Advanced · C1
Idiom, register, and the difference between correct and convincing.
At C1 a syllabus stops helping. The gaps are personal by then — one student needs the language of a job interview, another wants to follow a podcast, a third keeps stumbling over jokes. So these lessons are built from the topics, texts and sources my students bring, and the material below is what came out of those sessions.
Three threads run through all of it. Collocations, because at this level vocabulary is learned in pairs, not singly. Register — the same thought said to a friend, a clerk and a court, and how far apart those are in Serbian. And authentic material: real texts about real places, not sentences written to demonstrate a rule.
The best test of all of it is teaching. Explaining a Serbian rule out loud, in Serbian, exposes exactly what you haven't understood — and it's more fun than it sounds.
Video lekcije
From my YouTube channel — dative verbs, and questions built on an authentic text.
A listening exercise on the verbs that hand their object to the dative.
Serbian 801 — collocations drawn from a text, then turned into questions.
Reading drills
Screen recordings from my lessons — one on free time, one on a real place and the cases it needs.
Šta radiš u slobodno vreme? — mini-dijalozi
Spomen dom Boško Buha — konjugacije i deklinacije
Wordwall
Two collocation sets and two built on authentic texts.
Intervju sa Lanom
Kolokacije o automobilu
Trajanov most
Kolokacije o jeziku
Kolokacije, ali brže
Three Match games run on the collocation sets from Serbian 501 — media, environment and education. Same pairs, chased instead of read.
The newest written exercises sit at B2 — Serbian 401 and 501, collocations and cases. C1 material is being rebuilt now.
Advanced exercises →Svi nivoi
A1 to C2 — the whole path, with a page for every level that has lessons built.
Nine lessons from the alphabet to your first case.
A2Everyday vocabulary and simple conversations — exercises are live, the lesson page is being written.
B1Past tense, the genitive, and describing what things are like.
B2Verb aspect, verbs with SE, and sounding less like a textbook.
C1Collocations, authentic texts, and the shades between registers.
C2Idiom, register and native-speed texts — exercises are live, the lesson page is being written.