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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Thursday, May 01, 2014
If this simple exercise is too easy, watch this video survey about the year of the Battle of Kosovo and jot down all the numbers you hear:
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Jeremija je bio veoma srećan tog jutra, jer je bio potpuno siguran da će dobiti povišicu na poslu. Njegov šef je u nekoliko navrata natuknuo Jeremiji da će od sledećeg meseca omastiti brk, kao i da je to potpuno zaslužio. Jeremija se pravio lud i uspešno se uzdržavao da ne vuče šefa za rukav i postavlja dodatna pitanja. Bio je svestan da sve što bude dobio jeste rezultat njegovog sopstvenog rada i da nije jednostavno palo s neba. Posebno mu je bilo milo što ovaj put nije morao da se kiti tuđim perjem. Njegova zasluga je bila očigledna. Kada je tog jutra stigao na posao i otvorio svoju kancelariju, imao je šta da vidi. Na stolu je stajao potpuno nov kompjuter i pored njega još noviji mobilni, a šef je sav sijao od sreće! "Šta sam ti rekao? Borio sam za tebe kao vučica... i izborio sam se! Najnoviji model? Hm? Šta kažeš?" Jeremija nije morao da se pretvara - na njegovom licu se videlo da su mu sve lađe potonule... Bio je 100% siguran da će dobiti veću platu, a sada mu je postalo jasno da je ostao kratkih rukava! Šta će mu sada Spomenka reći?
Right, now there are three tasks for you:
- The easiest task: Can you find the synonyms for these words in the text:
- drago
- aludirao
- apsolutno
- pravi
- narednog
- jako
- blesav
- totalno
- puta
- shvatio
- sasvim
- samo
2. The more difficult task: which phrases and idioms mean:
- down in the dumps/ in the doldrums
- fight like a wolf
- to be absolutely certain about something
- keep asking for something
- get a raise
- take an advantage of something
- to deck oneself in borrowed finery
- to get the worst of a bargain/ to come away empty-handed
3. The most difficult task: what will Spomenka say to him when he arrives back home? Try to come up with a suitable idiom or expression. Let me help you with a few ideas, and you try to guess which ones are the most appropriate:
- ko drugome jamu kopa sam u nju upada
- svako nosi svoj krst
- nema ti ravna
- prvo skoči pa reci hop
- nije zlato sve što sija
- ko rano rani dve sreće grabi
- doterao je cara do duvara
- poklonu se u zube ne gleda
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Happy Easter to all the followers of LearnSerbianBlog.com who are celebrating Uskrs today. Let me share with you the links to the useful info, songs and pronunciation of the greetings for Serbian Easter:
- Pronunciation of the Easter greeting in Serbian
- Easter Morning song
- Video about Easter
- This song dedicated to Uskrs (if it's invisible, try to switch to Firefox browser)
Monday, April 14, 2014
Very popular "Državni posao" series are perfect for highly advanced Serbian lessons. One can learn a lot of common Serbian phrases and expressions. The fun part is to detect mistakes made by famous Đorđe Čvarkov, Dragan Torbica and Boškić (e.g. "lapsitops" instead of "laptop" or "Jututu" instead of "Jutjub").
Let's watch just the first three minutes and try to do the following tasks:
Task 1: Tick the phrases you hear
- Do juče se nisam brinuo
- To je samo fol
- Digneš narod na noge
- Prazne duše
- Bez i zrna energije, bez i zrna poleta
- I ne bi se digli
- Pogledajte šta nam rade
- Za mnogo manje sitnice
- Nikom ništa
- Mož' misliti
- Čime se ti baviš
- Ukinuli seriju
- To je neka mutna radnja
- Ako nisu umešali prste
- Imao (seriju) pa nemao
- Nije to bilo koja serija
- Neko će odgovarati
- Nema milosti
Task 2: Even if you don't understand each and every word, can you understand what the problem is?
Task 3: After watching the first part (0:20 - 1:30 - I added the subtitles to make things easier), try to answer the following questions:
a. Da li je Dragan Torbica mislio da je ukidanje serije istina ili ne?
b. Da li Đorđe Čvarkov misli da je narod u depresiji, ili pun energije?
c. Koje reči je Boškić čuo kada je ušao u kancelariju?
d. Na koje tekuće probleme je Boškić mislio kada je pričao o "dizanju naroda"?
e. Ko se čudi Boškiću?
f. Ko objašnjava u čemu je problem i kojim rečima?
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
Saturday, April 05, 2014
If you have been in Novi Sad, I am sure you will enjoy doing this fun speaking/writing exercise which can be done along with Pharrell Williams' Happy [WE ARE FROM NOVI SAD] version:
You can make simple sentences when you recognize the places where the people are:
You can make simple sentences when you recognize the places where the people are:
- Ovo je autobus. On igra u autobusu.
- Ovo je trg. On igra na trgu.
- Ovo je kej. Oni igraju na keju....
The verbs you can use are as follows:
- igrati/ plesati u/na + Loc = to dance (deca igraju na ulici)
- nalaziti se + Loc= there is/are (oni se nalaze u parku)
- prepoznati + Acc = to recognize (prepoznajem Frušku goru)
- biti u/na + Loc = to be (bio/bila sam na ovom mestu)
- videti + Acc = to see (vidim or video/videla sam tvrđavu)
The idea is not to stop the video while making these short sentences :)
Monday, March 03, 2014
If you enjoy learning Serbian with easy texts, here comes a very simple one, which is actually a part of Serbian 102 course:
Vocabulary you might need:
Vocabulary you might need:
PUTOVATI - to travel
NA MORE - to the seaside
U ZAVISNOSTI OD - depending on
ODREDIŠTE - destination
IĆI - to go
A - and/but
NAJVIŠE VOLETI - to love most of all
ZATO ŠTO - because
ZAUSTAVITI SE - to stop
ZAŽELETI - to wish
SVE VREME - all the time
SVAĐATI SE - to argue
MENI - to me
MOM SUPRUGU - to my husband
POŠTO - because
MIRAN - peaceful
TRAJATI - to last
DUGO - long
Here comes the same text, but in the Cyrillic script:Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Regardless of the fact that if you learn Serbian, you will be able easily understand Croatian, Bosnian and recently Montenegrin, (so called BCS language) spoken in the region of ex Yugoslavia, I'm sure you'll appreciate to hear the different accents. Today, I chose this interesting story from a Montenegrin news Youtube channel about a musician physicist :) and transcribed it into Montenegrin/Serbian:
The follow-up exercise for this video can be received via Advanced Activator
The follow-up exercise for this video can be received via Advanced Activator
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
If you're learning Serbian, you'll surely need these commonly used phrases (on a daily basis LOL):
- Ostaviti (nekoga) na miru = Leave (someone) alone (e.g. ostavi me na miru! = leave me alone)
- Poludeću = I'll go crazy
- Učiniću sve da + present tense = I'll do everything to...
- Možda i grešim = maybe I'm mistaken
- Samo nebo zna koliko + phrase = (only) heaven knows how much ...
Let's learn them while singing this oldie song by Oliver Mandić:
Monday, February 17, 2014
While making a short video exercise based on one of our previous lessons I also came across this short video which can teach you a variety of common collocations connected with tourism and hospitality. Let's listen to the video and try to jot them down.
In case it's too fast, do watch my subtitles in Serbian, which will be integrated in the videos on this blog from now on :)
In case it's too fast, do watch my subtitles in Serbian, which will be integrated in the videos on this blog from now on :)
Sunday, February 16, 2014
You may remember some of the funny Kefalica videos from my past posts. This time, the video is about "Kafana", which is combined with very nice story about what a pop singer wanted to become when she was a little girl. I added subtitles under her story in this video:
If you want to enjoy the whole story and hear what the kids are saying in between, do watch the video on Youtube.
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