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Sunday, April 16, 2023

Serbian Easter - Vaskrs i Uskrs

Listening comprehension , listening comprehension skills
Serbian Easter - Vaskrs i Uskrs

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!

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Friday, April 06, 2018

Serbian Easter - Listening Exercise

Easter , Orthodox Easter
Serbian Easter - Listening Exercise
I am sure you are all looking forward to Orthodox Easter on Sunday :) If you are wondering why Orthodox Easter falls on a different day, here comes an explanation.

Both Orthodox Easter and Easter Sunday commemorate the resurrection of Jesus, however they are celebrated on different dates, as they are based on two different calendars. Orthodox churches in some countries continue to use the Julian calendar, for example in Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Georgia, Ukraine, and the Greek Old Calendarists  base their Easter date on the Julian calendar rather than the Gregorian Calendar that is used in Britain. As with Easter in Britain, Orthodox Easter observers continue fasting through Holy Week, ending their fast on Orthodox Easter Sunday.

Since this blog is dedicated to language learning, let's focus on  a few fresh videos about Easter in this region and diaspora, with authentic language. For the previous years' blog posts on this topic, check out this link.

Shopping for Easter

   


How to Colour Eggs - in Serbian 


How to Colour Eggs - in  English 


Uskršnji Video Uradi Sam = DIY Easter Edition

 
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Get Ready for Easter

Easter , Happy Easter in Serbian
Get Ready for Easter
In the course of the past ten years, there's been a lot of posts about Orthodox Easter. I covered different topics, from the greetings to video stories about it, songs and songs . However, I still haven't written about one of the kids' most favourite tradition: egg tapping or "kucanje jajima".

Let me share with you what Wikipedia says about it:

Egg tapping, or also known as egg fight, egg knocking, egg pacqueing, egg boxing, egg picking, [1] or egg jarping is a traditional Easter game. 

The rule of the game is simple. One holds a hard-boiled egg and taps the egg of another participant with one's own egg intending to break the other's, without breaking one's own. As with any other game, it has been a subject of cheating; eggs with cement, alabaster, and even marble cores have been reported.[2]

To see what it looks like in one local community, I'm sharing a video about Easter egg fight from 2014, along with the listening comprehension quiz. For an easier quiz based video with basic greetings and common Easter phrases, check out my blog on Patreon.



Ћирилични задатак: одслушајте видео и допуните празна места. Резултат је у коментару :)
  1. Милица је добила ово јаје од ________ .
  2. Милица има ________ година.
  3. Милица је ________ у куцању ускршњим јајима.
  4. Ово је ________ такмичење у куцању јаја.
  5. Деца знају да код куће треба да направе ________ турнир.
  6. Данас је било ________деце.
  7. Све је протекло у ________ духу.


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Latinični zadatak: odslušajte video i dopunite prazna mesta. Rezultat je u komentaru :)
  2. Milica je dobila ovo jaje od ________ . 
  3. Milica ima ________ godina. 
  4. Milica je ________ u kucanju uskršnjim jajima.
  5. Ovo je ________ takmičenje u kucanju jaja.
  6. Deca znaju da kod kuće treba da naprave ________ turnir.
  7. Danas je bilo ________dece.
  8. Sve je proteklo u ________ duhu.
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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Happy Easter in Serbian

Easter , Happy Easter in Serbian
Happy Easter in Serbian

Hristos voskrese!



Lyrics:

Ljudi likujte, narodi čujte:
Hristos voskrse, radost donese!
Zvezde igrajte, gore pevajte,
Hristos voskrese, radost donese!
Šume šumite, vetri brujite,
Hristos voskrse, radost donese!
Mora gudite, zveri ričite,
Hristos voskrse, radost donese!
Pčele se rojte, a ptice pojte,
Hristos voskrse, radost donese!
Anđeli stojte, pesmu utrojte,
Hristos voskrse, radost donese!
Nebo se snizi, zemlju uzvisi,
Hristos voskrse, radost donese!
Zvona zvonite, svima javite,
Hristos voskrse, radost donese!
Slava ti Bože, sve ti se može,
Hristos voskrse, radost donese!

Sv. vladika Nikolaj Žički

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Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Easter Day in Serbia

Easter ,
Easter Day in Serbia

Easter Day in Serbia

On Easter day people in Serbia crack their Easter eggs with one another, in search for the strongest egg :) We start from the early morning! At first, during breakfast we start cracking eggs and each of us keeps the strongest one. Then we meet with our relatives at Sunday lunch where we continue with this never-ending fight. There is usually one egg which beats all the rest and we keep it until the next year. 

In this video you can see what it looks like:

Here comes an exercise where you can practice the Genitive case together with the possessive form and comparatives (bolji / gori = better / worse; jači / slabiji = stronger / weaker; lepši / ružniji = nicer / uglier; manje / veće =smaller/bigger etc.). Watch the video first and then decide whose egg is stronger/better/weaker/worse! Have fun and a Happy Easter!

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Sunday, April 05, 2015

Ready for Orthodox Easter?

Easter , Orthodox Easter
Ready for Orthodox Easter?
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Easter in Serbian

Easter , Happy Easter in Serbian
Easter in Serbian
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Sunday, May 05, 2013

Happy Orthodox Easter

Easter , Happy Easter in Serbian
Happy Orthodox Easter
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Your Questions: Hristos Vasrkse, Vaskrese or Voskrese ?

Easter , Happy Easter in Serbian
Your Questions: Hristos Vasrkse, Vaskrese or Voskrese ?


If you carefully followed Facebook statuses during Easter time in Serbia, you've probably noticed three different greetings:

  • Hristos Vaskrese
  • Hristos Vaskrse
  • Hristos Voskrese
Which one to use ? Watch this video and decide for yourself.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Serbian School Activator Revisited

Learn Serbian online , Learn Serbian Podcast
Serbian School Activator Revisited
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.
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Sunday, May 01, 2011

Easter Egg Hunt

Serbian holidays ,
Easter Egg Hunt
SkolaSrpskog.com Easter Egg Hunt finished on Tuesday. Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to everyone for joining ! It wasn't easy  to find an egg and then to record an answer in Serbian. All the members of Learn Serbian Podcast FaceBook group were able to follow this exciting hunt. I'm publishing the results now ... you can read them as "This prize is in..." = Ova nagrada je u ..." or "This egg is now in..." = "Ovo jaje je sada u ..." 

Since the first egg at the top, worth 3 months of free Aktivator membership, was the most difficult to find, and wasn't claimed at all, I'll give it to Silvina from Argentina, the woman behind @NovakFunClub . There was also one more unclaimed egg, worth one month of free SkolaSrpskog Aktivator, which I'm giving to Tina - a dedicated student from the Netherlands. Čestitke svima  :-)

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Friday, April 22, 2011

Srećan Uskrs :-)

Easter , Serbian holidays
Srećan Uskrs :-)
Srećan Uskrs svim pratiocima LearnSerbian.Blogspot.com Bloga :)

Happy Easter to all the followers of LearnSerbian.blogspot.com blog :)

Here's the link to the pronunciation of Happy Easter in Serbian (Srećan Uskrs) and
a commonly used phrases: Hristos vaskrse! Vaistinu vaskrse!

I hope you enjoyed listening to the beautiful Easter song and preparing an Easter bunny cake. Now, if you'd like to reward yourself, find out about Serbian School Easter Egg Hunt by joining "Learn Serbian Podcast" FaceBook group and reading about the prizes and how to claim them:
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Sunday, April 04, 2010

Uskršnje Jutro

Serbian holidays , Srećan uskrs
Uskršnje Jutro
Here is a link to a lovely video clip of a choir singing an Easter song:

Uskršnje Jutro (Easter Morning)
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Čarolija

Uskršnje jutro kada se javi
Svakom na licu osmeh zablista.
Danas je praznik, danas se slavi
Dan vaskrsenja Isusa Hrista.

Šarena jaja na stolu stoje
U ispletenoj korpi od pruća.
Svako od nas će dobiti svoje
Ostaće jedno naš čuvar kuća.

Chorus (x2)
Pozdravimo Spasitelja
Njegova je bila želja
Da nas vodi ljubav, vera, nada.
Čovečanstvo neka celo
Isusovo sledi delo
Hristos Vaskrs!
Mir Božiji neka vlada!

Šarena jaja na stolu stoje
U ispletenoj korpi od pruća.
Svako od nas će dobiti svoje
Ostaće jedno naš čuvar kuća.

Pozdravimo Spasitelja
Njegova je bila želja
Da nas vodi ljubav, vera, nada.
Čovečanstvo neka celo
Isusovo sledi delo
Hristos Vaskrs!
Mir Božiji neka vlada!
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Uskršnje Jutro

serbian songs ,
Uskršnje Jutro
Here is a link to a lovely video clip of a choir singing an Easter song:

Uskršnje Jutro

Čarolija

Uskršnje jutro kada se javi
Svakom na licu osmeh zablista.
Danas je praznik, danas se slavi
Dan vaskrsenja Isusa Hrista.

Šarena jaja na stolu stoje
U ispletenoj korpi od pruća.
Svako od nas će dobiti svoje
Ostaće jedno naš čuvar kuća.

Chorus (x2)
Pozdravimo Spasitelja
Njegova je bila želja
Da nas vodi ljubav, vera, nada.
Čovečanstvo neka celo
Isusovo sledi delo
Hristos Vaskrs!
Mir Božiji neka vlada!

Šarena jaja na stolu stoje
U ispletenoj korpi od pruća.
Svako od nas će dobiti svoje
Ostaće jedno naš čuvar kuća.

Pozdravimo Spasitelja
Njegova je bila želja
Da nas vodi ljubav, vera, nada.
Čovečanstvo neka celo
Isusovo sledi delo
Hristos Vaskrs!
Mir Božiji neka vlada!
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Uskrs - Easter

Srećan uskrs ,
Uskrs - Easter
Srećan Uskrs!
http://www.spc.rs/eng/happy_easter

the most common phrase spoken is:

Христос васкрсе (Hristos vaskrse) - Christ resurrected.
to which you will get the answer:
Ваистину васкрсе (Vaistina vaskrse) - truly resurrected.

A clip from a TV news programme on the subject of Easter:

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