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For south Slavic last names: č- "ch" as in cheddar or the choose so same as "cz" in polish ć - "tj" ...this one is hard, and only some dialects pronounce it differently enough so using "č" is good enough ž - same as "J" in french names "Jeanne d'Arc" or Jean-Luc Picard dž - same as "J" in the word "John" or "Jordan" or G in "George" đ - just use dž š - "sh" as in short

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Do you guys also have the open/closed u distinction?

Nope. That is why people struggle with Danish o,ø,å,y,u and a,æ.

But in reality, at least for Croatia, the differences in dialects mean that in some dialects some words with "o" are pronounced as "ø", or "a" as "æ"...

Anyway, reading Slavic compared to English/Danish is a piece of cake. Grammar on the other hand...

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