Self-introduction in Serbian 3 Levels

Može Kafa podcast plus Learn Serbian podcast with your hosts that you already know.

I'm Nikola. And here is Maki.

Welcome to everyone.

Exactly. And we will be helping you together with Joint Forces learn Serbian.

So in today's first episode, we are doing introduction, how to introduce yourself first

in three levels.

And then we might talk about something else and further.

As you guys know, I've been learning Serbian for several years.

And I'm sure you have seen Nicola's page on YouTube, also on Instagram, on

Facebook. Maybe I don't use Facebook, but I think you are there as well.

Right, Nicola? Yeah, a little bit.

And your website is quite useful with free samples.

And you've been helping a lot of people I know.

So I'm so excited about this new episode.

And we wanted to start with something simple, introducing yourself.

but we wanted to you know change it a little bit make it a

little bit more useful for all levels so we are we have prepared a

beginner intermediate and advanced level of introduction mine will be not that advanced but

yours will be for sure so i did a pocce moh i did a

pocce so i wrote three texts in three levels um kind of the same

topic right so the first one is the

Hi, I am Nikola.

I am from Serbia.

I have 27 years.

I am a teacher.

I like to read and play guitar.

I am happy.

weird because professor should be a title like at university but we use it

in high school so each part of education system has a different title for

teachers in elementary it's ucite then we have in middle school

technically it's nastavnik nastavnica and in high school and university it's professor and professor

okay so okay so professor might seem too i don't know to me also

too much yes i know your feeling uh but people introduce me to their

friends as well like professor it's i'm like i'm not yeah i'm just a

teacher okay so this is kind of easy i think everyone understands the words

but we will write down of course if you need any help let's hear

the Intermediate level.

I like to work with people.

I go to the teretano or play video games.

I like to go to the cafe with friends.

I am a great type and I want to meet new friends.

Brother is a beard, right?

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Uh-huh.

And you say, Radim kao nastavnik this time.

I didn't Yes, yeah.

It was, ja sam nastavnik, and now it became Radim kao.

Kao, yes. Kao can go with nominative in this context.

That's great. Yes.

Okay. I uslobotno vreme idem u teretano.

Teretano is gym, right?

Gym, yeah. Okay.

Opushten tip. What does that mean?

Opushten. So tip is type, right?

Opushten is relaxed, let's say.

Opushtitis is to relax.

So it's like a laid back person?

Laid back, yeah.

Okay, that's nice.

So let's go with the advanced now, which is longer, but so useful.

Advanced, with users of all cases.

in the UK.

I try to carry healthy life, but I love to eat sweet, which is

not good. But I try to carry out a little while I have a

little free time.

I can say that I'm a bad person, but I can't even try to

do it. I love to work, but I often humor.

I love to travel more and I have a lot of friends from the

world. I love to show people how to look at the right of Serbia,

the French language and the French culture.

oh which no yeah yes this is nice uh here we have more details

about your birthplace right it's in the south you go eastok

who means southeast yeah east east yeah you can say southeast yeah yeah okay

so it's hard to pronounce kniazhevac it reminds me of kniga but i don't

think it's yeah yeah no it's from different meaning okay so instead of saying

yes some to taco use this time use možemo reči does some krupan so

možemo reči we can say or you can say in english yeah krupan means

um krupan is another synonym for like let's say uh big uh large

but you'll are tools for for describing people.

Yeah, visok is tall.

I see. Grupan visok.

Okay, interesting. Ko vrdjavo means curly, I guess, right?

Ko vrdjavo, yeah.

I knew smece, but tamo is light or dark.

Oh, it should be tamno.

It's a typo.

my typo so taman taman is uh dark uh yeah and when you want

to say dark green dark blue you always write it together tamno plav tamno

smidge and so nice time this major it's purchase yes or she

is always so the adjective describing that word will always be feminine.

Even though that word has ending i.

Yes. Is it the same for uši?

Yes, it is.

Good, at least.

And then you talk about your background, your studies.

Yeah, so I try to divide the text.

when you introduce yourself in my lessons, I always do basic information, physical appearance,

what you do and what you like to do.

So I kind of divided it in those three or four parts.

So you say, probao sam it to pishem.

Šta piseo si?

Šta si pisao?

Pisao sam priče, pesme, kada sam studirao na fakultetu.

I don't write that much now.

Do you have anything on the website?

No on the website.

I write technically now.

But I write episodes for podcasts and the website.

You said you like to hang out.

I'll be

in a big family.

That means in a big large group you want to be.

Yeah, family is a friend group, company.

What do you eat?

I like everything sweet.

I don't have an extra sweet.

I like my favorite palačinke, for example.

1. 1 palačinke.

1. I like my favorite palačinke.

1. 1 palačinke.

1. and

you try to be yeah

so also the parts of describing your character let's say

so tvrdoglav is stubborn so that might be one of the negative

things I try to add there but it's something very common in Serbia we

have this word inat yeah right inat yeah yeah inat yes okay good and

i'm just out of curiosity i want to say you say is glad prava

uh serbia what does prava serbia mean to you uh good question so real

serbia so i when learning a language that's kind of my um method

of learning languages i try to learn about the culture as well in order

to get interested in the language you should learn about the culture and people

so i always go and try to find some not so let's say mainstream

stuff on internet but learn about some maybe good thing good and bad things

about serbia so of course it's always good to go and see for yourself

in serbia and belgrade how it looks like but also search online for current

topics, news, you know, good, bad things happening like in any other country.

So authentic experience.

Yeah. And there are lots of stereotypes about different cultures.

Maybe you want to show them most of them are not true right by

me exactly okay i haven't put mine in into this kind of a nice

visual uh format but i'm gonna read mine and i just want you to

see if they sound natural or if you have any questions about them okay

right

So my beginner level of introduction is Okay,

sounds good. Okay, yes.

That's right. And intermediate.

I like to play in a free time and play in a free time.

I learn Serbian for a few years and I think I can move on

a bit. I also like to play in a culture and history of Serbia.

I would like to visit one day.

but I want to visit it one more again, that's why I think I

added there. My advance is short but I think it has hard things

to say. So, pozdrav svima.

Zovem se Maki i rođena sam u Turskoj i odrastala sam tamo.

Preselila sam se na Balkan 2016.

So, when reading?

When reading years, the last number, in this case 16, will be genitive feminine.

Yeah, 16.

I have a lot of Serbs and it motivates me to continue to learn

Serbs. Besides that I learn Serbs, I drive a bicycle and I am friends

with my friends.

I like to be in nature, I'm hard to live healthy, but I also

like to do a lot of work.

Ok, nice.

Active and tip.

Yes. Yes, some active on tip, I would say.

Active on tip.

One thing in the text I found.

Trenutno se trudim, I would say.

Ah, se would be big.

So, after adverbs, for time, for place, use reclexive, not reclexive, use enclitics.

Critics are short, usually short words without stress, without accent.

So, sam si je, čuče, šče.

so after adverbs use those if there is a need to use them i

see thank you that sounds useful good nice thank you so much so we

covered all three and we will be sharing these on youtube and on instagram

right and on all podcast providers thank you so much nicola Thank you very

much. Thank you.

Okay, I hope this was useful for everyone.

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you soon.