Proverbs: frozen grammar and cultural memory

Everything you need to recognize, quote and deploy a Serbian proverb the way a fluent speaker actually does, in one path. Start with proverbs' own three faces - the archaic grammar frozen inside them, the core set every speaker owns, and which images travel across languages and which do not - then learn the vocabulary of proverb and folk wisdom, take seven guided lessons that build from each proverb's own words to correcting the traps a learner makes, listen to a grandmother answer her grandson's news with the proverb that fits it, read a short essay on what makes a proverb a proverb, write advice to a friend closed with a proverb that genuinely fits, and finally explain aloud which proverb is closest to your own life.