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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...
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Sunday, January 02, 2022
Monday, November 08, 2021
Since there aren't many exercises on perfective and imperfective aspect in Serbian, I'll share all my video lessons and exercises for you to practice. Aspect in Serbian - Short ExplanationThe easiest way to see the difference and the most frequent forms are to contrast present and past tense in Serbian. Aspect...
Thursday, May 27, 2021
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May
Lazy City can be a great source of teaching materials for learning Serbian. If you are at higher levels of Serbian, I am sure you will enjoy watching the first episode of "Lenji grad" with Stefani and her friends and doing exercises I prepared for you :)Serbian 501 - Listening Comprehension Serbian 501 - Listening...
Tuesday, February 02, 2021
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Feb
Ako ste na naprednom nivou učenja srpskog, sigurno već uživate prateći vesti iz Srbije i čitajući knjige na srpskom. Danas želim da podelim sa vama jedan zabavan video intervju sa sve popularnijom spisateljicom Lanom. Kada odslušate video, pokušajte da uradite vežbu redosleda reči (word order exercise) odgovorite...
Monday, December 14, 2020
From the very first lesson, one gets to learn that funny "se" in the sentence: "Zovem se... " (My name is...). Often times it doesn't mean anything, or simply isn't translated into English. That's why you need to do a lot of exercises to get accustomed to this form. Serbian 301 - Word Order with SELet's start with...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
It can be tricky to learn how to cope with some simple sentences and questions when this "se" word shows up. The best way to cope with it is to practice with a set of familiar phrases:
Word order with SE - Learn
Word order with SE - Flashcards
Word order with SE - Match...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
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...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
If you liked the video and the follow-up exercises I recently published, it's time for you to do revise it and practice pronunciation:
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
If you were happy with my short video lesson about the very simple form of the phrase "I need something" yesterday, I am sure you are now ready for a few exercises. Let me start with the easier ones and then I'll add some for more advanced students:
For Beginners: Practising only "Treba mi + different...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
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Sep
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...
Saturday, May 21, 2016
It's simply not enough to understand how to form the future tense in Serbian and its somewhat complicated word order! You need to practise as much as possible.
Future Tense in Serbian
Future Tense in Serbian with "Ej žalim žalim"
And what an enjoyable practice can it be when you simply sing it!...
Monday, November 24, 2014
This year I have discovered three real gems for learning Serbian at higher levels:
Naša Snajka Youtube channel,
Mala istorija Srbije by Nova.rs
Državni Posao by RTV
As I have already written about Naša Snajka and Državni Posao, let me introduce you to "Mala istorija Srbije" series which present Serbian...
Sunday, November 10, 2013
If you have always wondered it there were any videos with conjugations in Serbian with the Cyrillic script, here they come :
With this video you can not only pronounce the Simple present conjugations of the verb "zvati se", but you can also practise its word order and asking and answering simple questions in the second...
Thursday, October 03, 2013
The verb "nositi" in Serbian has many different translations into English :
nositi odeću = to wear clothes
nositi torbu = to carry a bag
nositi dete = to bear a child
nositi se sa problemima = to cope with problems
So, while in English there's a multitude of different words representing only one...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
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Sep
If you are following the Word Order in Serbian series of blog posts, you surely remember that the first one was about simple verbs (not -se verbs) in the Present Simple tense. This time, I'll cover the same set of sentences in the same tense, but with their negative forms:
One word verb: NE pevati (not sing)Present...
Thursday, September 19, 2013
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Sep
Slažu se kao pas i mačka :)
The verb "slagati se" imperf.(with first "a" being long) /"složiti se" perf. = to agree * can have a range of different meanings in Serbian and we're going to discuss them today, because I'll need it for my next lesson about Serbian history.
If two colours match, we say "slažu...
Thursday, September 12, 2013
This part is preparing you to practise word order with the words with the reflexive/impersonal pronoun "se". This time I've chosen only the verbs which are widely used when you talking about important life phases, so all the sentences in the videos will be in the Simple Past:
roditi se = to be born
školovati se = to...
Friday, September 06, 2013
One of the most common mistakes students of Serbian as a foreign language tend to make is to use the verbs of movement "ići " + u, "stići" + u, "vratiti se" + u, "posetiti" with the noun in Dative, instead of Accusative. That's why it's often heard:
Idem u Beogradu (incorrect)
instead of
Idem u Beograd (correct)
In...
Thursday, September 05, 2013
Now that you've learnt the introductory song by heart (napamet), you are ready for more examples with the word order of the sentences with reflexive or impersonal "se". This time I'll cover the word order in the Simple Present tense with all three forms, affirmative, negative and questions. So, let's start :
Reflexive...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Here comes a gentle introduction to the fourth part of the series of blog posts about the word order in Serbian. Why introduction in the middle of the story ? Because I'm about to write about the verbs with (reflexive) -se: "vratiti se " = "to come back", for example.
Listen to this beautiful song and try to figure...
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