A worthwhile addition to the existingTeach Yourself Bulgarian products .
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This is generally a worthwhile addition to the 'Teach Yourself Bulgarian' products already available from these authors. For one who has already worked through their rather more formal 'Teach Yourself Bulgarian' course, these CDs provide further useful listening material with new voices, which is an important factor in hearing and understanding the spoken word. For those with this initial experience, the first of the 3 CDs may seem rather redundant - but useful for beginners none-the-less.
The only criticism I would have is with the printed booklet. It elects to print the text in English (fine), and in Bulgarian transliterated into Latin text (also fine). But for those of us who have struggled to learn Cyrillic, this is rather tedious, as seeing now familiar words in a strange garb is just as unsettling as seeing our English place names in Cyrillic! For beginners, the first major hurdle in learning this language is the Cyrillic alphabet because it is seen everywhere you go. Printing the text in Latin is, of course, useful for pronunciation, but if the publishers could have found just a little more space to print the text in Cyrillic too, it would have served both beginners and intermediates even better.
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