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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4642 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 1 of 3 25 April 2015 at 3:33am | IP Logged |
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Hello everyone,
Recently I've been reading about Bulgarian and getting interested in doing a little personal experiment to learn some Bulgarian perhaps. The thing is that I don't feel like spending €70 on an Assimil course that will hold my hand when I can probably do it way faster than that. I can probably use FSI as my basic material (I don't know how outdated the FSI is for this language). Keep in mind I speak fairly good Russian and have experience with Slavic languages, so I would like resources that are intended for speakers of Slavic languages (in particular Russian) or other Balkan languages (Romanian/Greek). Does anyone have some good tips moving forward? I know the basic outline of the grammatical differences, but anything I should be alert to or on the lookout for? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| katarinaantalya Diglot Newbie United States Joined 3732 days ago 7 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB2 Studies: French, Bulgarian, Estonian | Message 2 of 3 25 April 2015 at 5:42pm | IP Logged |
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As to things to note when comparing Bulgarian and Russian, mostly watch out for the
verb moods. Bulgarian grammar (I've always found) is a lot simpler than Russian, except when it comes to the verbs. There's a lot more things you wouldn't have to worry about in Bulgarian, like the case endings. For FSI, it is definitely a little outdated, but depending on who you'd be interacting with, it's probably not a huge deal. Bulgarian has adopted English/Russian/Turkish words for a lot of Bulgarian words, so that changed the lexicon a little bit. If you need slang, just use anything British or American, they understand all of it. I can't really reccommend any other learning programs designed for speakers of Slavic languages, as I'm not one, but I did enjoy the Teach Yourself Bulgarian, for English speakers, and Langenschneidt's Bulgarian course was good, if you know German. Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4642 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3 of 3 26 April 2015 at 4:31am | IP Logged |
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I know German, so using Langenscheidt is okay; it's just impossible to get here in China.
I can't really buy many courses here; I would have to go back to Beijing. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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