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We are working very hard on the Bulgarian course. As a hint of a feature of the course, we show you some wonderful pictures of Bulgaria (click on the images for more information about the locations):
photo credit: Panoramas photo credit: yovko photo credit: Klearchos Kapoutsis photo credit: Marin Nikolov photo credit: Klearchos Kapoutsis photo [...]
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Pictures of Bulgaria
Christmas in Bulgaria
The Christmas time in Bulgaria is the time most full of traditions and rituals. Some of the typical Bulgarian rituals are very ancient and are not practiced nowadays. Also in the last decades some western traditions came into the Bulgarian culture. But generally, the Bulgarian Christmas looks like that:
The Old Tradition
Christmas or Koleda started a [...]
Baked Pumpkin – a tale by Elin Pelin
The following short story is written by one of the most famous Bulgarian authors – Elin Pelin. His stories are both touching and funny and his style is generally very amusing.
The original text of the story can be found here.
Baked Pumpkin
by Elin Pelin
When Goody Goodfellow, filing clerk in the local government, once went to the [...]
Hello in Bulgarian
How to say hello in Bulgarian? It’s not always done with a simple word. But you can learn here within 2 minutes how to greet in Bulgarian.
If you talk to a single person, whom you know very well, you say “zdrasti” or “zdravey” and if you talk to a group of friends you say [...]
Socialism
This period in Bulgarian history is one of the latest and most interesting ones. The communist society was quite different from the normal capitalist one.
At that time, people were “building” socialistic society. The country was closed for the normal people, they could not go out of Bulgarian easily. Everyone who believed something different from the [...]
Bulgarian Music
“The Mistery of Bulgarian Voices” is not a name given by chance. The video above shows the most cherished Bulgarian song and singer – Izlel e Delio Haidutin by Valya Balkanska. This song has been chosen to be a part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched [...]
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