I am so happy to share this video lesson which is 100% in Serbian with subtitles. I am sure they will help you hear what I am saying better. After the video there is an exercise which is made based on the text, a bit changed though.

I hope you are enjoying learning with my video lessons and doing the follow up tasks, such as these ones:




Today, I am sharing a brand new explanation with you and exercise from the course which focuses on vocabulary describing family and friends.

Here are all the links to the exercises covering this video lesson:


1. Quizlets with MY: moj-mojA-mojE-mojI-mojE-mojA + Family members

 
• Flashcards
• Learn exercise
• Match
• Gravity

• version A (verb conjugations of zvati se i biti),
• version B (possessive adjectives and paricle se)

While in the previous lesson of Serbian for Kids, I taught you how to pronounce furniture in Serbian and we played with the Present tense conjugations of the verb to have, today we are practicing rooms in a house/ flat and revising the previous lessons by playing games.  

Sobe = Rooms

1. TAJ HODNIK = hallway
2. TAJ BALKON = balcony
3. TA KUHINJA = kitchen
4. TA SOBA = room
5. TA SPAVAĆA SOBA = bedroom
6. TA DNEVNA SOBA= living room
7. TA DEČIJA SOBA = children’s room
8. TA RADNA SOBA = study
9. TO KUPATILO = bathroom

I hope you enjoyed following my free Serbian language course at the elementary level, dedicated to Greetings! This month I have been working on a new one where you can learn:

• How to introduce your family members to someone
• Hear clearly and learn to pronounce family members
• Verbs to have + family members (in the appropriate case)
• Short texts about this topic

More videos with conjugations are on this playlist.

Today we are practicing Serbian with this simple exercise:
 The meaning of this story is as follows:

Marina likes to eat sweets, especially chocolate, Eurocream, jam and buiscits. She likes to drink milk, juice and coffee. Each morning while she has breakfast, Marina doesn't watch TV, but she is on the Internet, listens to songs on Youtube and sings them.

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:

Plural in Serbian

In this video exercise you can practice forming plural in Serbian and drilling it with the following phrases:

• Da li je to banka?
• Da li su to banke?

Bio Bila Bilo

Verb To Be in the Singular,  simple past form

SINGULAR
Ja sam bio = I was masculine
Ja sam bila = I was feminine

Ti si bio = You were masc. sg.
Ti si bila = You were fem. sg.

On je bio = He was , obviously masc. sg.
Ona je bila = She was, obviously fem. sg.
Ono je bilo = It was,  neuter, sg.

When you drop the subject (noun or pronoun), you start with the very past tense of the verb to be and this is what we are practicing now with this game!

BIO SAM ... BILA SAM ... BILO JE...

Links to Quizlet exercises with BIO BILA BILO

1. Flashcards - https://quizlet.com/230095390/flashcards
2. Learn exercises - https://quizlet.com/230095390/learn
3. Micromatch - https://quizlet.com/230095390/micromatch
4. Gravity -  https://quizlet.com/230095390/gravity

For the full version of the video and more exercises, join my Patreon page. Thanks :)

If you have followed my blog posts this summer, you have noticed fun photos with short dialogues. These mini lessons grew into the first course, which can help you learn Serbian greetings. It is at the beginner level, so that is why I named it Super Easy Serbian - Greetings A1!

It took me quite a while to create it, as I flicked through thousands of photos, downloaded them and then put everything together. I have had problems with my low quality headset, because of which I had to heavily edit the videos. I hope to get a new cam in October and continue making such courses much faster. My plan is always to offer you three versions of the course:

• Free course with 30% of the video lessons
• Full version with all the video lessons, explanations and additional exercises (60% discount link)
• VIP version with which you can send me your recorded tasks or ask questions and get my feedback and explanations, based on a monthly subscription.

For all of you who are advanced learners of Serbian, here comes a challenging exercise based on this lovely song:


The idea is for you to listen to this song and in each part of the song to detect 3 words which are synonyms with the words written in the capital letters above that part. Srećno!







Džaba bilo konja vranih, po livadi razigranih
džaba bilo sata i salaša
džaba bilo njiva plodnih, vinograda blagorodnih
džaba bilo karuca, ćilasa
kada nisam s onom koju volem
kada nisam s onom koju volem

I guess this is something you have been waiting for: Č vs. Ć. In this video you'll be able to:

• Hear these two sounds pronounced in many different examples
• Understand how to pronounce them and where your tongue should be in order to hear the difference
• Hear the minimal number of minimal pairs (really, there are just a few examples where mispronunciation will cause the difference in meaning)

If you want to practice your pronunciation in the same way I do and get my feedback, you are welcome to join my Patreon supporters!

To access the complete PPT with the video, check this out:

Today, our topic is practising asking for food both in formal and informal way in Serbian.

• DAJ MI = give me (informally)
• DAJTE MI = give me (formally)
• MOLIM TE = please  (informally)
• MOLIM VAS = please (formally)

If you are not sure why the words for food mentioned in the exercise change, check the previous posts about the Accusative case!

Exercise with the Imperative of Give in Serbian

If you'd like to practice speaking Serbian and you don't have a clue how, the best way is to do the following:

1. Pick any of the video lessons I created on my Youtube channel SerbianLessons. For example this one: adjectives in Serbian  
   
2. After listening and repeating after me (for as many times as you wish), play the video again, but mute it
3. Turn on the www.Vocaroo.com / or any other voice recording platform/service and record yourself speaking while watching the muted video
4. Save your Vocaroo (click Save, and you'll see a shareable link below - don't share it with the world, but simply send it to me to check it out and give you the video feedback - this can be arranged while I still have time)

Speaking Exercise Video - Informal Greetings

With this video the idea is to read the dialogue and fill in the gaps yourself, until the end where you have to remember everything on your own :) The version with the explanation and slow pronunciation is coming tomorrow!

While I am working on my new series of courses, let me share with you some beautiful photos with short dialogues written both in the Serbian Cyrillic and Latin script. Based on the photo below, can you tell me what is missing in the gaps in the first photo?

1. to bi bilo - that would be
2. sve - all
3. laku noć - good night
4. hvala - thanks
5. poseta - visit
6. hvala na poseti - thanks for the visit
7. hvala što ste nas posetili - thanks for visiting us

In the one of the previous lessons we practiced the verb CAN in the Present Tense in Serbian. Let's revise it once again:

• CAN - Present Simple Conjugations
• CAN + infinitive - Daily routines
• Video

Which words are missing?

p.s. The response you can see here is from the famous song by Zdravko Čolić. If you like the song, let's learn how to sing it together :)

While I am working on my new series of Serbian language courses, I prepared for you a video lesson with a bunch of adjectives, with the verb TO BE and forming simple sentences such as:

1. DA LI SI LEP/LEPA? - Are you beautiful?
2. DA LI JE ON UPLAŠEN? - Are you scared?
3. DA LI STE ZDRAVI? - Are you healthy?
4. DA LI JE TVOJ SIN GLADAN? - Is your son hungry?
5. DA LI JE TVOJA ĆERKA GLADNA? - Is your daughter hungry?
6. DA LI SU TVOJE ĆERKE GLADNE? -Are your daughters hungry?
7. DA LI SU TVOJI SINOVI GLADNI? - Are your sons hungry?
8. DA LI JE TVOJ AUTO STAR? - Is your car old?
9. DA LI JE HLEB JEFTIN? - Is bread cheap?
10. DA LI SU PSI STARI? - Are the dogs old?

Although I didn't write down my short answers, pay attention to them :)

JESAM - NISAM
JESI - NISI
JESTE -NIJE

JESMO -NISMO
JESTE - NISTE
JESU - NISU

For all of you who told me you LOOOOOVE my new cartoons, here's one covering this topic:

Your task is to figure out which word is missing?