Serbian for expats with Sasha

Press play for a bit of Serbian humour 🙂.

If you find it difficult to understand…

Here’s a quick translation for you 👇

- Today I don’t feel like working…

- Are you planning to work at all man?

- When I say that I don’t feel like working it means that I’m not in the mood for work.

- You don’t say, and what are you in the mood for?

- Well, if you ask me, I’m in the mood for Greece 🇬🇷 🌊

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Postoje dani kada smo svi pomalo Šurda 🇬🇷 . . #sirtakirs #greece #surda #summervibes #ilovegreece

Truly a great feeling when you get students whose values are aligned with yours and who can notice and appreciate the effort you put into your teaching.

One of my top values is definitely creativity, like David kindly noticed.

Creativity pushes me to keep experimenting with different learning approaches and it has grown my experience like nothing else.

Because what I’m slowly but surely realising is that it’s never just that one right approach but rather a combination of many, depending on the student’s level but also on the context, gramatical or lexical unit etc.

Where one approach hits a wall and simply can’t help a student to realize something, another will work like a charm 🙂

Keep the mind open and keep the creative juices flowing 🙂

My long term student Jeremy shared his view of our lessons 🙂

I really do strive to personalize all my lessons because what my 13 years of experience have shown me is that topic is one of the top 3 factors for successful learning.

If the topic is not interesting to you, you will not get curious and if you don’t get curious there is no true learning.

You do retain that information temporarily but it simply doesn’t stick and never becomes long term memory.

If you prefer personalised lessons and picking up Serbian through exploring topics YOU find fun and interesting, dm me for a consultation.

Looking forward to meeting you 🙂

Thank you, guys! 🙂
Expect much more compelling content soon 🇷🇸

Hey, guys do you still struggle with the conjugation of Serbian verbs in all the pronouns and tenses?

I have an excellent tool for you to assist you in your learning. Check out the serboverb website (https://serboverb.com/ )and thank me later 😉.

If you’re in search of a private tutor, dm me to schedule a zoom call to get to know me and my program that focuses on speaking and emergent grammar 🙂

Serboverb - Conjugate a Serbian verb in any form

Hey guys! Want to meet up this Saturday, grab a cup of coffee and learn 2 most frequent Serbian cases?

We're meeting up in front of galerija Sanu and we'll walk around the centre while I'm explaining how to apply these 2 Serbian cases for directions, location and ordering coffee of course 🙂

This little immersion workshop is free and my goal is to get to know some of you guys who want to learn Serbian.

You'll get a free spreadsheet as well so that you can easily and immediately apply what I'm teaching.

See you in front of Galerija nauke i tehnike SANU this Saturday at 10.30h

Let's hope the rain skips out meeting 🙏🙂

Today's read 🙂📖💜

Belgrade's monument "Vozarev krst" (Vozar's Cross) keeps a very interesting and important story about the history of the Serbian people, which is for some reason little-known to the citizens of the Serbian capital. Old documents say that on one occasion Grigorije Vozarović (1790-1848), once "the biggest bookseller - publisher of his time in the Balkans", bought a meadow in Belgrade's neighborhood Vračar. On the field there was a tree with an inscription which, according to legend, marked the place where the Turkish Vizier Sinan Pasha burned the relics of Saint Sava in 1595. After one stormy night, the tree collapsed, and Vozarović, known as a great patriot, decided to place a big wooden cross in the same place. The "Serbian Newspapers" recorded a few details about the new cross that has enriched Belgrade, writing that "it was a great joy and comfort for all Orthodox Serbs". Influential bookseller died only a year after he placed his monumental cross. His property was inherited by his wife Sara, who bequeathed Grigorije's estate to the Palilula church. Vozar's cross is considered one of the first public monuments in , and it's been rebuilt on several occasions - 1895, 1923 and 1933. After the last reconstruction, the Belgrade municipality decided to replace the wooden cross with a new made of red artificial stone.
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Београдски споменик „Возарев крст“ чува једну занимљиву и веома важну причу о историји српског народа, мало знану житељима српске престонице. Београђанин Григорије Возаровић (1790-1848), родом из фрушкогорског села Лежимир, „највећи књижар -издавач свог времена на целом Балкану“ како тадашњи записи говоре, купио је за осам дуката пољану на Врачару. На њиви је постојало дрво са записом које је како је предање казивало требало да означава место на коме је турски везир Синан Паша 1595. године спалио мошти светог Саве. Возаровић, познат као велики родољуб, је након што је дрво оборила олуја, решио да на истом месту подигне дрвени крст. Тадашње „Новине Сербске“ у свом броју од 18. марта 1847. године забележиле су неколико података о новом крсту који је „обогатио“ Београд, овај догађај окарактерисавши као „општу радост и утеху наших побожних православних Срба“. Утицајни књижар преминуо је само годину дана након што је подигао крст, а његову имовину наследила је супруга Сара, која је по својој смрти земљу на којој је крст био завештала Палилуској цркви. Возарев крст данас се сматра једним од првих јавних споменика у Београду, а обнављан је у неколико наврата - 1895, 1923. и 1933. године. Последњом реконструкцијом Београдска општина донела је одлуку да дрвени крст, нагрижен зубом времена, замени новим од црвеног вештачког камена.

New mini lesson is here. Hope you guys enjoy it 🙂.

And don't forget to practise:

Kada dolaziš u Srbiju/Beograd?
Kada je tvoj rođendan?

Srećan Božić! Hristos se rodi 💖🎄

This is how you can wish a merry Christmas to a Serbian friend or how to answer in Serbian 🙂🎄

On student's mindset, teacher's arrogance and a few other important factors when it comes to learning a new language. Let me know what you guys think 🙂👇

If you haven't succeed yet it might be because of the arogance and selfishness of the teachers throughout your life and/or the wrong mindset you have about learning . In this video I'm discussing these extremely important factors and how to work around them. . Check it out and let me know what you think 🙂

This has made me so emotional. Languages can make people connect on the deepest level. Big thanks to all of you guys who are persisting in this long and sometimes challenging journey. We Serbs really appreciate it a lot 💗. Pričaj srpski da te ceo svet razume 😊

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