LingoflyTexts in Serbian
Short texts in Serbian with a translation alongside and comprehension questions, levels A1–B1. The first ones need two or three hundred everyday words; the B1 texts need about three thousand. The translation stands next to it whole, not word by word: stopping at every other word tears the sentence apart.
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- 📖An ordinary dayA1 · Hello. My name is Mila and I live in Belgrade. In the morning I drink coffee and eat…
- 📖At the green marketA2 · On Saturdays I go to the market with my family. The market is close to the house, ten…
- 📖The market or the storeA2 · I like shopping at the market rather than at the store. The fruit there is fresher and…
- 📖My apartmentA2 · My apartment is on the fourth floor, and the elevator is often out of order. It has two…
- 📖At the doctorA2 · Yesterday I had a sore throat and a temperature. I didn't go to work; I went to the…
- 📖The four seasonsA1 · In Belgrade the summer is very hot, and the winter is cold and windy. In spring it often…
- 📖A working dayA2 · I work in an office downtown, not far from the post office. The workday starts at nine…
- 📖Lost luggageA2 · The flight was delayed three hours, and my suitcase didn't arrive with me. At the airport…
- 📖A day on the riverA2 · Behind our house a forest begins, and a small river flows through it. In the morning we…
- 📖Colors in the wardrobeA2 · My wardrobe is boring: everything is black, gray or brown. My sister says I need…
- 📖Two neighborsA2 · Two people live on my floor, and they are completely different. The first is cheerful and…
- 📖Sunday in the kitchenA2 · On Sundays I cook lunch for the whole family. First I wash and cut the onion, the carrot…
- 📖The message that didn't arriveA2 · We agreed to meet in front of the cinema at seven. I sent a message saying I'd be a…
- 📖At the workshopA2 · The wheel on my bicycle broke, and I couldn't fix it myself. In a small workshop behind…
- 📖An evening at the cinemaA2 · My sister and I go to the movies every two weeks, usually to an old film. She loves music…
- 📖A slava at the neighbors'A2 · In Serbia every family has its own day, called the slava, and it is an old custom. The…
- 📖A house with a yardA2 · Grandma and grandpa live in an old house on the edge of the village, with a big yard and…
- 📖The class scheduleA2 · In our school the class schedule hangs next to the classroom and changes every September.…
- 📖The household budgetA2 · Since prices grew, my wife and I sit down on the first of the month and plan the budget.…
- 📖Three days in the hospitalA2 · I fell off my bicycle on Sunday, and we called an ambulance right away. At the reception…
- 📖The contract I didn't readA2 · I got my first job quickly and signed the contract the same day, barely reading it. Only…
- 📖Furniture from another apartmentA2 · When we moved in, the apartment was empty: only a kitchen and one old wardrobe. We bought…
- 📖The road to the seaB1 · We left at five in the morning to avoid the traffic jam at the border. The speed limit on…
- 📖Life on the networksB1 · My brother has ten thousand followers, and he thinks it means something. Each of his…
- 📖A police report about the incidentB1 · On Sunday evening an incident happened at the intersection in front of our house. The…
- 📖I'm not sure, and that's fineB1 · For a long time I felt awkward saying 'I don't know' at meetings. It seemed to me that…
- 📖The order of one dayB1 · First I get up, make coffee and only then look at my phone. While the coffee cools, I…
- 📖The neighbor from the third floorA2 · The neighbor from the third floor is gray-haired, bald and always in the same gray…
- 📖The first winter in a new cityB1 · The first winter in the new city was hard on me: I knew no one, and loneliness came every…
- 📖Sunday lunchA2 · On Sundays we cook all morning, and by grandma's recipe, which nobody ever wrote down.…
- 📖Shopping at the mallA2 · I rarely go to the shopping mall, only when I really need something, because everything…
- 📖The old washing machineB1 · Our washing machine is fifteen years old, and it has long made noise like an airplane…
- 📖Thunder over the villageA2 · Last summer a thunderstorm caught us in the village. The sky turned overcast in five…
- 📖First weeks in the new neighborhoodA2 · We moved to a new district on the outskirts. The first week I kept losing my bearings…
- 📖How I studied SerbianB1 · I enrolled in the course three months after arriving. At the first lesson I understood…
- 📖Temporarily, then foreverB1 · I was born in a small town in the south and spent my whole childhood there. I finished…
- 📖The meeting where everyone talksB1 · There were four people at the meeting, and everyone spoke at once. Every time I began a…
- 📖The first day at the factoryA2 · My first day at the factory began with a safety briefing. The guard at the gate gave me a…
- 📖The internet contractB1 · I signed the internet contract without reading a single clause to the end. I thought the…
- 📖The bank of our riverB1 · The bank of the river behind the district had been piled with waste for years. The local…
- 📖The book I rememberB1 · The first book I truly remembered was given to me by my teacher in the third grade. It…
- 📖The race through the cityA2 · Last week I took part in a city race for the first time. The warm-up lasted fifteen…
- 📖A night without powerA2 · The electricity went out at eight in the evening, in the middle of the rain. The neighbor…
- 📖A full check-upB1 · Last week I went for a check-up, my first in ten years. The doctor measured my blood…
- 📖What to bring to a slavaA2 · The neighbors invited us to their slava, and we didn't know what one is supposed to…
- 📖A meeting without an agreementB1 · The meeting began calmly and ended without a decision. Half the team was for the new…
- 📖If I had knownB1 · If I had known how much a move costs, I wouldn't have left it to the last day. There were…
- 📖The box from the atticA2 · In the attic I found a box that nobody had opened for twenty years. The wrapping was…
- 📖The shortcut through the parkB1 · I thought I would get there faster by cutting through the park, and I turned off the main…
- 📖The count that didn't add upB1 · When I counted the stock at the warehouse, it came out that a third of the goods was…
- 📖From zero to the endB1 · When the old program failed, we had to do everything from scratch. The first attempt was…
- 📖A rumor without proofB1 · Last week word went around that the company would close the workshop, and within two days…
- 📖The city that changedB1 · In two decades the city changed more than in the whole previous century. Where fields had…
- 📖The river we forgotB1 · For years the river behind the settlement took wastewater from the workshop, and nobody…
- 📖A day at the plantB1 · The workers enter the shop at six, in work clothes and hard hats, because workplace…
- 📖The story of one breakdownB1 · Here's how it went: we left the city at eight, and the engine died suddenly, right at the…
- 📖The man who keeps his wordB1 · In these parts decency is valued above all, and resourcefulness and knowledge only after…
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.
At the first levels a dictionary is still too early: stopping at every other word tears the sentence apart, and understanding never assembles. That is why the translation stands beside the text whole, not word by word — in the B1 texts too, although there it is for checking.
Frequently asked
What level do you need to read texts in Serbian?
A1–B1. For the first texts the letters and two or three hundred everyday words are enough; the B1 texts need about three thousand. 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.