Learn Serbian & Može kafa podcast: Episode 2 - Daily Routine

I am Maki and I am here.

Nicola. So we are here with the second episode, which is about habits, daily

routines, and what we like and don't like.

Again, we prepared the text in three levels, and the last one is mine.

And we will be talking about our habits, and we will be asking each

other some questions in Serbian.

Alright. So, Nikola, would you read the first one, please?

Perfect. I think this is beginner, but still there are complicated things there, right?

I just want to ask you to explain a little bit the difference between

zatim and posle.

Posle means after, and posle is used with nouns.

There has to be a noun after posle, right?

yeah well not all the time so posla can mean uh it can be

uh adverb let's say so it can stand on its own full stop that's

fine but you can also use it if you use a noun after it

then it's a preposition posla that's usually sound it goes together it sounds similar

after work Guernetim, I hear, yes.

Posla, okay. So I never use posla, by the way, by itself.

It was a posle, I never said.

So from now on, I should start using it.

Thank you. Yeah.

Similar to kasnia later.

So that works.

Zati means then, I guess.

And we never use it with a noun.

It's by itself and work, right?

Yeah, it's just, it stands on its own.

It just means then.

then I do this then I do that and there's also nakon

yeah same as posle less used a little bit more maybe more formal you

know but depends on the context again used with nouns cannot stand on its

own so it cannot be an adverb just a preposition thank you for clarifying

that And now, intermediate round.

I often read some pages of books to be left.

My day starts.

How does that sound to you?

My day starts.

It sounds pretty good.

One thing in that sentence is budim.

In seven hours when I wake up, you have probudim.

Do you understand the difference?

Yeah, if there's pro, that means like the thing is done it's like perfective

i guess imperfective so probodim is perfective so the action is done one single

action and budim is constantly so waking up when i'm waking up yeah and

we would use probodim more, right?

I would use probably more.

Technically, nothing wrong with this sentence, but I would say that probably more frequent.

Okay. And also here

tokam. I like tokam as well.

It's like during, right?

During, yeah. It's also followed by genitive.

Pausa became pausa, right?

Exactly. As most prepositions, a genitive is used with them you can instead

of talking you can say that also works I see nice and

that means foreign books right

stranice is a page strana

strana is an adjective strani is foreign so

strane knjige

so this sentence is fine yeah but what does that mean yeah so i

read couple of pages of book of the book so that's fine but yeah

if you want to say of a couple of foreign books or something like

that then yeah but it wouldn't make sense so for me stranitsa was yeah

i always use that's I thought it's the same word.

sada su to.

Da, da je to sam vrlo.

Okay, good. Okpustin, you said in the first episode, Ja sam strankinija, ja, i

Ok, dobro.

Opusten. U prvnog episoda ja sam opušten tip, da je?

Ja, opušten. Opušten je to vrb.

Prvijek. Nije, da se pritavno na vrlo, kada je moj hrvatski.

Ok, da je to učin.

Obječno ustajem oko sedem sati i prvo što uradim jeste da popijem čašu vode

i protegnem se.

Verujem da je jutarnja rutina veoma važna za uspješan dan, pa se trudim da

doručkujem nešto zdravo, poput voća ili žitarica.

Nakon toga idem na posao, gdje pokušavam da budem produktivan i organizovan tokom dana.

Tokom radnoj pauze volim da izađem napolje na kratku šetnju, jer mi svež vazduh

pomaže da se osvežim i nastavim s radom.

Posle posla, obično idem u teretanu ili se bavim nekim hobijem, poput sviranja gitare.

Večernji sati su rezervisani za opuštanje, obično uz dobar film ili knjigu A uvek

se trudim da legnem u krevet pre ponoći kako bih imao dovoljno sna

So nice I understand most of it obviously, but a couple of questions for

you

Poput sviranje gitaranje Poput he is like such as?

Such as, like, yeah And it also demands genitiv.

I see. I always use na primer.

Okay, na primer works, for example.

Okay.

And opustanje, again here, the noun version of opustitise, I guess.

Yes, noun, derived from verbs.

Kako bih imao, or imala dovolnost na.

Kako bih here is like big,

It gives the reason why I would go to the bed.

Yeah, so like in order to, I would say.

In order to have.

I see. To me, kako bih imala, like I would love to.

Ah, yeah, kako bih.

Kako is like exclamation.

Kako bih vala, I would like to.

But here, because in order to also is used that way.

Good. And I did my own, I wrote my own daily routine as well.

Let's see how you find it.

or one day, I often eat a lot on the street with a tree,

a tree and a tree.

I play with my mother from between the hours, after the hours,

I read a book or I come to see my friends.

At the evening, I prepare him at five or six hours.

After the evening, we watch TV series or play a video.

I'm going to swap.

I sleep at 10 and 30.

Sounds good. Nice.

That's right. Very punctual, very exact.

I think the words about my breakfast might be the

first time, like, completely new words for the listeners.

Like, what I eat for breakfast is ovse ne pahulice.

That means oatmeal in English.

Oatmeal, yes. We call those cereal and similar content

like that pahulice.

So cereal, flakes, and stuff like that.

Yeah. you you have also musli right that's another type of breakfast but it's

a different thing so what as you saw or heard when i was telling

the hours it was hard to say uh pet nice just nice and i

used petty stress because i'm saying and it would be okay right yeah exactly

so we've we've write it like 12 13 14 and so on but we

will say uh for we won't say 14 we'll say two o'clock three o'clock

usually unless we want to be very strict formal and punctual then we will

say we will say 13 30 but yeah okay No questions.

Then I will ask you.

Kako je svoj dan?

Okay. Moj dan.

So I don't have anything written, but it will be spoken.

And then we'll, I guess, do a transcript.

Moj dan. Moj Ne budim se mnogo rano.

I am a little bit of a day, but I

8 ili 9 sati, zato što krećem sa poslom oko 10.

am a little bit of a day.

U toku dana, ja ceo dan sam u stanu kod kuće, ne izlazem mnogo

napolje, zato što radim kod kuće.

I doručkujem u 9 sati, spremim

kafu, tursku kafu, bez šećera.

obično doručkujem jaje ili sandvič i neko voće kao što je banana.

Posle toga radim, imam pauze, ponekad sat vremena, ponekad dva sata između časova.

Na pauzi odem do prodavnice, možda ako imam vremeno, da kupim nešto

za ručak ili večeru.

živim sa mojom verenicom sada u stanu i ona dolazi kuće oko 4 ili

5

ja radim i dalje do 6 sati najkasnije i posle toga mi jedemo

ili spremamo večer ili jedemo i onda odmaramo, pijemo kafu ako

je petak volimo da izađemo posle posla u grad ili u šetnju ako

je vikend volimo da prošetamo do knjižare ili do naše gomiljeno kafića ili

odemo nekad kolima u Belgrad super nice,

i understood everything, i'm so happy to be that ok, super, i tried to

speak slower but, you know you just said, živim sa veronikom, right?

Virenica is a fiance.

Verenica je fianca.

O, očekam, da videte se nama. Oh, okay. I was thinking you are saying her name.

Okay.

I'm taking this time.

Good.

Any questions for me?

Yeah. I was going to ask you, but I didn't take notes.

So you said you don't go out of the house because you work from

home. but if you have a couple of hours in between your lessons right

sometimes and then you go to the market supermarket yes for down its size

like shopping right shop brother into shop yeah okay nice super i think

it's really great we will write it down but after listening i will write

it down it's my homework from you okay all right just the What happens

when I start?

You start working in 9 or 10?

7? I start working in 6.

I 6? No.

Ranere?

Earlier? 5?

Okay, that's... Peti pola.

Peti trideset. Pola šest.

Pola Okay, so early bird.

And for that, I have a saying that I just found while reading a

book. Korano rani, the word sreće grabi.

Sreće grabi. Sreće.

Korano rani, sreće grabi.

So it's kind of equivalent to early bird gets the worm, right?

Yes, yes. And you say gets two luck.

right? Čulaks, ja.

Ok.

Hvala mnogo. To je bilo super za mene.

Ok, vidimo se uskoro.

Ćao. Prijatno.