Ep.9: Sandra Silađev

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Hello everyone!

Hello everyone! is Ivana.

And here is Maki.

Yes, such a synchronic.

You wanted to ask me. How are you?

I'm good, you are.

Thank you, thank you.

I'm good. You?

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no, it should be I'm good, but I'm good.

I'm good.

Yeah, anyway. so today we are here with a very new

idea yeah and we are going to introduce someone super super

uh nice hilarious and famous yeah even though okay

even though i don't understand most of

her sentences i am a fan already so yeah so it's not an interview

guys it's just that we are i'm going to show like some person serbian

person that we're following so i think this will be really

useful for you too yeah so okay first how did we choose her what's

her name how did we choose her

why did we choose her okay so her name is sandra silajev i thought

it was maybe silajev but it's

silajev i think slagev okay on the second syllable and actually her maiden name

or like last name is uh which is a bit more common i think

than silage um and she's a serbian actor and i think currently

she's like a stand-up comedian basically um short stories comedian um known as

dina that's her nickname i don't know why yeah maybe from um the old

tv series or i don't know maybe for her role

in in a show maybe i was also curious but right now sandra is

used a lot i guess yeah and um

she's like you know she studied theater and so on so she's doing like

sketches and i don't know

if she was necessarily in movies but she's mostly in theater and like tv

shows like short tv shows i haven't been watching um serbian channel so i

don't really know about her that much but i

definitely notice her on instagram and on youtube according to imdb she was on

taxi blues that film

serbian film i haven't watched it yet and nowadays she is on a tour

actually she was in london uh on a tour in theater like she's doing

um stand-up or mom how do we call that like well it is it

kind of like a monologue but it is supposed to be funny i think

is a

so it's kind of like a

critic of the modern dating world and like modern times and so the name

is date by the way d-e-j-t like serbian date the way how we pronounce

it this is how we write it yeah date exactly with

the j have you ever watched istine ilazi the tv series she was in

istine ilazi

ilazi yeah

lies the truth and lies um no no i haven't

you

no i thought maybe it was very popular when you were you know younger

and i thought maybe you

watched who knows even though you didn't want to but it was always on

tv maybe you just saw it

what i feel like with my generation there wasn't a lot of tv watching

i mean there was but not as much as it was like 30 years

ago 40 years ago so it's like we got this is my the first

where we got laptops I mean laptops computers right so it's like internet was generation

the thing and

then since then I've just only been online honestly so yeah I'm pretty bad

pretty bad

but I'm curious I'd like to try to find it on YouTube later like

now I want to watch all of her stuff because she's so hilarious in

in so many different ways um she's not like she's

portraying one person but she's portraying so many people representing so many people in

Serbia so many kind of like stereotypes I think I told you that I

would watch these sketches and I'm like

I literally know a person like that in Serbia or like I identify you

know with with this sketch

totally uh or at least the version who I was before you know yeah

the one that was quite recent about eastern uh uskris uh the way she

was doing it like 10 second like instagram story or past

she was doing uskris waskris uskris just you know like she didn't know and

i have the same feeling like each time i always checked my notes to

see how to say it and i'm seeing that even

serbians have that issue oh i'm kind of relieved i also thought i was

alone like it's kind of like that comforting thing, you know,

that she shares

that because the thing is that as far as i remember uh when i

was younger um so i learned

how to say like stretch and us right so for you guys that don't

know there are so many different

ways to say happy easter so there's like a very general way which is

happy easter stretch and

us but there are also two ways which is um christos vascarce and christos

vascarce

and i always hated saying bosk because kresnuti has a very sexual connotation so

yeah means to have sex so or like to to to buck

someone you know not to say the full word but um

so but actually i think that bosk is the this one version of of

sloven not slovenian or of like slavic um rusko-slovensky um and vasco is

a sr-slovensky i think or or reverse i'm not quite

sure which one is which one now i forgot but it's like a legit

way how people used to say it which

is like the christ has risen right is that i think yeah yeah and

then there's a formula how

you reply as well which is vajstinu vasco so it's just no

one really explicitly told me so whenever they would be like oh christos vaskrse

i'll be like what do i say now vice you know you could

just say vice actually that's perfect to be on the same side yeah but

uh sandra silajev

right silajev i think she studied not only um you know

dramatic like not only drama but

sociology pedagogy yeah and peace studies so she's into

to all you know parts of the culture and she finds so many authentic

resources from you know but non-stop she's producing things right she's producing new clips

every day so

i think that really helps right because like sociology pedagogy and that's why she

actually comment on these things because she can recognize them and understand where they're

could

coming from and um in a way it is a social critic again or

social criticism to all of these things which i

find so refreshing so yeah i do want to say that because

she does sometimes like bosnian

like bosnians imitate them as well and she has an amazing accent so actually

her mom is macedonian her dad is bosnian and then they were i think

they she was born in macedonia they lived in bosnia

and then they came to serbia uh something like that so she spent like

a lot of time everywhere

so no wonder she has so much richness in her uh videos exactly exactly

imagine me like i i she's

already i think she speeds her videos up a little bit yes right i

think it's an it gives you an effect like of of this like talker

you know yes yes but for me for someone who is learning

serbine it's like why do you do that it's already like i i'm almost

got it but then it's yeah quite fast but still from her mimics she

doesn't by the way use this you know uh big gestures and

mimics she's like herself like just facial expression there like not not an exaggeration

at all. But still, you understand, you can follow from her tone, I don't

something something easy for me

to follow her I don't know what it is I think oh I just

noticed this is just looks weird it's my

mic guys it's my mic um well I think I was so happy that

you said that you could understand her

but because I was because of these things because she speeds everything up like

some of the clips up and it's again it has this like feeling of

like someone is a fast talker like just a gossip girl

whatever you know just like a button everywhere needs to know everything all the

information um yeah so it's I thought like you would not be able to understand

but then there are some videos

that are quite slow as well but I think it's such a good way

to have a feeling of like different

personalities in Serbia and I think and also with every it's not like she's

the same everywhere she portrays different people so she uses slightly different phrases intonations

and so on and like words and accents and so you really like oh

this is so authentic and I love that you you could

understand everything that you find it funny even you know so I would definitely

suggest this like

recommend this to everyone learning we by the way we will let you hear

her voice now like we will share the video clips from YouTube she has

YouTube account and Instagram account huge number of

followers on Instagram I see and I've seen that like that hole in London

like so many people came

and she does it in Serbian so so many people you know many of

our people it's so weird that's a bit

weird I actually wanted to go on tour but because I thought of that

well not on tour I wanted to to like go to her show.

Yeah, I was like I wanted to go on tour

but the thing is that so I thought that it's going to be a

European tour which it is in a sense it is

but I thought she would get to Germany as well because there's a lot

of our people over there

so I was looking like but I think she went like came to Austria

and that that was the UK and I think that was it like the

furthest that she's like somewhere between I don't think she went to Switzerland or

like to Germany I'm not quite sure but anyway it didn't really matter because

like

from today on she will not be she will again be on the Balkan

peninsula so yeah I will go for you

then oh man I'm so I was like this is a ticket I will

buy so fast like I would create a bot to buy it literally like

it was it was definitely something yeah uh and actually her like i got

her i got the how do i say it oh my god i got

her profile recommended because my mom my mom is on

instagram guys my mom liked her videos and that's how i saw it so

i was like mom i can learn some

things my mom knows podcasts my mom knows like these like instagram actors or

whatever so funny memes so yeah that's cool yeah parents are on instagram right

now yeah first it was facebook now it's instagram moved next twitter i don't

know yeah okay anyway so we talked about what

she says more or less but if we just give the titles of her

you know um topics it's like topics I see lots of women issues.

Is she criticizing the women or is she

not you know for not

giving enough rights or enough place for women i think both because i think

what she's doing is

like criticizing the society and uh again like a lot of what she's doing

is from a female

perspective there are maybe some rare clips where she's portraying a man i think

but like very rarely so she's criticizing the society why they put a woman

in that situation um why they're glorifying

these things that should not be glorified but also women that are um like

taking that role

you know when they don't have to why should they they don't have to

comply right so for women

wanting these things that are actually detrimental to them so she's doing both and

i think it's working honestly I think there's going to be a lot more

awareness yeah okay we will give some

examples but one example that um I surprised myself by understanding it she

was doing a woman

who really likes a man but that man is a colleague I guess but

he's such a nice polite funny

social guy she keeps talking about him and they say you seem to like

him so like I just translate basically roughly yeah so she says I know

I'm a married woman as well can't I say like nice things

about another man like yeah even if he or she's married or you know

she was criticizing the way

we should talk about other men or women you know if you are with

someone or without someone yeah

yeah so I got that idea and then I translated the comments the at

the bottom so I understood that It was correct interpretation.

So she portrays women, but the issues

they're not necessarily have to be related to just women so there are general

issues there so yeah a lot of things are related to just only women

which is i think great that we have a

spokesperson for these things but also a lot of the issues are just very

in general issues in

in serbia so that's why i think like guys would also love it love

some of her sketches some more than others maybe before we continue with the

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So I tried to, again, a lot of the ones that I loved were

related mostly to women.

so guys is probably you're not gonna you know relate to this too much

but maybe you

would understand our point of view um so it was there was one just

to kind of preface there was

one about women's day which we say dan jenna or osmi mart we just

say like osmi mart the uh 8th

of march um and the the whole point of this is that she's saying

how you know like men they usually they like give flowers to the woman,

some gifts or whatever.

like

And then the woman should be, should feel so grateful that she should even

work harder. So like at home or in the office when her colleagues give

her like some gifts and then

she's like, oh my God, I'm so thankful these flowers and your, your affections.

And now I'm going to do double or triple what I usually do in

the office out of gratitude.

And at home, I'm going to like make three cakes.

And like, you know, instead of that being a day where you actually celebrate

a woman and treat her like a queen or like, you know, you actually

putting more pressure on her to do all of these things, you know.

So because if she doesn't do it, then she's ungrateful.

You know, if she's just like sitting and like, oh, this is my day,

whatever, treat me nicely.

then it's like

why she's so selfish

and self-centered. She has kids,

she has a husband, she needs to work

for them too, right?

So yeah. Thank you, 8th and March.

She says, today on the job of the chef, please, let me give you

a bucket of flowers.

Do you know how many flowers I gave?

I'm crying, now I'm crying, I'm crying, I'm crying,

and I was just doing it a lot more than what I did.

And I said, don't do that, and I said, no, no, no, no, no,

no, this is beautiful, I said, I got home, I said,

I said, don't do that, and I said, don't do that,

I said, tomorrow you will be pregnant, tomorrow you will be pregnant, okay

yeah okay of flowers yeah and then the son the father the husband gave

her yeah she says um i'm gonna do duplo you use duplo yeah yeah

double i'm gonna do everything double from tomorrow on

because i'm so happy to have to have these so with the parish subject

actually this is important them so i'll get to that so it starts with

like someone is congratulating her uh for the women's

day and then she says thank you thank you like so gratefully right she's

so grateful thank you

to you as well probably her friend or something like that or maybe i

don't know her whatever

yeah and then um and then she's like she got the flowers at the

office and she was crying

so much she's she was even teary-eyed now when she was talking about it

it was so moving and um and she she purposely out of gratitude she

did double visha right double what she usually do

um and they're like don't work so much and she's like no no no

i have to like i have to work that's

why it's yeah no no no yeah so um and then she goes home

and then she gets flowers for her from

her husband and her son and they're like don't wash the dishes today

you will do it tomorrow You'll do it tomorrow.

this is critical because it's not like

don't do the dishes we will do it for you but it's like the

dishes will wait till tomorrow that you

can do today you don't have to but tomorrow you're gonna have to right

so this is important this is

the critical point and then today is a holiday and then um and then

she said yeah today i'm gonna do um the wash double um like iron

double i'm even gonna make a cake uh when you've been so nice to

me you gave me a bouquet of flowers yeah so sweet yeah good criticism

yeah that is i mean there's

another one similar to that but basically it's the same message yeah okay should

i play that you can but i can do mine and then you can

switch back okay so the one that hopefully i will find

the audio file of that um but i will just say the english version