Learn how to use the future tense
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Becky: Hello and welcome back to BulgarianPod101.com. This is Beginner, season 1, lesson 5 - You’re Never Too Old To Get Help From Your Family in Bulgaria! This is Becky. |
| Iva: Здрасти (zdrasti). And my name is Iva! |
| Becky: In this lesson, you'll learn how to compose the future tense in Bulgarian. |
| Iva: The conversation takes place in the house we already know. |
| Becky: It’s between Kiril and his father Nikolay. Kiril asks his dad to help him with an assignment from his university. He's a first year student, and his dad still treats him like a high school student. |
| Iva: The speakers are family members, so they use informal language. |
| CONVERSATION |
| Let's listen to the conversation. |
| Кирил: Тате, ще ми помогнеш ли малко за този проект? (Tate, shte mi pomognesh li malko za tozi proekt?) |
| Николай: За домашно ли е? (Za domashno li e?) |
| Кирил: Това не е домашно, а проект. Нали вече съм студент! (Tova ne e domashno, a proekt. Nali veche sam student!) |
| Николай: Колко бързо минава времето... (Kolko barzo minava vremeto…) |
| Кирил: Тате, ще ми помогнеш ли или не? (Tate, shte mi pomognesh li ili ne?) |
| Николай: Да, да! (Da, da!) |
| Let's hear the conversation one time slowly. |
| Кирил: Тате, ще ми помогнеш ли малко за този проект? |
| Николай: За домашно ли е? |
| Кирил: Това не е домашно, а проект. Нали вече съм студент! |
| Николай: Колко бързо минава времето... |
| Кирил: Тате, ще ми помогнеш ли или не? |
| Николай: Да, да! |
| Now let's hear it with the English translation. |
| Кирил: Тате, ще ми помогнеш ли малко за този проект? |
| Kiril: Dad, will you help me with this project? |
| Николай: За домашно ли е? |
| Nikolai: Is it for homework? |
| Кирил: Това не е домашно, а проект. Нали вече съм студент! |
| Kiril: This is not homework, but a project. I'm a university student now, right?! |
| Николай: Колко бързо минава времето... |
| Nikolai: Time passes so fast... |
| Кирил: Тате, ще ми помогнеш ли или не? |
| Kiril: Dad, will you help me or not? |
| Николай: Да, да! |
| Nikolai: Yes, yes! |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Becky: So Kiril and his dad Nikolay were discussing Kiril's university assignment. It seemed that Nikolay was still perceiving his son as a high school student, but the funny part is that Kiril is the one asking his dad for help too. |
| Iva: Actually helping with homework and generally talking about school grades, homework, and general school conditions is very common in Bulgaria. |
| Becky: Ok, so let's talk about how the Bulgarian school system was established, and what Bulgarian students learn. |
| Iva: Education in Bulgaria is mandatory for kids at the age of 7 and is necessary until the age of 16. |
| Becky: Still, many students continue their higher education, and there are quite a large number of university students in Bulgaria. And the current school system has 12 grades. |
| Iva: That’s right. And the whole educational system has four levels. |
| Becky: pre-primary education for 3-7 years old kids... |
| Iva: elementary education with grades from 1 to 8, where primary school is from grades 1 - 4 and junior high school is from grades 5 – 8... |
| Becky: secondary education with high schools and vocational schools... |
| Iva: and higher education with university institutions. |
| VOCAB |
| Becky: Now let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. The first word we shall see is |
| Iva: помагам (pomagam) |
| Becky: to help |
| Iva: (SLOW) помагам, помагам |
| Next: |
| Iva: малко (malko) |
| Becky: a little |
| Iva: (SLOW) малко, малко |
| Next: |
| Iva: проект (proekt) |
| Becky: project |
| Iva: (SLOW) проект, проект |
| Next: |
| Iva: домашно (domashno) |
| Becky: homework (colloquial) |
| Iva: (SLOW) домашно, домашно |
| Next: |
| Iva: студент (student) |
| Becky: university student |
| Iva: (SLOW) студент, студент |
| Next: |
| Iva: бързо (byrzo) |
| Becky: fast |
| Iva: (SLOW) бързо, бързо |
| Next: |
| Iva: минавам (minavam) |
| Becky: to pass |
| Iva: (SLOW) минавам, минавам |
| Next: |
| Iva: време (vreme) |
| Becky: time |
| Iva: (SLOW) време, време |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Becky: Let’s take a closer look at the usage of some of the words and phrases from this lesson |
| Iva: OK. The first one is “Колко” |
| Becky: I know that one. It's an adverb meaning “how many” or “how much”. |
| Iva: Yes, that's why it's used for asking questions about quantity. |
| Becky: In combination with another adverb, it can express the feeling of great speed or volume, as in the dialogue. Ok, next word, please... |
| Iva: the next word is “Или” |
| Becky: It's a conjunction meaning “or”. |
| Iva: “Или” |
| Becky: It's used in the same way as in English. |
| Iva: For example, “Which one do you prefer - strawberry or banana ice cream?” |
| Becky: I prefer strawberry, but let's get back to the translation of this in Bulgarian! |
| Iva: (laughs) OK! In Bulgarian, this will be “Какъв предпочиташ - ягодов или бананов сладолед?”. |
| Becky: Meaning “Which one do you prefer - strawberry or banana ice cream?” What’s the next word? |
| Iva: “Да” |
| Becky: An interjection meaning “yes”, “yeah”, “yep,” and the like. |
| Iva: Yep! |
| Becky: Usually it's used like in English – in situations when something has to be confirmed. |
| Iva: In our dialogue, it was repeated once to show firmness about something anticipated. |
| Becky: Can you repeat it? |
| Iva: Yes. Да, да! |
| Becky: Which is something like "Yes, yes! Okay!" |
| Iva: Yes. |
| Becky: Okay, now onto the grammar. |
| GRAMMAR POINT |
| Becky: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to form the future tense in Bulgarian. |
| Iva: Yes. This is obviously a very important and useful grammar point! |
| Becky: Definitely! So how do we do this, Iva? |
| Iva: We need one word, “ще,” which means “will”, “shall,” or “should” and is put before the verb to form the future tense. |
| Becky: So altogether, we have a pattern that sounds like this |
| Iva: “ще обядвам сандвич” |
| Becky: where we put the “ще” before the verb in the present tense form. |
| Iva: In English this is “will do something”. |
| Becky: Or to translate our example: ... |
| Iva: “(I) will eat a sandwich for lunch”, where “ще обядвам” only means “will eat lunch”. |
| Becky: Note that we always keep the pattern “ще” plus verb; they always have to stay together. |
| Iva: Yep. One thing to remember is that just like in English where “will” and “shall” don't change, “ще” also remains the same in the verb conjugation. |
| Becky: Yeah. Also, “ще” doesn't change depending on whether it’s a formal or informal context; only the second person plural form of the verb can show the formal meaning of some expression. |
| Iva: To expand on the future tense and “ще”... |
| Becky: ...This word is actually a form of the auxiliary verb. So Iva, how will conjugated verbs sound in future tense? |
| Iva: Here's an example with one common verb...“пиша”, |
| Becky: Meaning “to write”:... |
| Iva: аз ще пиша, ти ще пишеш, той/тя/то ще пише, ние ще пишем, вие ще пишете, те ще пишат. |
| Becky: Or in English - “I will write, you will write, he/she/it will write, we will write, you (plural) will write, they will write. |
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Outro |
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| Becky: OK, that was a lot of information to remember... |
| Iva: But remember, you can always check the lesson notes for more clarification. |
| Becky: Well, that’s all for this lesson. Thanks for listening, everyone! |
| Iva: And we'll see you in our next lesson. “Чао-чао!” |
| Becky: Bye! |
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