Serbia Weekly #2: Serbia for Dummies

Episode 2... I decided to start at the basics. My mail folders on Facebook, Instagram, Gmail and KZbin are always filled with messages from folks who know so little about Serbia. This episode discusses Serbia's location, currency, transportation, government, population, crime and more...

[@kojtikure7025]

Charles, thank you for everything you do for Serbia.

[@polyphoniac]

As one British correspondent wrote to me from Serbia recently in regard to personal safety there, "There is no crime. Really there just isn't. A seventeen year old blondie can walk from point A to point B in Beograd, drunk and alone, without let or hindrance. The police are omni-present but not in a negative way, they're there to make sure that everyone knows that they're there.".

[@basiator2]

My favorite sentence of this month: ''they're there to make sure that everyone knows that they're there'' ;)

[@zeko7150]

I am a Montenegrin, and I feel personally attacked when somebody mentions the "montenegrin language"

[@marjanmiladinovic4066]

Crnogorci su Srpski Spartanci 😉👌🏻

[@martial-love6055]

Cyrus Fidelio politika ne poznaje bracu,samo interese.dok mi to razumemo nestacemo.

[@acodjordje4689]

Burazeru ti si Srbin. Od kada to postoje crnogorci. To je samo geografska oblast, kao i ostale kvazi drzave. Sram te bilo da se prestavis, kao Srbin. Kazi da si iz crne gore, a ne da si neki crnognjurac.

[@gordanakaran8057]

Ja sam srpkinja iz canade odusavljena sam sa ovim i zahvalna do groba da neko konačno vidi ko smo i šta smo u pozitivnom svetlu ,hvala puno

[@dollycoally34]

I love it! Have been in serbia 3 times now but always nice to learn more. Hvala!

[@igorjajic6898]

NICE SMILE,....KEEP IT,....

[@mattmacpherson1033]

Charles, I am President of a small to medium sized truck company in the Chicago area. We have 15-16 great employees in Novi Sad. Two of my partners are from there. Great people. Excellent work ethic and attitude. Looking forward to coming over to visit our team there and the other teammates in Macedonia. Thanks for the great videos. Very interesting and informative.

[@brianhaggerty9565]

Me too Matt,im from Chicago also w a trucking co and im looking forward to going to serbia as well

[@petar7069]

Agree or disagree but Kija and Sloba shouldn't be that famous. The reality shows have a lot of influence on our youth, and i don't think there is anything positive that they give. Anyway great video as always.

[@merima333]

IMPORTANT SUGGESTION - Please turn on the CC, in settings, so people could auto-translate in their own language...thank you

[@65MaX73]

I gotta admit, being a Serbian, i never thought i'd watch a video of an American talking about Serbia and actually enjoy lol. This was more fun than some of my history lessons of Serbia we had in school

[@65MaX73]

Haha that smile when you said Kia Kockar, i think you know what people think of her xD

[@liberty0758]

Well, most of that history is false anyway, so you didn't miss much bro

[@lukenzy9576]

@@liberty0758 it's not and it's proved

[@liberty0758]

@@lukenzy9576 who told you that? Your education system? Good on ya mate...

[@lukenzy9576]

@@liberty0758 nah m8, y r u that upset? JESUS

[@user-oe2cc3tc5t]

I'm your follower from the moment you said, "Kosovo... part of Srbija", greetings from Russia.

[@erchandixekhewniz1803]

Trebalo bi ovome Charlesu dati Ambasadora, keve mi... Covek nas opevo u svetu ko Marka Kraljevica...

[@kingkamal6434]

Charles you are the best. Loving your content. Loving Serbia.

[@AA-ds9wq]

Nikola Tesla

[@milosmiletic970]

Mihajlo Pupin

[@kristinajakovljevic7761]

Great job Charles!!!! Love your enthusiasm! 😘😘👍

[@tomasbecvar2328]

Now i know many new things about Serbia thank you 🙏greetings from Prague 🇨🇿

[@strahinjafilipovic9804]

You are always welcome to Serbia or dear Slavic brethren!

[@SaraS-td1be]

Hey Charles! I've been watching your videos for years now. I felt obliged to thank you first of all, and also share some of my thoughts regarding your video. First, thank you. You've really helped put out some positivity connected to our country out into the world. There's not a lot of it really, both from Serbs and foreigners alike. But I HAVE heard that almost all foreigners who come visit end up liking it. And I get it, people mostly associate Serbia (when they understand it's an actual country) with genocide and WW1. Yes, we've done some bad things in the past, but so has the rest of the world. That doesn't make it right, of course, but I'm just trying to say that there shouldn't be double standards about these things. Secondly, it's interesting how I always end up learning new things about my own country from watching your videos! For example, the thing you mentioned about white cards. I never knew there was a law like that. I knew that foreigners had some extra paperwork to do, but wasn't aware of the specifics of it all. Also, I also thought I'd mention an interesting law regarding minorities here in Serbia, since you talked a bit about it. Apparently, according to the "Law of Protection of Rights and Freedom of National Minorities", the people of minorities can use their own language in administrative paperwork (applications, requests, communication with the staff...) AND can also get an education in their own language. They legally don't have to learn Serbian at all. This goes for around 20 languages I think. Then again, I'm not a law student, nor a minority, so I'm not sure how applied this is in practice, but I still think it's nice that the opportunity exists, at least on paper. Thought you might be interested to hear about it. You're a bigger Serb than most of us after all! Anyway, I'll stop with this rant, but thanks again for everything you've done for Serbia, and the Balkans in general!

[@colak111]

Hvala brat!!Respect!

[@squids]

I simply love you bro! No words needed.

[@fantastic9033]

Love this guy SSSS 🤩🤓🤗

[@BorisTeodosijevic]

Nice one Charles! Only thing missing for you is learning Serbian and getting our passport 😃

[@noneexistchannel9711]

Amazing Charles. First as always!

[@sonja9957]

Thank you for another great video Charles, all you do and create is so good! Ti si suuuuper.

[@vesnamilesic1280]

Bravo Charles.You know about Srbija more than some " pure" Serbians. Thank you so much.

[@tamarakostic72]

Hi Charles .I just found out your videos about my country, people and culture and I am so thankful for all nice words about it..once again Hvala puno and God bless u :-)

[@draganahardman7253]

Must admit that I am impressed with the amount of the knowledge that you have about Serbia but more so with the ways that you talk about the Serbia, with love and passion and without arrogance and ignorance that most of the foreigners do. BRAVO

[@hromivuk4086]

Correction. Serbia was never a republic until now. Up until the 1940s it was a monarchy.

[@olivergojkovic1345]

Čarls this is so good! Having so many exams these days, but I am taking my time to watch this!

[@shiftyxxpc]

Ive lived in Serbia for 30 years and moved to US and i live here for over 3 years now. This is useful for me as well :) Coming back at the end of March this year and i had no idea about CarGo and stuff like that. Thank you Charles.

[@Loner1111]

Great work Charles, you're doing great

[@wanderingspirit7021]

Excellent video and narration Charles! Great job!

[@milenkodraca9519]

Dear Charles tank you very much for your fer and real presentation of Srbija

[@VoiceOfVoorhees]

Awesome video, Charles, keep up the good work.

[@ldrey2012]

I just love hearing a foreigner saying nice things about my country. Thank you,thank you so much. :)

[@jovanajovanovic8617]

Thank you! Great video 🇷🇸❤️

[@vesnakalia7397]

Great description of our country. Thank you!

[@redgoldchannel8879]

This is such a great video, I enjoyed it so much btw I live in Chicago for about 5 years now and it's so cool watching you from your country/state in my country making, as I mentioned before, such a great and educational video about my homeland! You're 'THE' man Charles!! ("The" with a KGB accent, lol)

[@snezanalazarevic1592]

Thanks, Charles❤️

[@drprzulj]

Good job, Charles. Can't wait for next epizoda :)

[@Nikola-gd4dy]

This video is just great. Thanx Charlie

[@jaketijakjak]

I love this video. Thank you Charles

[@zoranNS1971]

Bravo majstore, priljatelju, druže!

[@user-hf6fo7mj4m]

i must say you got really everything right. You explained everything like understandable and made good refences for people who dont know alot about Serbia and European COuntries overall. And also it didnt seem like you were try'na "kiss ass" to say so to serbian people but you just stated the facts. Svaka čast, charlie ! Dobro urađen posao !

[@ilovesrbija]

nice of you to say! Hvala ti!

[@nemanjaaleksic4711]

Thank you so much Charles

[@lianamilan2332]

God bless you...thank you!

[@ivanakarajkov]

Dear Charles, I’m a new follower. You are doing great job! Just a suggestion- you should update the part of trains in Serbia. Actually, trains from Belgrade to Novi Sad do not go 2 years from now, because of rail-road renovation. Thanks, wish you all the best!

[@sasamarkovic7610]

Respect for you.And thank you so much

[@DP-xt8ts]

Great video,thanks for effort. ♡

[@sranmirkov4458]

7:15 To je Raška oblast,nije to nikakav džak.

[@flyfromnis]

Hello Charles, One update about second largerst airport in Serbia. Niš Constantine the Great Airport now have 10 routes across Europe. Most are low cost (Wizz Air, Ryanair). With SWISS via Zurich (Switzerland) you can connect up to 40 worldwide destinations. Currently 5 destinations to USA via Zurich are Miami, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, New York. Best regards,

[@gordanakaran8057]

Bravo Charls great .real and Ones thank you

[@Personal_Comp]

Trafika is just a different name for the kiosk, we call it both :) Nice video dude, liked the others as well.

[@kremicm9775]

TNX BRO I LOVE YOU GOD BLESS YOU

[@worldeater1498]

“Vere instead of where” so accurate! I had to pause the video because I laughed so hard😂

[@JackJack-zy3wi]

Superb!!! :) Bravo Čarli :)

[@jsmith1214]

ziv bio sto godina!

[@user-ss7bp8qu1n]

CCCC „Βασιλεὺς Βασιλέων, Βασιλεύων Βασιλευόντων“(Latin) - Car Careva Caruje nad Carevima (King of Kings, Ruling Over Kings )

[@user-hr2bg4vc3b]

Brate odlicno je samo nastavi ♥️

[@ShomiSensei]

Please do not call it "Sandzak" its insult for me as serb, its called "Raska oblast" we are not under ottomans

[@stefanijarandjelovic7732]

I agree, but dont be so hard on Charles. You can hear a lot of Serbs using the same name for that region, which is, in my honest opinion, much bigger problem, to put it mildly. I am more pissed when I hear Serbs, especially on TV, calling it that way. Cheers

[@ShomiSensei]

​@@stefanijarandjelovic7732 They are calling it "sandzak" because of money and they are traitors, in few years it will be same problem as Kosovo, they want independent. Our president is weak. One main problem is our books in history books its written "Sandzak" they need to know, that we are under Nato occupation over 20years.

[@SOIV1000]

Excellent video 🙌🏻

[@vogonjelc]

Love you Charles.

[@purplecowmovement7677]

Charles I love your show it's awesome! 💙💜 Maybe you can even have guest speakers lol 🤣👍 good job you know more than some Serbs!

[@ionlyazir3662]

Real serbs are ahamed of Kija and Sloba...

[@erdeljan]

Way the go - keep up the good work! ;)

[@stajkabozic7662]

Charles , you're amazing because you are telling the truth .Am proud Serbian girl !!!

[@aurelioskit]

Interesting! Hvala!! With some good editing and better camera these series will be the thing!

[@miromark1375]

Thank you, Charles, for your brief presentation regrading Serbia today! You said that you were living there for almost nine years and don't even try to speak Serbian language. What a shame! Yes, there are about 7 million Serbs living in Serbia proper, but there are almost as have of that number living all over the world. They are speaking almost all world major languages, not only English. The Serbian language is the mother language of all 12 Slavic languages. The Serbian alphabet is the oldest alphabet in Europe. Out of that alphabet the Latin and Greek alphabet were derived. In short, the Serbian alphabet is the mother of all major alphabets of Europe. The Serbian calendar is the oldest (this is 7,526 year) and most sophisticated calendar in the world. Based on the Serbian Calendar all computers are coded, i.e., year/month/date. Currently, Serbia is under American occupation. Its industry and economy was completely destroyed by an illegal order of the former USA's president Clinton, while he was served in the Oval Office by Miss Lewinsky. By bombing the Serbs for 78 days and nights, William Jefferson Clinton diverted the attention of the USA nation from his shenanigans in the Oval Office. He managed to destroy the country of Yugoslavia, the land of the South Slavs, and from one beautiful and economically viable country facilitated the creation of the seven "banana republics". They are not economically viable and able to thrive as "independent countries" but to be the new colonies of the imperial USA. By doing that, Clinton managed to bring down once the most advanced economy of Eastern Europe, the Serbian (or Yugoslavian) economy, to the level of the third world country. Clinton with other 19 NATO vassal countries occupied the Serbina ancient province of Kosovo and Metohija, where he built up the largest American military base in Europe, the "Bondsteel", and illegally declared that province as an "Independence state". Because of that, the Serbian people are now living in a painful poverty, which you find to be very cheap for living there. Your arrogance is painful for the Serbs, but they are too nice and civilized people to tell you publicly about it. I am not ashamed of this fact and dare to tell you about it. I am a Serb living and working at the moment in the USA. Before that, I was fortunate to visit major European countries, like Russia, Germany, France, England and Spain, like you are now visiting Serbia. I worked very hard to learn their languages out of respect for their people and their cultures. Yes, I can not pronounce perfectly well a prefix "the", but none of the Europeans can pronounce the Serbian letters "c", "tch", "ch", "zh", "dj" or "dz". So, nobody in Serbia will mind that, because we know that it is hard to do it, unless you are native born and educated in Serbia. Yes, you mentioned that Nikola Tesla and Mihailo Pupin are best known Serbs, but you fail to state why they are known. In order to help you out, I want to remind you that Tesla had invented the entire technology of the AC currents and all AC three-phase machines and gave all his inventions to whole world for free. On the other hand. Mihailo Pupin resolved the issues of the long distance telephone communications and many other related patents. In short, the Serbs gave to the world several thousand years before Jesus Christ the following major items: the wheel, the literacy, the agriculture, the metallurgy, the calendar, and later, at the end of XIX and the beginning of the XX centuries, the technology of AC currents, the remote control e.t.c. In Europe today, the most numerous people are the Slavic people. According to the latest scientific analysis based on the DNA, it was proven that the parents of all Slavic people are the ancient Serbian people. All right, I am going to stop here and, once again, I thank you for your decision to make your living in Serbia, but, while you are there, I encourage you to learn its language and a little bit more about its history, because you will love that country and its people even more.

[@tanjamihajlovic8632]

I love the title of this video:-)))

[@demilanoNS]

Good one Charles :)

[@netfission]

Charles for president!

[@dirtydiana8542]

This is great Charles. I believe that also many Serbs can learn a lot if they watch this. Cause, you know how everyone says how Americans are mainly dummy nation and they don't know anything about history, geography etc. But in fact, it's more or less the same all over the globe. I am sure that many of us Serbs have no clue about most of this you are talking here about Serbia.

[@markomarkovic2374]

Nice content, consider introducing a bit more lighting in future videos, it is kinda dark :).

[@voltbf4379]

Love how he includes Kosovo. Kosovo is Serbia!

[@heypero]

Well done!

[@brianhaggerty9565]

im in Chicago Illinois,watching you from Illinois,sweet Go Bears.

[@LinguaSerbia]

Very well made video, i just want to add that only smaller percent of Slovaks are catholic, most of them are evangelic christians. Slovaks of catholic christian religion are located mainly in Selenča, a town in Bačka in Vojvodina... but that is far more than basics haha

[@nikolalegend4868]

Charles did you ever watch lud Zbunjen normalan?

[@yototrash]

In Niš, you can buy an espresso for 100 din, not only domestic coffee :)

[@Languslangus]

🇷🇸

[@HipHopCultur3]

Best part was the srory about blablacar: „you ride with two or three people, the driver talks the whole time..“

[@MaitreMoebius81]

"Samo sloga Srbina spasava" is just a popular belief. It's actually just the ruling hierarchy, God over King. It's byzanthian origin.

[@nemanjastikic1367]

No, it's not. Eastern Roman Empire used that, however their symbol was different. U have in vinca symbols cross with four C.

[@hallobre]

The nice thing about Serbia is that most cafes and bars have WiFi and their password is usually easy to guess😂 it’s the cafe’s or bar’s name

[@milicgrubjesic117]

ZIV I ZDRAV BIO COVECE UVEK DOBRO DOSHAO !

[@MultiKlip1]

The things about different size of bills is about money counterfeit. There was a criminal group who used to take 1$ bill, wash off the print, and then print 100$ on the paper. Since then, lot of country use bigger size bills for bigger amount, to avoid criminals doing it.

[@shyryTsr2k]

Lol some people call Serbia, Siberia 😂

[@nikd7549]

When I mention im Serbian some ppl reply "isnt it cold there?" They always think of Siberia.

[@shyryTsr2k]

@@nikd7549 It is cold in Serbia, my girlfriend is Serb and she says it snows a lot there, in Vojvodina specifically Zrenjanin. So it is really cold there but not always of course.

[@TheGranicd]

There is joke that Russians named best part of their country Siberia as a tribute to Serbia.

[@shyryTsr2k]

@@TheGranicd haha that's funny! Is it just joke or is it actually apart of Russia?😅

[@STFwrinkle]

Some people dont know what serbia is lol

[@starkyru]

Oh, I also found that you shouldn't ask for "Turkish coffee", you should always ask for "Domacha kafa". There are some historical reasons for that. :) PS. I also came here with kids and wife...

[@vanja2565]

Yeah there are many reasons why yu don't mention turks in good light in serbia....

[@MilanDrazic]

Charles you look attractive in that shirt 👏👏👏😊

[@ivangrozni515]

🇷🇸🇺🇸

[@samsa4650]

Have you been to Vranje? If you didin't you shoud it has amazing history and really good food.

[@iancarisi8342]

I will be honest. I never herd of Serbia, nor knew where it was util I landed on it. It is a nice shirt.

[@lodielieb8482]

3:33 my man ❤️🇷🇸🙏🥰

[@Pfirtzer]

Forget Wifi, get a Wifey

[@kastriotiblood9849]

You make me laugh 😂😂😂

[@branislavkondic8381]

So you cant walk around at 2am trough park in USA?

[@stevancrevar1257]

I don't think US ambassador agrees with your opinion, but you know the truth. Have a nice day my friend.

[@ilovesrbija]

Boli me kurac 😄

[@petemitchell9996]

Ambassador never leaves his embassy cage and never met real people of Serbia and Serbian country. That's the difference

[@dejanmilovanovic4205]

One of famois serbian is Milan Milankovic born at 1879 who desrcibed everything about climate and climate changes a long before this climate changes starts to happening, you can read of it on wikipedia. He told everithing in 19 century that is happening today.

[@Trudnimrmot]

Kija 💗😍 Novak Tesla Charles 🌸

[@andrijacar]

Charles, you should say that Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin language do not exist really... They all speak Serbian and they all become countries in last 25 years...

[@petemitchell9996]

Well Croatian existed before but Bosnian and Montenegrin was never mentioned before the breakup of Yugoslavia. After the breakup Bosniaks suddenly remembered their language and Montenegrins in 2006.

[@DRAGANA872]

🇷🇸☦️☦️🇷🇸🇷🇸☦️💪💪💪👍👍👍👍

[@smamon83]

The only thing I probably don't agree on is that the most of the population speak English. Errr maybe in Novi Sad or Belgrade but that's about it. Been living here for a year now and it's so rare for me to encounter someone who speaks the English language. I wish most of them did though coz it would be a great way to boost tourism. That's another thing. Kinda bumbed because you can't deny Serbia has a rich culture. Great food and there's some sites that are worth going to. So why is this country so underrated? It's always getting confused with Syria and Siberia. I even get frequently asked ( Serbs or Hungarians who live here in Serbia) WHY I MOVED HERE. Like as if it was a bad thing. 😐 I wish someone can enlighten me with that. Anyhoo great content Charles. Learned a lot of things today about this awesome country.

[@liberty0758]

Folks asking you why you moved there most likely trust their local government and news outlets, so there's that. Propaganda is a powerful weapon.

[@_filipovicluka]

Serbs are asking why you moved here because a lot of people here are trying to get out of this country and move to the west, mostly because of low wages.. And about english, it really depends who you meet and talk to, some people do speak it and some don't.. If you stop random person on street that is older than 40, they most likely won't, you have better chances if you stop someone younger

[@VinjauofNNHooD]

No, you are wrong in every part of Serbia about 80% people (under 30) speak english well

[@smamon83]

@@VinjauofNNHooDI did say that this is my personal experience. So you can't really say I'm wrong. There are some (didnt deny that) but so far I've only met around 20 in my area. Again I've only been here for a year that hasn't given me a whole lot of opportunity to go around Serbia and meet a lot of folks. So far I've been in 6 cities I think. Even at my kids school. There are teachers who are young who doesn't speak English at all. So thank God for Google translate.

[@STFwrinkle]

@@smamon83 it must suck for ur kid

[@starkyru]

You can go to the police without a homeowner if you have a proper rental agreement.

[@tznwyvuk471]

Transportation is not very affordable in Serbia. For example in Nis public trransportation is 60 dinars and in one city in China where i had lived for 3 years is like around 20 dinars converted.

[@zorankonstantinovic3779]

- You are sooo hot...

[@adeptusastartes3698]

I have to correct you about our coat of arms or heraldry, its not four S, they are four ''fire starters'', on Serbian ''Ocilo'' on Byzantine/Greek Beta ''basileus basileon basileuon basileuonton'' meaning ''Emperor of Emperors ruling over Emperors'' and it has one more meaning '' With fire we will defend Cross ''. Anyway, great video Charles.

[@almightytrollgod]

False history created by Germans and Austrians together with Greeks to steal our 5000 year culture, so we are denied the lands we have since bronze age. Byzantine never existed in that form, and Serbia alone gave Roman Empire 14 emperors. That is indeed a sign of 4 Serbian gods written in Vinca and Lepenski Vir.

[@ratleader90]

You could also call them four tinders but people would just confuse them for a more advanced dating app.

[@almightytrollgod]

@@ratleader90 I am not mistaken anything. It has been proven. Read a little, and you will all understand.

[@user-lm9zi7je8h]

@@almightytrollgod source? lol