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- оглас за посаоoglas za posaoa job ad
“оглас за посао” (oglas za posao) — a job ad in Serbian. Noun, level A2. Oglas is an ad in a paper or on a site, from oglasiti. A notice on the entrance door is obaveštenje. In a live sentence: “Видео сам оглас за посао на сајту” (Video sam oglas za posao na sajtu) — I saw a job ad on the site. You can hear how it sounds right here.
In short
| Written in Serbian | оглас за посао (oglas za posao) |
| Read in Latin letters | oglas za posao |
| Translation | a job ad |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Oglas is an ad in a paper or on a site, from oglasiti. A notice on the entrance door is obaveštenje.
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “a job ad” in Serbian?
«оглас за посао» (oglas za posao), read “oglas za posao”. In a live sentence: “Видео сам оглас за посао на сајту” (Video sam oglas za posao na sajtu) — I saw a job ad on the site. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters о (o), г, л, а (a), с (s), з, а (a), п, о (o), с (s), а (a), о (o).
How is “оглас за посао” (oglas za posao) written in Latin letters?
oglas za posao. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Oglas is an ad in a paper or on a site, from oglasiti. A notice on the entrance door is obaveštenje. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how this sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.