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 DavidStyles Octoglot Pro Member United Kingdom Joined 3931 days ago 82 posts - 179 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, French, Portuguese, Norwegian Studies: Mandarin, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 13 21 March 2014 at 10:08am | IP Logged | ||
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So, a cursory search didn't turn up such a list, so here's a start, for those of us who want to learn Serbian (and its nearby friends and relations that the politicians insist are distinct languages) in advance of the Polyglot Conference in Serbia in October.
Miscellaneous free: Serbian course on YouTube (series of videos; this is the first one) Basic Serbian at "My Languages" Serbian website for foreigners wishing to learn Serbian 101 at 101 Languages (see the column on the left for many resources, from vocab frequency lists to Serbian newspapers and TV) Anki: Serbian Sentences (1374 cards, populated from Teach Yourself Serbo-Croat) Linguaphone Serbo-Croat sr-en (2045 cards, populated from the eponymous course) The same as the above, but in reverse (ie, en-sr), with hints available Semi-free: Transparent Languages Serbian, 7 days free trial Not free: I'll be picking up the Teach Yourself Complete Serbian, probably after running through the above things first. This is decidedly a non-exhaustive list, so by all means feel free to add to it! Edited by DavidStyles on 21 March 2014 at 10:09am 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5252 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 2 of 13 21 March 2014 at 12:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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There's also DLI (Defense Language Institute) Serbian SOLT. "SOLT" stands for "Special Operations Language Training". The SOLT materials are phrases with audio, obviously with a military emphasis. DLI GLOSS has 126 free, multimedia, reading + listening lessons in Serbian. They range from beginner to level 2+.
DLI GLOSS is a vastly underutilized resource by members on the forum. "GLOSS" is an acronym for "Global Language Online Support System" and designed to supplement DLI students language study. The lessons are drawn from real-world sources. Their emphasis is on how the language is used everyday. I think some people think it's all military vocabulary- like "Halt! Who goes there?", but the lessons I've used have usually been drawn from a local newspaper (I used some of the Portuguese lessons) or a radio interview/news item with native-speakers. There are forty languages available ranging from Albanian to Uzbek with all the biggies included. I just wish they had Ladino and Haitian Creole available, :). For your "studies" list, you'll find lessons available for Russian, Mandarin, Portuguese and Egyptian Arabic. Edited by iguanamon on 21 March 2014 at 1:26pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7146 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 3 of 13 21 March 2014 at 1:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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There are also some links in the BCMS collaborative profile (scroll down to the profile's last three sections: "BOOKS", "SCHOOLS" and "LINKS AND SOURCES")
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6693 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 13 21 March 2014 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I'm in that situation now, but so far I just copy and(or retranslate a couple of animals daily from the BeoZoo guidebook, which is excellent as a primary source because I already know the animals and there are many repetitions. And soon I'll make a collection of bilingual texts. I have Routledge's grammar, which should be enough, and then I have a small Italian<>Serbian and a somewhat ideosyncratic English<>Serbian dictionary written for Serbians. Besides I have some materials for Croatian and a Croatian TV station - and that will of course make me read Serbian with a Croatian ronunciation, which isn't an ideal situation. But right now the main point is to reach the point where I understand written Serbian and spoken Croatian, and I don't think anybody will mistake me for a Croatian when I turn up in Novi Sad so I don't see this as a problem - at least not a problem that can't be corrected later.
I haven't checked the links on the internet yet, but that will follow soon. So far Serbian and Croatian don't seem too difficult. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4629 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 5 of 13 21 March 2014 at 3:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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iguanamon, thanks for the link to the DLI Gloss. I had no idea this site existed - I will certainly spend some time this evening looking through the Russian material.
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| umiak Groupie Poland Joined 4502 days ago 51 posts - 77 votes Speaks: Polish* | Message 6 of 13 21 March 2014 at 3:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's a list of resources from Word Reference forums (sorry if some links repeat):
Dictionaries: http://www.recnik.com/ - English-Serbian (both directions) http://www.slavicnet.com/ - Serbian-English (about 270,000 entries) http://www.vocabland.com/onlinedicts/index.html - English-Serbian (both directions) http://www.vokabular.org - monolingual dictionary http://spraakdata.gu.se/termin/ - a Swedish dictionary, both directions http://recnik.kalaj.org/serbian/spanish/ogovaranje/ - Serbian-Spanish (both directions) http://www.metak.com/ - English-Serbian (both directions, 300,000 words) Grammar: http://pravopis.tripod.com/ - grammar and ortography (in Serbian) http://seelrc.org:8080/grammar/mainf...?nLanguageID=1 - comprehensive reference excellent http://www2.bc.edu/~niebuhro/crogrammar.htm - grammar tables http://www.vokabular.org/gramatika/doku.php - thorough explanations in Serbian excellent http://www.vokabular.org/nedoumice/doku.php - frequent doubts regarding ortography and grammar in Serbian excellent Orthography: http://www.vokabular.org/pravopis/ - thorough explanations in Serbian excellent Vocabulary: http://wordchamp.com/lingua2/Browse.do - flashcards (various topics) http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other.../serbian.shtml - essential holiday phrases with audio http://www.ielanguages.com/croatian.html - basic phrases and grammar Online courses: http://serbianschool.com/ - a free tutorial http://www.krompir.co.yu/prirucnik/ - manual and exercise book for learners (in Serbian) Culture and literature: http://www.rastko.org.yu/index.html - library of the Serbian culture in Serbian (the English page is under construction) http://istorijska-biblioteka.wikidot.com/ - history and literature Source: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=67169&p=3357 48#post335748 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7146 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 7 of 13 21 March 2014 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | ||
I'd add Finnish, Hungarian, Slovak and Ukrainian to that list. :-) Too bad that the respective countries seem to be unlikely threats from the DoD's point of view (or have been for a while) :-P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4612 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 8 of 13 21 March 2014 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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I guess you could also used resources labelled as Croatian.
I know a 12-year-old boy who is a native speaker of Croatian and he understands everything I say to him in Serbian (which is really just A1 level) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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