30+ years teaching Serbian
Phonetic pronunciation and lessons built around games and music — designed for diaspora and heritage speakers who want to actually speak with family, not just pass a grammar test. Every exercise here accepts both Latin and Cyrillic, so you type in whichever script you know.
Какo си?
KAH-koh see
"How are you?" — informal, ti-form
Where to start
Every lesson set follows the same rhythm — dialogue first, explanation second, practice third — so you always know what to do next.
International words, greetings, family, introductions — no prior knowledge needed.
A2Everyday vocabulary and simple conversations — exercises are live, the lesson page is being written.
B1Past and future tense, cases starting to click, longer dialogues.
B2Real listening practice and the structures that make speech sound natural.
C1Literary texts and nuanced, native-level expression.
C2Idiom, register and native-speed texts — exercises are live, the lesson page is being written.
Learn by playing
On this site a test is something you play. Vocabulary sticks when you're chasing a high score, not filling in a worksheet — so every drill here comes as a game. Play what's live now; more are on the way.
Race down the slope sorting MOJ, MOJA and MOJE — a fast-paced way to lock in family vocabulary and possessives.
Play now →A greeting falls — get to the right lane before it lands. Informal vs. formal, at speed.
Play now →Crveni auto, plava jabuka, žuto sunce — colors paired with real nouns, four lanes at a time.
Play now →The next original game is being built right now — another piece of grammar turned into something worth replaying.
In the worksAnd one more after that. Got an idea for what you'd like to practise by playing? Tell me.
In the worksMore original games launching soon.
The method
Grammar drills make you memorize. Games, music, and story make you remember.
Interactive quizzes and matching games reinforce vocabulary without the grind.
Original songs build pronunciation and sentence rhythm the way lullabies always have.
Lessons speak to the specific goal of talking with baba, deda, and family back home.
30+ years in the classroom, University of Novi Sad-trained, still teaching every week.
"I don't teach grammar rules. I teach people to speak Serbian with the people they love."
Marina has spent over three decades teaching Serbian in classrooms and, more recently, online to learners scattered across the world. Her method grew out of a simple observation: the students who stuck with the language weren't the ones drilling verb tables — they were the ones singing along, playing games, and laughing through mistakes.
Today that same approach lives here: Cyrillic and Latin script side by side, formal and informal speech color-coded so you never guess wrong, and phonetic guides for every phrase.
Interactive e-book
The A1 intro booklet, right here on the page — turn the pages, or open it full-screen in its own tab.
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Start with the free mini-course — useful phrases from day one, whatever level you are.
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