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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Agreement and Disagreement Phrases in Serbian - Day

Saturday, March 09, 2013

Learn Serbian 365 Days with Songs and Poems - Branko Miljković

If you are at upper-intermediate or advanced level of Serbian, I'm sure you'll fall in love with this poem at first sight/hearing :) Zaljubićete se u ovu pesmu Branka Miljkovića na prvi pogled / prvo slušanje :)



If you are not sure about the words and the meanings, you'll  find it on this lyricstranslation.com page.
For all those who'd like to practise the Genitive case after the preposition "zbog" = because of, here is the exercise based on this magnificient poem.

Friday, March 08, 2013

Learn Serbian 365 Days - Detective Story, part 3

If you have successfully solved the previous two parts of this detective story, I'm sure you're ready = spremi ste, to continue working on the case:

Убиство у радној соби
Part 1: What has been found and where ?


Извештај, 2. фебруар, 20:16
Дежурни официр - Стојан Нешић,

Место убиства: кућа убијеног Ђорђа Белића, 
Адреса: Гвоздићева 142, Звездара, Београд

Затечено стање при доласку, у 18.04:

Телевизор - упаљен.
Поломљен тањир - у трпезарији поред врата.
Неколико неотребљених кромпира - у судопери у кухињи.
Трагови уља - на кваци.
Пиштољ - у руци убијеног Ђорђа Белића.
Пиштољ - очишћен, без отисака прстију.
Отисци прстију Војислава Симеуновића - 
на кваци од врата према радној соби.
Телефон - без отисака прстију.
Прозори у радној соби - отворени.
Улазна врата - отворена.
Задња врата, према гаражи и башти - отворена.
Ћерка, Мирјана Белић, - уплакана.
Куварица, Снежана Ранковић, - потресена.
Шофер, Радивој Шошкић, - уплашен.
Обезбеђење, Војислав Симеуновић, - смирен.

Наставиће се...
Part 2: Write a report and send it to the inspector at learnserbian et gmail dot com 

Thursday, March 07, 2013

Intermediate Serbian Lessons - 365 Days of Serbian

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Serbian Lesson 4 for Pre-intermediate Level

I'm sure that now you are much more confident in using the Locative case to express where you are:
Last time you practised the Locative with the verbs:
  • govoriti = to speak
  • živeti = to live 
In this fourth lesson at pre-intermediate level of Serbian, you are going to discover that the Dative case  which combines with the verbs describing movement, like "going towards" = ići ka, has the same form as the Locative, which is awesome!
Before we do this fun exercise (in my classes my students and I play this language game), let me remind you of the conjugations for the new verb, which we'll need in this lesson:
  • ići = to go
We'll need the imperative form "go", which can be used :
  • formally: "idite ka" ("go towards" with Vi)
  • informally: "idi ka" ("go towards" with ti)

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Serbian Lesson 4 - Learn Serbian for 365 Days

If you are a real beginner in Serbian, make sure you don't miss the previous lessons at this level, before you start preparing yourself to connect the previous knowledge (The verb TO BE) and Serbian adjectives with the following lesson which will be about the Greetings in Serbian:

Sunday, March 03, 2013

Learn Serbian Phrases - dan dvadeseti

In the previous posts you could practise the phrases for giving directions. Today, I came across this great video which can help you learn the language of instructions, when talking about exercises. It's useful to revise the body parts first:


and then to enjoy watching and listening to the video below:


Serbian Phrases free e-book

  • First, you can do these exercises with your eyes closed, only by listening to her
  • Then, you can watch the video and do the exercise, checking if you understood her well
  • Finally, you can do this follow-up exercise I made for you

Advanced Serbian - Srpski kao drugi jezik

Gde je ključ? Где је кључ? - Učimo srpski sa Marinom
Gde je ključ? ...
Where is the Key?-...
By Marina Petrović
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