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Croat is pronounced exactly as written and every letter is pronounced
but emphasis is usually on the first or second syllable of a word.
Except as indicated below, letters are pronounced as in English:
(Observation: croat is written in latin fonts, serb in cyrrilic fonts.
They were the same language up to the first balkan war.)

a			like "a" in	father
e			e	set
i			i	machine
o			o	hot
u			oo	soon
c			ts	lots
	and		ch	church/ cheap
			j	June
	and		j	jeep
g			g	gone
h			h	hot except before a consonant when it is like ch in loch
j			y	yes
lj			lu	failure
nj			ny	canyon
s			s	soon
			sh	show
z			z	zebra
			su	pleasure

Note: the letter "r" can act as a vowel, e.g. Brdo (a hill) which would be pronounced "birdo"

Source:
Peter Rodgers, Fra Drago Berisic
Croat-English Prayer Book
Medjugorje Centre
P.O. Box 702
London SW7 5RE
(written using Fra Andjel Nuic's
croat prayer book "Molitvenik")




Russian:

			like "a" in	car, father
			b	bed, dub
			v	vat, have
			g	get, dog
			d	did, had
			ye	yet, hard and ten, let
			o or yo	horn, fork or lot, top
			zh	azure, leisure
			z	zebra, haze
			i or e	is, hit or even, meet
			e	even, meet
			k	kill, bake
			l	let, ball
			m	met, trim
			n	not, ton
			o	horn, fork or lot, top
			p	put, tap
			r	red, dear
			s	sell, pass
			t	top, hat
			o	tool, troop
			f	fall, off
			ch	"doch" german
			ts	top, hat and sell, pass
			ch	chin, arch
			sh	she, dash
			sh, ch	she, dash and chin, arch
			indicates nonpalatization of a preceding consonant
	or		e	"coeur" french
			indicates palatization of a preceding consonant
			e	ten, let
			u	use, cute
			ya	yet, yard and car, father

see:
[Russian I]
[Russian II]