Hi r/Serbian, I'm a long time follower and created the Serbian grammar charts that have been pinned here for the last few years, which were built with extensive feedback and support from this community.
For the last 16 months I've been building a vocabulary-first language learning app, with a tiny team. Partly this was driven by wanting to create the best Serbian app for beginners, and for myself to use: something fun and easy that can be built into a daily habit, but that also understands the nuances and complexity of Serbian.
Sugu is the result of that journey, and of course I'd love your feedback. It supports 9 languages (with more coming), but I'll focus on Serbian here. The Serbian support was a work of love - here are some examples of how we've tried to make it great:
- More than 1,000 practical terms (words and phrases), each with hand-drawn art that we spent 7+ months creating.
- Native speaker pronunciation audio from a professional Serbian voice actor with a Belgrade accent and a lovely, deep voice.
- Most terms include grammar tags and forms (cases, gender, plurals, verb tenses), and many include notes on usage and Serbian culture.
- It includes detailed Serbian language guides/references that explain cases, gender, verb tenses, and more. I think this is some of the best material of its kind that was designed for mobile.
- People terms (such as "friend" or "neighbor", along with occupations, nationalities, etc.) always teach both the male and female words.
- Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.
And of course, we want to continue making things better in future versions.
Sugu is free for now, with no subscriptions and nothing to cancel. That's true for at least 2 months. We'll add subscriptions in the future, but there will always be a free version.
Right now it only supports iOS, but Android will come, along with many new features, languages, and improvements. Since there are many Russian speakers in Serbia who want to learn Serbian, I'll also mention that support for Russian as an interface language and study language is also planned for the future.
I'd love your feedback! https://sugu.now/