Vocabulary

The words for how you feel, what hurts, and the visit to the doctor when it doesn't get better on its own.

Sun, rain, wind and temperature - the words for describing today's weather and predicting tomorrow's.

The words for getting from one place to another in an unfamiliar city - turning, crossing and going past, the pavement and the pedestrian zone, the entrance you are looking for - and for showing the way, or finding it again once you are lost.

The words for what you wear and how you look - garments, fabrics, fit and grooming - for shopping, describing people and getting dressed for the day.

Classroom life, exams and studying - from primary school through university - building on a1-o-sebi's студент/професор and a1-grad-i-mesta's факултет with the words a classroom actually runs on.

The words for how you feel and how you react - nouns for the emotion itself, adjectives for the state, and the reflexive verbs Serbian uses for most of them.

Landscapes, plants, animals and the environmental vocabulary for talking about protecting them - a concrete counterpart to a2-weather's climate words.

Team sports, working out, and the music, art and outdoor hobbies people fill free time with - pairs with a2-emotions-feelings when talking about what you enjoy.

Booking a stay, checking in, sightseeing and the practicalities of a trip - the hospitality and tourism vocabulary that sits alongside a1-transport's getting-around words and a2-city-directions' navigating-the-city ones.

Everyday jobs and the workplace words around them - hiring, shifts, careers - a concrete counterpart to b1-work-office's more abstract office vocabulary.

The words for buying food rather than naming it - a kilo and a few grams, a jar, a basket, the change from the till - and the words for picking what is fresh, ripe and home-grown.

Dates, holidays and booked appointments: how to confirm, cancel, shorten or extend what is in the calendar, arrive on time or late, and say when a holiday or an anniversary actually falls.

Choosing, wrapping and giving a gift, and the holidays and celebrations that call for one - from a birthday card to the Serbian Slava, a custom with no real equivalent elsewhere.

The words for travelling with someone else - a companion, the booking, the border and the train compartment, and the small verbs for joining, changing trains and parting on the way.

The vocabulary a conversation actually runs on: a story, a joke, a truth or a lie, discourse words like значи and уствари, and the verbs for remembering and retelling what happened.

How to open and close a letter, when to reach for господине or госпођо instead of a first name, and the everyday vocabulary of greeting, thanking and signing off politely.