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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Learning Bulgarian For A Trip ? What to do?





Wikipedia has an extremely long and complicated article on the Bulgarian Language. I hopped off to Simple Wiki and found the alphabet in a little box but not much else. It's a start:

А а
/a/
Б б
/b/
В в
/v/
Г г
/g/
Д д
/d/
Е е
/ɛ/
Ж ж
/ʒ/
З з
/z/
И и
/i/
Й й
/j/
К к
/k/
Л л
/l/
М м
/m/
Н н
/n/
О о
/ɔ/
П п
/p/
Р р
/r/
С с
/s/
Т т
/t/
У у
/u/
Ф ф
/f/
Х х
/x/
Ц ц
/ʦ/
Ч ч
/tʃ/
Ш ш
/ʃ/
Щ щ
/ʃt/
Ъ ъ
/ɤ̞/, /ə/
Ь ь
/◌ʲ/
Ю ю
/ju/
Я я
/ja/
Bulgarian alphabet from Simple Wiki.

If you want to learn to say it in order, that might help. Bulgarian alphabet:
ABVGDEZZIJKLMN.PRSTUFX Ts TS S St . . . ju ja

1 What is the same?
A
B capital in Bulgarian looks like an English lower case b with a hat or line across the top. The lower case b looks more like an Italic b or a number six.

2 Annoyingly confusing
What looks like a B is actually pronounced like a v.
The c sound looks like a simplified r with and upright and an upper stroke going right.

3 Totally New Letters

Dictionary and Phrase Book


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East European from Lonely Planet ₤2.99 .
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For free on the internet:

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https://www.bulgaro.io/blog/bulgarian-on-duolingo

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Teacher of English and other languages. Learn Languges Workshops for colleges and businesses.


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