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Resources For Studying Slavic Languages

Studying foreign languages familiarizes one with the history, geography, culture, and traditions of another country. It helps to better understand and interact with people from different countries. This guide recommends sources available at the UO & more.

Bulgarian

Bulgarian Language Textbooks and Dictionaries

Print and Electronic Books

Ginina, S. (Stefana), TSvetanka. Nikolova, and Liuba Sakuzova. A Bulgarian Textbook for Foreigners. 2. ed. Sofia: Naouka i izkoustvo, 1972.

Gribble, Charles E., and Lyubomira Parpulova. Gribble. Bulgarian Individualized Instruction: Elementary Bulgarian. Instructor’s Copy. Columbus, Ohio: Center for Slavic & East European Studies, Ohio State University, 1984.

Gribble, Lyubomira Parpulova., and Charles E. Gribble. Reading Bulgarian 1: an Advanced Course : Bulgarian Individualized Instruction. Instructor’s Manual. Columbus, OH: Published with permission from Otterbein College by the Ohio State University Foreign Language Center, 1990.

Gribble, Lyubomira Parpulova., and Charles E. Gribble. Reading Bulgarian 2: an Advanced Course : Bulgarian Individualized Instruction. Instructor’s Manual. Columbus, OH: Published with permission from Otterbein College by the Ohio State University Foreign Language Publications, 1992.

Nicolova, Ruselina, and Stamenov, Khristo. Bulgarian Grammar. Translated by Khristo Stamenov. Berlin, [Germany: Frank & Timme, 2017.

Scatton, Ernest A., and Mariia. Filipova. Reading Bulgarian 3: an Advanced Course: Bulgarian Individualized Instruction. Instructor’s Manual. Columbus, Ohio: Published with permission from Otterbein College by the Ohio State University Foreign Language Publications, 1994.

Rankova, Mariia., Teodora. Atanasova, and Ivanka. Kharlakova. English-Bulgarian dictionary. 5th ed. Sofia: Naouka [sic] i izkoustvo [sic], 2004.

Boi︠a︡nova, Snezhana and Ilieva, Lena. Angliĭsko-bŭlgarski rechnik : v dva toma = English-Bulgarian dictionary. Millennium ed. Veliko Tŭrnovo: Gaberoff, 2003.

Online Resource

A Concise Bulgarian Grammar by John Leafgren. From the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC) at Duke University.

Phrases and Phrasebooks

Phrasebooks

Bulgarian Phrasebook & Dictionary. Second ed. Lonely Planet 2014.

Kovatcheva, Mira and others. Harrap's Bulgarian Phrasebook. McGraw Hill 2006.

Last Minute Bulgarian : Phrasebook and Dictionary in One. Pons 2008.

Mayhew Anila. Eastern Europe Phrasebook & Dictionary. 6th ed. Lonely Planet 2019. 

Phrases

Online Access to Useful Bulgarian Phrases via Omniglot