LEARNING SERBIAN

As for learning Serbian, I have a textbook, Teach Yourself Serbian, by Vladislava Ribnikar and David Norris, which has two CDs with it. It goes much farther than Teach Yourself Croatian (by the same authors if I remember correctly), though in some ways Croatian would be more useful for me.

I also use two online programs:

 1) Learn Serbian  click here, which is the magnificent achievement of a guy in Bedford, UK. This program includes a dictionary that works in a really helpful way, though covering a limited vocabulary. (This program only seems to work with Internet Explorer and possibly Netscape.)

2) Learn Bosnian click here, which is good too, explains language structure, grammar etc, but is not interactive in the way that Learn Serbian is.

Lastly, I sometimes use online dictionaries click here or here  though I'm not sure if I've worked out how to get the best out of it.

If you know any other ways of learning, I'd be keen to use them too. Often I come to something I can't understand in one system (I have no-one I can ask, as I know no Serbian speakers in the UK) and then I sometimes find that one of the other courses explains it better. And of course no one dictionary includes even a small percentage of all the words I look up. But I hope to find a good print dictionary - Latin or Cyrillic - when I'm in Banja Luka in October.


Peter Kirker, Newark UK,  Sun 17/07/2005 9:13 PM
 

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