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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Modal Verb Can in Serbian

Marina free video lessons of Serbian , modal verbs in Serbian

Here comes a video lesson for my students at Serbian 102 course, dedicated to the verb MOĆI = CAN. We practiced this earlier today, so you can practice with us.

After watching the video again, I am sure you will remember most of the things, so that you will be able to do the following tasks yourself:

Flashcards https://quizlet.com/59316878/flashcards
Learn https://quizlet.com/59316878/learn
Micromatch https://quizlet.com/59316878/micromatch
Write https://quizlet.com/59316878/write
Gravity https://quizlet.com/59316878/gravity
Test https://quizlet.com/59316878/test

Uživajte učeći = Have fun learning :)

Advanced Serbian - Fun Serbian Customs

Marina Advanced Serbian , prepositions in Serbian

One of the customs in Serbia is to tear (cepati / pocepati) the shirt worn by the father who is celebrating his baby's birth. If you watched "Jutro će promeniti sve", you'll surely remember the scene with two fathers in torn shirts or t-shirts (pocepan(im) košulja(ma) ili majica(ma)).

One must wonder what is the origin of such a funny custom and I am sharing today with you a few answers to this question, which is of course in the form of an exercise. You just need to fill in the gaps with missing prepositions and enjoy reading the text. If you are not sure about the answers, you can first read the same text on Blic.

Advanced Serbian - Buildings, City Life and Urbanism

Marina Advanced Serbian , Listening comprehension

Advanced Serbian će biti serija video priloga uz koje ćete moći da čujete lep srpski jezik, proširite i obogatite vokabular uživajući u raznovrsnim temama.

Prvi u ovom nizu će biti naredni video od pet sati koji će vam otkriti prelepe zgrade Beograda, kao i zaboravljene priče iz davnih, i ne tako davnih vremena. Sigurna sam da ćete uživati uz živopisne detalje i korisne kolokacije koje ću podeliti s vama putem vežbi u narednim javljanjima.

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 Cyrillic Game

Marina cyrillic , Cyrillic script

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 :)

Serbian Aspect with Games - What were you doing?

Marina aspect in Serbian ,

In this video lessons you can simply practice translating sample sentences with the verbs in the imperfective aspect from English into Serbian.

Once you feel more confident, you can do the tasks yourself!

Imperfective - Perfective pairs of Verbs mentioned in this video

ČITATI - proČITATI >>> to be reading - to read
SLUŠATI - odSLUŠATI / poSLUŠATI >>> to be listening - to listen to
SPAVATI - odSPAVATI >>> to be sleeping - to sleep
PLESATI - odPLESATI / zaPLESATI >>> to be dancing - to dance
RADITI - uRADITI >>> to be working - to work
GLEDATI - odGLEDATI >>> to be watching - to watch

For more similar videos with explanations and exercises, check out my Patreon page!

Serbian for Kids - Numbers from 1 to 20

Marina numbers in serbian ,

Today we are practicing counting in Serbian while playing an awesome game!

The aim is to connect all the dots from 1 to 22 and say them out loud. You can do it together with me, while watching the video, and then you can click on this link to play it yourself:

* http://www.primarygames.com/math/animalsdottodot/

If you want to practice counting, join me at Quizlet games:

Serbian 101 - What's her/his name?

Marina Serbian 101 , Serbian adjectives

A very simple exercise with NJEGOVo or NJENo + IME, meaning HIS or HER + NAME. After watching this easy Serbian lesson, you'll be able to ask the following two questions correctly:

Koje je NJEGOVO ime? What is his name?
Koje je NJENO ime? What is her name?

and answer them:

NJEGOVO ime je Jovan = His name is John.
NJENO ime je Suzana =Her name is Susan.

Exercises and Games with What's her/his name

FLEŠ KARTICE

MEČ IGRICA

TEST

GRAVITACIJA

Serbian Accusative - Exercise with IT, HIM and HER

Marina Accusative in Serbian , demonstrative pronouns in Serbian

In our previous post you could watch the video and practice OVO - ONO - OVDE - ONDE - EVO GA - ENO GA and play a hidden object game.

Now, it is time for you to listen to the video and these two exercises:

Here or There?

OVDE or ONDE

Serbian Accusative - Exercise with IT, HIM and HER

GA or JE

If you are not sure how to pronounce the words correctly, do listen to me doing them!
Special thanks to all my Patrons who support creating these video and grammar lessons. HVALA!

This and That, Here and There in Serbian

Marina demonstrative pronouns in Serbian , Games

Today we are learning how to say: 

THIS = ovaj - ova - ovo
THESE= ovi - ove - ova
THAT = onaj - ona - ono
THOSE oni - one - ona
HERE = ovde / tu
THERE = onde / tamo
EVO GA = here it is (it = him/it)
EVO JE = here it is (it = her)

Primeri:

1. Ovo je sat = This is a clock. Evo ga =Here it is!

2. Ovo je slika = This is a picture. Evo je = Here it is!

3. Sat je ovde, a slika je onde = The clock is here, the picture is there.

The link to the game is here: https://www.hiddenobjectgames.com/game/Hidden+Kitchen
After watching the video you can try to do an exercise based on my sentences:

The link to the google form with answers: https://goo.gl/forms/YByFcGrhH0vviDlG3

Vocative in Serbian

Marina Serbian cartoons , Serbian for kids

Have you noticed that proper nouns are somehow changed when we speak to one another, especially when calling or addressing someone? For example, if your friend is called Nada, you will start your conversation with her by saying "Ćao Nado!"

Why is it so?

Well, if there is not such a case in your mother tongue, that doesn't make sense, but in the Serbian language it does. This concept is called the Vocative case and the very fact that you are callling someone or addressing them triggers some changes in the final vowel in some cases, luckily not always. Let's watch this short episode with Serbian subtitles and see how it works with the following names:

Mocart, Cvrle and Čarli

How does the name Mocart change? Why don't the other names change as well?

The Vocative case in Serbian

Masc. Sg. nouns ending in a consonant

Igor / brat / ------------------------------------------------------------ E is added to the stem e.g. Igore, Jovane, bate, Miloše

Masc. Sg. nouns ending in č, ć, đ, lj, nj, š, ž ------------ U is added to the stem e.g. mužu, prijatelju (doesn't apply to proper names, though - Miloše)
Masc. Sg. nouns ending in -a

These words either don't change, like tata, kolega,

Or in some cases the final -a is dropped and ---------------------O is added. e.g. sudija - sudijo!

Fem. Sg. nouns ending in -a

Two syllable nouns ending in -a -------------------------------------A turns to O e.g. Nada - Nado!

More syllable nouns ending in -ica -------------------------------- A turns to E e.g. Milica - Milice!

With words and names of foreign origin (or still felt as "foreign" names/words) there is no change

Fem. Sg. nouns ending in a consonant

Words like reč / ljubav / and other abstract nouns ( ending in -st) --- adding I e.g. Ljubav - Ljubavi!

Neuter Sg. nouns ending in -e or -o -------------------------- No change

Vocative - Usage

Since the vocative case is used when we are addressing someone or calling someone, most often one person, there are changes in the singular form only (of course there are exceptions). Addressing things or abstract concepts won't be something you will hear in everyday conversations, but there are plenty examples in poems and literature.

Vocative in Serbian - Exercise

Learning Serbian with Interesting Texts - What should people do?

Marina reading comprehension , Serbian exercises

There are many interesting texts which you don't need to understand in detail, but just the gist or the most important facts. One of such texts is certainly a very popular one about Hunza people. There are various versions of this article which you can compare by Googling "Hunza narod".

I created the following exercises based on this text published in Blic.

Who are Hunzas? = Ko su Hunze?

Gde Hunze žive?
Šta oni jedu?
Šta ne jedu?
Koliko kilometara predju dnevno?
Koje su njihove dobre navike?
Koliko dugo oni žive?
Zašto žive toliko dugo?

What should people do? = Šta bi ljudi trebalo da rade?

Serbian Cartoons with Subtitles and Exercises

Marina Serbian cartoons , Serbian for kids

For all of you searching for good educational materials for learning/teaching Serbian with fun series or cartoons with subtitles and additional practice, here comes a short excerpt from Zlopile cartoon, followed with a few exercises.

Grammar exercise

Getting Ready to Learn New Song in Serbian

Marina Serbian for beginners , Serbian for kids

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!

Serbian Aspect Easy Way - Nisam te se nagledao

Marina aspect in Serbian , serbian songs

While I was searching for some songs for learning Serbian, I came across this aspect-friendly one called Nisam te se nagledao, which inspired me to create two sets of quizzes for you to practice Serbian aspect while listening to it :) I bet you'd be delighted to find out that there's an easy and more efficient way to learn verbal aspects :)

Let's match the verses:

Verbs only:

Wild Animals in Serbian

Marina animals in Serbian , Serbian vocabulary

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:

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Thursday, January 24, 2019

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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Monday, January 07, 2019

Merry Christmas in Serbian

Tuesday, December 04, 2018

Saturday, December 01, 2018

Imperfective - Perfective pairs of Verbs mentioned in this video

Friday, November 30, 2018

Monday, November 26, 2018

Exercises and Games with What's her/his name

Friday, November 16, 2018

Here or There?

Serbian Accusative - Exercise with IT, HIM and HER

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

The Vocative case in Serbian

Vocative - Usage

Vocative in Serbian - Exercise

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Who are Hunzas? = Ko su Hunze?

What should people do? = Šta bi ljudi trebalo da rade?

Monday, October 22, 2018

Grammar exercise

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Friday, September 21, 2018

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

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