Learning Bulgarian

My first duty here, in Bulgaria, is learning its language. To reach this goal I'm having the help of a great teacher, Bili Dimitrova, and some online sources such the the Erasmus+ Online Linguistic Support.

Bulgarian is the national language of Bulgaria, a south Slavic language spoken in the area since the Middle Ages. In Sofia it's spoken by almost everyone speaks and it's necessary in many contexts of our daily life.

One of the main characteristics of Bulgarian, and the first challenge for many foreigners, is the Cyrillic alphabet. This alphabet was created by two Byzantine theologians over 1000 years ago, it was soon adopted by Bulgarian language and later by most Slavic languages together with the expansion of Orthodox Christianity.

Despite many similarities with Latin alphabet learning a new alphabet is not easy, especially when you're already an adult and all languages you ever studied before shared the same alphabet. Confusions are common. As simple example Cyrilic P looks like Latin P but it sounds like R.

It is going to take a while, but with some daily effort I hope to, at least, learn the basic in the next weeks.

My personal Bulgarian text book