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Showing posts with label how to learn Serbian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to learn Serbian. Show all posts

Monday, October 25, 2021

Learn Serbian by Singing - Ne vredi plakati

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

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

How to practice Serbian - Ideas and Links

Practicing Serbian Daily


Let me share with you a few good posts and resources with great ideas how to learn and practice Serbian on a daily basis:

  1. With Youtube videos  
  2. Practicing Pronunciation
  3. Listening to Serbian authentic resources
  4. Doing exercises on my old website SerbianLesson.com and a new one SerbianLessons.com
  5. Practicing reading easy and fun books in Serbian Cyrillic and Latin alphabet
  6. Joining one of my Serbian language learning courses on Udemy

Sunday, February 05, 2017

Why Learn Serbian?

There are so many reasons to learn Serbian. That's why I'd like you to help me find out what your main motivation is when learning this language. I am also interested what you need most and what you think could help you learn most efficiently.

That's why I have created an anonymous survey and I'd appreciate if you could spare a few minutes to do it. HVALA!

 Thanks so much for your time! All the info is used to make my Serbian Activator e-mails and video lessons most relevant to you!

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Jesam or Sam in Serbian?

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

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Learn Serbian by Singing

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

Monday, March 11, 2013

Good Youtube Materials for Learning Serbian

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Serbian Language 365 - Phrases for Giving Directions

About two years ago I was tinkering with the free version of Camtasia for a month. The result was one part of the Serbian phrase course, covering three topics, both in the Latin alphabet and Cyrillic script. Now when I look back on my early works, I'm quite disappointed and I recon it's high time I made  much clearer video lessons with better background music and wide scope of topics. I bet you agree :)

In the meantime, I'm sure you'll find these two videos covering "Giving directions in Serbian" useful. 

Serbian Phrases free e-book
Places in the city in the Cyrillic script:

Giving directions in the Latin alphabet:

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Serbian Language 365 - Day 6 Phrases in Serbian

Many of you who have joined my online lessons, accompanying Serbian language courses, already know that I've had so much precious insight into learning Serbian from my mother-in-law who is French. She told me how difficult it was for her to learn the language from books, and she actually started speaking the language and becoming fluent when she threw away all her grammar books and textbooks and started learning phrases and letting her children correct her mistakes. You can imagine why: since Serbian is a highly flective language, one can come across many suffixes which are the same, denoting different cases (like "vidim pitU" (Acc.Sg.Fem.) in contrast with "ja sam u BeogradU" (Locative, Sg. Masc.)), which can only confuse you.

In reality, if you stopped to think what you'd say, you'd never become fluent. The key to learning ANY language is always immersion, either by spending time in the country where the language is spoken, or watching films, singing songs or being surrounded by  people speaking only the target language. In case none of the above is possible, you can always  learn the set phrases, which will help you become fluent.

Learning grammar is always a "reverse engineering" process  - and it should stay that way. That's why I will always publish one "Serbian phrases video lesson" based on a situation covered in my Serbian phrases e-book on Sundays. Lots of my students told me it was highly useful and practical, and I'm sure you'll find it the same!



Pozdravi na srpskom (Greetings in Serbian)

Monday, February 11, 2013

365 Days of Learning Serbian

I've recently reread a great book "First Things First" by Stephen Covey  and it reminded me, yet again, how important it is to organize our activities well and dedicate our time to people we love and  things that matter. Learning a new language on a daily basis, or any other skill for that matter,  can make a huge difference in the long run, once we urgently need it.

That's why it struck me that I should use this blog, and all the digital teaching content I've created in years, not only to encourage you to perservere, but provide you with meaningful and graded content to learn Serbian regularly. Even if you skip a day or two,  or an entire week/month, you know that you  have everything in one place, right here !

Monday, March 12, 2012

Learn Serbian with "Neven" Series

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Describing an Event

Take a look at this dark photo, light it bit by bit and try to explain what's going on by starting each sentence with:

"Mislim da ..."
"Vidim ..., znači da ..."

Click here for larger version

North - South - East - West in Serbian

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Pronouns in Serbian through Cases - Personal Pronoun I = JA

Listen to this song and fill in the gaps with the missing forms of the personal pronoun "I" in different cases:

JA - (od) mene - (ka) meni  - mene=me - / - (o) meni - (sa) mnom
I    - of me          - to me           - me                 - / - about me   - with me


Daj ____  vina da se napijem
Daj ____  čašu da je razbijem
Daj ____ snage da zaboravim
Kad si rekla da ____ ne voliš
Kad si rekla da ___ ostavljaš
Kad si rekla da zaboravim.

How to Enroll and Use Serbian Online Course via Udemy

Sunday, June 19, 2011

River Song for Good Night




To davno _________,  sećam se ja
kad u tvom oku
prvi put plam ________
tad _____ meni _______ reći
dragi, pričaj mi o sreći
ne daj da zalud leti maj!

To davno _______, sećam se ja
kad meni ti ___  ____________,
tvoja sam sva
to se više vratit' neće
sad __   _______ dani sreće
al' još te uvek volim ja!

Po tihoj smo  reci
tada često ________,
u malenom čamcu
_______ se prvi put ____________

Al' sad je sasvim drukčije sve
i više nikad ________
biti kao pre,
pokraj mene više _____
čamcem _______ sam po Tisi
al' još te uvek __________ ja!

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Serbian TO BE with the song "Čokolada"


Remember the verb TO BE in Serbian ?
Listen to this song and try to add the missing 
Ti ___1____ moja čokolada
Ja ___2___ tvoja čokolada
I da ____3____ tako mlada, _____4____ bih te ljubio x2
__5__ bih te ljubio...
__6__ bih te ljubio x10
--- When you send me the reply, you'll receive the vocabulary and translation :-)
Enjoy singing the song because "ko peva zlo ne misli" :)

Advanced Serbian - Srpski kao drugi jezik

Gde je ključ? Где је кључ? - Učimo srpski sa Marinom
Gde je ključ? ...
Where is the Key?-...
By Marina Petrović
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