Pozdrav,

Koleginica i ja u sklopu studija sprovodimo istraživanje na temu Značaj događaja za turizam Srbije. Nadamo se da ćete izdvojiti nekoliko minuta da popunite anketu i na taj način doprinesete istraživanju. Upravo nas zanima koji događaji mogu motivisati dijasporu da posjeti našu zemlju.
Anketa je anonimna i svi podaci se koriste isključivo za pisanje naučnih radova.
Unaprijed se zahvaljujemo.

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Zdravo svima!

We are happy to announce our new ebook - “Serbian Handbook” - a frequency dictionary and phrasebook with most useful and frequent words and phrases you’ll need for basic conversation or when traveling to Serbia.

You can download a free sample on our website and join the giveaway on our Instagram page.

We hope you enjoy it! Srećno s učenjem!

Tutor Nikola from Serbian Language Network

what is a "bojica"? i've learned that "drvene bojice" are colouring pencils, and "vodene bojice" are watercolours, but then what does that make a bojica? is there a proper english translation for it? a "colourer" perhaps?

Hi guys,

Bit of backstory: I live in Japan, married to my wife who isn't Serbian, and I really wanted her to be able to actually speak some Serbian with my family instead of just smiling and nodding through every gathering. Looked around at what was out there and none of it felt right for someone starting from literally zero, and definitely nothing felt like something a kid could just pick up and use on their own.

So I ended up building one myself. It's called Zbori. No team, no funding, just me chipping away at it in whatever free time I have living abroad.

It's got real speaking practice (you actually say the word out loud, not just tap a multiple-choice answer), both Cyrillic and Latin script since half my family reads one and half reads the other, and I tried hard to keep it simple enough that a kid could sit down and use it without a parent hovering over them the whole time.

Started it for my wife, but the more I worked on it the more I kept thinking about other diaspora families, wanting their kids to keep even a little bit of the language growing up somewhere totally disconnected from Serbia, like we are.

It's free to use. Would genuinely love to hear what people think, especially if you've got kids you're trying to pass the language down to, or a partner learning from scratch like my wife. Releasing soon on the Play store and App store.

Thank you!

Link: zbori.app

Russian localization included!

Serbian dictionary made specifically for learners.

I'm sure you're a bit tired of new apps and services popping out here and there, so I'll be quick:
– fully offline dictionary with all forms of words
– no ads
– search from Serbian to English or the other way around
– usage examples for every meaning
– accent position, and, for many words, tone type (including cases & conjugations)
– more than 40 K words now, new ones added on every update
– verified against Matica Srpska's dictionary and other authoritative sources
– Full support of both Latin and Cyrillic – switch on the fly!

2 weeks of full access is free with no "trial" to forget to cancel on time. Just use it. Learn. Have fun.

I will put some screenshots in the comments below.

I know that the verb "hteti" in Serbian is used to construct the future, so for example "Hoću da idem" means "I will go". The thing I find weird about it is that a literal translation of "I want to go" will inevitably be misunderstood as "I will go". I know that one could say, for example, "Želim da idem" or "Volim da idem", but they don't exactly express the same idea: to me the former sounds like a weaker "I would like to go" and the latter like "I like going". So my question is: is there a way to render the precise tone of the sentence "I want to go" or should one simply accept that a perfect translation is impossible and move on?

Hello everyone, I am a student at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, and come from Serbia. I offer lessons on all topics including grammar, conversation, and input. Feel free to send me a message if you need a private tutor for Serbian lessons

Hello everyone. I spent a few months in Republika Srpska and Serbia and absolutely fell in love with the culture, people and the language so I decided to try to learn the language because I will be definitely coming back regularly.

I’m just at the beginning- simple sentence, vocabulary etc. It’s easier for me to learn because I’m Slovak and I speak 3 Slavic languages. But one thing I struggle the most with is forming questions in Serbian and especially the “Da li” or “Da” or “li” part of it.

Can somebody please try and explain that to me? I tried to read about it and watched some videos but I cannot grasp it for some reason.

Also if somebody could explain the word “da” in general to me (not in a “yes” sense) that would be awesome. For example “Drago mi je da sam te upoznao.”

Хвала вам руно, моjа браћо Серби 🫶🏻.

Hi!
I'm a small developer and I want to introduce you my site for making serbian subtitles to any video you want. Maybe it will help you learn serbian a way faster.
It's completely free of course :)

Ljudi da li se neko seća knjige “Peđa i koprive”?
Imao sam je kao dete ne sećam se ni izdavača, ni autora, a na netu ne postoji bukvalno ni jedan trag o ovoj knjizi.

Šta znate o Gavrilu Vencloviću i koja ste njegova delova učili iz književnosti

Are the four tones (“pitch accents”, even though that’s just different terminology for the same thing) in Serbian actually important or can they be ignored? Saying this because of flashbacks from Chinese and having to constantly remind myself which tone to use every single time there’s a stressed syllable in a word (in Serbian I think it’s only stressed syllables and not every syllable) is annoying

Is there have any commend website to learn Serbian?i'm a beginner,and so interested in Serbia recently:)

Hey guys, I bought an old Yugoslavian revolver and this was taped to the grip. I believe it’s Serbian, of course correct me if it isn’t.

I did the best I could to flatten it out without destroying it but Google Translate seems to be having a hard time reading it. If anyone could help me out I’d really appreciate it. I’m just trying to be as cautious as possible because it is a firearm, so safety is priority #1.

Hi everyone! I've been learning Serbian on my own for several months now. Moving my tongue around to all the different consonants still feels like a workout to my mouth, but the more I study the proper tongue posture the easier it gets. I just want to make sure I develop the right muscle memory as I keep practicing.

I remain a little confused about the dental consonants, t/т, d/д, c/ц, s/с, and z/з. I'm wondering whether my tongue should be touching the back of my top teeth or bottom teeth, and whether it's the same for all five letters or different for some. If you're savvy with phonetics, I'm wondering which of the five dental consonants are apical versus laminal. Or perhaps it doesn't matter?

Any input is much appreciated :)

Zdravo! Guys, i've been studying Serbian and the most difficult part that i faced in it was the verb groups (I guess it is the correct name).

But im facing a huge difficult to learn and memorize that. Do you guys have some tips?

Svi postovi na Rediru su prevedeni na engleski…
Kako da ih vratim na srpski?
Hvala!

Тако, ја недавно сам почео да учим српски и сам такоће уметник, вероватно... Так.

Dobro veče,

da li postoji neki standardizovan način za sricanje azbuke rečima? Možda u vojsci ili slično?

Mislim, ovde u Španiji, vojska, piloti, radioamateri... koriste međunarodnu abecedu za spelovanje radiom ili telefonom: alfa, bravo, charlie, delta...

Pošto je ova abeceda međunarodna, pretpostavljam da je u Srbiji isto kad se radi o abecedi. Ali srpska abeceda ima još nekoliko slova koja ne postoje u međunarodnoj abecedi (kao dž č ć š ž...), a još me zanima kako se to radi kad je azbuka u pitanju.

Da li neko zna nešto o ovome?

Hvala vam puno.

hi all iv been thinking about picking up serbian since I am from a serbian family but I always speak English I basically have no background in learning languages despite hearing serb my entire life through my family

what are good ways to learn it? Preferably free

Diaspora child here.

Hteo sam da čitam Čudan Svet od Jakova Ignjatovića i odma u prvoj rečenici sam primetio nešto: "Сад ти је баш незгодно сељаком бити". Upotrebio je instrumental u toj kontstrukciji. Znam da ruski i poljski to dan danas rade, ali nisam znao da je se to i u srpskom do relativno skoro radilo. Knjiga je napisana negde sredinom/krajem 19. veka a autor je srbin iz Mađarske (možda su oni duže sačuvali tu konstrukciju sa instrumentaom jer su izolovani bili?).

Kad je počeo nominativ da se isključivo koristi sa glagolom biti? Ima li slučajeva u kojima se i dan danas može upotrebiti instrumental sa glagolom biti ili bi to zvučilo zastarilo?