Native Bulgarian here. It's great you want to learn the language, I wish you good luck. I saw a comment asking why would you learn Bulgarian in the first place? - Honestly, any language you learn opens doors. Bulgaria was the country where the very same alphabet was made for the rest of the Slavic nations, so yeah Bulgarian is a great choice to start but it's a tough language so be patient with yourself. I started learning Spanish as my 4th language and as anything new it's not easy, but not impossible! Cheers!
Typical bulgarian person here comment, I don't know why you'd want to learn our language, but go for it! Obviously I wouldn't know anything about learning the langauge because I didn't learn it the way you are doing, but I could share some advice. For once I cannot stress enough how different things were 20 years ago so I'd take the culutural notes from the textbook with a handful of salt, not even a pinch. As for using youtube as a ressource I'm definitely all for it, there's plenty of good stuff on here, but if you do watch vlogs be wary that many bulgarian vloggers (from what I've seen :P) don't speak "proper" bulgarian. Of course you could look up disney songs with subtitles and translations of which there are plenty, but I've noticed some translation mistakes sometimes and in general poetic bulgarian is nothing like spoken bulagrian because of sentence structure flexibility which could be hard to catch on to, but theyre good listening practice nontheless! There's a series of bulgarian textbooks here made for foreigners which I've flipped through and think are very good, but I couldn't find them anywhere online, at least not on foreign sites and I don't think you can buy stuff abroad from ours :( The textbook is called "Здравейте!" and it has 3 parts (a1-a2, b1-b2 and c1-c1+) so if you want to look it up yourself you could, maybe you'll find something since I didn't look _that_ much into it. (Maybe a pdf if youre mischievous) But either way I'm wishing you good luck on your studies! I wish I had more info to contribute but there really aren't that many ressources :( Edit: I just remembered a website called bgmateriali, it's made to go with the bulgarian curriculum for literature and,, bulgarian, but there are grammar explanations there if you can find them, and everything is explained in bulgarian so it might be a bit hard to grasp
Thank you so much for your recommendation! I will definitely try to find that book on one of my trips to Bulgaria, I'm really keen to learn my partner's language :)
Omg I can't believe someone made a video on learning Bulgarian. I'm just like you, coming and going with the language, personally due to the lack of resources to study. I'm currently learning Turkish but I'm gonna save this video for later reference, plz don't delete it 😂❤
My dad is having grown up in the States and my dad working all the time I was never able to learn it as a young child beyond some extremelybasic phrases. I've been trying to teach myself recently and been very unsuccessful with finding resources, so thank you so much for making this video! It's so much easier with some sort of jumping off point ❤ Благодаря!
Hello (или здрасти) from one more native Bulgarian. I'm so glad to see that somebody in this world wants to learn my native language lol. 😅 I'm a language lover (focusing on Turkish and Greek right one) and I wish more people were interested in my country and especially in our language because it's unique, unusual and fun. Also I would love to teach foreigners Bulgarian. Пожелавам ти успех! 🇧🇬🖤
You have such a beautiful amazing language ❤ you are so fortunate. It might be CONVENIENT being a native English speaker but it is in no way fun or satisfying or intriguing xD
@@AubzCelli Aww thanks so much! It's good to know my language gets the appreciation it deserves. 🥺 I get your point about being an English native speaker haha. 😅 Unfortunately when something becomes too widespread it stops being intriguing but English has its beauty as every other language.
I am argentinian, and my grandmother was bulgarian, I never got the chance to talk to her and learn the language, but for some reason I just feel so connected to her and that´s what made me investigate her culture and study her language
I have the Intensive Bulgarian 1 book and echo your comments about it being a good informational resource, but one that is cumbersome for self-instruction. I haven't used the Routledge Bulgarian book, but I have used their books for other languages, and my (gentle) critique of the style they use is that it is far less systematic in approach, and more "life topic" oriented. Having access to both is key, at least for me, as I quickly become frustrated if a resource doesn't explain underlying linguistic concepts. Great video!
Great and good luck with the language, assuming you're still learning it, bulgarian has simple grammar, to english and spanish speakers it should be easy (grammar-wise), the vocabulary however is very different but this applies to many foreign languages.
Amazing video! As a Russian speaker, I really like how Bulgarian sounds and would love to learn even a little bit of the language and so it's definitely on my list. Thanks for sharing your experience and the books you've used so far. Having studied some less popular languages I really feel your struggle with finding good quality resources.
I am Bulgarian-Russian,but I only know how to speak Bulgarian( bcs I live in Bulgaria). I would like to learn the Russian language. Russian is a beautiful language. I hope you start learning Bulgarian someday. It's indeed a good language.
This is amazing thanks! I am a half-bulgarian who unfortunately never learned bulgarian as a child. I've been trying to really improve my bulgarian as an adult and am probably at a B1/B2 level. I have mostly used the website Bulgaro which is great and covers all the core grammatical concepts but ultimately is a little thin. What would be your recommendations for resources for a B1/B2 speaker to improve their vocabulary as well as reading and listening skills? I'm defo checking out some of the stuff you mentioned in this video but wanted to identify if there are resources better suited to my level?
Hello! I was wondering would it be possible either to send me the free ones (the first link) or change the link in the description because it does not work. Thank you ❤
Hello, I'm bulgarian and I live in Ireland, I can help with the language, in return you can straighten my mistakes in english. I speak intemediate level. Best way to learn is native speaker to correct you. Regards
Hello! I tried downloading the books from UNHCR but the website is no longer available, do you know where can I find them now? Or could you share them? Thank you!
@@PolyglotProgress Hi, same issue. Neither link seems to work. They may have just removed them entirely, who knows? Any other ideas? Those resources looked promising Great vid btw 👍
An interesting thing is that as a russian I can understand ukrainian, czech, slavic, bulgarian, polish languages fluently. But, a person who has learned russian, for some reason cannot understand other slavic languages. Could you, as a linguist, tell me why?
A think a native speaker would have a deeper connection with the whole language family. A lot of words in other slavic languages sound either archaic, funny or misused in a given context, but I have my native language to compare to on the fly and extract more meaning from unfamiliar speech than a non-native would be able to. I've watched multiple videos in different slavic languages back to back and after some time I just just start hearing and understanding "slavic" and the languages kinda merge together, if you're not familiar with them in isolation. I don't think you do understand other slavic languages "fluently" as you say, but as someone who has come to understand Russian while not being able to speak it, I think I know what you mean.
Native Bulgarian here. It's great you want to learn the language, I wish you good luck. I saw a comment asking why would you learn Bulgarian in the first place? -
Honestly, any language you learn opens doors. Bulgaria was the country where the very same alphabet was made for the rest of the Slavic nations, so yeah Bulgarian is a great choice to start but it's a tough language so be patient with yourself. I started learning Spanish as my 4th language and as anything new it's not easy, but not impossible! Cheers!
@@Munkaa As a Croat, I find Bulgarian pretty ose to Croatian. It is even possible to understand a lot without learning.
Typical bulgarian person here comment, I don't know why you'd want to learn our language, but go for it! Obviously I wouldn't know anything about learning the langauge because I didn't learn it the way you are doing, but I could share some advice.
For once I cannot stress enough how different things were 20 years ago so I'd take the culutural notes from the textbook with a handful of salt, not even a pinch. As for using youtube as a ressource I'm definitely all for it, there's plenty of good stuff on here, but if you do watch vlogs be wary that many bulgarian vloggers (from what I've seen :P) don't speak "proper" bulgarian. Of course you could look up disney songs with subtitles and translations of which there are plenty, but I've noticed some translation mistakes sometimes and in general poetic bulgarian is nothing like spoken bulagrian because of sentence structure flexibility which could be hard to catch on to, but theyre good listening practice nontheless!
There's a series of bulgarian textbooks here made for foreigners which I've flipped through and think are very good, but I couldn't find them anywhere online, at least not on foreign sites and I don't think you can buy stuff abroad from ours :( The textbook is called "Здравейте!" and it has 3 parts (a1-a2, b1-b2 and c1-c1+) so if you want to look it up yourself you could, maybe you'll find something since I didn't look _that_ much into it. (Maybe a pdf if youre mischievous)
But either way I'm wishing you good luck on your studies! I wish I had more info to contribute but there really aren't that many ressources :(
Edit: I just remembered a website called bgmateriali, it's made to go with the bulgarian curriculum for literature and,, bulgarian, but there are grammar explanations there if you can find them, and everything is explained in bulgarian so it might be a bit hard to grasp
Thank you so much for your recommendation! I will definitely try to find that book on one of my trips to Bulgaria, I'm really keen to learn my partner's language :)
@@sawoyeomso I want to learn because my cousins are Bulgarian, and I really admire y’all’s language.
Omg I can't believe someone made a video on learning Bulgarian. I'm just like you, coming and going with the language, personally due to the lack of resources to study. I'm currently learning Turkish but I'm gonna save this video for later reference, plz don't delete it 😂❤
I'm not studying Bulgarian and don't plan to...but I still enjoyed the video 😅
I would like to learn Bulgaria and go to Bulgaria because that’s where my grandfather immigrated from at the age of 10 years old
My dad is having grown up in the States and my dad working all the time I was never able to learn it as a young child beyond some extremelybasic phrases. I've been trying to teach myself recently and been very unsuccessful with finding resources, so thank you so much for making this video! It's so much easier with some sort of jumping off point ❤ Благодаря!
Hello (или здрасти) from one more native Bulgarian. I'm so glad to see that somebody in this world wants to learn my native language lol. 😅 I'm a language lover (focusing on Turkish and Greek right one) and I wish more people were interested in my country and especially in our language because it's unique, unusual and fun. Also I would love to teach foreigners Bulgarian. Пожелавам ти успех! 🇧🇬🖤
You have such a beautiful amazing language ❤ you are so fortunate. It might be CONVENIENT being a native English speaker but it is in no way fun or satisfying or intriguing xD
@@AubzCelli Aww thanks so much! It's good to know my language gets the appreciation it deserves. 🥺 I get your point about being an English native speaker haha. 😅 Unfortunately when something becomes too widespread it stops being intriguing but English has its beauty as every other language.
I am interested in learning Bulgarian
I started learning your langauge a few months ago and I’m really striving to be a pro at it. I really like it and I think it sounds beautiful
@@natsuyah_ Wow I'm glad to hear that. Good luck! :) Do you find it difficult so far?
Bella is great for teaching Bulgarian grammar.
I am argentinian, and my grandmother was bulgarian, I never got the chance to talk to her and learn the language, but for some reason I just feel so connected to her and that´s what made me investigate her culture and study her language
Can you make an updated language bookshelf tour? I love seeing all the types of books
I have the Intensive Bulgarian 1 book and echo your comments about it being a good informational resource, but one that is cumbersome for self-instruction. I haven't used the Routledge Bulgarian book, but I have used their books for other languages, and my (gentle) critique of the style they use is that it is far less systematic in approach, and more "life topic" oriented. Having access to both is key, at least for me, as I quickly become frustrated if a resource doesn't explain underlying linguistic concepts.
Great video!
Agreed wholeheartedly! Thank you!
Great and good luck with the language, assuming you're still learning it, bulgarian has simple grammar, to english and spanish speakers it should be easy (grammar-wise), the vocabulary however is very different but this applies to many foreign languages.
Amazing video! As a Russian speaker, I really like how Bulgarian sounds and would love to learn even a little bit of the language and so it's definitely on my list. Thanks for sharing your experience and the books you've used so far. Having studied some less popular languages I really feel your struggle with finding good quality resources.
I am Bulgarian-Russian,but I only know how to speak Bulgarian( bcs I live in Bulgaria). I would like to learn the Russian language. Russian is a beautiful language.
I hope you start learning Bulgarian someday. It's indeed a good language.
Hi! I wanted to download the book from the first link, but they aren't available. Can you send it to me , please?
This is amazing thanks! I am a half-bulgarian who unfortunately never learned bulgarian as a child. I've been trying to really improve my bulgarian as an adult and am probably at a B1/B2 level. I have mostly used the website Bulgaro which is great and covers all the core grammatical concepts but ultimately is a little thin.
What would be your recommendations for resources for a B1/B2 speaker to improve their vocabulary as well as reading and listening skills? I'm defo checking out some of the stuff you mentioned in this video but wanted to identify if there are resources better suited to my level?
vasil todorov... A1 A2 bulgarian.. i watch his channel and they have two teachers giving classes. it worked for me so far understanding cyrillic
Hello! I was wondering would it be possible either to send me the free ones (the first link) or change the link in the description because it does not work. Thank you ❤
Благодаря ти много🎉
Thank you for suggesting Glossika. Much better than Pod101 where their music is annoying and it is less interactive.
Hello, I'm bulgarian and I live in Ireland, I can help with the language, in return you can straighten my mistakes in english. I speak intemediate level. Best way to learn is native speaker to correct you.
Regards
Not learning Bulgarian, but great video as always. Can I ask why you are learning Bulgarian? Just curious. 👍🏼
You look a little bit like Bulgarian, especially those big green eyes 🌼
Hi! I tried clicking the first link for the refugee textbook, but it’s showing up as page not found. Happen to know how else I can reach it?
Ще ми е интересно да направиш кратко видео, в което говориш на български
Can you plz link some of the YT channels for the dubbed shows.
It's really helpful to see your preferred pronouns - is there a course you can recommend for me to learn why I should even want to know this? 🙄
Hello! I tried downloading the books from UNHCR but the website is no longer available, do you know where can I find them now? Or could you share them? Thank you!
Does this link work for you? www.unhcr.org/bg/%d1%83%d1%87%d0%b5%d0%b1%d0%bd%d0%b8-%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bc%d0%b0%d0%b3%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%b0
@@PolyglotProgress Hi, same issue. Neither link seems to work. They may have just removed them entirely, who knows? Any other ideas? Those resources looked promising Great vid btw 👍
An interesting thing is that as a russian I can understand ukrainian, czech, slavic, bulgarian, polish languages fluently. But, a person who has learned russian, for some reason cannot understand other slavic languages. Could you, as a linguist, tell me why?
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A think a native speaker would have a deeper connection with the whole language family. A lot of words in other slavic languages sound either archaic, funny or misused in a given context, but I have my native language to compare to on the fly and extract more meaning from unfamiliar speech than a non-native would be able to. I've watched multiple videos in different slavic languages back to back and after some time I just just start hearing and understanding "slavic" and the languages kinda merge together, if you're not familiar with them in isolation. I don't think you do understand other slavic languages "fluently" as you say, but as someone who has come to understand Russian while not being able to speak it, I think I know what you mean.
My favourite language - Slavic.
@@batsali99 И да не забравим думите, които се пишат и се произнасят еднакво или близко, но може да означават различни нещо.
Why would you even wanna learn bulgarian
@@StefanoRodriguez210 by bf is Bulgarian and his family only understands speak Bulgarian so I’m learning in order to communicate with them
Keep it up!