Peppa wutz is a really good suggestion.

Girl,listen to European Portuguese and next listen to Bulgarian, it sounds THE SAME

The one single thing that stuck to me in this video more than anything else is your teeth. I’ve never met or seen anyone with the same bottom teeth as me! I’m so haaaaapppppy! I see you 🤗

Dear Abigail. :) I hope that you are doing okay. Thank you so much for all your inspirational and encouraging and authentic videos. Your content is really special! And it gives me a sense of not being alone in my love to language learning. That's a great feeling. I really hope that you are doing well! And I miss your videos. :) But don't feel pressured to create new ones, I just wanted to share my appreciation. <3

Greetings from one of the iTalki teachers of Bulgarian (Teodora Kralcheva). I stumbled upon your video by looking for new material online that I could use to help with my lessons. Your video is very helpful and insightful. I bookmarked a few useful links you mentioned. Thank you very much! And wish you success in your further journey of learning Bulgarian! :D

I love the vibrant red of your hair. It's so bright and colorful!

Who speaks German nowadays?

*they won't hire you if you're not white white**

I'm surprised to see you and many in the comments like the complete German. I've had this book for years, I found it good at the start, but after a few pages, I couldn't stand the limited space. There is very little writing room, and the book is too small for how thick it is and makes it hard to open and flat out.

From this video, Italki seems more like searching a friend or partner apparently. A dominant learner might look a submissive teacher. A submissive learner might look for a dominant teacher. Which is all fine. But wouldn't it be better if language learning is kept out of relationship and personal comforts? Would it work if each school kid is allowed to pick a teacher they like and learn from home?

English needs to be more common rather than languages.

I have never been to Europe. Probably never will. I have studied languages as a hobby but eventually go back to donating to libraries and stick with English.

Me watching this while I still can’t pronounce “ ich ”

i just get Get Started in German Absolute Beginner Course of this course . i have 0 german study . so i get a entry level book to make sure i will not struggle . it have only 160 page so i will be quick to get complete german after

The page for the UNHCR textbooks doesn't exist any more....

It is interesting to learn different romance languages because knowing one helps on how quick you can learn others. That said, I would not advise at all to learn them in the same time. If you are a germanic speaker (english for exemple) ans you begin to learn two romance languages in the same time with not previous knowing of a romance language, you will mix everything and be unable to put appart each romance language.

I wonder how your learning experiences been these past few months and how come you do not post more often?

I like the way you speak. Very clear and nice tone. Like it so much

Love how short and sweet this video is! A lot of videos just try to sell a course/book, but this was SO helpful! Thank you:)

👍💐😍

I will say you will learn a language if you do two things: 1) You are truly motivated and stay motivated!! and 2) you put in the training hours. If you do both of these things you will learn. Methods beyond this are IMO all around staying motivated and putting in the hours (regardless if you are on a 1 year, 2 year, 4 year, or longer plan). With some methods being more "efficient" than others -- meaning efficient methods will give you slightly better results. But believe me "motivation" is king!!

Great video! Lots of great points! Yes -- I classify Elysse as a learner who puts a super high emphasis on speaking. And looks like that is her main goal -- so a great goal for her (based on her goals and what she likes to do). IMO the main thing is motivation -- keeping yourself motivated to log the training hours you need to learn the language. On my end I like reading (and I consider it the most "efficient" method to increase your vocab) so I put more time using reading to learn languages than listening or speaking -- although will say if you do have to put time into listening to be good at listening, and you have to put time into speaking if you want to be good at speaking. I do love your logging hours idea. Yeah, I wish I'd done that, I can only roughly estimate the hours I've put in -- it's work to log hours (and you have to be consistent about it) -- but it would be so cool to have my hours logged.

Some libraries even have volunteer organizations that run a book store for the libraries in the county or area. In my area - staffed by total volunteers -- there is a used book store that is all old library books. Advantage in general, is books are typically cheaper than a normal used book store.

I’m so grateful to you for this video! After you shared your own experience I finally realized that I’m not only one who struggles with the problem of gaining confidence in a foreign language❤️‍🩹

Danke

I just started learning Bulgarian with Assimil's course with French as the language of instruction. If you know Spanish, there's also "Lengua Búlgara. Curso completo", parts 1-5. Parts 1, 2, and 5 are available for Kindle, but parts 3 and 4 are not. There doesn't seem to be any recordings or even stress indicators in the books, but Google Translate sounds good in Bulgarian. Bulgarian's a nice language. I took 2 years of Russian at uni, and Bulgarian orthography is a lot simpler. Grammar too. It's just that there aren't a lot of resources for learning it as opposed to Russian.

These journaling videos are so narcissistic. They are purely attention seeking. Please. Get a life.

This is amazing thanks! I am a half-bulgarian who unfortunately never learned bulgarian as a child. I've been trying to really improve my bulgarian as an adult and am probably at a B1/B2 level. I have mostly used the website Bulgaro which is great and covers all the core grammatical concepts but ultimately is a little thin. What would be your recommendations for resources for a B1/B2 speaker to improve their vocabulary as well as reading and listening skills? I'm defo checking out some of the stuff you mentioned in this video but wanted to identify if there are resources better suited to my level?

Hello, I'm bulgarian and I live in Ireland, I can help with the language, in return you can straighten my mistakes in english. I speak intemediate level. Best way to learn is native speaker to correct you. Regards

Why would you even wanna learn bulgarian

Great video!! Agree with everything you said. And like that you place roughly equal enphasis on ER and IR. You pretty much said this but when I'm just starting, I really focus on IR because I know so little vocab (in the beginning) -- I really don't like doing ER until I have a vocab of at least 2000 words (in the target language) -- and then I do what you do -- try to find stuff that has 10-15% words I don't already know for ER. For intensive reading I use comic books -- which are actually pretty hard -- lthey are ike a 10-12 year plus reading level. I like them because they are short and I can read them over and over until I know every single word in the comic book. I also find that as I get more advanced in a language I start really understanding nuances in the text -- which is super cool.

This is such a helpful video! I have been learning languages for many years and I still struggle with speaking anxiety because I make it so much bigger in my head than it actually is! I have my first Portuguese lesson today and I am going to use your tips to get relaxed about it. Thank you for sharing these great tips!

It's really helpful to see your preferred pronouns - is there a course you can recommend for me to learn why I should even want to know this? 🙄

Anybody learning Romanian ? Just starting learning, and I've found a good course on udemy that is quite intensive on grammar which I like as it's the mechanics of the language.I need to find some reading material however.

For me something important would be speaking a related language that I speak. For example, I'd like an Arabic tutor to speak Hebrew, because they can use the similarities between Hebrew and Arabic, and they'd be less likely to be hostile to Israelis like me. For learning another Slavic language, I'd like someone who speaks Russian. Some stuff that is completely new to someone who doesn't speak any Slavic language I already know, and I don't want to waste time going over that anew.

Благодаря ти много🎉

I am a preacher and I teach from the Bible but I need to find someone that can help me speak in those terms can you help me

I'm a preacher living in Thailand and I'm trying to learn Thai but I need to tailor it for the religious concerns

I have a question first of all I have a unique situation and I'm wondering can they help me with this

I grew up watching Muzzy in Spanish. Brings back nostalgic memories and I’m happy other people like it!

vasil todorov... A1 A2 bulgarian.. i watch his channel and they have two teachers giving classes. it worked for me so far understanding cyrillic

Bella is great for teaching Bulgarian grammar.

Thank you for suggesting Glossika. Much better than Pod101 where their music is annoying and it is less interactive.

Hi! I tried clicking the first link for the refugee textbook, but it’s showing up as page not found. Happen to know how else I can reach it?

I am argentinian, and my grandmother was bulgarian, I never got the chance to talk to her and learn the language, but for some reason I just feel so connected to her and that´s what made me investigate her culture and study her language