JSBbg210 Bulgarian for Beginners I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Margarita Roumenova Ratcheva, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Elena Krejčová, Ph.D.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Pavel Krejčí, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 8:00–9:40 C32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Study of the basic characteristics of Bulgarian language in the context of Slavonic languages in its written and oral form. At the end of the course students should be able to communicate on topics from the everyday life. This course has a multimedia learn book prepared (students will be granting access after signing into this course). They can find grammar and exercises for each lection in this e-book. Discussed grammar is always contrasted to Czech, and the explanation is - for better understanding - also held in Czech. Second part of all the lections includes text for reading and translation, accompanied with audio recordings, questions to text, lexical exercises and vocabulary. Third part should help students during their home preparation. It offers them a possibility to exercise the newly-learned phenomenon in the form of interactive games, electronic tests and online essays.
Learning outcomes
Absolvent will be able to communicate in Bulgarian at a level correspondent to 24 hours of language course.
Syllabus
  • Bulgarian language in the context of Slavic and Balkan languages. Introduction to Bulgarian grammar. Bulgarian phonetics. Bulgarian alphabet. Basic Bulgarian grammar rules, vocabulary and phrases for beginners.
  • Lection 1 - Introducing ourselves. Greetings and polite phrases. Personal pronouns. Questions.
  • Lection 2 - Living, rooms and furniture. Gender and number of nouns.
  • Lection 3 - States, nationalities and languages. Gender and number of adjectives.
  • Lection 4 - Colours and clothes. Demonstrative and interrogative pronouns.
  • Lection 5 - Family. Declension in present tense.
  • Lection 6 - Human body. Irregular plural. Definite article of nouns.
  • Lection 7 - Leisure. Infinitive. Modal verbs.
  • Lection 8 - Daily routine. Future tense and grammatical aspect.
  • Lection 9 - Weather and seasons. Future tense of copula.
  • Lection 10 - Vacation. Definite article of adjectives.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • KREJČOVÁ, Elena. Česko-bulharský a bulharsko-český tematický slovník s úkoly na procvičování slovní zásoby. Lexikální minimum ke státní závěrečné zkoušce (Czech-Bulgarian and Bulgarian-Czech thematical dictionary with excersises. Lexical minimum for state exams). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 270 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6742-4. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
Teaching methods
Theoretical instruction, practical language exercises, drills.
Assessment methods
Short grammar test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2019, recent)
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