned Movement (as part of former country); we had African students from those countries. Our sports trainers were there before other Europeans. Finally, there have been and there are many Croat Catholic missions (with schools) in deep isolated parts of Africa.
We don't have many black people here, I saw a black woman and I stared to admire her since she had beautiful features. Well, wasn't a good idea since when she noticed she gave me the look that told me that she was uncomfterble, I think she thought I was staring because yknow. I feel bad cuz I didn't wanna give off racist vibes. 😟
Does things bothering you we call PADEŽI hahaha. This is for you Anita! ### Croatian is traditionally described as a language with 7 cases; some languages have fewer cases less than Croatian, others much more. 1. NOMINATIV (Tko? Što? radi Anita) 2. GENITIV (Koga? Čega? nema Anite) 3. DATIV (Komu? Čemu? dajem instrukcije Aniti) 4. AKUZATIV (Koga? Što? vidim Anitu) 5. VOKATIV (nema padežnog pitanja, koristimo usklik OJ! EJ! Anita) 6. LOKATIV (O komu? O čemu? razgovaramo/ O Aniti! ) 7. INSTRUMENTAL (S kim? S čim? idemo s Anitom) Good luck 😂😂
Padeži can be really pain all seven of them when you can learn this you can say you mastered Croatian more or less. Even Germans have only four of them :).
@@Anitadamjanic Yeah i know we even have the help questions for each padež for example for genitiv is "koga čega nema" and logic answer is probably true. Problem with that help so to speak even with the questions your knowledge of the language must be more than solid to answer in the right way.
Oh, NGDAVLI, Nominativ-Genitiv-Dativ-Akuzativ-Vokativ-Lokativ- Instrumental, I still to this day can't remember the case questions exxept for Nominativ (tko što) and I'm Croatian.
@@Anitadamjanic yeah, it sucks, that's why in Croatia kids are better at foreign languages than their own, because they don't have to bother with complex grammar exceptions and stuff. E.g. I speak English and German (33% of Croats speak German), but I also started studying a bit of Italian.
There was a pretty bad earthquake in the 1990s in Ston, also there was a terrible earthquake in 1979 in Montenegro that badly damaged Konavle and Dubrovnik.. There was a horrible earthquake in the 1960s in Makarska. Funny how people in Croatia heard about the earthquake once it happened in Zagreb. I guess, what didn't happen in Zagreb, didn't happen at all
Hi sis, I just stumbled into your video and I'll subscribe. I want to study a master program in International Business in the University of Rikeja. I've emailed them and would follow up at once. May I ask, are there students jobs black Africans could get there?
Hey girlie😍, I can’t say much about student jobs cuz I don’t know anything about the work life in Croatia. But I actually saw a lady who looks pretty African working at the grocery store “konzum”. I heard Rijeka is quite boring so maybe things won’t be as easy like in Zagreb. Wish you were coming to Zagreb though. Maybe there might be some side jobs here but I promise to make enquiries on your behalf
@@chimatasie7854 if you have a visa from a SG country then you can enter. Croatia isn’t yet part of SG so I don’t think you can go in without a visa. I’ll ask though
