Serbian for Beginners: Dialogue in Three Levels

I hope you are enjoying the winter weather and festive season.

Before we start this episode, make sure to find this podcast, Serbian Language Podcast

by Serbian Language Network, at Buzzsprout's website, so you can open and read the

transcript which has crucial texts and vocabulary for this episode.

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So, grab your material and let's start the exercise.

Today, we are going to practice reading and comprehension by comparing three texts with

different difficulty.

It is also a practice of making sentences at three different levels.

The first one will be very basic and the last one may be a

little harder. As we advance higher, the grammar and sentence structure will become more

and more complex.

This is a good exercise for practicing all the stuff you have been learning

in my lessons.

There is a list of words used in all three texts, so make sure

to scroll down in the transcript and look through it if you get stuck

or if you don't know some words.

Okay, so let's give it a go.

Here's the first level.

Let's see if you can understand.

Don't worry if you don't get it right away.

Use the given list and try to make sense of the text by piecing

all the word types together.

Text level 1 Ciao!

Srećan Božić i srećna Nova godina!

Zdravo! Hvala! Kako si?

Da li ideš u shopping?

Dobro sam. Da, ja idem u shopping.

Idem da kupim poklon.

Kako si ti?

Ja sam dobro, ali danas je hladno.

Da li ideš u shopping centar?

Šta hoćeš da kupiš?

Da, idem u shopping center.

Ja hoću da kupim laptop.

Šta ti radiš?

Ja idem kući.

Gladan sam. Hoću da jedem picu.

That's it. Short, simple, basic sentence structure.

Basic phrases. Make sure to check the list if you have any unfamiliar words.

Now, let's add some more advanced sentence structure.

This is the text in level 2.

Ja sam dobro, ali malo sam umoran.

Danas je baš hladno.

Sneg je padao ceo dan.

Da li ideš prema shopping centru?

Jel znaš šta hoćeš da kupiš?

Da, idem tamo.

Hoću da kupim dobar novi laptop.

A imam i shopping listu. And I have a shopping list.

Šta ti radiš danas?

What are you doing today?

Ja sam pošao kući. I went home.

Gladan sam. I want to buy a good new laptop.

I'm hungry. I made a pizza yesterday.

I want to eat and drink a cup of tea.

constructions, more uses of grammatical cases and some colloquial expressions.

Now for the level 3, we will try to add even more advanced structure

but still keep it as a somewhat beginner-friendly text.

Let's see.

Text level 3.

Hey, ciao Marija!

Srećan Božić i srećna nova godina.

Milane, to si ti.

Hvala, srećan Božić.

Dugo se nismo videli.

Kako si? Šta imam ovo?

Kuda ideš? Dobro sam.

Danas će biti dobar dan.

Danas ću ići u kupovinu.

Već 15 minuta čekam autobus na ovoj stanici.

Hoću da kupim poklon za brate i sestru, a posle moram da idem kod

majke. Kako si ti?

Dobro sam. Hvala.

Mislim da sam malo umoran.

Baš je hladno.

Danas je hladnije nego juče.

The snow is falling all day, and maybe even the night.

Do you want to go shopping center?

Do you know what you want to buy?

I am going to buy a good new laptop.

Hoću da kupim dobar novi laptop, ali ne znam šta da kupim mami i

But I don't know what to buy mom and dad.

tati. Imam veliku shopping listu, moram da kupim stvari za tortu.

I have a big shopping list, I have to buy things for a tort.

Šta ti radiš danas?

Hoćeš da idemo na kafu?

Ja sam pošao kući, mnogo sam gladan.

Pravio sam picu juče celu noć.

Hoću da pojedem dva, tri parčeta i posle toga da ležim na kauču i

popijem topli čaj.

Možemo da idemo na kafu sutra ako hoćeš.

If you stayed with me through this level, you're a true dedicated student.

For some more advanced students, this text should not be that big of a

challenge, but for all of you beginner warriors out there, this can be a

head-scratcher. Here we have both simple past and future tenses, even more examples of

different grammatical cases, comparatives of adjectives, numbers, adverbs, etc.

Hvala što je listo načinu načinu načinu.

Vokaboli je znamenu, nouni, verba, adjetiv, adverba, prepositions,

connector, a podobno.

Hvala što je načinu.

Hvala što je učinu načinu načinu načinu načinu načinu načinu načinu načinu.

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