Serbian literature tutors for secondary school in Serbia

A fifteen year old who will argue about a film for half an hour stalls at twenty pages of a set text, and the conclusion at home is that they are not interested. That is rarely what is happening. A good part of what secondary school asks them to read was written two centuries ago, in vocabulary nobody uses and a word order nobody writes, and then they are asked to have a view on it as though it were a newspaper column. If the sentence is opaque the argument cannot start, so they take a summary off the internet and get through the year without reading a page. The useful work is often not interpretation at all. It is a first pass out loud, one page at a time, stopping at every word that has fallen out of use, until the rhythm comes. After that the interpretation looks after itself, because teenagers have no shortage of opinions about things they understand. This lands hardest on families who arrived recently. A pupil who came into a Serbian school at fifteen is being asked to read archaic Serbian while the modern kind is still settling, which is two jobs at once, and it is worth saying so to a tutor at the start rather than discovering it in March. If your child reads the texts comfortably and simply finds them dull, there is less here for you. A tutor does not fix that. A concrete test for the free first lesson: hand them the hardest thing on the list and ask for ten minutes on a single page. You will see straight away whether they can take it apart or are retelling the summary you could have found yourself.