Kava na špici
Coffee on the Špica
Saturday-morning coffee in Zagreb: the 'špica', where the whole city dresses up, fills the café terraces, and turns a single coffee into a three-hour social event.
You will practice: Present tense of everyday verbs (vole, idu, piju), reflexive verbs (oblače se, sastaju se), and the instrumental of time (subotom).
Words to know
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- kavacoffee
- ZagrebZagreb
- mjestoplace
- kafićcafé
- terasaterrace
- prijateljfriend
- navikahabit
- društvenisocial
- događajevent
- sathour
- špicathe 'špica' (Saturday-morning coffee scene)
Did you get it?
3 quick questions — no grades, just a comprehension check.
1. When is the city centre full of people?
2. What is the 'špica'?
3. What does the text say coffee is in Croatia?
Too hard? Pick an easier text in the Croatian reading library. Understanding most of a text without translations is the goal — struggling through is not.