Ep.9: Naručivanje u restoranu

I am Maki.

This season of our podcast is a bit different from the previous ones.

I have another friend, also called Ivana, joining me to have short dialogues in

Serbian. Then we will explain them in English.

This new season will be like mini Serbian lessons.

So if you are ready, grab a cup of coffee and enjoy the podcast.

Добар дан сувима!

Я сам Маки.

Добар дан, Ивана.

Welcome Ivana. How are you doing today?

Okay, as the weather a little bit sunny, a little bit windy or cloud,

but it's okay.

Yeah, it would be a nice day to go to a restaurant, right, instead

of cooking at home.

Oh yes, yes, yes, great.

Yeah, that's why we are going to talk about ordering at a restaurant today

and our dialogue will include local Serbian food and drinks.

We hope you will get lots of new vocabulary and expressions.

Right. So, Ivana, I remember you were saying that you do not fancy going

to restaurants that much anymore, right?

Yes, yes, it was when I used to live in Belgrade, but here when

I came to Kurshvitz, not so often.

Yeah, you're right.

Yeah, but still you have a favourite pizza place.

Yes, I have.

So for me, when I first started learning Serbian, ordering

at a restaurant sounded easy.

But when it came to putting into reality, it was kind of difficult because

some words are tricky to me.

But I was good at reading the menu.

so then I learned that chew it just yeah chew and then whatever you

want to say whatever food or drinks you want you just say it so

it was easier in time yeah yeah yeah but now we are at the

level of discussing an order so that's that's a higher level I'm proud of

it okay let's hear the dialogue and then we explain what we are saying

mention some things important things and then we and go back to the dialogue

again.

Of course. I like you, Livović.

What do you drink?

If they have a good home-to-home kaisu, I will do it.

Super. It's just to decide what we will do for dessert.

Okay, very short.

We did not talk with the waiter, Konobar.

We should have added like, hey Konobar, that's something we do, right?

yeah yeah at the end yes at the end anyway all right so can

you tell what you said yes beginning yes uh i said maki i recommend

you to take vitamin salad and green mushrooms for starter that means maki predlažem

ti da zapredjelo uzmeš vitaminsku salatu i pečurke na žaru and then i said

all right and what are we gonna get as the main dish that's

a funny thing for me glavno yellow like main dish but head dish we

say yes head food okay yes great expression okay my reply uh

you can order some of serbian specialties, maybe prebranac, which means baked beans, or

sarma, which means rolled stuffed sour cabbage with meat.

Here you are, look at the menu.

What I said actually, možeš da naručeš neki srpski specialitet, možda prebranac

ili sarmu. Evo pogledaj jelovnik.

And then I said, okay, let me see.

And then I said, I'll get baked beans.

Da vidim? Ja ću da uzmem prebranac.

Ati. So Uzmem here is get take, right?

Yes. Okay, I will order sarma.

Are you in the mood for small grass of rakija?

Rakija is actually some kind of brandy.

So, did you have a cup of rakija?

I said, of course, yay!

And then I said I like a plum rakiya, which is I like a

shilivovitsu. And then what are you going to drink or what are you drinking?

If they have good homemade apricot rakiya, I will take that.

Which means if they have good friends at home, I will do it.

And then I said super.

Then only thing that's left is to decide what we are going to have

for dessert. Super.

Ostalo je samodatlicimo stati.

We will go to desert.

And then, Konobar, I ask you to...

We will send you.

We please, we want to order now.

Yeah. I mean, it's not rude or weird to call Konobar someone in Serbia.

In English, you wouldn't say, waiter, hey.

Yes, yeah, yeah.

Anyway, very good list of words we have here.

The first one I like to mention is predlogiti.

Predlogiti is to suggest, to recommend, right?

Yeah, probably because we have options in English.

It's recommend, I think, in this case.

You want to recommend something from something that you can choose.

Okay, I don't know what is different to suggest, but I would use in

English recommended, probably.

Okay, and it's like predlagem, I recommend you, t, medlagem, t, and then and

then uh you conjugate the verb the use mesh the ph yeah yeah

yeah so that's good predlysm so it's a bit irregular but yes it is

a bit irregular and uzme i i had difficulty in learning, but it's very

simple. Uzmeti is to get or to take, and you can use it to,

I'll get, I'll have, which I mean, it's a lot.

So uzmem. Yes, the verb is uzeti, and then you will change uzmem as

you said as I, or uzeti.

Ah, it's uzeti, okay.

Uzeti, that's the infinitive.

No, you are right.

Uzeti, that's the infinitive.

Then it's also irregular.

Yes, it is.

Okay.

Uzmem, uzmesh, uzmemo.

Yes, yes. Okay.

And naruchiti, that's order.

Order, yes.

Naruchimo, naruchiti.

You used something challenging for me.

Naruchitu. Naruchitu. That's in future.

Naruchitu. I will order.

Naruchitu. Yes, yes.

Yes, I will order.

Yeah. What will we order?

It's in that plural we, yes.

I think the first time I used that was I was in the restaurant

and we ordered another, another konobar didn't see we ordered and he came to

ask and I said, Ah, great.

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Maybe. That's the past tense.

Exactly. Exactly. And I was like so proud of myself.

I used it, but while ordering, I didn't use it.

After ordering, I used it.

You used past tense, actually, which is also correct.

Exactly. And raspoloženza.

So up for something in English, probably.

Are you interested in having, right?

Yeah, I think that I used in the mood for.

In the mood for, yeah, why not?

Also, yeah. Okay, yeah.

So, I'm not in the mood would be then, Nisam raspoložena.

Raspoložena. Yes, I'm not in the mood, Nisam raspoložena, yeah.

Would it be a complete sentence, if the context is already given?

Do I need to say za something all the time?

No, no, because you already explained it, or you talked about something, and at

the end you said, Nisam raspoložena.

No, you don't have to continue.

exactly nice so for female raspolition now for males it will raspolition right yes

yes okay and chashitza so chasha is glass yes chashitza

is small glass yes it's more blood i don't know uh if everyone knows

those special rakia glasses here in serbia they are adorable We have it on

our Instagram page it's like a a little bit of tube shape right yes

like I would say it looks like for me as a fruit pear

and you know the name for that for that class yeah there was a

name I can't call it very strange Chokanche.

Chokanche, yes, yes.

That's a special one.

There's also normal small glasses, like little ones.

But that shape is like pear, as you said.

It's unique, but it's very...

I bought them for our kitchen, for our home, but it's really hard to

refill. Yes, yes, it is.

And it's very hard to drink from that.

You have to know that you don't spill it, actually.

Exactly. We can explain that small glass as I mentioned before for the people

who go in the bar and everything like as a shot because shot is

actually the also small glass that you use for tequila I think but that's

the size as a small glass for the rakija actually.

It's the same size.

Same size and some people do drink rakija as a shot as well.

Depends on this.

All right. And then I'd like to mention the names of rakija.

So here, Szilivovica is actually rakija od Szilivovica.

Yes, od Szilivovica.

Yes, but we have a shortcut of it, Szilivovica.

Szilivovica, yeah. Do we have the same shortcut for the other foods?

We have, but we are not using as very common.

We just said, because if we talked about the drinks, we talked about rakija,

We can say, do you have, do you have, do you have, do you

have a plum, apple or apricot?

We don't use the same word as shlivovica.

You can say, of course, jabukova cha, that means rakija from apple.

apple, apple, rachia, jabu, ko, vacha, we can use quince, dunja, dunje,

vacha. Dunje, vacha, we just say dunja, right?

Yeah, we say dunja, it's very, yeah, it's common, it's very easy to say

just the name of the fruit, not the end of that word, strange, acca,

whatever. Yeah, but it sounds, I think, easy or it sounds practical.

Silevovitsa is the most common one.

Yes, because silevovitsa actually is the most common fruit to make rakija in Serbia

for centuries, probably.

Yeah, that's why in your sentence you said, ako imaju dobro domacu kaisiu.

Great, yes, yes.

I didn't say kaisi ever true, I just said kaisi.

Yes, and I got it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Great. Okay, and ostalo je.

I think ostale je samo, that's also a phrase, right?

And like what's left is.

Yeah, what's left is, yeah, yeah.

That's the phrase, yeah.

Yeah, I hear that as well together.

Ostale je samo da, and then do something, whatever.

Yeah, whatever we're gonna do.

Very good. All right.

I miss Prebranas, by the way.

But you have there also a very similar one, which is Savčana Gravča, as

I remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

In some restaurants there is, but it's not as common as, I think.

It is. It's a little bit different, but yeah.

Anyway, let's hear it from the beginning again, and then we wrap it up.

Maki, I would like you to take vitamin and salt and 5 cups on

fire. Yes. What do we want to do as the main food?

You can do some Serbian specialty, maybe a drink or a sarmu.

Here you look at the drink.

I can see.

I will take a drink, and you?

I will use the Sarmu.

Do you have a drink of Rakija?

Of course. I like the Ljivovic.

What do you do?

If they have a good home, I will do that.

Super. It's just to decide what we will do for dessert.

Thank you so much.

It was very practical and nice.

I just wanted to mention, I will do that.

I will that.

Yeah, I like the shortcut in Serbian.

So instead of saying Yeah, to the Yeah, okay.

You just say Because we've talked previously about what and that means on what

we said before.

Yes. And also Jelovnik and many right yellow is something only with yellow

so food so it doesn't have the wine card in it in general right

you say yellow nick e what was it pizza card beans kakarta or peachy

karta pizza depends yeah the pizza depends yeah yeah but yellow nick is used

a lot in khrushchev at least maybe in belgrade many would be also common

option yes yes because the yellow nick comes from the actually the the also

the name of yellow which means dish yeah yellow is dish from that it

comes yellow nick what is on the menu to eat what kind of dishes

you have in that moment something like that yeah a food cart for example

yes yeah yeah it could be so it's nice that we talked about these

important words and Thank you for

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