CEFR-aligned · A1–C2
Serbian, level by level.
A grammar-first course. Clear theory, typed exercises, and progress you can actually see - from A1 to C2, in both scripts.
Placement test · free · about 10 minutes
Every lesson works in ћирилица and latinica - switch anytime, and every answer is accepted in either script
How a unit is built
One theme, one path, always in the same order. Words first, then everything written on them.
- Grammar
- Words
- Guided lessons
- Reading and listening
- Writing and speaking (A2+)
- Test → next unit
More than 90% of the words in a unit's texts and dialogues are taken from its vocabulary.
Choose your level
0 grammar lessons across six CEFR levels.
Beginner
Elementary
Intermediate
Upper-intermediate
Advanced
Mastery
The learning map
What you will be able to do at each level — mapped to our grammar syllabus.
- Alphabet, reading rules and pronunciation — both scripts
- Present tense: biti, imati and regular verbs
- Personal, possessive and demonstrative pronouns
- Noun gender and plurals; first adjectives
- Introduction to the cases; basic prepositions (u, na, sa)
- Questions and negation (ko? šta? gde? · ne, nije)
- Numbers, days and months, telling the time
- Past tense (perfekat) and future (futur I)
- The full case system: accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental, locative, vocative
- Reflexive and modal verbs; the imperative
- A first look at verb aspect
- Comparison of adjectives; adverbs and ordinal numbers
- Word order and enclitics (je, se, mi…)
- Aspect pairs — perfective and imperfective, the key topic
- Adjective declension across all cases
- Conditionals (ako…) and complex sentences
- Participles and the passive
- Verbs of motion; futur II
- Case fine points: genitive of negation, shades of the instrumental
- Idioms and set phrases
- Reported speech
- Pluperfect, aorist and imperfect
- Adjective definiteness (nov and novi)
- Advanced clause syntax
- Numeral declension and word formation
- Word order and information structure; register and style
- Shades of aspect and manners of verbal action
- da-constructions versus the infinitive
- Clitic placement in complex clauses
- Modality; verbal adverbs
- Nominalization and formal register; punctuation rules
- Phraseology, collocations, expressive word formation
- Literary tenses in your own writing
- Ekavian and Ijekavian; regional variation
- Academic and professional style; register shifting
- The orthographic norm (pravopis)
- Stylistic inversion and wordplay
- Proverbs, cultural phraseology and Russian–Serbian translation traps
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