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The Serbian Alphabet

It's your first day in Belgrade, and your taxi has just stopped in front of your new building. To read the names on the intercom and the signs around you, you need the alphabet, and the good news is that Serbian is written exactly the way it's said. By the end of this lesson, you'll read any Serbian word, write it with all its marks, and recognize it in Cyrillic.

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Situation
A sunny autumn morning on a quiet Belgrade street. A woman with dark wavy hair steps out of the heavy wooden door of an old cream-colored building, holding a gray tabby cat and waving. A newcomer with a suitcase and a backpack stands with their back to the viewer, and a taxi drives away in the background.

Monday, November 2 · 12 Lipa Street

Your task

Your taxi has just driven off. You're standing in front of your new building with a suitcase, and the front door is opening. Names on the intercom, a sign by the elevator, a shop across the street: today you learn to read and write them. You'll meet the 30 Serbian letters, in Latin and in Cyrillic.

By the end you can

Read any Serbian word, write a Serbian word with all its marks, and recognize the same word in Cyrillic.

Guess first: which four English letters does Serbian not use?

Q, W, X and Y. Serbian doesn't need them: it writes kv, v, ks and j instead.