Rad se bavi procesom usvajanja hrvatskoga jezika kod romske djece predškolske dobi. Pri izradi rada naglašava se poznavanje biti „ciganstva“, romske kulture i životnih prilika kao temeljnog preduvjeta za uspješno istraživanje, a što je razmotreno prvim dijelom rada. Razradom prethodno navedene problematike, radom se ukazuje na problem obrazovanja, problem višejezičnosti romske djece te na iznimnu važnost uključenosti romskih zajednica u nacionalni obrazovni sustav. Istraživanje o usvajanju hrvatskoga jezika kod romske djece predškolske dobi provedeno je u Dječjim vrtićima Ivane Brlić Mažuranić u Slavonskom Brodu. Provedenim istraživanjem dolazi se do zaključaka kako romska djeca pokazuju iznimnu volju za suradnjom i usvajanjem jezika, no pri tome se susreću s problemom višejezičnosti. Poseban im problem predstavljaju padeži u hrvatskom jeziku. Uočava se i iznimna nesigurnost uslijed čega njihova znanja ne dolaze dovoljno do izražaja.

The paper is based on a Croatian language learning process in Romani children at nursery schools. In preparing the work emphasizes it´s very important to be aware of a core of “gypsy soul”, Romani culture and their life’s opportunities, as a fundamental prerequisite for successful research, which is considered in the first part of this paper. By analyzing the issues above, the goal of this paper is to indicate to a problem of education, the issue of multilingualism of Romani people and the extreme importance of the inclusion Romani communities in the national education system. Research on the Croatian language learning process in Romani children at nursery schools was conducted in “Organization of preschools Ivana Brlić Mažuranić”. The research leads us to the conclusion that Romani children shows an exceptional willingness to cooperate and the adoption of the language, but thereby they are faced with the problem of multilingualism and cases in Croatian language. Equally evident is exceptional uncertainty due to which their knowledge is not enough to come to the fore.