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.
Serbian is written in Cyrillic and in Latin, and both are correct. Not two spellings and not two standards - two sets of signs for the same thirty sounds, which is why a Serb switches between them halfway down a street without noticing. Here is how the correspondence works, and the one place it quietly fails.
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