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Saturday, January 07, 2023

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:

How to pronounce Christmas greetings in Serbian ( published in 2012) - click
Great SMS Christmas messages to send & free Serbian language course (published in 2016 ) - click
Beautiful Christmas songs in Serbian (published back in 2010) - click

Video o Božiću u Srbiji

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

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

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.

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!

Serbian with Easy Texts and Exercises

Marina easy Serbian , exercises in Serbian

Today we are practicing Serbian with this simple exercise:

The meaning of this story is as follows:

Marina likes to eat sweets, especially chocolate, Eurocream, jam and buiscits. She likes to drink milk, juice and coffee. Each morning while she has breakfast, Marina doesn't watch TV, but she is on the Internet, listens to songs on Youtube and sings them.

The missing verbs are as follows:

VOLETI (ja volim ... oni vole)
PITI (ja pijem... oni piju)
GLEDATI (ja gledam ... oni gledaju)
SLUŠATI (ja slušam... oni slušaju)
PEVATI (ja pevam... oni pevaju)

After doing this exercise, you can record your own story by making comparisons. For example:

Marina voli da jede slatkiše, ali ja ne volim da jedem slatkiše. OR Marina voli da jede Eurokrem, ali ja ne volim da ga jedem. (Pronouns: him/it >>>"ga" stands for "it", but in Serbian "Eurocream" is he, so here "ga" means "him", her >>>"je" and "them"= ih, regardless of the grammar gender)

For more advanced students: Write this text or record it in the past simple or future simple!

For all the versions and video lessons based on this text, check out my Patreon blog. Hvala :)

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!!!

Serbian for Children - Lesson 2

Marina free video lessons of Serbian , Serbian for children

Thanks to your kind help the second lesson of Serbian for Children was released yesterday:

In this lesson you can practise saying "Ovo je..." (this is) as well as the vocabulary for family members!

Porodica

mama = mom
tata = dad
sestra = sister
brat = brother
sin = son
ćerka = daughter

***
moj / moja = my

Additional exercises:
1. https://quizlet.com/146121479/micromatch
2. https://en.educaplay.com/en/learningresources/2531536/serbian_for_children_lesson_1a.htm

The first part was published in the post about teaching Serbian with children songs, but I will add it here as well:

Hope you find them useful and come here for more!

If you would like to get all my video lessons with explanations in English, translations and additional exercises like the ones above, in the meaningful order, consider joining me on Patreon. HVALA!

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"?

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)

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!

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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Songs in Serbian with Lyrics: I Miss our Love

Marina serbian songs ,

Friday is such a beautiful day to practice Serbian with songs, isn't it?

Of course, there's always an exercise to do :)

... hope you don't mind?*

*Petak je tako lep dan za vežbanje srpskog uz pesme, zar ne? Naravno, tu se uvek nađe i vežba :) ...nadam se da ne zamerate?

Serbian with Children's Stories

Marina Listening comprehension ,

I think that children learn a language best through stories, chants and songs. I've already written about Dundo Bear's Wedding story back in 2013, but now I decided to turn it into a series of lessons which can be used for learning and teaching Serbian.

Let me introduce you to the first part of the story with this four minute long Intro to Medvedova ženidba by Desanka Maksimović.

Practicing Montenegrin and Serbian with Songs

Marina comprehension exercises , Montenegrin language

If you watched Eurosong 2015 yesterday night, you may have noticed that Montenegrin song was one among few ones which wasn't in English. It has such a catchy tune and beautiful lyrics that I decided to share it with you today and create a few follow-up activities.

Exercise with Verbs

Exercise with Pronouns

St Valentine's Day with Exercises 2

Marina Serbian holidays , serbian songs

Songs for St Valentine's Day in Serbian

For all of you eagerly waiting for another love song, this time sung to a woman, here comes one suggestion: I Still Love You by Sergej Ćetković. The answer key, or the lyrics, can be found here, but I am sure you'll have fun trying to do my exercise as well:

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

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

Easter in Serbian

Marina Easter , Happy Easter in Serbian

Happy Easter to all the followers of LearnSerbianBlog.com who are celebrating Uskrs today. Let me share with you the links to the useful info, songs and pronunciation of the greetings for Serbian Easter:

Pronunciation of the Easter greeting in Serbian
Easter Morning song
Video about Easter
This song dedicated to Uskrs (if it's invisible, try to switch to Firefox browser)

Serbian Christmas Customs and Songs

Marina Christmas in Serbian , Serbian holidays

Let me wish you a Merry Christmas = Срећан Божић / Srećan Božić

by sharing this beautiful story about Serbian Orthodox Christmas by Baba Mim :)

Dok slušate ovu božićnu pesmu, you can read more about Christmas Eve customs in Serbia and Christmas Eve dinner on this page.

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