in Slovenian texts
Short in Slovenian texts with a translation alongside and comprehension questions. Levels A1–A2: a stock of two or three hundred everyday words is already enough. The translation stands next to it whole, not word by word — a dictionary is still too early at this level: stopping at every other word tears the sentence apart.
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- 📖Navaden danA1 · Hi. My name is Maja, and I live in Ljubljana. In the morning I drink coffee and eat bread…
- 📖Na tržniciA2 · On Saturday my husband and I go to the market. The market is close to home, ten minutes…
- 📖Sobotno nakupovanjeA2 · On Saturday morning Anja and I go to the market. Fruits and vegetables are fresher and…
- 📖Novo stanovanjeA2 · Last month my brother and I moved into a new apartment on the third floor. There is no…
- 📖Pri zdravnikuA2 · On Monday my throat started to hurt. On Tuesday a fever and a cough appeared as well, so…
- 📖Vreme čez letoA2 · In Ljubljana it is hot and humid in summer, and cold and foggy in winter. In spring it…
- 📖Moja službaA2 · By profession I am an engineer, and I work in a small office near the station. The…
- 📖Z vlakom v MariborA2 · On Friday I will take the train to Maribor. I bought the ticket back on Wednesday…
- 📖Dan ob morjuA2 · In the morning Marko and I went to the beach in Portorož. The sea was calm, there were…
- 📖Nova jaknaA2 · The old jacket was too short for me, so I went to the store for a new one. First I tried…
- 📖Prepir in pomiritevA2 · Last week my sister and I quarreled over a silly thing. She promised to pick me up at the…
- 📖Večerja v gostilniA2 · On Saturday my wife and I booked a table for two at an inn near home. The waiter brought…
- 📖Sporočila in kliciA2 · In the morning I saw that I had seven missed calls. The phone had been silent at night…
- 📖Ura pri frizerjuA2 · On Wednesday I made an appointment for a haircut, because my hair had grown down below my…
- 📖Koncert v KrižankahA2 · In June my brother and I went to a concert at Križanke. We bought the tickets back in…
- 📖Nedelja v vasiA2 · Grandma lives in a small village above the valley where there is only one church. Every…
- 📖Hiša z dvoriščemA2 · The two of us rented an old house with a yard, a fence and a small garage. The roof was…
- 📖Prvi semesterA2 · This year Maja started studying history at the faculty of arts. Her timetable is tight…
- 📖Družinski proračunB1 · On the first of every month my wife and I sit down at the table and look at how much…
- 📖Teden v bolnišniciB1 · When uncle fell off his bike, an ambulance took him to the hospital. The X-ray showed a…
- 📖Nova pogodbaB1 · After three interviews Rok was finally hired by a company that makes furniture. He signed…
- 📖Opremljanje stanovanjaA2 · We two rented the new apartment unfurnished, so we had to buy almost everything. First we…
- 📖Po slovenskih cestahA2 · For the first time the two of us drove from Ljubljana toward Bohinj. First we buckled up…
- 📖Družbena omrežja in resnicaB1 · My sister has more than ten thousand followers on social media. She prepares every post…
- 📖Zapisnik na postajiB1 · On Saturday evening my bike was stolen in front of the store, so I went to the police…
- 📖Nisem prepričanB1 · I’ve been offered a job in another city, and for the third week now I don’t know what to…
- 📖Vse po vrstiA2 · First I filed the application, and after that I waited two months for an answer. While I…
- 📖Sosed z drugega nadstropjaA2 · In our building lives Mr. Peter, a gray-haired man of medium height. He has a thick…
- 📖Stara prijateljicaB1 · Nina and I met in first grade and were inseparable for fifteen years. Then, because of a…
- 📖Nedeljsko kosiloA2 · On Sundays my brother and I cook together at home. First we peel the vegetables…
- 📖Nakup v sobotoB1 · On Saturday my wife and I went to the mall for a winter jacket. In the shop window there…
- 📖Pralni stroj nagajaB1 · Our washing machine started making noise at every spin. First I checked the cables and…
- 📖Nevihta nad dolinoA2 · In the morning it was sunny and so muggy that nobody wanted to work in the garden. Around…
- 📖Prvi teden z avtomB1 · I bought the used car on Monday, and already on Tuesday the technical inspection was…
- 📖Leto slovenščineB1 · A year ago I signed up for a Slovenian course as a complete beginner. For the first month…
- 📖Babičino otroštvoA2 · Grandma was born in a small village where there was a single shop. In childhood she…
- 📖Pogovor na hodnikuB1 · A colleague stopped me in the hallway and asked whether I had a minute. He said he was…
- 📖Prvo leto podjetjaB1 · Two years ago I left my job at the factory and became a self-employed trader. I got my…
- 📖Naročilo po spletuA2 · At an online shop I ordered shoes and chose payment on delivery. The delivery cost was…
- 📖Naša soseskaA2 · About five hundred residents live in our neighborhood, many of them pensioners. Last year…
- 📖Večer v gledališčuB1 · For my birthday I received a subscription for five performances at the city theater. The…
- 📖Prvi maratonB1 · A year ago I hardly did any sport and quickly got out of breath. I started going to the…
- 📖Meritve za omaroA2 · Before buying the cupboard we measured the bedroom wall. The length of the wall is…
- 📖Teden brez cigaretB1 · I smoked for fifteen years and every morning started with coffee and a cigarette. Last…
- 📖Poroka na vasiA2 · The sister’s wedding was in the village where our grandma and grandpa live. In the…
- 📖Sestanek sosedovB1 · At the residents’ meeting the building manager proposed replacing the old windows.…
- 📖Izpit v prvoB1 · I took my driving exam at twenty-nine, much later than my friends. The instructor told me…
- 📖Stara omaraA2 · In grandma’s basement stands a cupboard that is older than me. The wood is rough to the…
- 📖Pot čez travnikB1 · My brother and I set out for the hut along a trail we have known since childhood. At the…
- 📖Koliko vode porabimoB1 · At school we spent a week measuring how much water our family uses. The total number of…
- 📖Delo, ki se je zavlekloB1 · We planned the bathroom renovation for two weeks, and it lasted two months. First there…
- 📖Poskus v šoliA2 · In natural science class we did an experiment with water from three different sources.…
- 📖Vas čez pol stoletjaB1 · My grandma was born in a village that had fed itself on farming for as long as anyone…
- 📖Reka pod tovarnoB1 · For ten years waste water from the factory flowed straight into the river below the…
- 📖Dan v obratuA2 · In our workshop they work in two shifts, and I joined the morning one for the first time.…
- 📖Zgodba s postajeB1 · Once I was waiting at the station for a train that was forty minutes late. Just then an…
- 📖Sosed, ki drži besedoB1 · Our neighbor is withdrawn and doesn’t talk much with anyone. At first we thought he was…
How to read a text in a language you barely know
First pass — all the way through, without peeking at the translation. The goal is not to understand but to catch familiar words: there will be more of them than you expect, and that feeling matters more than any rule.
Second pass — with the translation beside you. Now it becomes clear what exactly was in the way: an unknown word, a construction you did not get, or just reading speed.
Third pass — all the way through again. The second pass brings noticeably more, and this step is what makes reading useful: it turns analysis into recognition.
Frequently asked
What level do you need to read texts in Slovenian?
A1–A2: you know the letters and have a stock of everyday words — about two or three hundred. The translation sits next to it, so an unknown word does not stop the reading.
How many times should you reread the text?
Three times: without the translation, with it, and without it again. The third pass is what all of this is for — the second time you recognize noticeably more.