7 Ways Bulgaria SURPRISED Me - Margaret || No Foreign Lands
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Bulgaria gt very beautiful culture ,people ,food ,history
Im bulgarian by heart from iran
if you live enough time in Bulgaria you will notice that in the Winter - temperatures may drop to -25C and when this merge with strong wind - you wish you take your words back, because here temperatures may vary 20 degres celsius from day to night (like from 15C to -5C even more) and this is very dangerous for health ... you can get cold sick from dramatic temperature change
Lol your observations on slippers made me laugh :)
I m bulgarian by the way, very accurate
I let out a yell when you said you were from Oregon. I am from Toronto Canada, and love the warm reception I get from Oregonians when ever I visit. You guys are the GREATEST. Thanks for posting this video!
This was one of the best videos on Bulgaria I’ve seen! I love your observations and looking forward to visit! I know Oregon and can relate 😊
The yes/no head shaking is usually accompanied by a facial expression or saying the word... so it's not that confusing LOL
lived in the capitol my first 25 years. almost noone shakes their head in reverse, i wish people would let it go but its still a topic.
What are you talking about, George? The reverse headshake is most definitely still a thing. In fact, it's even more confusing now as younger people try to do it the normal way, but end up nodding for both yes and no.
I'm a musician and being one I've played.... everywhere. I've met countless thousands in my capitol city. FUCK THAT. It's either very rare or very confined to certain areas. IT'S NOT AT ALL WHAT THE MAJORITY DOES. NOT FOR AT LEEEEEEAST 50 YEARS.
No, George. I'm Bulgarian. You're wrong.
+George Mirchev I'm from the capitol where the entire country comes for work, because there's barely any work left in Bulgaria. You're wrong.
thank you! I'm engaged to a Bulgarian and we've been together for 3 years and the "always being cold" thing even when it's not cold has always been perplexing to me, but now I see it's a cultural thing (as is "being cold can make you sick") This is amazing to learn (since I've not been able to get to Bulgaria with her yet due to the pandemic.) Thanks again!
I'm Bulgarian and i'm annoyed to death with those zodiac-matching-thing bullcrap
@@SkateSka Goshe malko si jivql znachi.
@@Уни-и8ц Да бе и аз така съм чувал, като човек стане много стар и мъдър спира да гледа земята изобщо и се води само по звезди.
Аз също! Досадно е как всяко момиче е зодия-маниячка
Добър ден! Great Bulgarian! Respect!
BULGARIA IS A AMAZING 🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬
The moral here is: don't trust travel guides, don't trust publication, and moreover, don't trust the word of other people. Come to that, don't even trust ME if I tell you things about countries I know a lot about. I can speak for myself only. Each individual has his/her own experience. As a Ukrainian I can say it is exactly the same for my land - it is PERMANENTLY misrepresented in mainstream commentary and the people are never characterised as we are.
Just to add - the winter in Sofia is bad. The winter in Plovdiv, for example, one of the hottest cities in bulgaria, doesnt even have snow. Snow falls for like 2 days for the entire winter, you can wear a t-shirt in November and in March, I wore my denim jacket at Christmas. /it's not like it's summer or anything, it's just not cold, it's more like chilly/.
The inverted nodding and shaking are actually much older than the Ottoman rule, that's just a myth. The gesture was the common way of saying yes and no in the Byzantine empire and it has been the common gesture in most of the Balkans and Asia Minor until recently. I have a Greek friend from one of the islands who's shaking(more like tilting left and right) for 'yes' and nodding(the movement starts kind of upwards, ours downwards instead) his head for 'no' in almost the same way as we do in Bulgaria.
Interesting!! I had a hard time finding info online, so thank you!
Every time when I go to Greece on holiday though I got confused by their NE (Bulgarian for No) which means in Greek Yes :)
Bulgaria Rocks!!
DR LECTER Thank you! Especially in the mountains with less people! Oh the freedom and the quiet makes me capable to think.
I own goats so I take them to the breath taking views .My office is wide open spaces, laying on my back while my goats are in pasture! Life is good for a 44 year old American/ Bulgarian retiree.
Girl yes I'm an Aquarius too!! They are fun to read about 😺
I am from Bulgaria, love y 😘
I will just tell you that the winter this year was very warm
The BJ so I’ve heard! I’m very grateful that I was here this year!
Very good video! You should make more like that! And btw this winter is being the hottest and non snowing one for a long time so far..
Yes I love it!!!! The juice one was my favorite 😂
I’m Bulgarian and I live in Sofia ( the capital). It’s such a good city 🌃
I am Bulgarian and I hate Sofia and people who live there. They have been always very arrogant and looking down to the rest of the country.
@@gistigistambo не е вярно, пич! Това са легенди, които целят да има разделение между нас!
@@gistigistambo Вярно е ...в Тракия хората са много по приятни , а да не говорим за балканджиите = просто не е за вярване
The slippers!
Bulgaria is not the only country where a head nod is for yes and a shake to the left and right is no. People living in India use the same gesture. I learned this while working with Indians.
Great video. I'm impressed you pronounced the name of the city"Sofia" correctly- most of the foreigners don't. I keep explaining that the personal female name "Sofia" gets а stress on the "i", but the name of the city- on the "O".
And btw I haven't been touched my the " juice", "slippers" and "astrology" mania ,LOL I guess even bulgarians are different and hard to classify, and you made your assumption according to your experience.
I’m Bulgarian and I never knew that we use the yes/no head shaking in the opposite way
its an old thing that only stays alive cause people ask about it.
wtf lol how did you miss that?
Allen Wolf it turned out that I’m too young. I spoke with my grandpa and he explained it to me 🇧🇬
Of course! I just assumed every bulgarian would know it but I forgot how much things have changed even in the last ten years
im bulgarian too and when i asked mom of i can play on the computer she did the head thing for yes in america and so when i was 3 years i watched youtube a lot and i continued the popov rod greatings for english and i was very confused when she said no and i began to play on the computer then she screamed at me and said she said no and grounded me for 3 days :/
in the last 15-20 years the weather has not been consistent.in the past,sumer meant 3 months non stop heat,winter meant non stop relativaly unchanging cold. nowadays u can experience all 4 seasons in the span of weak. that makes it hard for the body to adjust,which is why we prefer keeping our body temperature relatevely unchangin
The no = yes and viceversa is usually amongst Bulgarians. I personally switch all the time if I have to speak to a foreigner. If I switch to Bulgarian though, I automatically switch. Don´t ask me how this happens ;)
:) Number 1 is funny, many tourists have problems with it... :) And astrology... Oh.. As a bulgarian it really annoys me sometimes, I think it's quite crazy...
About the cold: the mothers overdress the children even when it is warm and sunny outside.
Great video capturing some of the funny little surprises:)
Bulgaria is oldest country in Europe. Bulgaria is first national state in Europe which adopt Christianity and Bulgarian church became first national independent church in Europe in year 927.
Bulgarians created Bulgarian Civilization with Bulgarian language, Bulgarian alphabet Cyrillic and Orthodox Christianity.
Bulgarians spread Christianity and the Bible, translated into Bulgarian language and written in Cyrillic, among the so-called "Slavs" and incorporated most of the "Slavs" into Bulgarian civilization, including the Russians.
All so-called "Slavic" languages are created on the basis of Bulgarian language. Russian language and so-called "Slavic" languages on the Balkans are dialects of Bulgarian language.
Today about 300 million people in Eurasia including Russia use Bulgarian writing system Cyrillic as the official alphabet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_I_of_Bulgaria
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script
StarS Do you even know how your fake Pagan Catholic " christianity" was spread? By the sword and by forse. If you did your homework and read your history and the Bible you will see Bulgarians dont know jack about God, his real name, the fact there ARE NO POPES IN THE BIBLE AND NO CROSSING YOURSELF OR PRAYING TO DEAD STATUES AND PICTURES! what you have in Bulgaria is nothing but lame pagan catholic religion where everyone is stupid to listen to popes instead of reading the bible on their own!
The Bulgarians are Eastern Orthodox Christians and spread Eastern Orthodox Christianity among so-called Slavs. The Bulgarian Empire is the only Empire that spreads Eastern Orthodox Christianity and through it the Bulgarian language and the Bulgarian alphabet Cyrillic, not through war but through cultural influence.
smiling, beautiful girl, you have a good vlog, go on
All this is so true.Even now I wear slippers while watching this video.
Where were u. In Plovdiv and the other places i have been are in English and Bulgarian. And the always cold no it is always warm. Out of the days in the winter there is 2 or 3 days of snow.
Lovely girl, got most of the 7 right, good video.
It's never below 0 F. In Bulgaria. But most likely the people that you have been told by mean -4 Celsius or maybe made the assumption that 0 is 0 no matter what, and I totally understand it after almost died of hipotermia in the Wisconsin. It's just -5 no biggie what all that fuss on the news, a silly Janks. And then is actually - 35 in units that I know and understand.
You are wrong. It does go below 0 F in Bulgaria, but rarely and usually not for long. It was -20° C (-4° F) just a few years ago in the winter in Sofia, though just for two or three days. It was even colder high in the mountains. I think you've got F/C degree conversion wrong, because - 5° F is not - 35° C, but -20.4°C.
In Bulgarian weather can be from -20 C to 40 C so dont worry :D about the shake nodding it depends on the situation lol
Subscribed! You are such a joy to watch! What are you doing here? Studying? What town are you staying in, I didn't quite catch that.
Zodiac obsession?NO! The slippers?NO!Just saying...Congrats,sweet lady!
2018 we have the eu presidency and a lot of foreigners come to BG for work that's why it's both in bulgarian and english
Much love :)
We don't usually do these moves with our heads the way you know it .. That's why the people in Bulgaria might not understand you.. When we say "yes" we move our heads like you know the indian's way..something like that.like trying to do .♾ With our heads... For example when we eat something delicious we do it and say "Mmm.. Nice" (but nowdays it's normal to nod - to move your head FROM UP TO DOWN when we say yes)
And for "no" it's the opposite moving your head FROM DOWN TO UP SHARPLY and say something like" uh-um no. "idk how to explain it perfectly but there are differences.. Like when we say no and move our heads from down to up we usually use that move when we say" not at all "or something like this
you're from Oregon? you should play Life Is Strange if you're into video games, you'd love it
In Greece - (ne) means yes and (ohi) means no ... in Bulgaria is the right way - no (ne) and yes (da) just the strange shaking of the head that have a long story behind in history and it a part of our freedom ... and we have four seasons ... try to come in the summer and see the beach when its 40C(104F) outside
Welcome to Bulgaria 😙
Keep rockin
hay sweet very beautiful and cute
THE SLIPPERS THOOOOOOOOOOOO
Where did you study in Bulgaria?
And "Yes'" or is that "No"?
Slippers :))))))))) Oh Yes! :):))))
Whille there are a lot of people that are awlays cold there's also awlays that one person who goes out with a t-shirt while its snowing and wouldn't wear shoes (or socks) inside for the death of them. And I just so happen to be one of those people! But yea, a lot of the time Grandmas tend to.... over dress kids and that just ends up in people wearing two shirts and a jacket in nobember.
BS! Chicago is freezing. Bulgaria is a walk in the park compared to Chicago winters by the lake Michigan!
There are some very cold winters with heavy snowing. There are also some years without much difference to colder autumn days. Then people like to say the winter didn't come thus year.
Hey! Thanks for making this video! SO happy someone from the US actually liked Bulgaria.
How do you get host family.
YES I HAVE ZODIAC SIGN OBSSESSION
I love you from india
Gangarao Logisa Namaste India! I love your shows!
I would refuse to reveal my zodiac sign and never hesitate to says it's complete bullshit.
CHAO IS NOT BULGARIAN , DOVIJDANE IS BYE IN BULGARIAN
URAGAN Ураган Невестулка Chao is ITALIAN AND ALWAYS WILL BE
You looks more beautiful
The thing with cyrilic and english on street signs etc. : we have a lot of tourists and Bulgaria is a part of the EU and we have another script so these are the reasons why we write the street signs etc. in both English and Bulgarian .
If we did this only in Bulgarian there would be many less people that could read these signs( Macedonians, Serbs, Russians, Ukrainians, ...) but not Westeuropeans, Americans, Asiats or whoever else. It‘s the same in Greece . They have another alphabet that not everybody can read, so they write street signs etc. in English, ( btw. english is not the right word, it‘s latin, because the script is not english but latin, just like the script is not bulgarian but cyrillic)
V I K I EXACTLY.
Actually no is no and yes is also no lmaooo
40,000 Brits live in Bulgaria
stephen holwell So?
The last few winters didn't actually happen! There I remember lots of winters where they was knee high snow and temperatures under -15 Celsius were the normal! I guess climate change is real!
Lols if you go to Migration office of Varna, you will be terrified how hostile and rude they are! Even you are a foreign student, they treat you very badly
they say da(yes) ne (no)
The noding thing its not a balkan thing im Greek we dont do that here :P
I thought you were Taylor Swift
Yep. Typical Aquarius LOL😂
Number one is bullsh*t, you just say YES or NO, is it that hard?
as a bulgarian immigrand Ive been allways want to go portland oregon couse oklahoma and texas are so boring
Hi from Plovdiv i will tell you the story why we shake heads oposit of other countries.When Bulgaria was under ottoman yok ottomans put swords on bulgarian trouts and sad will you accept islam and bulgarians who do not want to betray Christ just sad no by shaking down head cut their throats and died ,but do not change our religion
Honestly, if it wasn't for my love of kiselo mliako and tarator, I'd probably never go back to Bulgaria. On the rare occasions I go back, I try to spend as little time in Sofia as possible and head straight to Burgas for some beachin'
Oh, that blind pride. Well, have fun in Plovdiv and the Rila Lakes, I guess.
lol blind pride? You're nuts mate. If you're a Bulgarian, it's very sad to see such an immature and incomplete view of that nation, as you seem to have
DenOfWhasps KISELO MLYAKO IS GOOD OLE AMERICAN YOGURT.
The YES/NO swap is actually recent and somewhat artificial(social engineering at work). Some journalist commented something like that in the late 80s and it became an oddity and then it got momentum and then people swapped. I can assure you it was the opposite before that and many people are still normal.
nikoladd Ти наистина ли си толкова наивен или си просто недообразован хлапак?
На колко си години?12,14....
Дрънкаш пълни глупости-- питай баща си (или дядо си) и ще се увериш.
Бях си съвсем жив когато раздуха, че видиш ли "така било заради Османско" и "такива сме били различни" и всичко си се случи точно като в книгите по психология. Мисля, че дори ти да си на 12 можеш да различиш първо лице, единствено число от което съм писал.
nikoladd What was the opposite BEFORE?
Shaking the head for YES/NO ??
Всички си клатехме главите по "Български" преди '80!Питай Тате!
Before it was the same as the rest of the world.
Както казах на достатъчна възраст съм за да съм бил свидетел. Съответно моят тате не е сред живите, но именно той ме е учил и това беше нормата сред гражданите по онова време. Това, че теб са те отгледали с тази групова идентичност у ваше село си е твой проблем.
nikoladd Има една камара стари филми от нашето време.....гледай внимателно и ще се увериш в думите ми. Например "На всеки километър "....
Този филм не режисиран от мои роднини, нито актьорите са мои съселяни.
В края на '80 бяхме заети с далеч по-важни и други неща, нали си спомняш за тях?Казваш, бил си вече голям. Съжалявам за баща ти, но първият ти коментар прозвуча доста не възрастно. Бъди жив и здрав!Желая ти лек ден!
Hi Beauty
Be sorprese again Bulgaria with
See that Facebook- Krissy BG ll . Go on
If you don't know Bulgarian, it is bad. Говориш ли Английски език? Не.
Umm...
Well Bulgaria can be a good tourist destination but the country (mainly because of corrupted politicians) is not gonna live for a lot longer.
Stop with this stupid thing. I ve never seen a guy who is saying yes while acting no either me.
1:00 Im a Bulgarian and i dhake for no and nod for yes sooo the first fact is debunked.
Why are you giggling so much?
bulgaria is cold wtf are u crazy
completely bullshits
The head movements for Yes and No are not the same as shaking left and right and nodding up and down, they're brief and different head gestures that require a tilt and a lift.
I am Bulgarian
U like lady
Have a nice trip