Ч ч — če
«če» is a consonant of Serbian, the “Serbian Cyrillic” script, read as “ch as in "church", hard”. A hard ch as in "church". In the Latin script: č. The Serbian alphabet has 30 letters in total, and this character can be played right here. The partner of the soft ć. Telling them apart by ear is the hardest task the language sets an English speaker. It appears, for example, in the word “добро вече” — good evening.
In short
| Character | Ч ч |
| Name | če |
| Sound | ch as in "church", hard |
| What it is | a consonant |
In our course the character comes 28th of 30, its neighbours in the course are ц and џ, appears in 396 words of this site.
How it sounds
A hard ch as in "church". In the Latin script: č
Other written forms
The same character is written differently on a shop sign and in a book. Here are all the forms you may meet.
| Form | Character | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latin | č | — |
The character in the “read them the way they look” group
Twenty-four letters an English eye reads almost without lessons — they look like Latin and sound like it. Two habits to pick up: e is always e as in "bed", and an unstressed o never fades to "uh".
Words with this character
How to remember this character
A single letter is the hardest thing to remember: memory has nothing to hold on to — a character has no meaning. A three-step loop works: see the character, try to recall the sound, see the right answer.
And come back to it the next day, not in an hour: a check a day or two later beats a check the same day. Nobody holds the whole alphabet — 30 letters — at once.
- It is better to test yourself the next day than at the end of the same session. That is why a word comes back to you tomorrow.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · g = 0.82 when tested a day or two later, against 0.56 on the same day.
- Studying a little every day gets more into your head than spending the same total time in one sitting.checked many timesDonovan & Radosevich, 1999, Journal of Applied Psychology 84(5) · 63 studies compared, difference d = 0.46 — a sizeable figure for a learning effect.
Frequently asked
How does the Serbian character ч read?
As “ch as in "church", hard” — it is a consonant of the “Serbian Cyrillic” script. A hard ch as in "church". In the Latin script: č.
What is the letter ч called?
Če. A character's name and its sound are different things in the Serbian script: it is called “če” and reads as “ch as in "church", hard”. Learn the second one: the name only helps when the alphabet is recited aloud.
What can ч be confused with?
The partner of the soft ć. Telling them apart by ear is the hardest task the language sets an English speaker. Similar characters are best studied side by side and deliberately compared: learned on different days, they stay separate and get mixed up at their first meeting inside a word.