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Friday, June 19, 2009

Clothes in Serbian 2

Marina clothes in Serbian , serbian cases

Part two combines asking questions from part no. 1 (gde je / gde su) with answers (ona je u + ormanU (suffix '-u' for masc. nouns denotes the locative case). Take a look at the example examples:

1. CIPELE (Fem - Pl)
a. Gde su cipele? (Where are the shoes)
b. One su u ormanu. (They are in the cupboard)

2. KUPAĆI KOSTIM (Masc. - Sg)
a. Gde je kupaći kostim?
b. On je u ormanu.

5. ODELO (Neuter - Sg)
a. Gde je odelo?
b. Ono je u ormanu.

Now you can continue:

3. JAKNA (Fem - Sg)
4. CIPELE (Fem - Pl)
5. ODELO (Neut - Sg)
6. ŠAL (Masc - Sg)
7. HALJINA (Fem - Sg)
8 / 10. GAĆE (Fem - Pl)
9. POTKOŠULJA (Fem - Sg)
11. RUKAVICE (Fem - Pl)
12. ŠORC (Masc - Sg)
13. ČARAPE (Fem - Pl)
14. ČIZME (Fem - Pl)
15. PRSLUK (Masc - Sg)
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Sg Masculine (he) ON
Sg Feminine (she) ONA
Sg Neuter (it) ONO
Pl Masculine (they) ONI
Pl Feminine (they) ONE
Pl Neuter (they) ONA

Serbian Video Lessons with Pronunciation

Marina Activator Video Lessons , free video lessons of Serbian

Today we are practising three simple questions and three simple answers:

Where do you / You live? = Где живиш / живите?= Gde živiš / živite?
What do you / You do? = Шта радиш / радите? (Чиме се бавиш / бавите?) = Šta radiš / radite? (Čime se baviš / bavite?)
What do you do in your free time? = Шта радиш / радите у слободно време? = Šta radiš / radite u slobodno vreme?

The answers are as follows:

Живим у ... = Živim u ... (I live in ...Beogradu / Limi - check out the previous posts about the Locative case)
Радим као ... = Radim kao ...(I work as a ...profesor / lekar - check out the video about occupations)
У слободно време ... = U slobodno vreme ...( In my free time I learn Seriban - učim srpski - check out the previous video about hobbies)

Serbian Video Lessons with Pronunciation

Now that you understand what we are going to talk about, you are ready for the video lesson! Have fun!

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Verb Biti in Serbian

Marina Biti in Serbian , Serbian language 365

Biti in Serbian

The verb "TO BE" in Serbian is something you should learn at the very beginning, because you'll need it not to express the most essential facts about yourself, but also because it is used as an auxiliary verb in the Simple Past tense.

That's why this post dedicated to the different conjugations, i.e. forms, of the verb to be can be useful both for the beginners and more advanced students.

A few short videos and exercises with the verb Biti in Serbian

Exercise 1

While watching this video say "This is a... These are ...s" using these structures:

Ovo je ... (+ nominative Sg)

Exercise 2:

Ovo su ...(+ nominative Pl)
Ovo je...(+ nominative Sg)

Exercise 3

While watching this video say what the photos are about (the locative case ) using the phrase: Ova slika je o... = This photo is about

Exercise 4

Using these full forms of the verb TO BE, give the positive and negative answers with

the full form of the verb to be:

Links to the previous posts about the verb Biti in Serbian

Verb Biti in Serbian - form and pronunciation
Verb Biti in Serbian - exercise
Serbian language exercise 1
Serbian language exercise 2

Practise Locative in Serbian

Marina locative case in Serbian ,

Imagine where some objects are, and play this game with your friend by

asking these questions:

Singular = Jednina:

Da li je sat u dnevnoj sobi ? = Is the clock in the living room ?

Da / Ne

Znači ovo je dnevna soba? Baš je lepa ! = So this is the living room ?

It is really beautiful/nice (lep - lepa - lepo)

Plural = Množina:

Da li su stolice na balkonu ? = Are the chairs on the balcony ?

Da /Ne

Znači ovo je balkon ? Baš je prostran! = This is the balcony ?

It is really spacious (prostran - prostrana - prostrano)

p.s. you can also check out the gapped quizz with the song.

Let's practice Locative, Accusative and Genitive with Vicevi

Marina Accusative in Serbian , genitive in Serbian

Now that you feel more confident telling a joke (ispričati vic) about an elephant and giraffe, let's do some grammar exercises for fun :)

Serbian Language Day 16 - Pre-intermediate Course, Lesson 3

Marina pre-intermediate Serbian , Serbian language 365

Before moving onto the third lesson for the pre-intermediate level of Serbian, you can always flick through the previous blog posts:

In today's lesson you can revise your knowledge of the Locative case, but this time with the verb "živeti" = to live and "govoriti" = to speak (a language) + adjectives describing languages & nouns for countries:

Serbian 102 - Nominative, Accusative and Locative

Marina Accusative in Serbian , locative in Serbian

Let me tell you that the fifth book for learning Serbian is ready to be published. Here comes one exercise based from it. Let me know if it is useful and if you need more of these?

Serbian Language Day 9 - Pre-intermediate Course, Lesson 2

Marina Free lessons of Serbian , Learn Serbian online

You can always revise the simple structures by following the Serbian for Beginner course tag, as well as Serbian Lesson Pages.

In our previous pre-intermediate lesson we covered:

the names of the capitals
the Locative case (practice and explanation with the practice)

Let's use the similar group of words, this time "places in the city" to express our whereabouts:

"Ćao! Gde si ?" = Hi, where are you ?
"Zdravo! Sada sam u muzeju. A ti ? " = Hello, I'm in the museum. And you ?
"Ja sam na autobuskoj stanicu ! Vidimo se za pet minuta!" = I'm at the square ! See you in five minutes!

Don't forget to the follow-up exercise!

Learning Serbian with Jokes - Lesson 4

Marina Jokes in Serbian ,

If you liked the joke about an elephant, giraffe and the fridge, and all its variations through tenses, you will be more than happy to learn that there is a sequel to it :)

In this part you are simply learning to explain why not all the animals are at the lion's party.

Vocabulary:

slaviti = to celebrate
taj lav = the lion
rođendan = birthday
svi = all
životinja = animal
sve životinje = all the animals
žurka = party
njegova = his
na njegovoj žurci = at his party

Pay attention to the word PARTY - žurka:

Ovo je super žurka = This is a great party (Nominative)
Dolazim sa žurke = I am coming from the party (Genitive)
Idem ka žurci = I am going to(wards) the party (Dative)
Idem na žurku = I am going to the party (Accusative)
Lav je zadovoljan žurkom = The lion is satisfied with the party (Instrumental)
Lav je na žurci = The lion is at the party (Locative)

Serbian Language 365 Day 3 - Intermediate level & Past Tense

Marina Free lessons of Serbian , intermediate Serbian

Let's practise the Simple Past Tense in the Serbian language. While the beginner and pre-intermediate courses of Serbian focus is on phrases, present tense, modals and cases, the intermediate course focuses on aspects, explaining the subtle differences between "odmarati" and "odmoriti" and similar.

Since we are at the very beginning of everyday Serbian lesson series, let me introduce you to some of the earlier posts covering this topic:

Past Tense of To Be in Serbian - conjugations
Practise Serbian with Jeremija
Past Tense of To Be in Questions + Locative case
Past Tense word order in questions
How to form the Simple Past in Serbian
Learn by singing - Bila je tako lepa

...as well as one of the Youtube videos, which somehow connect with the yesterday's post, so now it can be easily understood:

Text : "Gde si bila ?" (Fem. Sg.) / "Gde si bio?" (Masc. Sg.) = Where were you ?
Fem. Sg. Bila sam u ...
Masc. Sg. Bio sam u ...

Jesam or Sam in Serbian?

Marina how to learn Serbian , Learn Serbian online

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

Textbooks for Learning Serbian - Where are Kids?

Marina locative in Serbian , Textbooks for learning Serbian

My latest textbook is finally visible on Amazon :) I have created a video lesson for you, based on the first few pages. This is just an introduction in which you can practice one of the most commonly confused language chunks in Serbian:

I am going to ... = idem u + accusative case e.g. idem u park - idem u prirodu
I am in / at = ja sam u/na + locative case e.g. ja sam u parku - ja sam u prirodi

As you can see, the page numbers are here and there, so you can learn the following phrases:

U gornjem desnom uglu = at the top right corner
U donjem levom uglu = at the bottom left corner
Na sredini = in the middle

This book also has all the letters (slova) of the Cyrillic alphabet hidden in it - all you have to do is look carefully. Once it was published it took me ages to find a few letters, they are hidden soooo well! The most important thing is that all 30 letters are in the book!

Koliko ste našli slova?
Gde ste ih našli?
Koje slovo je bilo najteže naći?

Where are you today? Part 2

Marina locative case in Serbian , locative in Serbian

What do you want to do TODAY?
Šta želite da radite DANAS?

Today I am in Paris. I want to see the Mona Lisa.
DANAS sam u Parizu. Želim da vidim Mona Lizu.

While in the previous lesson we noticed that the Locative Singular ending was only -i, it was like that simply because we were in places which are in Feminine Singular (U Moskvi, Aziji, Evropi, Budimpešti...)

However, today we are in having fun in places which are Masculine Singular and that's why we add the suffix -u at the end of each place:

Ja sam danas u Parizu. = Danas sam u Parizu.
...Beograd >>> Beogradu
...Lisabon >>> Lisabonu
... Sidnej >>> Sidneju
... Niš >>> Nišu
...muzej >>> muzeju
... centar >>> centru

Serbian Language 365 - Day 6 Phrases in Serbian

Marina Free lessons of Serbian , how to learn 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)

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Biti in Serbian

A few short videos and exercises with the verb Biti in Serbian

Links to the previous posts about the verb Biti in Serbian

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