A simple day becomes a miniature Serbian story when waking, working, eating and resting fall into their natural order.

Here comes a short text about routines both in Serbian and in English. I hope that my video will help you understand the text in Serbian. There is also a task to be done:
- After listening to me asking and answering questions, you can try to do the same - practice asking questions and giving answers, and recording all that on www.Vocaroo.com

Exercse
1. Routines - missing verbs

2. Routines - missing pronouns



4. Link to the edited video  with questions and answers written and translated + additional exercises with questions and answers

Small Verbs That Build a Whole Day

Learning Serbian with Short and Easy Texts - Routines is expanded here through Using a simple routine text as a speaking model. Start with the original post, then use the new material to notice form, meaning and the situation in which a Serbian speaker would naturally choose it.

Latin scriptCyrillic scriptEnglish
Budim se čim zazvoni alarm.Будим се чим зазвони аларм.I wake up as soon as the alarm rings.
Pre doručka otvaram prozor.Пре доручка отварам прозор.I open the window before breakfast.
U podne pravim kratku pauzu.У подне правим кратку паузу.At noon I take a short break.
Posle posla zalivam cveće.После посла заливам цвеће.After work I water the flowers.
Pred spavanje spremam odeću za sutra.Пред спавање спремам одећу за сутра.Before bed I prepare my clothes for tomorrow.

A Routine You Can Retell

Read these five sentences horizontally to compare Latin, Cyrillic and English. Then read only the Serbian columns vertically. Every example belongs specifically to the subject of Learning Serbian with Short and Easy Texts - Routines, so keep that context when you adapt it.

Five Fresh Lines from Morning to Evening

For active practice, change one meaningful detail in each model while preserving the target structure. Say the altered line aloud, write it in the other Serbian script and explain what changed. This turns the focus of Learning Serbian with Short and Easy Texts - Routines into language you can retrieve independently.

Rebuild the Routine without Looking

Use these English cues to produce the Serbian practised in Learning Serbian with Short and Easy Texts - Routines. Supply both scripts, then read every checked answer aloud.

  1. I wake up as soon as the alarm rings.
  2. I open the window before breakfast.
  3. At noon I take a short break.
  4. After work I water the flowers.
  5. Before bed I prepare my clothes for tomorrow.

Answers for Learning Serbian with Short and Easy Texts - Routines

  1. Budim se čim zazvoni alarm.
    Будим се чим зазвони аларм.
  2. Pre doručka otvaram prozor.
    Пре доручка отварам прозор.
  3. U podne pravim kratku pauzu.
    У подне правим кратку паузу.
  4. Posle posla zalivam cveće.
    После посла заливам цвеће.
  5. Pred spavanje spremam odeću za sutra.
    Пред спавање спремам одећу за сутра.