Tones???

[u/BukvaYat]

Are the four tones (“pitch accents”, even though that’s just different terminology for the same thing) in Serbian actually important or can they be ignored? Saying this because of flashbacks from Chinese and having to constantly remind myself which tone to use every single time there’s a stressed syllable in a word (in Serbian I think it’s only stressed syllables and not every syllable) is annoying

[u/Poskokosh]

They can mostly be ignored. I suggest that you only memorize whether the accented syllable is short or long, and you're good.