Pre-Intermediate · B1
The level where the same words come back in a different tense — and you notice you already know them.
The jump from beginner to pre-intermediate is where most people expect to be handed a pile of new words. This level does something quieter: it keeps the vocabulary you already have and runs it through the present, the past and the future. Learning živeti once and then meeting it in all three tenses is far less work than learning three unrelated topics — and it's how the language actually behaves.
Grammatically, two things arrive here. The past tense, which in Serbian needs two pieces at once: a short form of biti and a participle that agrees with who's speaking. And the genitive, the case that shows up after quantities, after most prepositions, and in half the sentences you'll hear in a shop.
The rest is confidence. Videos to watch, Wordwall rounds to play, and — when you work with me directly — the pace and the topics bent around what you actually want to talk about.
Video lekcije
Four lessons from my YouTube channel, in the order they build on each other.
MOĆI and UMETI — two verbs where English has only one can.
Where did they live? The past tense, meeting the locative case.
The greetings that only come out a few days a year, and when to use them.
The vocabulary of a flat — and prepositions that need a case behind them.
Wordwall
Short, no login, and they work on the phone as well as the laptop.
Genitiv
Prošlo vreme glagola BITI
Kakav ili kakva?
Šire rečnik
Iste teme, moja igrica
Ghost: Genitiv hunts the genitive after pored and između, and Tense: Prošlo vreme drills the past with the Lana text. Both run in the browser, no account.
Nine B1 exercises — every one takes both Latin and Cyrillic, and diacritics are optional.
Pre-Intermediate 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.