You don't just go to the shops. You plan a whole birthday. - slow Croatian podcast

My son has a birthday. Friends are coming. And somewhere between the tomatoes and the olive oil — which I remember only at the very end, at the far corner of the supermarket, naturally — there is a meal to plan.This episode for A2–B1 Croatian learners comes to the supermarket. You will hear me think out loud through the aisles: bruschette, stuffed peppers with tuna, little chicken bites, olives, a cream cheese spread that takes no time and disappears first. Finger food for a crowd. And a chocolate cake — because a birthday without a homemade cake is not, in any Croatian household, a real birthday.The vocabulary is the vocabulary of real life: ingredients, quantities, the small decisions you make when you are feeding people you love. Not a shopping list. A way of thinking in Croatian — slowly, practically, with one eye on the clock and the other on the cheese counter.Spoken slowly and clearly in Croatian. No grammar explanations — just the supermarket, the birthday, and the olive oil I almost forgot.More about learning Croatian with Tihana Klepač: talktimecro.com