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learn how to speak, understand and write bulgarian
progress quickly beyond the basics
explore the language in depth

Teach Yourself Bulgarian is a complete course for beginners in spoken and written Bulgarian. It aims to teach you to understand and use the contemporary language in a variety of typical, everyday situations. Above all, it is functional, enabling you to communicate and interact, using the language for positive, practical purposes. You are introduced to the Bulgarian alphabet right from the start of the course and there is help with both reading and writing the Cyrillic script throughout the book

The course is divided into 20 carefully graded and interlocking units. Each unit is devoted to a particular topic or situation and each successive unit builds naturally on the material covered in previous units.

New language is introduced via the dialogues which are available separately on cassette or together with the book in a pack. The recording will also help you with your pronunciation and give you extra practice with listening comprehension.

Mira Kovatcheva, co-author, was born in Sofia and studied English at Sofia University where she is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies.

Michael Holman, co-author, is of mixed Russian and English parentage. Since 1996 he has lived in Yorkshire where he is Professor of Modern Slavonic Studies at the University of Leeds.