No: Duolingo has no Croatian course, from English or any other language. Where to learn Croatian instead, from A1 to B2, and your first Croatian words.
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No, Duolingo doesn't have Croatian. You won't find a Croatian course on Duolingo for English speakers, or from any other language: we read Duolingo's full course catalogue on 1 November 2026, and Croatian isn't in it.
A disclosure: we make Qlango, a language app that teaches Croatian, so we have an interest here. The Duolingo fact above is plain fact, and you can check it yourself on Duolingo's course list.
Not for Croatian itself. Duolingo has no course in Serbian, Bosnian or Montenegrin either, the languages a Croatian speaker understands without effort. Its Slavic courses for English speakers are Czech, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian. They're relatives, and you'll spot shared words such as voda (water), but none of them is close enough to let you follow a conversation in Split or Zagreb. Babbel and Busuu don't offer Croatian either (checked November 2026).
Qlango teaches Croatian from A1 to B2, the four CEFR levels from beginner to upper intermediate. At A1 and A2 you introduce yourself, talk about your family and daily life in simple sentences and handle everyday exchanges in shops and cafés. At B2 you can hold a real conversation on familiar topics and follow the main points of articles and longer talk.
Each lesson gives you a set of short Croatian example sentences with the translation in the language you learn from. You answer them in several ways, such as flashcards, choosing one of two answers, matching pairs, unscrambling words, writing what you hear and typing the translation yourself. That last one matters in Croatian, because you have to decide between kava and kavu on your own. An AI voice reads every example aloud, at a speed you can turn down. Finished lessons come back after one, two, four and eight days and then once more, and examples you needed a hint for return later in harder questions.
You choose the language you learn from, so you can learn Croatian from English or from your native language.
Croatian nouns change their endings with their role in the sentence, and there are seven cases. Take Zagreb: you live u Zagrebu, you come iz Zagreba, and you take the train za Zagreb. In a café, coffee is kava, but you order jednu kavu, because it's the object.
The other thing worth knowing early is how Croatian differs from Serbian. Where Serbian, as spoken in Serbia, has a plain e, Croatian usually writes ije or je, and a few everyday words are different altogether:
| English | Croatian | Serbian |
|---|---|---|
| milk | mlijeko | mleko |
| beautiful | lijepo | lepo |
| bread | kruh | hleb |
| train | vlak | voz |
| coffee | kava | kafa |
Learn whichever matches the place you'll use it. A Croatian speaker and a Serbian speaker understand each other without trouble.
| Croatian | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Bok | hi, bye (with people you know) |
| Dobar dan | good day, the safe greeting for shops and strangers |
| Hvala lijepa | thank you very much |
| Molim | please, and also you're welcome |
| Oprostite | excuse me |
| Doviđenja | goodbye |
Put them together and you already have a café visit: Dobar dan, jednu kavu, molim. Hvala lijepa. Doviđenja. Our full guide to learning Croatian covers the sounds, the verb pairs and a plan for your first month.
No. As of November 2026, Duolingo has no Croatian course, from English or from any other language, and no Serbian or Bosnian course either.
That depends on how you like to learn. If you want a course that goes level by level on the CEFR scale and tells you exactly which lesson to repeat and when, Qlango teaches Croatian from A1 to B2. Duolingo, Babbel and Busuu don't teach Croatian (checked November 2026).
Qlango is free to download on iPhone and Android, and you can start your first Croatian lesson without creating an account. You can also use it in your browser.
We don't know. Duolingo's catalogue changes over time, so if you're reading this much later, check its course list.
Learning for Belgrade rather than Zagreb? See does Duolingo have Serbian. You can also browse every language Duolingo doesn't teach or compare Qlango and Duolingo. Your first Croatian lesson takes about five minutes.
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