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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Thursday, May 01, 2014
If you are familiar with numbers in Serbian, here comes a new lesson from Serbian 102 course which is a bit more complicated. It is about how to pronounce large numbers.
If this simple exercise is too easy, watch this video survey about the year of the Battle of Kosovo and jot down all the numbers you hear:
If this simple exercise is too easy, watch this video survey about the year of the Battle of Kosovo and jot down all the numbers you hear:
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
In one of my more advanced Serbian lessons there came up a few expressions which I wanted to share with you today. I will copy-paste a part of the text about Jeremija, with whom you can learn Serbian from the very start. I'll list the tasks below this short excerpt:
Jeremija je bio veoma srećan tog jutra, jer je bio potpuno siguran da će dobiti povišicu na poslu. Njegov šef je u nekoliko navrata natuknuo Jeremiji da će od sledećeg meseca omastiti brk, kao i da je to potpuno zaslužio. Jeremija se pravio lud i uspešno se uzdržavao da ne vuče šefa za rukav i postavlja dodatna pitanja. Bio je svestan da sve što bude dobio jeste rezultat njegovog sopstvenog rada i da nije jednostavno palo s neba. Posebno mu je bilo milo što ovaj put nije morao da se kiti tuđim perjem. Njegova zasluga je bila očigledna. Kada je tog jutra stigao na posao i otvorio svoju kancelariju, imao je šta da vidi. Na stolu je stajao potpuno nov kompjuter i pored njega još noviji mobilni, a šef je sav sijao od sreće! "Šta sam ti rekao? Borio sam za tebe kao vučica... i izborio sam se! Najnoviji model? Hm? Šta kažeš?" Jeremija nije morao da se pretvara - na njegovom licu se videlo da su mu sve lađe potonule... Bio je 100% siguran da će dobiti veću platu, a sada mu je postalo jasno da je ostao kratkih rukava! Šta će mu sada Spomenka reći?
Right, now there are three tasks for you:
- The easiest task: Can you find the synonyms for these words in the text:
- drago
- aludirao
- apsolutno
- pravi
- narednog
- jako
- blesav
- totalno
- puta
- shvatio
- sasvim
- samo
2. The more difficult task: which phrases and idioms mean:
- down in the dumps/ in the doldrums
- fight like a wolf
- to be absolutely certain about something
- keep asking for something
- get a raise
- take an advantage of something
- to deck oneself in borrowed finery
- to get the worst of a bargain/ to come away empty-handed
3. The most difficult task: what will Spomenka say to him when he arrives back home? Try to come up with a suitable idiom or expression. Let me help you with a few ideas, and you try to guess which ones are the most appropriate:
- ko drugome jamu kopa sam u nju upada
- svako nosi svoj krst
- nema ti ravna
- prvo skoči pa reci hop
- nije zlato sve što sija
- ko rano rani dve sreće grabi
- doterao je cara do duvara
- poklonu se u zube ne gleda
Sunday, April 20, 2014
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)
Monday, April 14, 2014
Very popular "Državni posao" series are perfect for highly advanced Serbian lessons. One can learn a lot of common Serbian phrases and expressions. The fun part is to detect mistakes made by famous Đorđe Čvarkov, Dragan Torbica and Boškić (e.g. "lapsitops" instead of "laptop" or "Jututu" instead of "Jutjub").
Let's watch just the first three minutes and try to do the following tasks:
Task 1: Tick the phrases you hear
- Do juče se nisam brinuo
- To je samo fol
- Digneš narod na noge
- Prazne duše
- Bez i zrna energije, bez i zrna poleta
- I ne bi se digli
- Pogledajte šta nam rade
- Za mnogo manje sitnice
- Nikom ništa
- Mož' misliti
- Čime se ti baviš
- Ukinuli seriju
- To je neka mutna radnja
- Ako nisu umešali prste
- Imao (seriju) pa nemao
- Nije to bilo koja serija
- Neko će odgovarati
- Nema milosti
Task 2: Even if you don't understand each and every word, can you understand what the problem is?
Task 3: After watching the first part (0:20 - 1:30 - I added the subtitles to make things easier), try to answer the following questions:
a. Da li je Dragan Torbica mislio da je ukidanje serije istina ili ne?
b. Da li Đorđe Čvarkov misli da je narod u depresiji, ili pun energije?
c. Koje reči je Boškić čuo kada je ušao u kancelariju?
d. Na koje tekuće probleme je Boškić mislio kada je pričao o "dizanju naroda"?
e. Ko se čudi Boškiću?
f. Ko objašnjava u čemu je problem i kojim rečima?