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Monday, October 25, 2021

Learn Serbian by Singing - Ne vredi plakati

Marina how to learn Serbian , Serbian 701

With so many youtube videos with beautiful Serbian songs being deleted, I somehow stopped creating blog posts covering this topic, although I keep using songs in my lessons on a regular basis. However, with a new tool at hand, I'll be able to recreate all my song-exercises and post them on my server with exercises based on the lyrics.

Learn Serbian by Singing - Ne vredi plakati

Let me start with the beautiful song "It's not worth crying" - NE VREDI PLAKATI, Zvonko Bogdan

Exercises with Serbian Songs

How to practice Serbian - Ideas and Links

Marina how to learn Serbian , serbian

Practicing Serbian Daily

Let me share with you a few good posts and resources with great ideas how to learn and practice Serbian on a daily basis:

With Youtube videos
Practicing Pronunciation
Listening to Serbian authentic resources
Doing exercises on my old website SerbianLesson.com and a new one SerbianLessons.com
Practicing reading easy and fun books in Serbian Cyrillic and Latin alphabet
Joining one of my Serbian language learning courses on Udemy

Why Learn Serbian?

Marina how to learn Serbian ,

There are so many reasons to learn Serbian. That's why I'd like you to help me find out what your main motivation is when learning this language. I am also interested what you need most and what you think could help you learn most efficiently.

That's why I have created an anonymous survey and I'd appreciate if you could spare a few minutes to do it. HVALA!

Thanks so much for your time! All the info is used to make my Serbian Activator e-mails and video lessons most relevant to you!

Jesam or Sam in Serbian?

Marina how to learn Serbian , Learn Serbian online

After uploading a hundred of videos both from Serbian 101 and Serbian 102 course, and revising each of them, Ivan decided to help me with his 3D effects vidos. So far he's made 30 short videos with the verbs used in the course, in the present and past tense so far, but he plans to make 5 more each day.

I'll post some of them here on the blog, but for the complete version, refer to the Serbian101-102 course. Here comes its short description:

Serbian 101 &102 is perfect for absolute and false beginners in Serbian. It is organized in such a way that you can either follow it chronologically, or choose only the topics you are interested in. Each topic consists of an explanatory video lesson and then video exercises with links to follow-up quizzes with instant feedback.

There are more than 100 lessons making well over 10 hours of video lessons and exercises which take you from the very start to the pre-intermediate level, covering:

Tenses: Present Simple and Past Simple Tense
Cases: Nominative, Accusative, Instrumental and Locative
Modals: Can, Must
Pronouns: Personal and Possessive Pronouns
Adjectives: Possessive Adjectives and Noun-adjective Agreement
Numbers: Cardinal and Ordinal

as well as basic:

functions such as:
- Greetings
- Introductions
- Asking for Clarification/Explanation
- Asking about Directions
- Giving Directions
- Requesting
- Offering
- Expressing Likes and Dislikes
- Asking about Likes and Dislikes
situations such as:
- - Meeting People
  - Small Talk
  - In a Restaurant
  - Shopping
  - Arranging a Meeting
  - Talking about Family
  - Talking about Routines
  - Talking about your Life
vocabulary topics such as:
- Family members
- Numbers
- Food
- Souvenirs
- Places in a city
- Countries and Cities
- Means of transport
- Colours
- Jobs and occupations

Learn Serbian by Singing

Marina how to learn Serbian , Learn Serbian online

Learning any language by singing songs is certainly much more appealing than learning the grammar rules and doing boring tasks. Since all the students ask for the grammar explanations in order to make sense of what is being spoken, I decided to create a few web pages with songs followed by grammar exercises, based on the lyrics. I'm curious to know if you like it ? Here comes the first 20 songs (click on the cover or the following link):

Sing & Learn

Good Youtube Materials for Learning Serbian

Marina how to learn Serbian , Serbian language 365

I hope that you enjoyed the previous posts on

Today I'm reminding you of another great Youtube channel where Kefalica shows are being uploaded! Here's one of the previous tasks I made with their video in the past. The funniest responses tend to become so popular, so that people started remixing them. For example Bože, Petra, or this one:

Serbian Language 365 - Phrases for Giving Directions

Marina free Serbian lessons , how to learn Serbian

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 6 Phrases in Serbian

Marina Free lessons of Serbian , how to learn Serbian

Many of you who have joined my online lessons, accompanying Serbian language courses, already know that I've had so much precious insight into learning Serbian from my mother-in-law who is French. She told me how difficult it was for her to learn the language from books, and she actually started speaking the language and becoming fluent when she threw away all her grammar books and textbooks and started learning phrases and letting her children correct her mistakes. You can imagine why: since Serbian is a highly flective language, one can come across many suffixes which are the same, denoting different cases (like "vidim pitU" (Acc.Sg.Fem.) in contrast with "ja sam u BeogradU" (Locative, Sg. Masc.)), which can only confuse you.

In reality, if you stopped to think what you'd say, you'd never become fluent. The key to learning ANY language is always immersion, either by spending time in the country where the language is spoken, or watching films, singing songs or being surrounded by people speaking only the target language. In case none of the above is possible, you can always learn the set phrases, which will help you become fluent.

Learning grammar is always a "reverse engineering" process - and it should stay that way. That's why I will always publish one "Serbian phrases video lesson" based on a situation covered in my Serbian phrases e-book on Sundays. Lots of my students told me it was highly useful and practical, and I'm sure you'll find it the same!

Pozdravi na srpskom (Greetings in Serbian)

365 Days of Learning Serbian

Marina how to learn Serbian , Learn Serbian online

I've recently reread a great book "First Things First" by Stephen Covey and it reminded me, yet again, how important it is to organize our activities well and dedicate our time to people we love and things that matter. Learning a new language on a daily basis, or any other skill for that matter, can make a huge difference in the long run, once we urgently need it.

That's why it struck me that I should use this blog, and all the digital teaching content I've created in years, not only to encourage you to perservere, but provide you with meaningful and graded content to learn Serbian regularly. Even if you skip a day or two, or an entire week/month, you know that you have everything in one place, right here !

Learn Serbian with "Neven" Series

Marina how to learn Serbian , Listening comprehension

One of the best ways to learn a language is surely by watching relaxing and fun series, especially for kids, as the language is simplified and there's a lot of repetition. Let me share a few links to the ancient series called "Neven":

Neven episode 1

Describing an Event

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Take a look at this dark photo, light it bit by bit and try to explain what's going on by starting each sentence with:

"Mislim da ..."
"Vidim ..., znači da ..."

Click here for larger version

North - South - East - West in Serbian

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Task - Make this Jigsaw Puzzle look like this one :)

Click here for larger version

Pronouns in Serbian through Cases - Personal Pronoun I = JA

Marina how to learn Serbian , Learn Serbian Podcast

Listen to this song and fill in the gaps with the missing forms of the personal pronoun "I" in different cases:

JA - (od) mene - (ka) meni - mene=me - / - (o) meni - (sa) mnom
I - of me - to me - me - / - about me - with me

Daj ____ vina da se napijem
Daj ____ čašu da je razbijem
Daj ____ snage da zaboravim
Kad si rekla da ____ ne voliš
Kad si rekla da ___ ostavljaš
Kad si rekla da zaboravim.

How to Enroll and Use Serbian Online Course via Udemy

Marina how to learn Serbian , Learn Serbian online

If you'd like to learn Serbian online, you can do it in many different ways:

1. learn Serbian for free by following my youtube channels: LearnSerbian and SerbianLessons
2. purchase a video course of Serbian via Udemy.
3. book an online lesson of Serbian via Myngle
4. join a free Serbian Aktivator newsletter

River Song for Good Night

Marina how to learn Serbian , Learn Serbian online

To davno _________, sećam se ja
kad u tvom oku
prvi put plam ________
tad _____ meni _______ reći
dragi, pričaj mi o sreći
ne daj da zalud leti maj!

To davno _______, sećam se ja
kad meni ti ___ ____________,
tvoja sam sva
to se više vratit' neće
sad __ _______ dani sreće
al' još te uvek volim ja!

Po tihoj smo reci
tada često ________,
u malenom čamcu
_______ se prvi put ____________

Al' sad je sasvim drukčije sve
i više nikad ________
biti kao pre,
pokraj mene više _____
čamcem _______ sam po Tisi
al' još te uvek __________ ja!

Serbian TO BE with the song "Čokolada"

Marina how to learn Serbian , Serbian for beginners

Remember the verb TO BE in Serbian ?

Listen to this song and try to add the missing

Ti ___1____ moja čokolada

Ja ___2___ tvoja čokolada

I da ____3____ tako mlada, _____4____ bih te ljubio x2

__5__ bih te ljubio...

__6__ bih te ljubio x10

--- When you send me the reply, you'll receive the vocabulary and translation :-)

Enjoy singing the song because "ko peva zlo ne misli" :)

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