Lesson 200. The Finale: I know Serbian!

Čestitam! 🎉

You have finished 200 lessons. A whole school year is behind you. Let’s look at everything you can do now.

Two alphabets: Latin and Cyrillic — you switch between them freely.
Phonetics: all the special letters (č, ć, š, ž, đ, dž, lj, nj, j), stress, and syllabic r.
Basic conversational vocabulary: greetings, family, numbers, colors, food, animals, weather.
The noun: three genders, the fleeting “a”, animacy, plural forms.
The verb: biti in all its forms, three conjugation types, present/past/future, imperative, conditional, verbal aspect.
All 7 cases — with their endings, prepositions, and agreement.
Adjectives: forms, degrees of comparison, possessives.
Pronouns: personal, reflexive, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, negative.
Numerals: up to a million, telling time, dates.
Syntax: word order, clitics, questions, negation.
Complex sentences: with da, što, koji, kada, ako, jer.
False friends of the translator.
Texts: you can read adapted stories, fairy tales, and dialogues.

Učim srpski jezik već godinu dana. (Учим српски језик већ годину дана.)

— I have been learning Serbian for a year already.

U početku je bilo teško — dva alfabeta, puno padeža. (У почетку је било тешко — два алфабета, пуно падежа.)

— At first it was hard — two alphabets, lots of cases.

Ali sada razumem knjige, pesme i razgovore. (Али сада разумем књиге, песме и разговоре.)

— But now I understand books, songs, and conversations.

Mogu da pitam za put, kupim hleb, ispričam o svojoj porodici. (Могу да питам за пут, купим хлеб, испричам о својој породици.)

— I can ask for directions, buy bread, and tell about my family.

Srpski jezik je lep i bogat. Drago mi je što sam ga naučio. (Српски језик је леп и богат. Драго ми је што сам га научио.)

— Serbian is a beautiful and rich language. I am glad I learned it.

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