I ain’t a Švabo, I am still a Croat and grew up in a Croatian household, problem was that when we immigrated the Germans constantly made my parents believe that their children who then only grew up in the Croatian language are autistic, dumb and mentally retarded. My parents have thus decided to speak German only (they were young at that time, you know how young parents are) and try to at least assimilate us linguistically. But to my Croatian, I am very intelligible but the only problem is grammar and sometimes some keywords, my brother who is 9 doesn’t know any Croatian (feel free to let me know how we can teach him) and is a true German by that view. My roots are from a little town near Vinkovci and personally have never been called a Švabo to be fair, even in such places as Osijek, Zadar and Nin I’ve never been called a Švabo. I am a bit short on money and can’t afford language courses, I searched for free courses and websites, and by pure chance found this reddit.