How Serbian works, where it came from, and what is worth knowing about it before the first lesson.
Vuk Karadžić spent the 1810s and 1820s rebuilding Serbian Cyrillic so every letter meant exactly one sound. The Latin alphabet Serbian also uses today was built the same decades, for a different language, by a Croatian journalist who never set out to write Serbian at all - and the reason the two ended up sharing one language is a story about an empire, not an alphabet.
One man spent forty years arguing that a written language should record the one people actually speak. He lost most of those arguments while he was alive - and then Serbian became one of the easiest languages in Europe to read out loud.
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