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Friday, May 06, 2011

Djurdjevdan, Serbian Slava

Advanced Serbian: Listening / Reading Comprehension Exercise

1. Listen to this audio file first:
Listen!

2. Go to this quiz page I prepared for you, and try to answer the quesitons correctly, while listening to the audio once again.

3. If you'd prefer just to read the text about Đurđevdan in the Cyrillic script and try to answer the quiz questions, visit this page first, before doing the quiz.

Srećna Slava svima koji slave Đurđevdan :)

Monday, May 02, 2011

"Vukova crtanka" - part one

Recently my son showed me his newly bought booklet with numerous proverbs, adages, tongue twisters and riddles called "Vukova crtanka" (Vuk's Colouring Book). Let me list my favourite ones:

A - Ako je neko lud, ne budi mu drug.
      Ako hoćeš koga da poznaš, podaj mu vlast.
B -  Bez alata nema zanata.
      Bolje umeti, nego imati.
V - Videla žaba gde se konj potkiva, pa i ona digla nogu.
      Veselo je srce golemo blago.
G - Gladnog ne teši, već nahrani.
      Gde je stida, tu je i poštenja.
D - Delo čoveka hvali.
     Dogovor kuću gradi.
Đ - Đe (gde) je obraz tu je i duša.
     Đe će kruška no pod krušku.

Q-A:
Pitao sin oca, kad je po svetu hteo poći:
- Od šta mi se valja najviše čuvati ?
- Od tuđe muke.

Tongue Twisters: (audio)
Pitala metla metlu, gde je metla metlu; Metla metla metlu iza vrata.
Čokančićem ćeš me, čokančićem ću te!
Cvrči, cvrči cvrčak, trči, trči trčak; trči, trči trk! Trčak trkom trči, crni cvrčak cvrči!

Part 2

Sunday, May 01, 2011

Easter Egg Hunt

SkolaSrpskog.com Easter Egg Hunt finished on Tuesday. Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to everyone for joining ! It wasn't easy  to find an egg and then to record an answer in Serbian. All the members of Learn Serbian Podcast FaceBook group were able to follow this exciting hunt. I'm publishing the results now ... you can read them as "This prize is in..." = Ova nagrada je u ..." or "This egg is now in..." = "Ovo jaje je sada u ..." 

Since the first egg at the top, worth 3 months of free Aktivator membership, was the most difficult to find, and wasn't claimed at all, I'll give it to Silvina from Argentina, the woman behind @NovakFunClub . There was also one more unclaimed egg, worth one month of free SkolaSrpskog Aktivator, which I'm giving to Tina - a dedicated student from the Netherlands. Čestitke svima  :-)

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Serbian verbs




Kada ______________ (you meet= sresti) me ti
_________________ (you say=kazati) da si srećna jer
uvek ______________(you love = voleti) 
da _____________ (you are = biti) u mom društvu i
da nas _____________ (they see = videti) svi.
Kada ______________ (you meet= sresti) me ti
kažeš da _____________ (you are = biti) srećna jer
____________________ (you can= moći) tako čvrsto
ruku uvek pred svima da stegneš mi
I _________________ (you say=kazati)
divna _____________ (it is = biti)  boja tvoje majice
divne _____________ (they are = biti) tvoje nove cipele
divna _____________ (it is = biti) boja tvojih očiju
____________________ (I dream = sanjati) te noćima 
uouou
__________ ______________ (don't tell) mi
da _____________ (I am = biti)  tvoj heroj
i to je sve
__________ ______________ (don't tell) mi
da _____________ (I am = biti) tvoj heroj
Jer ja _____________ (am = biti)
običan dečko i _______________ (I live=živeti) ko drugi
običan dečko što devojke _______________(he kisses = ljubiti)
običan dečko na glavi što dubi
znaj.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Srećan Uskrs :-)

Srećan Uskrs svim pratiocima LearnSerbian.Blogspot.com Bloga :)

Happy Easter to all the followers of LearnSerbian.blogspot.com blog :)

Here's the link to the pronunciation of Happy Easter in Serbian (Srećan Uskrs) and
a commonly used phrases: Hristos vaskrse! Vaistinu vaskrse!

I hope you enjoyed listening to the beautiful Easter song and preparing an Easter bunny cake. Now, if you'd like to reward yourself, find out about Serbian School Easter Egg Hunt by joining "Learn Serbian Podcast" FaceBook group and reading about the prizes and how to claim them:

Advanced Serbian - Srpski kao drugi jezik

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