Hey everyone! And welcome once again
to my channel. I am Liz and I am an Australian who
accidentally fell in love with Serbia and the Serbian language!
This is my third month learning the Serbian language
And I thought it would be
a good idea if I share why
Serbian is the best... language in the world!
I'm serious.
Why Serbian is better than English
but you know, I'm not a teacher...
I'm nothing, just a crazy girl who
loves to learn Serbian. I don't know why...
Who is this?
And... I don't have anything else to say...
Ok! Let's go!
Diminutives
If I have something and make it smaller...
For example...
Fish
Little fish
Soup
Little Soup
Cookie
Little cookie
Cat
Kitty
A tiny exception...
We have a similar thing in English
Dog
Doggie
Cat
Kitty
But I think, in Serbian, it sounds better
and cuter :3
Serbian is a very efficient language
for Future tense, you have two options
I will give
OR I will give
Ahh... this language...
And this is not all!
For every sentence, you have lots and lots of options
than just one
I will give it to you, I will give it to you
I will give it to you
OR I will give it to you
This trick, doesn't work in English
I will give it to you
Give will it to you
To you will it to give
Give will to you it
Doesn't make sense...
Serbian is the best
Foreigners always complain about cases
but with cases, the meaning is in the words
You know what the subject is, what the object is
About whom? About what? With who? With what?
Everything is in the end of the word
You have more flexibility with the language
I have an example...
She gave the book to her
You know that every sentence has 2 or 3 options...
Second option!
She gave the book to her
*explosion sound effects*
How?
"Dala" is in past tense
and we know that the subject is a woman
because of the ending
"joj" is the indirect object
and with indirect objects
we use the Dative case
"je" is the verb enclitic
and finally we have "Book"
and "the book" is, obviously
the direct object! And with direct objects, we use
the Accusative case!
The meaning is connected with every word
in English, we can not use the same thing, unfortunately
and of course, Serbian is the best once again
ingenious...
Write as you speak
Read as it is written.
Every letter has one sound
it makes sense...
and Serbian is like that
30 letters have
30 sounds
But in English we have...
26 letters and...
44 sounds...
I don't need to explain why Serbian is
better than English in this situation...
I don't need to use pronouns if I don't want to
"To run" for example, "Ja trčim"
"Ti trčiš", "On, Ona trči", "Mi trčimo", "Vi trčite"
"Oni, One trče"
People know who you're talking about
Because of the verb
Every "person" has only one ending
This is unique to every pronoun
But in English, without pronouns...
it would be...
Am running, are running, is running
are running, are running, are running.
Catastrophic...
If I'd like to speak Serbian, I only need
5 verb conjugations
Past Perfect, Present, Future 1, Potential
and imperative.
and the rest we learn when we are at the highest level
How many does English have? 17...
4 options for present, future
past and conditional and imperative
But imperative only has one
I don't know how people learn English
"Svoj"!
"Svoj" means "my own", "your own"
"his/her own"
"our own", "their own" in one word!!!
Just one word for everything!
This word is one of two words that
have the same type
that is called, "possessive pronoun of each person"
We use "svoj" like
like a possessive pronoun
if I say, "Liz holds her own (svoju) "bag"
People know this bag belongs to Liz
"Svoj" is connected to the pronoun before
and it is special because
we don't have something like this in English
"Svoj" is very directive
And this word is automatic
I hurt my d$%k (sorry doesn't translate well)
I love that women AND men can use it
I don't have a d$%k but I can still use it
I hurt my d$%k!
Beautiful language :')
and Serbians are really creative with their swearing
I found something very interesting on the internet
One gentleman had said...
F%$k you and your cart full of corn, grain by grain
Something like this doesn't exist in English
Not possible!
This isn't a sentence...
This isn't a swear word...
This is art...
And this is everything!
Serbian is a very passionate, efficient
powerful and honest.
I find that in English we like to sugarcoat a lot of things
but in Serbian you don't get the sugar
You get exactly what you've asked for
in the way that you've asked for it
sugar is going to give me diabetes
I don't want that!
See you soon and bye!