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Thursday, June 19, 2014

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

Exercises with Songs in Serbian - Serbian 701

Marina comprehension exercises , serbian songs

Exercises with Songs in Serbian

What about practicing Serbian with this lovely, ancient song by Radmila Karaklajić? I think I was in love with this song at the age of three or four :D It helped me learn Serbian for sure, but also it would always cheer me up. I hope it does the same for you.

Practicing Serbian with Songs

Make sure you change the speed in the settings (down on the right) - the perfect would be 0.75, but you can also opt for 0.5.

Serbian Language 365 - Day 5 Singing in Serbian

Marina comprehension exercises , Serbian language 365

If you have been following this blog, you've certainly noticed that there are a lot of songs with which you can practise your language. The main reason is that songs will help you with fluency, because while singing you repeat the same structures, collocations and fixed verb+case noun sets, and this boosts your confidence and automatic responses.

Before I continue creating new songs+exercises, such as this one, let me give you a short review of the past songs and grammar points which my students really loved:

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)

Christmas in Serbian

Marina Christmas in Serbian ,

Merry Christmas in Serbian

I am sure you are enjoying these festive days and moments with your family and friends, wherever you are! Let me wish you a peaceful and merry Christmas with this newest version of my favourite Christmas song "Oj Badnjače, Badnjače":

Learning more about Christmas in Serbian

I also want to share with you a list of great links which will help you learn more about Serbian tradition and Christmas in Serbian:

About Ortodox Chrismas
How to pronounce the greetings for Christmas in Serbian
Beautiful Christmas songs - Anđeli pevaju & Zvezda se zasja

How to Practice Personal Pronouns through Cases

Marina personal pronouns in Serbian , pronouns in Serbian

If you are familiar with the personal pronouns in Serbian in the Nominative case, it's time for you to their different forms through various cases.

The clever way is to approach these more complicated forms through the texts you've done before, using the pronouns instead of nouns. For example:

If we turn all the nouns into the corresponding pronouns, we would get a fun story:

Želim da kupim njih. = Želim da ih kupim.
Da li imate njih, ali u plavoj boji? = Da li ih imate, ali plave?
Da li možete da mi pokažete nju i njih = Da li možete da mi je pokažete i da mi ih pokažete?
Želim da kupim nju, nju i nju i njih. = Želim da je kupim i želim da ih kupim.

Now I have two questions:

What does each pronoun in bold refer to?
What changes does the word order cause?

However, the easiest way is to learn pronouns is through songs and exercises:

Personal pronouns in the Dative with "Kafu mi draga ispeci"
Personal pronoun "we" in different forms with "Moja draga"
Personal pronouns in the Accusative and possessive adjectives with "Dudo"
Mixed personal pronouns with "Tako mi svega"

Since the courses Serbian 101 and Serbian 102 deal with the following cases:

Nominative (JA - TI/VI - ON - ONA - ON // MI - VI - ONI)
Accusative

in Serbian 102 I introduced the pronouns in the Accusative:

Accusative (MENE / SEBE - TEBE/ VAS - NJEGA - NJU(JE) - NJEGA // NAS - VAS - NJIH)

In Serbian 201 I introduce the pronouns in the Locative and Instrumental case:

Locative ( o MENI/ SEBI - TEBI - VAMA - NJEMU - NJOJ - NJEMU // NAMA - VAMA - NJIMA)
Instrumental (SA MNOM/SOBOM - TOBOM - VAMA - NJIM - NJOM - NJIM // NAMA - VAMA - NJIMA)

and we will practice them together in the next post!

Easy Way to Learn Serbian Pronouns

Marina personal pronouns in Serbian , pronouns in Serbian

In order to start speaking Serbian fluently, the best way to automatically recall the whole phrases and chunks of language is to listen to films and songs in Serbian (and preferably sing along). For example, in the chorus of this song you can hear the following phrase over and over again:

Nije za nju, nije za nju ...za nju je ...

and I bet you won't make any mistakes in the future if you want simply to say:

...for her = ...za nju
... isn't for her = ... nije za nju

On these pages you can find the :

lyrics of the song (tekst pesme) with the pretty literal translation
exercise with the song which I made for my students :)

...and don't forget to make the most of the first Serbian with Songs free e-book!

How to Say Merry Christmas in Serbian

Marina Christmas in Serbian ,

Merry Christmas in Serbian

The best way to congratulate Christmas in Serbian is by saying:

Srećan Božić (click to hear the pronunciation)
Hristos se rodi
Vaistinu se rodi

For more information, interesting video lessons, songs and facts about Christmas in Serbia, check out my posts about Božić from the previous years!

Srećan Božić = Merry Christmas

Instructional Designer Marina Petrović Božić , Christmas in Serbian

How to Greet People on Christmas Day in Serbia

Merry Christmas & Srećan Božić with a few great blog posts from the previous years and one brand new video about Christmas:

Video o Božiću u Srbiji

Personal Pronouns in Accusative

Marina personal pronouns in Serbian , pronouns in Serbian

In the previous post you could see the different forms of pronouns in the Accusative case in Serbian:

There are quite a lot of verbs which require the Accusative, and "voleti" or "to love" obviously requires a direct object. Therefore you'll come across this form in many a song:

MENE / ME Da li me voliš? = Voliš li me? (me)
TEBE/ TE Ja te volim = Volim te (you)
NJU / JU / JE Volim je / Bože, koliko je volim (her)
NJEGA / GA Pustite da ga volim / Volim ga majko (him)
NAS Da ima nas (us)*(couldn't find "love + us" songs, so I added "have + us")
VAS Ja vas volim obe (you, Plural)
NJIH / IH Volim ih (them)

The same goes for the verb ZVATI. Since we are going to practice Serbian with two songs with this verb, let's start with a bit of theory:

and then let's practice with a game:

If you like these Quizlet exercises, here's one more with the verbs to see and to go to (Videti i Ići u + Akuzativ)

Finally, when you feel confident using the pronouns in Accusative, let's sing the following songs in

the Simple Present tense: Zovem te = I'm calling you

Zovem ______ zovem, a ti tako

nećeš da čuješ zov iz duše

zovem ______ zovem ko zna gde si

dok moji snovi već se ruše

Ref. 2x

Zovem ______ zovem, noću te sanjam

uzalud širim ruke svoje

zovem ______ zovem, al' čemu sve to

ti drugu ljubiš oko moje

Zovem______ zovem, a ti tako

ni pismom jednim da se javiš

zovem ______ zovem noći svake

a ti ne čuješ ili se praviš

Ref. 2x

Zovem ______ zovem, gde si mili

traže ______ moje vlažne oči

zovem ______ zovem srećni bi bili

javi mi dal' ćeš nekad doći

Ref. 2x

the Simple Past tense: Zvao sam je Emili = I called her Emily

Poći ću u šume da ____ opet tražim

uz tišinu rijeke da ___ mirno sanjam

i dok mesec sija gledaću u zvijezde

ne bih li ___ sreo sretnu i daleku

aha, aha, aha

Zvao sam ___ Emili

u moj je san ko u svoj ušla dom

zbog nje se dan pretvorio u noć

i pjesme sve poludjele zbog nje

kao kiše prolećne

Zvao sam ____ Emili

u danima kad voljesmo se mi

od proljeća do kasne jeseni

zbog nje, zbog nje izgubio sam sve

čak i dobre drugove

Zvao sam ____ Emili

the Future Simple tense: Zvaću te pile moje = I will call you my chick(en)

New Year Songs in Serbian

Marina serbian songs ,

Listen to these New Year and Christmas songs in Serbian and match the titles with the songs:
А- Анђели певају
Б - Деда Мраз
В- Зима, зима е па шта је
Г - Падајте, падајте с неба беле звезде
Д - Звончићи

1.

What are you doing in Serbian

Marina serbian conjugations , verb conjugations in Serbian

Endings for the 1st, -am, conjugation group of verbs in Serbian in the Present Tense are
-am - aš - a -amo -ate -aju

Endings for the Accusative Fem. Nouns:

Nouns in Singular + question ''šta'' (what) requires the noun in Accusative - find out what the rule is for the Nouns which are Feminine Singular:

ŠTA ČEKAŠ? ČEKam tvoj ODGOVOR. (odgovor - answer)
ŠTA ČITAŠ? ČITam KNJIGU. (knjiga - book)
ŠTA GLEDAŠ? GLEDam PRIREDBU. (priredba - show)
ŠTA IGRAŠ? IGRam ODBOJKU. (odbojka - volleyball)
ŠTA IMAŠ? IMam SVESKU. (sveska - notebook)

Let's practise:

Yes, you are right, the ending for Sg. Fem. Noun in Accusative is - U, while
Sg. Masc and neuter have no endings (at least not in the inanimate category).
Now, let's check what's happening in the Plural with Fem. nouns:

ŠTA OBOŽAVAŠ? OBOŽAVAM KNJIGe. (knjiga - knjige = book - books)
ŠTA PEVAŠ? PEVAM PESMe. (pesma - pesme = song -songs)
ŠTA PRIČAŠ? PRIČAM PRIČe. (priča - priče = story - stories)
ŠTA KUPUJEŠ? KUPUJEM HALJINe. (haljina - haljine = dress - dresses)
ŠTA RUČAŠ? RUČAM PEČURKe. (pečurka - pečurke = mashrooms)
ŠTA ČEKAŠ ? ČEKAM ODGOVORe (odgovori - odgovore = answers)

Yeees, you are rigth again - since Fem. Nouns in Plural take -e, in Accusative Pl, nothing changes ;)

Pl. Masc. gets an -i ending, and it also changes to -e, like in "odgovor" - so for plural, don't think
twice, simply add -E and you'll do it splendidly :)

Neuter nouns in Pl. add -a, but then they don't change in Accusative, which is also very nice. So, we
have the example "odelo" in Sg., "odela" in Pl. and then, "Kupio sam odela" IN Acc. is the same.

Let's practise:

Serbian for Children with Songs

Marina Serbian for children , serbian songs

A few weeks ago I started creating simple lessons for children who are learning Serbian across the world. At first I thought there would be lack of simple and fun songs for the first few lessons, but as it transpired I was wrong. On Nykk Deetronic's Youtube channel I came across a few great songs, such as:

as well as easy to understand short cartoons, such as

Today I would like to share a version of Nykk's "Pilići smo mi" by IDJKids, with additional fun exercises I created:

Serbian for Children with Songs

Which words are missing? (More about the verb TO BE in Serbian)

Piju, piju, piju - piju, piju, piju x 3
Mi ____ pilići
Piju, piju, piju
Mali radosni
Jupi, jupi piju x3
Mama govori "Koko roko koko da"

Mi ____ pilići
Piju, piju, piju
Mali radosni
Jupi, jupi piju
________ govori "Kukuriku kukuku"

Mi ____ pilići
Piju, piju, piju
Mali radosni
Jupi, jupi piju
________ govori "av, av, av, av, av"

Mi ____ pilići
Piju, piju, piju
Mali radosni
Jupi, jupi piju
________ govori "mjau x5"

Mi ____ pilići
Piju, piju, piju
Mali radosni
Jupi, jupi piju
________ govori "mu, mu, mu, mu,mu"

Mi ____ pilići
Piju, piju, piju
Mali radosni
Jupi, jupi piju
________ govori "grok, grok, grok, grok, grok"

Mi ____ pilići
Piju, piju, piju
Mali radosni
Jupi, jupi piju
________ govori "me, me, me, me,me"

Mi ____ pilići
Piju, piju, piju
Mali radosni
Jupi, jupi piju
________ govori "kva, kva, kva, kva, kva"

Exercise for Serbian for Children Lesson

Lekcija 7 - Glagol biti

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How to Practice Serbian Pronouns in Instrumental

Marina instrumental , pronouns in Serbian

How to cope with all different forms of Serbian pronouns, in different cases and with all the different endings? Well, there are many different ways, starting with old-fashioned grammar learning;

to using them in phrases, without thinking about grammar at all. What I find really efficient, is to listen to Serbian songs and learn the pronouns in common phrases, by singing :)

Let me share with you the following song: Za Njom by S.A.R.S.

How to Practice Serbian Pronoun SHE in the Instrumental Case

Now that you have heard this song, sang along, and done the exercise, can you tell me which prepositions were there in front of "NJOM"?

Serbian School Activator Revisited

Marina Learn Serbian online , Learn Serbian Podcast

In January I proudly presented my most beautiful site, www.skolasrpskog.com and the new concept of teaching Serbian online, which I called SkolaSrpskog Activator. It's been working for six months now, and I am really satisfied with all the language materials I've created in this period:

1. My Youtube channel www.youtube.com/learnserbian has 100 videos more (there were only about 20 up to 2011, and now there are 125, with 99 being visible).

2. The initial concept of an online session which was to consist of a language exercise, recipe and a song, has been changed, according to the feedback of all the subscribers. Still, at the end of each session, we enjoy singing one of the songs which I carefully choose each week.

3. I started adding all the explanations and exercises into pdf files, and also creating fun quizzes with the instand feedback. Some of the pages based on the situational phrases can be downloaded in pdf format from www.SkolaSrpskog.com.

4. During Easter, I organized some kind of an "online language quest" and we all had fun chasing Easter eggs on the site (some of them are still hidden there :) and doing fun exercises in Serbian. Some of the participants won free SkolaSrpskog Activator subscription, some won free 1:1 lessons, and I won many new friends and great ideas for our lessons :-)

5. I started gathering anonymous feedback, and here are just a few lines:
"Everything is super"
"I appreciate the amount of work the instructor puts into the experience. The YouTube videos are helpful"
"Everithing, and my teacher is lovely and flexibile, she love teaching us"

However, all that I've done and created so far is hardly mentioning in comparison to the effort my students have put into their work. They regularly attend the lessons and I am really proud of each one of them.

Today, on Britannia bookshop site, one of my most proficient students of Serbian, Jelena from Санкт-Петербург, Russia published the first part of our interview, which was very much inspired by our SkolaSrpskog Activator lessons.

Hvala Jelena i hvala svim đacima, Jani, Fabijanu, Matiji, Lari, Mirku, Milici, Toniju, Silvini, Ljubi i Tini na ukazanom poverenju, istrajnosti i velikom trudu :) U avgustu ćemo napraviti mali raspust, i onda opet nastavljamo sa časovima u septembru.

For all of you who'd like to learn more about SkolaSrpskog Activator, do join FB SkolaSrpskog Podcast group and you will be invited to attend our Third Friday Free Serbian lessons.

Serbian Verbs Conjugated - To Live

Marina serbian conjugations ,

I have tried to make simple conjugation videos before, but was never satisfied with what they looked and sounded like. Last week, thanks to my dedicated patrons on Patreon and my students of Serbian whom I've been teaching for years, I was able to afford the first professional version of the software which I have always dreamt of. HVALA!!!

How do you like my first pro conjugation video?

Now that I have all the tools, I am sure you'll all enjoy my short video lessons about:

verb conjugations in Serbian, both in the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet.
short video stories, based on the video with conjugations
short dialogues based on the texts and Serbian Phrases
videos explaining Serbian idioms
easy Serbian songs and chants for kids

Još jednom ogromno hvala mojim dragim pratiocima i učenicima koji pomažu održavanje ovog bloga i sve bolji kvalitet video lekcija srpskog jezika. Moje nove lekcije će izgledati super zahvaljujući Mirku, Milici i Milenki, Lari, Matiji, Dejanu i Danijeli, Marion, Pavlu, Dejvidu, Niku i Dženi i Jani!!!

Practicing Serbian with Songs - Part 2

Marina serbian songs , Serbian vocabulary

Practicing Serbian with Songs

In the previous blog post you practiced Serbian with the song Donesi vina, krčmarice! Now I am adding the second part to it, a new exercise and a list of words to practice with this song.

Practicing Serbian Word Order with Songs

Practicing Vocabulary Serbian Songs

Doneti = to bring
Donesi = bring! informal
Donesite = bring! formal or plural
Vino = wine
Krčmarica = waitress arch. (Voc. case - krčmarice)
Rumen = red, flush
lice = face
Daj = give! informal
Dajte = give! formal or plural
piti = to drink (pijem = first person sg in present simple)
tuga = sorrow
razbiti = to break, shatter
srce = heart
boleti = to hurt
hteti = to want/ will (hoću, hoćeš, hoće - sg. present simple)
izgoreti = to burn (izgorim, izgoriš, izgori - sg. present simple)
ružica = ruža = rose
oči = eyes
crn = black
žeravica = ember
celo selo = The whole village
zaneti se = to get carried away
svi = everybody
Bog = god
Bože = Voc case of Bog
stvoriti = To create (što je stvori =why have you created her)
mlad = young
momak = young man
mučiti = to torture
moriti = to torture/torment

Exercises with These Words

Match Exercise

Flashcards Exercise

Test Exercise

Practise Genitive Case in Serbian

Marina genitive in Serbian , Listening comprehension

If you need a thourough explanation of the Genetive case in Serbian, take a look at these pdf pages.
My advice for you would be to learn Serbian by listening to songs, such as this one:

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

Children's songs in Serbian

Marina serbian cases , serbian songs

Listen to the song and write the appropriate form of the word in brackets. Good luck = Srećno!

Vuče, vuče, bubo lenja

Neko pliva u ____________ (Sava - one of the longest rivers in Serbia)
Neko živi u ____________ (Ruma - name of a city in Vojvodina)
Neko raste u ____________ (trava - grass)
A vuk živi u ____________ (šuma - forest)

U __________ (škola - school) ga ne vide
__________ (nemati - doesn't have) ni maturu
U muzeje ne _________ (ići - go)
Prezire kulturu

Vuuuče vuučue bubo leenjaa
Štaa će reeći pokoleenjaa
Vodio si život buuuraan
Pa ostao nekultuuuuraaaan

Usta su _________ (his) snažna
Duša _________(his) je drumska
Obećanja lažna
A ćud ________(his) je šumska

Kad _________ (is) srećan leži
Kad _________ (is) ljut on reži
Ka zverstvima teži
_______ (when) ga vidiš beži

Vuuuče vuučue bubo leenjaa
Štaa će reeći pokoleenjaa
Vodio si život buuuraan
Pa ostao nekultuuuuraaaan!

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