Learn Bulgarian from Native Speakers
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Learn Basic Bulgarian
Language Experts agree, our courses are the most complete and thorough self-instructional language course available. Our competitors like Rosetta Stone would like you to believe learning a language is easy and fun. We think they are being dishonest. The truth about learning a language is it takes time. Repetition, vocabulary, sentence structure are the building blocks our course utilizes to teach a language. Lots of repetition drills. Dialog drills. Pronunciation drills. Vocabulary. Your investment in a language course is your time. The audio material is from native speakers and the corresponding textbook is your guide. There are no short cuts. Our Methodology, Guided Imitation, sets the student on a path to a certified level of fluency. Our courses are the most comprehensive self instructional language material available on the market.
The Bulgarian Basic Volume I contains Units 1 - 15 and 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. Each unit is divided into three parts: Basic Sentences, Notes, and Drills, with review units also included. Using both the textbook and CD's, the student is gradually moved toward proficiency in spoken Bulgarian and its grammar. Level One comes with 23 CD's and a 496 page textbook or 1 DVD with audio on MP3 and the textbook is in a PDF file format.
The Bulgarian Basic Volume II contains Units 16-30, and continues the first level for students who want greater proficiency. Level Two comes with 11 CD's and a 464 page textbook, or 1 DVD with audio on MP3 and the textbook is in a PDF file format.
The Bulgarian Basic Combo contains Units 1 - 30 and comes with 34 CD's and two textbooks or 2 DVD's with audio on MP3 and textbooks in PDF files.
Each unit of this course, aside from review units, is divided into three parts: Basic Sentences , Notes, Drills. Units 13 on have a fourth part, a reading passage. The Basic Sentences are normal dialogue material, meant to be memorized. The Notes explain the grammatical structure of the language and are divided roughly into three phases. The first phase (Units 1-5, 7-11) has a great deal of grammatical material per unit, in order to give the student a working knowledge of the most frequent patterns. The second phase (Units 13-17, 19-23) treats fewer grammatical features per unit. The third phase (Units 25-29) gives more overall treatments of selected features.
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 - Instructions to the Staff
Unit 18 - Review
Unit 19 - An Excursion
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 - About Bulgaria
Unit 27 - Culture
Unit 28 - Parade
Unit 29 - Bulgarian History
Unit 30 - Review
