The aim of this study is to determine the difficulties in pronunciation and accent faced by students of Slovak language and literature and to design methods for proper pronunciation and accent of the Slovak language based on the analysis of recorded materials. Ten students (9F and 1M) of Slovak language and literature at the Department of West Slavic Languages and Literature of the Faculty of humanities and social sciences in Zagreb participated in the study, five of whom were undergraduate students and five graduate students. Their average age was 22. They were examined with material that included acoustic recording for which they read a short text in Slovak language, then a list of selected words and numbers and in the last part of the recording they spoke on a given topic for at least two minutes. The material contained pronunciation and accent requirements of the Slovak language. The results show that students of Slovak language and literature have pronunciation and accent difficulties in mastering the Slovak language, especially when pronouncing the Slovak glottal h [ɦ] where they substituted it for its silent counterpart ch [x]. They also had difficulty pronouncing the sounds [ɟ], [c], [ɲ], [ʎ] when the rule is that the sounds [d], [t], [n], [l] ahead of [ɛ], [i], [iː], [i̯ɛ], [i̯a], [i̯u] are pronounced as [ɟ], [c], [ɲ], [ʎ]. They also had difficulties with the Slovak accent, which is always on the first syllable, and when the monosyllabic preposition is in front of the word where it was necessary to put the accent on the preposition and associate it with the word.