Speaker (Croatian)
Dobar dan! Želite li da vas fotografiram ispred slapova?
こんにちは。滝の前でお写真をお撮りしましょうか？
Bok こんにちは
Live translation
Croatian ↔ Japanese
through one pair of earbuds.
Share an earbud. Pick Croatian and Japanese. Each of you hears the other in your own language, live.
A sample exchange
Three turns between Croatian and Japanese, the way they'd actually go. Each card shows the original line above the translation.
Speaker (Japanese)
ありがとうございます！家族全員でお願いします。
Hvala vam! Molim vas, cijelu obitelj.
Speaker (Croatian)
Naravno. Recite 'ptičica'!
もちろんです。では、「プティチツァ」と言ってください！
What metcha supports for this pair
| Croatian | Japanese | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple on-device translation | — | ✓ |
| Deepgram cloud STT | ✓ | ✓ |
| iOS built-in voices | ✓ | ✓ |
| ElevenLabs premium voices (Plus) | 4 voices | 4 voices |
| Voice cloning (Plus, your voice) | ✓ | ✓ |
Why metcha for this pair
Croatia sits firmly on the Japanese group-tour map — Plitvice Lakes and Dubrovnik above all — and the two countries share a genuine football-born fondness dating to the 1998 and 2022 World Cups. Both languages also care deeply about register: Japanese with です/ます and honorifics, Croatian with Vi and ti. metcha's Better Translation respects both instead of collapsing them into one flat tone.
Common phrases
Hand-picked phrases for everyday Japanese-speaking situations. In metcha you don't need to memorize these — but they're useful to anchor what the app sounds like before you try it.
- Greeting
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Croatian: Dobar dan, drago mi je.
Japanese: こんにちは、はじめまして。
- Thank you
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Croatian: Puno vam hvala.
Japanese: 本当にありがとうございます。
- Apology
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Croatian: Oprostite, ne razumijem.
Japanese: すみません、わかりません。
- Directions
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Croatian: Gdje je stara gradska jezgra?
Japanese: 旧市街はどこですか？
- Ferry
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Croatian: Kada polazi sljedeći trajekt?
Japanese: 次のフェリーは何時に出ますか？
- Ordering
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Croatian: Što nam preporučujete?
Japanese: おすすめは何ですか？
- Allergy
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Croatian: Alergičan sam na orašaste plodove.
Japanese: ナッツアレルギーがあります。
- Bill
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Croatian: Račun, molim vas.
Japanese: お会計をお願いします。
- Hotel
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Croatian: Imam rezervaciju.
Japanese: 予約しています。
- Pharmacy
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Croatian: Imate li nešto protiv glavobolje?
Japanese: 頭痛の薬はありますか？
Where you'd use it
- Japanese tour groups at Plitvice Lakes and the Dubrovnik walls
- Croatian travelers in Japan See the Tokyo guide →
- Guides and drivers working the Zagreb–Plitvice–Split route
- Hotels hosting Japanese groups on the Adriatic circuit For hotels →
Common questions
- Does metcha translate Japanese to Croatian as well as Croatian to Japanese?
- Yes, both directions run in the same session. When someone speaks Croatian, the other person hears it in Japanese; when they reply in Japanese, you hear it in Croatian. There is no direction to configure and no turn-taking button. See how it works for the full walkthrough.
- Is Croatian ↔ Japanese translation in metcha on-device or cloud?
- Both. metcha's free tier uses Apple's on-device Translation framework where supported (partial — one side may route via the cloud path). metcha Plus optionally routes through a Better Translation cloud path for more natural phrasing, with a quiet fallback to the on-device path when the network is slow.
- Do I need both AirPods to use metcha for Croatian and Japanese?
- No. The simplest mode is one earbud each — you keep one, the other person keeps the other. metcha handles both directions through that single shared pair. If you'd rather both wear your own earbuds, you can pair a second phone in seconds via a QR code (still no app install for the other person).
- What about regional accents within Japanese?
- metcha's Deepgram STT path handles major regional variants of Japanese robustly. The on-device path is more sensitive to accent — if you find the free path missing words, switching to the metcha Plus cloud STT usually fixes it without changing anything else about the conversation.
- Does it work without internet?
- The free on-device path works fully offline once the relevant Apple Translation language packs are downloaded. metcha Plus features that depend on Deepgram, Better Translation, or ElevenLabs voices need a network connection.
- How many voices does metcha ship for Japanese?
- 4 curated native-Japanese voices on metcha Plus, plus all iOS built-in voices on the free tier (and any Enhanced or Premium voices you've installed in Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content).
- Are conversations private?
- metcha does not store conversations on our servers, and none of our providers retain audio for training. The free on-device path never sends audio off your phone at all. See the privacy policy for the full data-handling story.