български език
Language Facts:
Speakers: ~10 million
Family: South Slavic
Status: Official in Bulgaria
Family: South Slavic
Status: Official in Bulgaria
Script: Cyrillic , Latin
- The first step to learn Bulgarian is to learn the Cyrillic alphabet. It’s fairly straightforward and can be learned in a couple of days
- Bulgarian has a somewhat more straightforward grammar than other Slavic languages like Russian. Nouns don’t have cases, except in some fossilized faces. There are three grammatical genders.
- Definite articles are added as a post-position.
- Verbs are a little more complicated. Verbs are conjugated for tense, person, number, and mood. Most verbs will have a perfective and imperfective form that must both be learned ( usually the perfective is formed with an added prefix). There is no infinitive form.
- Word order is generally Subject-Verb-Object.
Learn Bulgarian:
Books:
Teach Yourself: Complete Bulgarian – great beginner book for a language that doesn’t have too many.
Youtube:
Online:
LingQ – great platform for reading and vocabulary building. You can also import your own media and track your known and unknown words.
Ling– app based course , good for beginners.
Bulgaro.io – online course.
Italki – has several tutors for Bulgarian. One-on-one lessons with a native speaker is a great way to improve quickly.
Podcasts:
BulgarianPod101 – fantastic podcast-based course. Fun and entertaining lessons. Some are free, full access is paid.