The Bulgarian Basic Course I & II is divided into 30 units, many of which are
composed of dialogues, notes, and supplemental vocabulary. The course assumes the student has no
prior knowledge of Bulgarian and is fully self-instructional. This means that while an instructor/native
speaker was supposed to help teach the course, it is not imperative to learn Bulgarian. Volume I contains 23 CDs
and a 496 page textbook or 1 DVD with all lessons on MP3 with the textbook in a PDF file format. Volume II
contains 11 CDs and a 464 page textbook or the DVD option.
Unit 1: Getting Around, Greetings and General Phrases
Unit 2: Meeting People
Unit 3: Seeing the sights
Unit 4: What's your trade?
Unit 5: Let's talk about the weather
Unit 6: Review
Unit 7: Getting a Room
Unit 8: By car
Unit 9: Dinner
Unit 10: Shopping
Unit 11: Letter writing
Unit 12: Review
Unit 13: Stepping Out
Unit 14: Discussing the Play
Unit 15: The Post Office
Unit 16: The market place
Unit 17: Having people over for dinner
Unit 18: Verb Review
Unit 19: Going on a trip to the Rila range eighty Kilo's from Sofia
Unit 20: Visiting a Doctor
Unit 21: On the phone
Unit 22: In the country
Unit 23: Government
Unit 24: Review
Unit 25: Sports
Unit 26: Some information about Bulgaria
Unit 27: Culture
Unit 28: Parade. Military service
Unit 29: Bulgarian History: Tatar tribe of Bolgars, Volga river, Ural Mountains
Unit 30: Verb Review....Compound verbs
Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Southern branch of the
Slavic languages. Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set
it apart from other Slavic languages. Bulgarian is closely related to Macedonian
but generally regarded as a distinct language. Bulgarian is from the Balkan
region and is spoken in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, the Western Outlands region
in Serbia, Romania, Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, among emigrant
communities worldwide by about 12 million total speakers.
The course assumes no previous knowledge of Bulgarian or any other Slavic
language. It uses the Cyrillic alphabet that is taught through side-by-side
presentation of English translations and phonetics. The course presents
lessons in dialogues, drills, exercises, and English language narration.
