Thank you for choosing our country to live in. Serbians will really appreciate your need to learn language and please don't be offended when they corrected your. It's pure good attention. Good luck.
start using whatever you know of serbian, nobody will laugh at you - if you see smiles it's because people like your effort to speak our language. I think that's the best for you.
Don't sweat it that much. I'm a Serbian born in America to immigrant Serbian parents. I learned Serbian before English because my mother always spoke Serbian with us and my father, who always spoke English with us, was always working 16hr shifts at the Steel Mill in Chicago. I learned Cyrillic through our Serbian Orthodox Church as a grammar school kid, but my vocabulary has always been limited. I'm college educated, so my English speaking is advanced level, but I learned Serbian from parents who barely finished grammar school in Yugoslavia because of WW2 breaking out when they were children. I've always had a basic level of Serbian speaking ability, so my Serbian relatives have always had to tone down their "big words' when speaking with me in Serbian.I could easily live and function in Serbia right now, but everybody would know that I wasn't native born. Don't even get me started on the padezi. That has always confounded me.
Thanks for sharing 😉 I've met quite a few Serbians who grew up in the US and Canada who have returned to Serbia. Many speak Serbian, but reading and writing in Cyrillic is very ementary. But you can get around with Latin. It’s just that most government documents are in Cyrillic.
Serbian latin and Cyrillic mean the same for examble... we have two alphabets cuz were smart. and we can read both with no problem СРБИЈА SRBIJA СРПСКИ ЈЕЗИК SRPSKI JEZIK Причај Српски да те цео свет разуме! Pričaj Srpski da te ceo svet razume!
The video just randomly popped up to me today, and a couple of hours later i think I saw you in one of the grocery stores in Belgrade suburbs 😮 how is that possible?
Of course, it is much better to learn Cyrillic script first (you already know the Latin) , and since you are already familiar with Russian Cyrillic, it will be much easier to learn Serbian rendition of Cyrillic script! Actually, you will need it in everyday life, and it will be not difficult, most of the letters are easy and you already know those. I suggest you not to pay a tutor, it may take, perhaps, a longer time. but if you learn Serbian through talk with people , through watching movies with subtitles, listening the radio programmes, talk with native Serbian speakers, it will be more fun, and more efficient than to have systematic type of lessons. Surely , you will make mistakes, but dont worry! You will learn from mistakes. Either way, we wish you luck !
The difference between Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian-Montenegrin is like difference between: UK-US-CA-AU English. One language officially known as Serbo-Croat, no matter what nationalistic idiots say. People do appreciate when they see you trying, and they sincerely wish you to get better and that is why they correct you. Mostly on the words where different pronunciation could have different meaning of the sentence.
@@blairinbelgradeTV My English really took off when I started reading literature. Nowadays I seldom read in Serbian, for simple reason that I do most of reading in transfers, airports and airplanes. As it is much easier for me to find e-books in English, I simply read English literature, or English translations. Try with some light reading, and watch some movies and TV shows.
8:55 ... there was no "Bosnian"" language in former Yugoslavia. Official languages were Serbocroatian, Slovenian and Macedonian. Actually, it was not "" Serbocroatian" it was Serbian, since Croatians adopted our Serbian language (they had kajkavski and čakavski dialects. and they still are having those) Ruling elite in Kingdom of Serbs, Croatians and Slovenes, made up "Serbocroatian" language, as a way to unite most of the South Slavs. That decision was political, not linguistic, and not realistic at all. When you look back, before South Slav unification, "Croatian" language never existed, except in the crude Vatican catholic propaganda (even Austrohungarians in 1878. and long before that unofficially, firstly summoned that there was no "Croatian" during the period of occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, so they introduced "Bosnian" whilst people always knew it is Serbian! Fine comparison is: there are no "Australian" or "American" language, those are just renditions of English. Same here, there are no "Croatian" or "Bosnian" or "Montenegrin" languages, yet just variations of Serbian language ! Everything else is just cheap propaganda. Anyway, it is great to hear you speak Serbian! Keep on! Cheers and all the best !
Sounds plausible American English Australian English Canadian English British English So for the Balkans, what is correct to say? Croatian Serbocroatic? Bosnian Serbocroatic? Montenegrin Serbocroatic? Serbian Serbocroatic? I've read Croats go nuts when someone says they speak Serbian, so Serbocroatic is perhaps more universal in the same way English is for all English speaking countries? Or are you actually saying it should be like this? Croatian Serbian Bosnian Serbian Montenegrin Serbian Serbian Serbian hehe?😮😂 Or?
@@IwillEndureToTheEnd Your pairing of unpairable is demagogic and unscientific. To claim "Bosnian Serbocroatic" (sic ! ) is just senseless and inappropriate gaming with words ! Yes, some Croats do go nuts when they "suddenly" discover they actually are speaking the Serbian. Since Croatian only exists as half-Vatican propaganda and half-nonsense kept together as the only ""official" language in Croatia, i.e. "Croatian" is a politically made up language., in fact it is a Serbian disguised as "Croatian! One can disguise a horse into a zebra, but when you wash the artificial stripes, horse is a horse and zebra is a zebra !
English speaking people have the problem that they don't want to look silly and don't make mistakes in grammar, but we Balkans are aware that language is difficult, especially grammar, and we don't make a fuss about it, so don't worry, it's important to understand each other ... In the north of Serbia live some other citizens of Serbia whose first language is Hungarian or others who speak Serbian poorly and no one reproaches them for it. Use Serbian all the time and you will master the language
I'll tell you one secret... If you want to learn language and if you love children, babysitting is the easiest way! Ppl will be happy, you are teaching kid English and you are learning Serbian
I'm not a teacher, but maybe it would help if you practice saying the individual letters instead of the whole word, kinda like spelling. Then when you put them together it might come easier. Also it might help if you try to learn Cyrillic script because you cannot associate it with English pronunciation
When political turmoil calms down. They should give you full citizenship fr fr. And with serbian you can get by from slovenia to the turkey and greece, at least around tourist places.
Once upon a time there was a terrible lion, What kind of lion? The terrible lion! Horrible! Horrible! Био једном један лав. Какав лав? Страшан лав! Страшно! Страшно! We have great poetry for children! It is funny and generally upbeat. Try to learn some and recite it to and with children.. This song is perfect to perform it as a dialogue..it is "Once upon a time there was a lion", by Dushan Radovich (Doo - shun Raa-do-vich) Душан Радовић. Жива била P.S. This is just the beginning of the song, and funny event it talks about.
Since you've mentioned Soviet Union, that's the exact reason why we are friends with Russia. You see, even when they subdued half of Europe, they've never come to these lands trying to conquer us or setting their policies here. I am not saying they could do such thing, but they've never tried too...
All those countries more or less were nazi colabarators,many people don't know nor think about it.Whislt Yugoslavia, mostly the Serbs, had a large nazi resistance movement, the communist one,which fought uncompromisinglly against the nazi and their colabarators ,and finally won the war.Second were the royalist,who occasionally made compromises and deals with the nazis in order to fight their main enemy, Yugoslav partisans...Therefore they've lost ..So thanks to that fact,that Yugoslavia liberated itself for the most part, the Soviets had never intervened nor ever had tried to take over Yugoslavia.Second reason might be historical one,due the close historical ties between the Russian and Serbs, during the Ottoman domination, over this region.
@@IwillEndureToTheEnd I am not sure if we have something to offer to Russia. But yes, we did return the favor. For example, Serbia did not put any sanctions on Russia, while Serbs were in Donbass since 2014, fighting alongside local Russians even before the regular Russian army. In fact, now there are so many Serbs in the ranks of Russian army in Donbass that they've decided to form two pure Serbian battalions. I don't think we could do much else, since Russia is huge country with unlimited resources, while we are... well, Serbia.
U politici nema prijatelja već samo interesa. Po nas je srećna okolnost da su nam se kroz istoriju interesi poklapali (iznimka je Sanstefanski mir) i da nismo komšije. Ne treba od toga praviti lirsku poeziju.
There was never Bosnian language! Serbo-Croatian or Croato-Serbian and there was Slovenian and Macedonian. But you see now that by learning Serbian that Croats, Montenegers, Muslims from Bosnia are all speaking the same language there are just pronociations. In Croatia they have some other languages but mostly Serbian the only ethnic entity in the balkans that has always had Constitutional ground for the slavic people
@@blairinbelgradeTV necu da vas korigujem samo da vam pruzim malo informacija. Posto ucite sada srpski jer ste postali srpska snaja. Dobro je da malo upoznate istoriju Srpskog jezika. Bilo mi je zadovoljstvo. I hope thet you will understand my answer to your gratitude, because on my computer i do not have the central european keyboard, but french ;) Bonne et agréable soirée
@@PiterPeconi What kind of silly comment is this? Are you really so miserable in your own life so that you can't even comprehend that happy people can be happy in themselves. Your comment is a big insult.
So what, she's not a Slav and she is not trying to become one, she just wants to learn the language and that's admirable. And by the way, she is not laughing, she is smiling, it's the way she was raised and a part of her personality why would she need to change that just because she is here, if I went to the US I wouldn't change my personality
@VodeniZeka she is fake. Thats the point. Doing it for more likes and money. She is living in slavic civilization and we are learning her basics in culture and sincerity.
@@PiterPeconi OMG! Are you seriously so miserable so that you can't even comprehend that somebody else can be in a different state of mind? You know, OUTSIDE Serbia not everybody are pessimistic and miserable. You who comment like this are unbearable and really insulting. I once had a co-worker from Serbia with this exact mindset! He knew f. uc"c"ck everything. If you all are like that I am seriously not coming...
Thank you for choosing our country to live in. Serbians will really appreciate your need to learn language and please don't be offended when they corrected your. It's pure good attention. Good luck.
И ја ћу се радовати кад те обојени избоду или силују
start using whatever you know of serbian, nobody will laugh at you - if you see smiles it's because people like your effort to speak our language. I think that's the best for you.
You can do it 😊👍🧡
When there was Yugoslavia, there was only Serbo-Croatian. In Bosnia, there was not even a nation of Bosniaks that was invented in 1995
@@brankovucetic4448 Okay 🙂
Have a nice time in Serbia sweet girl
Don't sweat it that much. I'm a Serbian born in America to immigrant Serbian parents. I learned Serbian before English because my mother always spoke Serbian with us and my father, who always spoke English with us, was always working 16hr shifts at the Steel Mill in Chicago. I learned Cyrillic through our Serbian Orthodox Church as a grammar school kid, but my vocabulary has always been limited. I'm college educated, so my English speaking is advanced level, but I learned Serbian from parents who barely finished grammar school in Yugoslavia because of WW2 breaking out when they were children. I've always had a basic level of Serbian speaking ability, so my Serbian relatives have always had to tone down their "big words' when speaking with me in Serbian.I could easily live and function in Serbia right now, but everybody would know that I wasn't native born. Don't even get me started on the padezi. That has always confounded me.
Thanks for sharing 😉
I've met quite a few Serbians who grew up in the US and Canada who have returned to Serbia. Many speak Serbian, but reading and writing in Cyrillic is very ementary. But you can get around with Latin. It’s just that most government documents are in Cyrillic.
Serbian latin and Cyrillic mean the same for examble... we have two alphabets cuz were smart. and we can read both with no problem
СРБИЈА
SRBIJA
СРПСКИ ЈЕЗИК
SRPSKI JEZIK
Причај Српски да те цео свет разуме!
Pričaj Srpski da te ceo svet razume!
❤❤❤
🎉🎉🎉
Scientificaly speaking they say that for an english speaker you need 1200 hours to get to level B1(Serbian).
The video just randomly popped up to me today, and a couple of hours later i think I saw you in one of the grocery stores in Belgrade suburbs 😮 how is that possible?
I live in Belgrade, and I like to go grocery shopping 😅
@@blairinbelgradeTVKosovo Is Serbia
Of course, it is much better to learn Cyrillic script first (you already know the Latin) , and since you are already familiar with Russian Cyrillic, it will be much easier to learn Serbian rendition of Cyrillic script! Actually, you will need it in everyday life, and it will be not difficult, most of the letters are easy and you already know those. I suggest you not to pay a tutor, it may take, perhaps, a longer time. but if you learn Serbian through talk with people , through watching movies with subtitles, listening the radio programmes, talk with native Serbian speakers, it will be more fun, and more efficient than to have systematic type of lessons. Surely , you will make mistakes, but dont worry! You will learn from mistakes. Either way, we wish you luck !
@@_petrovic179 🥰
Blair, do you have a Serbian version of your name?😅For some reason, I don't know why, but to me, you look like "Brankica.'" 🥰🥰
@@armorbill No, just "Bler" in Serbian
@@blairinbelgradeTV 🤣🤣 Nice one!
The difference between Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian-Montenegrin is like difference between: UK-US-CA-AU English. One language officially known as Serbo-Croat, no matter what nationalistic idiots say.
People do appreciate when they see you trying, and they sincerely wish you to get better and that is why they correct you. Mostly on the words where different pronunciation could have different meaning of the sentence.
@raderadumilo7899 Okay, it's very difficult, but I'm up for the challenge, and I'm happy that people correct me :)
@@blairinbelgradeTV My English really took off when I started reading literature. Nowadays I seldom read in Serbian, for simple reason that I do most of reading in transfers, airports and airplanes. As it is much easier for me to find e-books in English, I simply read English literature, or English translations.
Try with some light reading, and watch some movies and TV shows.
In Serbia we don't call it alphabet we call it AZBUKA.Here is one serbian word for you ❤.
Дај јој и хиљаду евра да јој се нађе смеће издајничко
God bless u
Learn first padezi: kola, kolima, kolo, vozim, vozimo, igramo
8:55 ... there was no "Bosnian"" language in former Yugoslavia. Official languages were Serbocroatian, Slovenian and Macedonian. Actually, it was not "" Serbocroatian" it was Serbian, since Croatians adopted our Serbian language (they had kajkavski and čakavski dialects. and they still are having those) Ruling elite in Kingdom of Serbs, Croatians and Slovenes, made up "Serbocroatian" language, as a way to unite most of the South Slavs. That decision was political, not linguistic, and not realistic at all. When you look back, before South Slav unification, "Croatian" language never existed, except in the crude Vatican catholic propaganda (even Austrohungarians in 1878. and long before that unofficially, firstly summoned that there was no "Croatian" during the period of occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, so they introduced "Bosnian" whilst people always knew it is Serbian! Fine comparison is: there are no "Australian" or "American" language, those are just renditions of English. Same here, there are no "Croatian" or "Bosnian" or "Montenegrin" languages, yet just variations of Serbian language ! Everything else is just cheap propaganda. Anyway, it is great to hear you speak Serbian! Keep on! Cheers and all the best !
Sounds plausible
American English
Australian English
Canadian English
British English
So for the Balkans, what is correct to say?
Croatian Serbocroatic?
Bosnian Serbocroatic?
Montenegrin Serbocroatic?
Serbian Serbocroatic?
I've read Croats go nuts when someone says they speak Serbian, so Serbocroatic is perhaps more universal in the same way English is for all English speaking countries?
Or are you actually saying it should be like this?
Croatian Serbian
Bosnian Serbian
Montenegrin Serbian
Serbian Serbian hehe?😮😂
Or?
@@IwillEndureToTheEnd Your pairing of unpairable is demagogic and unscientific. To claim "Bosnian Serbocroatic" (sic ! ) is just senseless and inappropriate gaming with words ! Yes, some Croats do go nuts when they "suddenly" discover they actually are speaking the Serbian. Since Croatian only exists as half-Vatican propaganda and half-nonsense kept together as the only ""official" language in Croatia, i.e. "Croatian" is a politically made up language., in fact it is a Serbian disguised as "Croatian! One can disguise a horse into a zebra, but when you wash the artificial stripes, horse is a horse and zebra is a zebra !
@@_petrovic179 My mistake 🫠
English speaking people have the problem that they don't want to look silly and don't make mistakes in grammar, but we Balkans are aware that language is difficult, especially grammar, and we don't make a fuss about it, so don't worry, it's important to understand each other ... In the north of Serbia live some other citizens of Serbia whose first language is Hungarian or others who speak Serbian poorly and no one reproaches them for it. Use Serbian all the time and you will master the language
Wait until she finds out how "creative" our cuss words are 😅
I'll tell you one secret... If you want to learn language and if you love children, babysitting is the easiest way! Ppl will be happy, you are teaching kid English and you are learning Serbian
Polako, gledaj tv i slušaj radio i pričaj sa ljudima. Pravi greške i iznenadićeš se... To je moje iskustvo sa učenjem jezika u inostranstvu...
I wrote it in serbian, since you are learning it...
@stevanvicm hvala 🙃
I can't pronounce the word "doviđenja" no matter how hard I try.
Patience,it will come to you. It's easier to say "ćao" in the meantime.
I'm not a teacher, but maybe it would help if you practice saying the individual letters instead of the whole word, kinda like spelling. Then when you put them together it might come easier. Also it might help if you try to learn Cyrillic script because you cannot associate it with English pronunciation
When political turmoil calms down. They should give you full citizenship fr fr. And with serbian you can get by from slovenia to the turkey and greece, at least around tourist places.
@@CraveSnowForGold I hope to become a Serbian citizen 🙏
Once upon a time there was a terrible lion,
What kind of lion?
The terrible lion!
Horrible! Horrible!
Био једном један лав.
Какав лав?
Страшан лав!
Страшно! Страшно!
We have great poetry for children! It is funny and generally upbeat. Try to learn some and recite it to and with children..
This song is perfect to perform it as a dialogue..it is "Once upon a time there was a lion", by Dushan Radovich (Doo - shun Raa-do-vich) Душан Радовић.
Жива била
P.S.
This is just the beginning of the song, and funny event it talks about.
Damn we are bad. Our Google translate is to Latin ????? Our primary letter is Cyrillic.
Ako se ne varam translate opcija na TH-cam-u prevodi na jezik i pismo koje ti je podešeno na telefonu, ako si na to mislio
Ako pišeš latinicom, Google će to prepoznati kao Bosnian ili Croatian. Ako tražiš da prevede na srpski, po difoltu Google koristi ćirilicu.
Since you've mentioned Soviet Union, that's the exact reason why we are friends with Russia. You see, even when they subdued half of Europe, they've never come to these lands trying to conquer us or setting their policies here. I am not saying they could do such thing, but they've never tried too...
I read that too that the Russians helped Serbs from annihilation.
Has Serbia given back to Russia for this sacrifice? In what way?
All those countries more or less were nazi colabarators,many people don't know nor think about it.Whislt Yugoslavia, mostly the Serbs, had a large nazi resistance movement, the communist one,which fought uncompromisinglly against the nazi and their colabarators ,and finally won the war.Second were the royalist,who occasionally made compromises and deals with the nazis in order to fight their main enemy, Yugoslav partisans...Therefore they've lost ..So thanks to that fact,that Yugoslavia liberated itself for the most part, the Soviets had never intervened nor ever had tried to take over Yugoslavia.Second reason might be historical one,due the close historical ties between the Russian and Serbs, during the Ottoman domination, over this region.
@vannajs5024 Wiw, thanks for sharing 🙂
@@IwillEndureToTheEnd I am not sure if we have something to offer to Russia. But yes, we did return the favor. For example, Serbia did not put any sanctions on Russia, while Serbs were in Donbass since 2014, fighting alongside local Russians even before the regular Russian army. In fact, now there are so many Serbs in the ranks of Russian army in Donbass that they've decided to form two pure Serbian battalions. I don't think we could do much else, since Russia is huge country with unlimited resources, while we are... well, Serbia.
U politici nema prijatelja već samo interesa. Po nas je srećna okolnost da su nam se kroz istoriju interesi poklapali (iznimka je Sanstefanski mir) i da nismo komšije. Ne treba od toga praviti lirsku poeziju.
"Колико језика знаш,толико вредиш".
There was never Bosnian language! Serbo-Croatian or Croato-Serbian and there was Slovenian and Macedonian. But you see now that by learning Serbian that Croats, Montenegers, Muslims from Bosnia are all speaking the same language there are just pronociations. In Croatia they have some other languages but mostly Serbian the only ethnic entity in the balkans that has always had Constitutional ground for the slavic people
@@alexandrejovanovic1196 Thank you for the correction 🙏
@@blairinbelgradeTV necu da vas korigujem samo da vam pruzim malo informacija. Posto ucite sada srpski jer ste postali srpska snaja. Dobro je da malo upoznate istoriju Srpskog jezika. Bilo mi je zadovoljstvo.
I hope thet you will understand my answer to your gratitude, because on my computer i do not have the central european keyboard, but french ;)
Bonne et agréable soirée
auto-autocorrect :)
Da li ste знали да припадате narodu čiji mozak може симултано да користи dva pisma istovremeno? Niste imali проблем да ово pročitate?
Pa pričaj srpski da te ceo svet razume.
Why laughing so much? Its fake. We Slavs do not do fake laughs.
@@PiterPeconi I'm very happy 😊
@@PiterPeconi What kind of silly comment is this? Are you really so miserable in your own life so that you can't even comprehend that happy people can be happy in themselves. Your comment is a big insult.
So what, she's not a Slav and she is not trying to become one, she just wants to learn the language and that's admirable. And by the way, she is not laughing, she is smiling, it's the way she was raised and a part of her personality why would she need to change that just because she is here, if I went to the US I wouldn't change my personality
@VodeniZeka she is fake. Thats the point. Doing it for more likes and money. She is living in slavic civilization and we are learning her basics in culture and sincerity.
@@PiterPeconi OMG! Are you seriously so miserable so that you can't even comprehend that somebody else can be in a different state of mind? You know, OUTSIDE Serbia not everybody are pessimistic and miserable. You who comment like this are unbearable and really insulting.
I once had a co-worker from Serbia with this exact mindset! He knew f. uc"c"ck everything. If you all are like that I am seriously not coming...
I added you on instagram...I speak english and spanish