Bulgarian

Bulgarian is a Slavic language, spoken by around 9 million people, and is the official language of Bulgaria. Bulgarian is closely related to the Macedonian language, with which it shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility, and it is also related to other Slavic languages like Serbian, Croatian, and Russian.

Bulgarian has some unique features among the Slavic languages. For instance, it has lost the case system that characterizes most other Slavic languages, making its grammar simpler in comparison. Instead, it relies on prepositions and word order to convey grammatical relationships between words. Furthermore, Bulgarian is the only Slavic language with a definite article, which is attached as a suffix to the noun.

How hard is it to learn Bulgarian?

Bulgarian has a complex grammar and is written in the Cyrillic script, which consists of 30 letters and is used to write many languages in Eastern Europe and Asia. Bulgarian has a rich vocabulary, with many loanwords from Greek, Turkish, and other languages. Bulgarian is known for its use of inflections to indicate grammatical categories and its use of stress to change the meaning of words.

Most English speakers will take approximately 44 weeks of study to become proficient with Bulgarian.