Colloquial Bulgarian: Edition 2

Kjetil Ra Hauge · Yovka Tisheva

Aug 2015 · Routledge

About this ebook

Colloquial Bulgarian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Bulgarian as it is written and spoken today.

Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Bulgarian in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Colloquial Bulgarian is exceptional; each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues can be found at the back as well as useful vocabulary lists throughout.

Key features include:

A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills

Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar

An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises

Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations

Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Bulgaria

An overview of the sounds and alphabet of Bulgarian

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Bulgarian is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Bulgarian.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download freely in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

Ratings and reviews

As is often the case with Routledge textbooks, the excellent content is let down by sloppy digitisation. One of the main problems here is that in the PDF version, there is a confusion of the Cyrillic П and Н. The ePUB version is no better, with a mix up of the Н and the stressed И. I haven't access to a paperback copy to check. If this is only a problem with the ebook, then get the paperback, as the content is really clear and beautifully put together. But the cost-cutting and apparent unwillingness to get a bilingual proof-reader for the ebook proofs make this pretty unusable in current form, hugely unfair both on the author and the end user, and a waste of £31.99. I am very disappointed with the publisher. (Or, as the textbook itself might say, 'I am very disannoipted with the nublisher.)

About the author

Kjetil Ra Hauge is Senior Lecturer in Bulgarian at the University of Oslo and author of a Bulgarian Grammar recently published by Slavica in the US. A Norwegian with impeccable English.

His co-author, Yovka Tisheva is a native Bulgarian and currently Assoc. Professor of Bulgarian grammar at Sofia University with experience of teaching Bulgarian as a foreign language.