Happy Easter  = Srećan Uskrs with a new exercise based on this beautiful song:

Serbian Easter - Vaskrs & Uskrs

Ljudi Likujte 

Check out my previous Easter posts - Serbian Easter Tag.

Serbian Easter Songs 

The Cyrillic Version

Људи ликујте, народи чујте:
Христос воскресе,
Радост донесе!

Звезде играјте, горе певајте,
Христос воскресе,
Радост донесе!

Шуме шумите, ветри брујите:
Христос воскресе,
Радост донесе!

Мора гудите, звери ричите:
Христос воскресе,
Радост донесе!

Пчеле се ројте, а птице појте:
Христос воскресе,
Радост донесе!

Анђели стојте, песму утројте:
Христос воскресе,
Радост донесе!

Овчице беле, буд’те веселе:
Христос воскресе,
Радост донесе!

Мали славуји, нек’ песма бруји:
Христос воскресе,
Радост донесе!

Небо се снизи, земљу узвиси-
Христос воскресе,
Радост донесе!

Црвено јаје сваком се даје
Христос воскресе,
Радост донесе!

Слава ти Боже, све ти се може
Христос воскресе,
Радост донесе!

Serbian Textbooks in Cyrillic Script

Let's practice reading Serbian Cyrillic Script together! In each of my textbooks for learning Serbian, you will be able to hear me reading both in the Latin Alphabet and in Cyrillic Script. 

Serbian 301 - Asking Questions with Verbs which Require Accusative

In the previous lessons of Serbian 301, you practiced:

• using the accusative case of the nouns following the verb VIDETI = TO SEE
• using the relative clauses with KOJI /KOJA/ KOJI/ KOJE = who
• listening comprehension task in this post

Serbian 301 - Asking Questions

I am happy to announce that my third book with easy texts both in Cyrillic and Latin alphabet, Who is Who, has been published!

Let me remind you of the first two books, which you can read along with me on my Youtube channel and Patreon page:

Easy to Read -  Šta možemo da vidimo na selu?

This book called "What you can see on the farm" is just the first part of the series covering animal and farm vocabulary,  together with  the most common verbs in Serbian.

Easy to Read -  Gde je ključ? 

In this second book, Where is the Key? I continue using the most common verbs which require the accusative case. We are also practicing introducing ourselves and our friends.  There is also a task for you to find ONE hidden key. If you are having problems finding it, do let me know!

Easy to Read -  Ko je ko?

In the third book, Who is Who, we are dealing with some similar names like Jovan and Jovana or Ivan and Ivana. Since they can be a bit confusing, we are trying to figure out who is who, by following our friends in search of one another. At the end of the book there is an Activity book where you need to find the hidden page numbers... a little bit of Locative case will always prove useful in the days to come :D

The Fourth Easy to Read book 

The name of the fourth book is "What we like" and it is all about games and seasons we like. It is to be published in October. This one is the easiest of all, and I am sure you'll love it! Watch this space :D

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:

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

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.

How Step by Step Serbian?

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

Ordinal numbers in Serbian behave as adjectives, so they change according to the noun's:

• number (singular or plural - prva kolona vs. prve kolone)
• gender (masc. fem or neuter - prvi red vs. prvA kolona vs. prvO mesto)
• case (after the basic form of Nominative, there will be all six cases - prvi čovek - prvog čoveka - prvom čoveku - prvog čoveka / prvi hamburger - prvi čoveče - sa prvim čovekom - o prvom čoveku)

• Download an e-book version of the e-book "Šta možemo da vidimo na selu?"
• Practice vocabulary 
• Practice reading and understanding the story 

If you would like to practice vocabulary used in my first book about things we can see on a farm, I'd suggest you do the following exercises in this order:

Many thanks to my patrons who continually support me in creating Serbian language learning materials and who give me invaluable feedback!

There are plenty of videos where you can hear and see how Serbian Cyrillic letters are written and spelled. In this video you can see how fun it can be to match the Latin alphabet letters with their Cyrillic counterparts - pure learning while playing :)

The perfect way to get ready to learn a new song in Serbian is to play! Since we are to learn Head and Shoulders song in our next post, let's play with this drag and drop exercise where you can see  how body parts are written both in the Latin and Cyrillic script.


Have fun learning Serbian!

Before we start practicing the Accusative and Genitive case with animals, let's learn a set of words in a fun way. This is a drag and drop exercise which will help you learn the words both in the Latin alphabet and Cyrillic script. Have fun! (make sure you pull the word a bit further to the left of the designated square in order for it to "catch" it).


Let's listen to the video lesson where I am playing this game:




I am sure that now you are ready to do the following exercise:

I hope you enjoyed following my free Serbian language course at the elementary level, dedicated to Greetings! This month I have been working on a new one where you can learn:

• How to introduce your family members to someone
• Hear clearly and learn to pronounce family members
• Verbs to have + family members (in the appropriate case)
• Short texts about this topic

More videos with conjugations are on this playlist.

While I am working on my new series of courses, let me share with you some beautiful photos with short dialogues written both in the Serbian Cyrillic and Latin script. Based on the photo below, can you tell me what is missing in the gaps in the first photo?

1. to bi bilo - that would be
2. sve - all
3. laku noć - good night
4. hvala - thanks
5. poseta - visit
6. hvala na poseti - thanks for the visit
7. hvala što ste nas posetili - thanks for visiting us

• learn the vocabulary sets first 
• try to guess what's missing in the series of fun and colourful comics with captions in Serbian Cyrillic, Latin script and English.
• do lots of fun exercises based on the dialogues and texts
• become proactive by sending me your short texts, dialogues and voice recordings to get my feedback. 

I have always enjoyed doing short tasks based on authentic news and fun texts. That is why I want to create and share with you the same kind of exercises based on daily news, both in the Latin alphabet and Cyrillic script. Today I'm sharing with you one of the common news section called "Dogodilo se na današnji dan" - "On this day in history" from KratkeVesti :)

 Cyrillic version Latin alphabet version

If you really had fun learning Genitive yesterday, I'm sure you'll have a blast  today:


As you can see, there's a bunch of characters speaking to you in Serbian (written both in the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet :) Because they are talking about where they are right now, they are using (guess what?) the Genitive case. Now, I have a few tasks for you. Let's find out:

A. Who is saying what? = Ko šta kaže?

1. Sunce kaže: 
2. Majmun kaže:
3. Ptica kaže:
4. Dečko kaže:

Serbian Genitive with Sg. Feminine Nouns

Rešenje = Solution

Where are you today?

Today we are in Moscow. Moscow is in Russia. Russia is in Europe and Asia. Where are you today? Let's say this in Serbian! Latin Script Version

Danas smo u Moskvi :) Moskva je u Rusiji. Rusija je u Evropi i Aziji. Gde ste vi danas?

Cyrillic Script Version

Данас смо у Москви :) Москва је у Русији. Русија је у Европи и Азији. Где сте ви данас?

Let's practice the Locative in Serbian

• Moskva >>>Moskvi
• Rusija >>> Rusiji
• Azija >>> Aziji
• Evropa >>> Evropi
• Lima >>> ???
• Barselona >>> ???
• Budimpešta >>> ???
• zgrada (building) >>> ???