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Monday, September 23, 2019

Step by Step Serbian

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Why Step by Step Serbian?

Having made hundreds of quizzes and exercises in Serbian, I thought of posting them here on this blog on a daily basis, starting from the easiest ones. This will make it easier for you to learn regularly and have some kind of continuity.

All you have to do is to follow:

this blog
my Facebook page
join Quizlet, if you want your result to be recorded, otherwise it is free of charge

I also want to connect each post with the previous lessons covering the same topic, so you can practise using different materials (which are hidden in this ten year old blog). So, let's start!

How Step by Step Serbian?

Let's start with the alphabets used in the Serbian language: Ćirilica and Latinica

First, you can read more about these two alphabets in the previous posts:

Listening and seeing both alphabets, published back in 2008 :)
Super easy guide to Serbian Cyrillic Script, from 2009
Switching from the Latin alphabet to the Cyrillic script and back, dated 2010

Once you are acquainted with the theoretical part, let's play:

Let's Learn Past Tense of To Work and Become

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Let's learn a set of useful phrases with this website showing what some celebrities had done for a living before they became famous.

For the video with the detailed explanations and translations, check out my Patreon page.

Exercise with Verb Worked in Serbian

Serbian for Beginners - Let's Conjugate Together

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Video with Verb Conjugations

This video is made for you to practise conjugating Serbian verbs in the Simple Present tense. For more advanced students, this video lesson can be also used for making sentences in the past or future tense or in the conditionals.

imati = to have
videti = to see
voleti = to like

together with nouns which denote:

places
plants and animals
colours
entertainment

Conjugations

Serbian Language 365 - Phrases for Giving Directions

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About two years ago I was tinkering with the free version of Camtasia for a month. The result was one part of the Serbian phrase course, covering three topics, both in the Latin alphabet and Cyrillic script. Now when I look back on my early works, I'm quite disappointed and I recon it's high time I made much clearer video lessons with better background music and wide scope of topics. I bet you agree :)

In the meantime, I'm sure you'll find these two videos covering "Giving directions in Serbian" useful.

Serbian Phrases free e-book

Places in the city in the Cyrillic script:

Giving directions in the Latin alphabet:

Serbian Language 365 Day 2 - Serbian for Pre-intermediate Level

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In the past five years I've scattered numerous blog posts with lessons of Serbian and corresponding grammatical explanations not only on this blog and Youtube and Youtube but all over the Internet. One of the many reasons for starting 365 Days of Serbian Language was to connect them and tag them correctly.

Since the previous post covered the verb TO BE in the Simple Present tense, I think that all the students who are either at elementary and pre-intermediate level can easily learn to use the same form with the Locative case, saying where you are:

At the end of each video lesson, let's revisit some of the previous posts covering the same, or similar topic:

Clothes + in the wardrobe (with the ancient video ) - you can practise it by muting the terrible audio and focusing on JE or SU (Sg. or Pl. ) + u ormanu (both ormaN and ormaR are accepted forms in the Serbian language) - check the clothes 1 and clothes 2 post
Gapped exercise about the Locative (really ancient - I must add the new link to the exercise with an instant feedback and translation)
Prepositions with the Locative / Genitive
A beautiful "April u Beogradu" song

Which Serbian cases to use after "iz", "rođen u ..." and "živim u "

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Write the answers to these questions in the comment: Start like this:
Ja sam iz...
Rođen sam u...

Serbian for Beginners - Common Mistakes

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This is a short video with Jeremija, who was pretty tired when answering my questions, so he made quite a few mistakes. Try to figure out which numbers are wrong, and what he should have said:

If you want to watch the video lessons covering the same topic and level, check out this page with beginner Serbian lessons.

Study Serbian Pronouns

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Watch this video with the Serbian pronouns in the Genitive and Accusative cases.

I added all the forms of the Personal Pronouns in Serbian below (source:wikipedia), but what's more important for you is to practise them in context. That's why I'd suggest you watch this video and then try to mute it and say the sentences while watching.

Serbian Podcast - Video with Explanations

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Practise the Cyrillic script while listening to the video podcast:

Представница Србије Мина Милутиновић победила на такмичењу “Miss World Next Top Model”!

Победница на овогодишњем такмичењу “Miss World Next Top Model” у Бејруту је представница Србије Мина Милутиновић. Мина се у оштрој конкуренцији лепотица из целог света истакла харизмом, маркантним цртама лица и савршеном фигуром.
Седамнаестогодишња представница Србије из Смедеревске Паланке освојила је прво место и заслужено однела победу у оштрој борби 38 лепотица, а поред круне и ленте, добила је и огрлицу. Друго место припало је представници Тајланда Каники Кункаео, док се на трећем месту нашла Улијана Бердишева, представници Русије.

Четврто место заузела је Дијана Милојковић, такође из Србије, која је поред ове титуле понела и ленту за најлепшу вечерњу тоалету.
Мина је чланица модне агенције “Crystal Model Agency”.

Advanced Serbian - Listening Exercises

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If you liked one of the previous listening comprehension lessons of Serbian at the advanced level, I'm sure you'll enjoy listening to this interview with Biljana Krstić:

Kako se zove grupa Biljane Krstić ?
Kada je objavljeno licencno izdanje albuma "Bistrik" ?
Gde se sve album "Tarpoš" prodaje ?
Ko je sve uticao na Biljanu da se počne baviti etno muzikom ?
Da li je Biljana bežala sa časova ?
Šta znači reč "bistrik" ?
Koliko godina postoji grupa "Bistrik" ?

Easy Texts in Serbian Cyrillic Script

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I believe many of you interested in learning to read the Serbian Cyrillic script have enjoyed an excellent blog post by Nat, published back in 2009. Now, if you'd like to practise reading, I'm adding all the easy texts both in the Latin Alphabet and Cyrillic script into Serbian101 and Serbian102 courses:

Super Slow Lessons of Serbian for Beginners

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For all the real beginners in Serbian, I started refreshing Serbian 101 course on Udemy platform with the new series of super slow video lessons. I uploaded one of them to my Youtube channel, so you can see if you like it.