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Thursday, April 11, 2013

How to Use e-Book with Serbian Lessons ?

It took me some time to realize that Serbian 101 e-book, with over 40 video lessons and exercises and more than 3 hours of content, needs a short video with instructions how to use it ! I hope this video helps!

The complete course can be found on this page.

Serbian History Exercise with Video - Part one

Marina Advanced Serbian , comprehension exercises

While watching the video try to figure our which sentences I changed and which synonims I used. You can also try to solve which numbers 1- 5 are missing. After the careful comparison, try to do the additional exercises:

with numbers and adjectives (in the Latin alphabet)
with nouns (the Cyrillic script - still under construction)

Godine .1. slovenska plemena su našla novu domovinu na teritoriji nekadašnjeg vizantijskog Ilirika.

Od reka Save i Dunava pa sve do Peloponeza, Sloveni su pronašli domovinu. Te teritorije na kojima žive Sloveni, vizantijski pisci zovu Sklavinijama. To su plemenski organizovane oblasti u kojima je središnja vlast poglavara ograničena.

Nekadašnja metropola Ilirika ostaće kod Slovena poznata kao Caričin Grad. Imena stotine vizantijskih gradova biće zauvek izgubljena - a sećanja na njih zameniće opšti slovenski pojam za napušten grad "gradina" ili "gradište".

Učeni vizantijski pesnik, Georgije Pisida u Carigradu , piše stihove o teškim vremenima koji su zadesila njegovu zemlju. U jednom stihu kaže da se i Varvari međusobno bore: Avar ubija Slovena i potom biva ubijen - i time su ometeni u vođenju jedinstvene borbe. Na osnovu ovog usamljenog podatka, pretpostavlja se da je .2. godine, nakon neuspele avarsko-slovenske opsade Carigrada, došlo do značajnih sukoba Avara i Slovena.

Easy Serbian Lessons -365 days of Serbian

Marina easy Serbian , Free lessons of Serbian

If you downloaded Serbian 101 e-book, you can easily access the video lessons explaining how to use the verb TO BE and practice both writing and speaking with it:

Uvod = Introduction

Watch the videos and try to pronounce the personal pronouns and the verb TO BE together.

 Video with explanations
 To Be - Classroom Practice
 Online Exercise 1
 Online Exercise 2

Let me remind you that the previous beginner lessons can be found under Serbian for beginners tag, as well as on SerbianLesson pages.

Fraze na srpskom - speaking practice

Marina Serbian language 365 , Serbian lesson

Watch this video and practise asking basic questions and giving answers. The next step is to ask the same questions with "Vi". You can watch one of the previous video lessons with Serbian phrases covering the topic " Vi" vs. "Ti" in Serbian.

Serbian Phrases free e-book

Learn Serbian by Singing

Marina how to learn Serbian , Learn Serbian online

Learning any language by singing songs is certainly much more appealing than learning the grammar rules and doing boring tasks. Since all the students ask for the grammar explanations in order to make sense of what is being spoken, I decided to create a few web pages with songs followed by grammar exercises, based on the lyrics. I'm curious to know if you like it ? Here comes the first 20 songs (click on the cover or the following link):

Sing & Learn

Detective Stories - Mystery of Poisoned Beer

Marina detective stories in Serbian , Serbian language 365

If you got interested in solving detective stories while learning Serbian, soon you'll be able to buy special e-books (like this one) which will lead you to video lessons step by step - the more you "discover", the more videos you'll open, which will help you crack the case :) In the meantime, let's prepare for the Mystery of Poisoned Beer, by doing the task about Serbian wine regions (vinski regioni Srbije) :)))))))

Extra task:

Parts of Speech - Exercise for Intermediate Level

Marina Activator Video Lessons , Free lessons of Serbian

One of the best ways to expand your Serbian vocabulary is to learn different parts of speech. I know it may sound difficult, but if you approach it as a game, nothing is difficult = ništa nije teško:

Don't forget to revise the previous lessons at the intermediate level!

Pre-intermediate Serbian - Conjugator

Marina pre-intermediate Serbian , serbian conjugations

While in the first four lessons of the Serbian for pre-intermediate level there was the emphasis on the nouns and cases, in the previous post, the more important topic started to emerge - and that's the one of the verb conjugation system in Serbian. That's why I made this short universal Serbian conjugations video to help you practise the verb conjugations for verbs we'll be covering in the future:

How to use it:

Decide which verb you want to conjugate - or the Latin script version
Practise saying the verbs with the video - pay attention, in the second part of the video you have to figure out what the subject is (ja, ti, on/ona/ono, mi, vi, or oni/one/ona)
In the previous lessons we did the verbs "ići", "živeti" and "govoriti" - if you can conjugate these verbs in the Simple Present, you are ready for the next step

Serbian for Beginners - Connecting the Dots

Marina Serbian for beginners , Serbian language 365

If you have successfully did the previous lessons

it means that you are ready to connect the dots, and learn how to greet people in Serbian, which is your lesson 5:

The previous posts on this topic can be found under the heading "greetings in Serbian" - Don't forget to do the follow-up exercise, too!

All the new recordings from Serbian 101 course are available on Udemy now!

Good Youtube Materials for Learning Serbian

Marina how to learn Serbian , Serbian language 365

I hope that you enjoyed the previous posts on

Today I'm reminding you of another great Youtube channel where Kefalica shows are being uploaded! Here's one of the previous tasks I made with their video in the past. The funniest responses tend to become so popular, so that people started remixing them. For example Bože, Petra, or this one:

Agreement and Disagreement Phrases in Serbian - Day

Marina Serbian language 365 , Serbian phrases

In the previous posts about Serbian phrases I covered pretty basic ones, such as:

For the more advanced students in Serbian, here comes a video lesson covering the language of giving opinions, expressing agreements and disagreements. Next time I'll record a lesson with Jeremija how to use these phrases in the context:

Serbian Phrases free e-book

Learn Serbian 365 Days with Songs and Poems - Branko Miljković

Marina Serbian language 365 , Serbian poems

If you are at upper-intermediate or advanced level of Serbian, I'm sure you'll fall in love with this poem at first sight/hearing :) Zaljubićete se u ovu pesmu Branka Miljkovića na prvi pogled / prvo slušanje :)

If you are not sure about the words and the meanings, you'll find it on this lyricstranslation.com page.
For all those who'd like to practise the Genitive case after the preposition "zbog" = because of, here is the exercise based on this magnificient poem.

Learn Serbian 365 Days - Detective Story, part 3

Marina detective stories in Serbian , Passive in Serbian

If you have successfully solved the previous two parts of this detective story, I'm sure you're ready = spremi ste, to continue working on the case:

Part 1

Part 2

Убиство у радној соби
Part 1: What has been found and where ?

Извештај, 2. фебруар, 20:16
Дежурни официр - Стојан Нешић,

Место убиства: кућа убијеног Ђорђа Белића,
Адреса: Гвоздићева 142, Звездара, Београд

Затечено стање при доласку, у 18.04:

Телевизор - упаљен.
Поломљен тањир - у трпезарији поред врата.
Неколико неотребљених кромпира - у судопери у кухињи.
Трагови уља - на кваци.
Пиштољ - у руци убијеног Ђорђа Белића.
Пиштољ - очишћен, без отисака прстију.
Отисци прстију Војислава Симеуновића -
на кваци од врата према радној соби.
Телефон - без отисака прстију.
Прозори у радној соби - отворени.
Улазна врата - отворена.
Задња врата, према гаражи и башти - отворена.
Ћерка, Мирјана Белић, - уплакана.
Куварица, Снежана Ранковић, - потресена.
Шофер, Радивој Шошкић, - уплашен.
Обезбеђење, Војислав Симеуновић, - смирен.

Наставиће се...
Part 2: Write a report and send it to the inspector at learnserbian et gmail dot com

Intermediate Serbian Lessons - 365 Days of Serbian

Marina aspect in Serbian , intermediate Serbian

Although the intermediate lessons are dedicated to the grammatical category of aspect in Serbian, today we are revising the ordinal numbers with this video lesson.

After watching this video lesson try to do the following tasks:

Which ordinal numbers did you hear ?
Why is this man behaving like this ?
Do the additional exercise, where the gapped words are verbs which we will need for our next lesson

Serbian Lesson 4 for Pre-intermediate Level

Marina Dative in Serbian , locative case in Serbian

I'm sure that now you are much more confident in using the Locative case to express where you are:

with cities
with countries
with places

Last time you practised the Locative with the verbs:

govoriti = to speak
živeti = to live

In this fourth lesson at pre-intermediate level of Serbian, you are going to discover that the Dative case which combines with the verbs describing movement, like "going towards" = ići ka, has the same form as the Locative, which is awesome!

Before we do this fun exercise (in my classes my students and I play this language game), let me remind you of the conjugations for the new verb, which we'll need in this lesson:

ići = to go

We'll need the imperative form "go", which can be used :

formally: "idite ka" ("go towards" with Vi)
informally: "idi ka" ("go towards" with ti)

Serbian Lesson 4 - Learn Serbian for 365 Days

Marina Serbian adjectives , Serbian course

If you are a real beginner in Serbian, make sure you don't miss the previous lessons at this level, before you start preparing yourself to connect the previous knowledge (The verb TO BE) and Serbian adjectives with the following lesson which will be about the Greetings in Serbian:

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If you have successfully solved the previous two parts of this detective story, I'm sure you're ready = spremi ste, to continue working on the case:

Part 1

Part 2