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I'm Stjepan, a 21 year old Croat from New Jersey in the United States. I found this forum to help me learn Russian, which I took for two years in university before I had to abandon it due to class schedule problems... I still study the language on my own though. I use this particular part of the forum to occassionally talk about the language(s), sometimes help people, but also to learn as my Croatian is sometimes a bit awkward or ungrammatical since I've been living in a place where there are very few speakers to be found.

I attend Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where I am pursuing a double major in History and Russian, Central, and East European Studies, as well as a minor in Political Science.

More about my background; my family comes from Dalmatia, specifically in Split and Milna, on the island of Brač, who I try to visit regularly. As a result, I sometimes use a lot of dialectal words with my family like žmul (čaša), đardin (park), rabota (rad), ura (sat), forca (snaga), nono i nona (djed i baka) etc..

I will be in Zagreb for most of July this summer working with other university students (from Croatia, Serbia and Montengro, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Albania, United States, and probably BiH) in a program on organizing Non-Governmental Organizations and building up civic activism.