(Part 2) Top products from r/serbia

Hi Diego, welcome to the global Serbian family! My Serbian parents emigrated to Canada from the former Yugoslavia back in the 1960’s and I was born and raised in Canada. Like most Serbian immigrants, my parents were closely involved in the local Serbian community here in Toronto, so I grew up learning a lot about the culture of my ethnic roots through dancing in our local Serbian folklore group and singing for a number of years in the choir at our Serbian Orthodox Church where I was baptized (St. Michael The Archangel Serbian Orthodox Church on Delaware Avenue in Toronto).

While every culture and ethnic group in the world has its pluses and minuses, on the whole Serbian culture has a lot of pluses and I am grateful to be a part of the worldwide Serbian family (while also very grateful to be a Canadian). Serbian culture has a strong and culturally rich identity. For most people with Serbian roots, whenever they go somewhere in the world that has a Serbian community, they will usually feel themselves to be in a familiar and welcoming place.

The heart of Serbian culture is the Serbian Orthodox Church, a religious institution that has greatly influenced the Serbian people (the majority of Serbs are Orthodox Christians). In the historical tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church, in contrast to the Roman Catholic Church, nations with an extensive Orthodox Christian populace are often given ecclesiastical permission from the “head” Orthodox Church, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, to form their own autonomous national Orthodox Church, a right which was granted to the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219. Serbian Orthodox Churches are beautifully decorated (take a look at some photos on Google), and the services are reflective of ancient Christian liturgical traditions accompanied by wonderfully spiritual choral music. The Serbian Church is the source of traditional Serbian celebrations of Christmas and Easter, and the most distinctive Serbian cultural tradition, the “Slava” or Family Patron Saint’s Day.

The historical story behind the Slava is that more than a thousand years ago, when the Orthodox Church was first establishing itself among Serbs, the Serbs at that time were pagans with a number of gods associated with different aspects of their lives. When the Orthodox missionaries taught them about monotheism, the pagan Serbs had difficulty with the concept of one God taking care of everything and everyone. To help convert the Serbs, the missionaries suggested that each family pick a saint from the many saints recognized by the Church, and then that saint would be the family’s special protector, and the family would celebrate that saint on the saint’s annual feast day. The family saint was passed down from father to son, and for every Serbian Orthodox family, the annual celebration of their Patron Saint’s Day is one of the most important days of the year for them. They prepare a special bread (kolac) and boiled wheat (zito), and take these to Church to have them blessed by a priest. Then later that day they put on a feast and invite their family and closest friends to celebrate with them. During lean times, Serbian families would save up all year so they could put on a good feast for their Slava guests. There is a folk tradition in Serbia that even if your worst enemy appears at your doorstep on the day of your Slava, you must invite them into your home and treat them as an honoured guest (this is a reflection of the Christian teaching that Christ is in everyone).

Like many Serbs, I love our traditional way of celebrating Christmas (on January 7th, because our Church follows the “Old” Julian Calendar). One of the many wonderful Serbian Christmas traditions is the “polozajnik”, which means the one who lights the fire. In the old pre-industrial days, homes, particularly rural homes, were heated in the winter by a wood fire. On winter mornings, the fire would usually die down to a few glowing embers, and these embers would be used to start a new fire for the day. On Christmas morning a young relative would come to a family’s home very early…this youngster has to be the first one to enter the house that morning!..and knock on the door. The entire household would then greet the youngster at the door, who represents the newborn Jesus, and ask the youngster what they have brought, to which the youngster, while tossing into the house uncooked wheat kernels in blessing, would reply that they have brought glad tidings and much love and much good fortune! The youngster would then be invited in and given a branch from the Christmas oak tree that was blessed the day before. The youngster would then make the Orthodox sign of the cross and use the branch to stir the glowing embers to light a new fire, all while telling the family that the sparks rising from the stirred embers are joy and love and many blessings. The honoured fire-starter would then be treated to a tasty breakfast feast and be given a Christmas gift.

Traditional folk music and dancing are colourful elements of Serbian culture. Serbian folk music is melodic and lively and prominently features the accordion, but woodwinds and stringed instruments are also widely used. A beautiful genre of traditional Serbian music is a european-bohemian style called “Starogradsko” (“Old City”) that was popular in Belgrade cafés of a century ago, like the song “Nema Starog Beograda”. Other Serbian folk songs are more robust like the classic “Jeremija”, famously sung by Goran Bregovic’s internationally known Balkan folk band, the Wedding and Funeral Orchestra. More generally, traditional Serbian folk music is called “Narodno”, and was often written for dancing in a Serbian circle dance called a “kolo”. Here’s a link to a good overview video on kolo dancing.

Serbian culture strongly emphasizes the importance of dignity and honour. While some individual Serbs don’t always live up to this, Serbian culture is filled with proverbs and traditions that speak to these qualities. One of my father’s favourite traditional Serbian sayings is, “an ox is tied by its horns, but a person is tied by their word”. Whenever I visit my family in Serbia, my uncle Toma will at least once during my stay point to his cheek and nod solemnly. The cheek (obraz) is a Serbian metaphor for honour. After pointing to his cheek, uncle Toma will add, “once this gets dirty, you can never wash it clean” (always keep your honour).

The food in Serbia is very good (although we’ll never be Italy or China). There are a wide variety of tasty meat dishes and the desserts are excellent. Vegans who visit Serbia are in for a treat because the Serbian Orthodox Church requires its members to eat a mostly vegan diet during the several official Church fasting periods throughout the year, so Serbia has developed a rich menu of traditional plant-based dishes. Local Serbian alcohol beverages are also good. Serbia has excellent wines and is especially known for well-crafted dry fruit brandies, usually made from plums (sljivovica), but from other fruits as well, like pears and apricots (Serbian apricot brandy is absolutely delicious). While many of these fruit brandies are made by professional distilleries, home-made brandies from farms are often superbly crafted, and some of the best are featured in local restaurants which proudly identify them on menus as “domace” (home-made).

To learn more about Serbia, you can start with Wikipedia’s main entry on Serbia. Also, here’s a link to a good english-language Youtube video on various Serbian cultural traditions. In terms of general english-language books on Serbia, I’ll note a couple of recommendations here, but perhaps some of the other readers of this subreddit can add more suggestions. A pretty good basic overview of Serbian history is John Cox’s “The History Of Serbia” . For something a little more complex and political, take a look at “The Serbs” by the late Serbian historian Sima Cirkovic. If you want to learn more about Serbian wedding traditions, a few years ago I posted “A Brief Guide To Serbian Weddings” . Another good book is the travel classic “Black Lamb And Grey Falcon” by Rebecca West, a book which isn’t only about Serbs but gives her view of the Balkans during her travels there. Diego, if you ever decide to travel to Serbia, I’m sure you will enjoy it and the locals will be more than happy to help you get in touch with the Serbian side of your roots!

You need anthropological approach if you want to write a novel. Start with Black Lamb and Grey Falcon from Rebecca West and The Bridge on the Drina from Serbian Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andric. Also, Tiger's Wife by Belgrade born Téa Obreht is a good source, she recently won Orange Prize for Fiction. From the recent ones, "The Serbs" by Tim Judah is some better than others but as someone has said - your best bet is to get in touch here and receive recommendations on the specific issue of your interest. Good Luck!

I moved to Belgrade 2 months ago and I'm currently learning the language, too. I have some language lessons in Belgrade. The best way to really learn the language is to live in the actual country, it helps a lot just to hear people talk Serbian every day.

I can also recommend two books, which are really good and go in depth into the grammar, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh7rdCYCQ_U

Poslusaj video ukoliko imas vremena.

Svi izvori upotrebljeni u ovom videu:

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307700763/?tag=freedradio-20



Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire by Simon Baker
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1846072840/?tag=freedradio-20


The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer
http://www.amazon.com/dp/039305974X/?tag=freedradio-20


The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire by Anthony Everitt
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812978153/?tag=freedradio-20


A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0871404230/?tag=freedradio-20


Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1400078970/?tag=freedradio-20


The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195325419/?tag=freedradio-20


The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman
http://www.amazon.com/dp/039332169X/?tag=freedradio-20


The Fate Of Empires by Sir John Glubb
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf

Pročitao Three Body Problem, sve tri knjige. Više ne gledam zvezdano nebo istim očima. Bez zezanja. ;)

Mimo toga kad stignem čitam Never Split The Difference, od noulajferske literature čitam neke dve Deep Learning knjige od kojih ću jednu da batalim i fokusiram se na drugu, kad stingem čitam Probably Aproximately Correct i LLVM Essentials. Od ove poslednje ću verovatno da odustanem za sada, troši dosta energije a ne osećam benefit na horizontu, kanim se da počnem Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.

> arrier to entry za python je poprlicno nizak, pa profesori mogu da se fokusiraju na sustinu a to je predstavljanje karakteristicnih problema i resenja za te probleme

Aha, mesam tebe i ovog sto mislida prvo treba da se uci C. DA naravno, neke od tih stvari moraju svakako da se nauce.

Ali ne moras puno njih da naucis da bi napravio igricu u pygame, a kada napravis igricu u pygame, ohrabris se pa krenes da ucis detaljnije. :)

Svakako je odlicno nauciti makar osnovne algoritme. Dizajn patterns su takodje jako korisni, ja sam to jako brzo posto sam savladao koriscenje pajton da mogu da ucim jezik - krenuo da radim, po savetu starijeg kolege.

Ali to je vec intermediate, ovde pricamo o pocetnicima. Ko hoce intermedia design patters i nije losa knjiga clean code. https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882

Ja obicno ne volim da dobijam stvari koje zelim ili mi trebaju, jer te stvari kupim sama. Mozda zvuci komplikovano, ali jednostavna instrukcija je ''Pokloni mi nesto sto bi ti voleo da ti je poklonjeno''. Jer tada postoji mogucnost da dobijem nesto sto je dobro, a nisam ni znala.

Ali hajde da ti udovoljim:

ovo

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ovo

ovo

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ili ovo

Koga zanima Python, ovo je takođe dobro - Effective python. Ako nekome treba, pm.

Takođe, ne bih se složio da je u svemu broj 2. U data science domenu je u vrhu (pored njega R).

Iz ovog:

https://www.amazon.com/Java-Software-Solutions-John-Lewis/dp/0134462025

Tolkinova biografija, svaki bitan trenutak je napisan, od rodjenja do vecnosti :).

Ovo je neki moj hardcore put, sa ciljem da zaista razumem kako stvari funkcionišu.

Srednjoškolska i fakultetska matematika, osnove analize i algebre, trigonometrija, logika, uz malo verovatnoće i statistike. Matemanija je dobar resurs.

Srednjoškolska fizika, Fizis je dobar resurs za podsećanje.

OET razumevanje osnovnog, YT kanali Adis A Nukic i Osnove elektrotehnike.

Mreže:

Tanenbaum.

Telekom:

The Essential Guide to Telecommunications

Digital Communications

Telecommunication Switching Systems and Networks


Takođe sam prošla kurikulume svih predmeta sa Telekom smera na ETF-u i shvatila da hoću sveeeee da pređem.

Uz to oblasti sa CCNA routing and switching (a i drugi Cisco resursi) su takođe fin materijal.

YT kanal sa nekim baaaš osnovnim objašnjenjima raznoraznih tema, ali može lepo da usmeri na početku, da vidiš šta ti se manje ili više sviđa.

Onda dođeš da radiš u telekom firmi i osetiš koliko je sve to mnogo fascinantnije nego što knjiga može da dočara.

E sad, ja sam malo bolesnik, pa ne umem umereno da se posvetim nečemu, ali valjda ćeš moći da probereš nešto korisno od svega ovoga.

Ja ti lepo rekoh - zvanicni podatci, drzavnih i nezavisnih organa, i rekoh ti da cu ti dati linkove

Zlostavljane lezbejke

60 puta vece sanse za HIV kod pedera (link sa zvani9cnog sajta US instituta zdravlja)

Preko hiljadu partnera u proseku

79% gej osoba su imali sex sa kompletnim strancem - objavljeno u knjizi, renomiranog americkog psihijatra Richard J. Wolitski, u strucnom radu, ne mogu da nadjem konkretno poglavlje sad

Ako bas hoces, naci cu ti linkove za sve ostalo. Nijedna stavka nije trulija od 2012te godine, Sve do jedne iznesene u istrazivanjima priznatih Psihologa, ili drugacije od strane LGBT grupa, i organizacija.

SVI podatci su tacni.

Iskreno, poceo sam da je citam i po meni je previse neozbiljna. Moze li ova? Cini mi se da je dobra.

Hvala.

Idem na časove privatno, mada mi je to sve manje potrebno. Da mi ne treba dobro teoretsko poznavanje gramatike, vjerovatno ne bih više išao.

Ako misliš sam učiti, obavezno prouči ovo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_verbs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_grammar

Takođe, https://en.wiktionary.org ima odlične tabele deklinacija i konjugacija za svaku arapsku riječ i mislim da do sada nisam naletio ni na jednu grešku.

Za pisanje (ali samo za pisanje, ne za učenje jezika) pogledaj na Youtube, posebno obrati pažnju na sve što se tiče ligatura, pošto ćeš se često susretati sa njima, ali ćeš rijetko naići na neki materijal gdje su obrađene sistematski. Nešto se može skontati iz ovoga, ali su tu izmješana slova iz svih jezika koji koriste arapski alfabet i nije naznačeno od kojih slova se sastoji koja ligatura. Toplo preporučujem ovo:
http://www.islamicmanuscripts.info/reference/books/Mitchell-1953/Mitchell-1953-Ruqaa-000-097.pdf
http://www.islamicmanuscripts.info/reference/books/Mitchell-1953/Mitchell-1953-Ruqaa-098-163.pdf,
samo je nezgodno za čitati jer je skenirani pdf.

Gramatika nije teška i jako je sistematska. Kada naučiš zamjenice, njihove enklitičke oblike, genitivsku vezu, konjugaciju glagola i deset glagolskih razreda i veznike, biće ti dovoljno za neku elementarnu komunikaciju. Ako ispočetka budeš brkao padeže, subjunktive, ili oblike plurala, neće biti idealno, ali će te svako shvatiti. Nažalost, još nisam vidio dobar udžbenik gramatike za učiti korak po korak, osim jednog češkog koji koristim. Na srpskom je izašla Gramatika arapskog jezika (Darko Tanasković i Anđelka Mitrović, Zavod za udžbenike Beograd, 2011) koja ima odlične primjere rečenica, ali ponekad bespotrebno ide u detalje i ne znam baš zamisliti da je čitam od početka do kraja i učim, samo je koristim kao referencu.

Najteže (ali i najzanimljivije) mi je učiti fond riječi. Teško se pamti jer je većina riječi zasnovana na radikalima od tri suglasnika između kojih dolaze razni samoglasnici, prefiksi i infiksi. Ovi rezultirajući oblici su ponekad toliko različiti i njihova značenjska srodnost toliko "nategnuta", da je teško isprve primijetiti neku vezu. Npr. radikal ج-م-ع (Dž-M-) ima opšte značenje spajanje, okupljanje, zajedništvo itd.: <br /> <br /> DžaMa\a - sastati se, okupiti se
DžaM` - plural
DžaaMi` - okupljalište (iliti džamija)
DžuM`a - okupljanje (džuma)
iDžtiMaa` - sastanak (poslovni itd.)
DžaaMa`a - sastati se, ali samo kad se žena i muškarac sastaju privatno, i to, ajmo reći, na vrlo kratkoj udaljenosti (iliti guziti)

Tako da seks i džamija su vrlo bliske riječi, ali ti to vjerovatno ne bi palo na pamet, tako da ćeš naučiti svaku riječ zasebno, što je naravno teže, nego da odmah primijetiš i neku značenjsku vezu između njih. Takvih primjera ima gomila:
NaMR - tigar
taNaMMaRa - maltretirati (tj. ponašati se kao tigar prema nekome)

itd.

Zato ako ikad naletiš na pravi arapski rječnik sortiran po radikalima, obavezno ga kupi jer ćeš puno novog shvatiti samo čitajući ga. Ovi razni Oxford Essential Arabic i slično uglavnom su samo bacanje para. Ja svakodnevno koristim wiktionary i https://www.almaany.com i sasvim je dovoljno. Wiktionary čak ima bar neke osnovne riječi povezane po radikalima. Almaani uglavnom pokazuje glagole svih klasa za onaj koji tražiš. Defincije su mu prilično lake za shvatiti, samo je pisan fontom sa ligaturama, tako da je teži za čitati ako nisi naviknut. Dalje npr. u zaglavlju glagola navodi glagolske imenice u akuzativu, ali možda ima neki razlog u koji se (još) ne razumijem.

Za učenje nekih osnovnih rečenica imaš gomilu raznih Youtube videa, blogova itd., ali je velika većina od toga totalno smeće. Npr. ne uvažavaju razlike između MSA i lokalnih dijalekata, ne navode nikakvu prateću gramatiku ili značenjski kontekst itd. Vjerovatno najbolje što sam našao online ima Al-Jazeera: http://learning.aljazeera.net/en. Imaju neki kao kurs u obliku nekih animacija/stripova sa nekim pratećim vježbama. Nisam probao više od dva tri jer sam ih otkrio tek kad sam već bio na naprednijem nivou i nisam imao strpljenja da tražim druge epizode. (To im je loša strana - organizacija sajta je užasno zbunjujuća, bar meni.) Međutim, Al-Jazeera ima baš super mobilnu aplikaciju. Tu su vijesti (koje uglavnom ignorišem), ali imaju i sekciju "portal" i "enciklopedija" gdje su tematski kategorisani kratki članci pisani ne baš složenim jezikom. Recimo neki dan je bilo nešto o prvom vozu sa pogonom na vodik ili o nekoj djevojčici koja je sa devet godina organizovala ekspediciju u Antarktik i razne slične zanimljivosti. Vjerovatno nije namijenjeno za učenje, ali meni dosta pomaže.

Neki dan sam kupio ovo (naletio slučajno u knjižari) i mislim da je savršeno za nekog recimo naprednog početnika kao što sam ja. Podrazumijeva se da već znaš osnovnu gramatiku i samo se vježbaju korisne riječi na puno raznih načina.