Learn Slovenian online for free

available on 30 October, 2021

Lecturers
Students

Teacher Education

Autonomous learning
Classroom Context

Slovenian

German

A1
A2
B1

Activity/task
Audio
Reference resources (online Dictionaries/ grammar guides/phrasebooks)
Video

Vocabulary
Grammar
Pragmatics

Listening
Speaking
Reading

This website: https://www.ostsprachen-lernen.com/slowenisch_online_kostenlos_lernen.php is a collection page where we can get to know different ways to learn Slovenian as a foreign language. Here we can get to know and try out a few examples from several versions. The tasks are very diverse. Learning methods tailored to every type of learner offer enormous learning fun. You can use the online Slovenian language course on your computer (Windows, Linux, Mac) as well as on smartphones or tablets.
This collection page contains several types of tasks:
• Vocabulary trainer
• Sample dialogues for listening, repeating and reading
• Learn Slovenian with music
• Dictionary Slovenian - German / German - Slovenian
• Tips on Slovenian grammar
• Slovenian audio MP3 language trainer

The material would either be tested in classroom context or as a take-home project. Students would be instructed to choose some of the activities, do the exercises and repeat the expressions of basic Slovenian. Pronouncing words and expressions out can help acquiring the language easily.
Learners would start by memorizing words, phrases and practical expressions that can be used in everyday life. The prosody of the language could be studied at the first time, and learners can not only listen and repeat the expressions, but can write them out in their vocabulary with the meaning in their own mother tongue.
With the help of a dictionary or the class teacher they can also write out the key words of the expressions or discuss how the Slovakian language works, i.e. how the learnt phrases are constructed. Doing this not only their vocabulary can improve but they can acquire some basic grammar as well. Learning basic expressions is the key to quick success because leaners can easily start communicating with each other and can be motivated to further improve their vocabulary in order to be able to communicate in a more subtle way. As a follow-up exercise they could speak with each other and share their knowledge, and also add some more vocabulary.

There are several exercises on this website, from which I have now chosen “Learn Slovenian with music”.
Objective of the task: Singing Slovene songs improves your pronunciation. Understanding and memorizing the lyrics of the song builds your vocabulary.
Introductory activity / warm-up: the song is about the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, so the first thing I would do is look for Ljubljana from the map and activate my previous knowledge of the city.
Step 1: Presentation phase: watch and listen to the song on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqB7_9nXUKU
From the text the students understand the basic information: who? What? When? Where? How?
Step 2: The students see and hear the song for the second time and already understand the detailed information from the text. The teachers could produce a task sheet for this purpose, with which one can control the understanding.
Step 3: The students work in pairs or in small groups and continue to write the text or change the text with other examples.
Step 4: The students work in pairs and write dialogues to the song, which they also present in front of the plenary.