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Intro |
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| Jonathan: Hello and welcome to the Absolute Beginner series at BulgarianPod101.com. This is season 1, lesson 9, Is This a Bulgarian Rose? I’m Jonathan. |
| Iva: Hello. And I’m Iva! |
| Jonathan: In this lesson, you'll learn how to ask questions about unknown items in Bulgarian. |
| Iva: The conversation takes place at Peter’s house. |
| Jonathan: It’s between Martin, Irina and Peter. |
| Iva: The speakers know each other so their speech is informal. |
| Jonathan: In the previous lesson, we discussed some of the patterns you can use to form a question... |
| Iva: ...But this time we’ll look more closely at the construction of questions in Bulgarian. |
| Jonathan: OK, let’s listen to the conversation. |
Lesson conversation |
| Питър: Това... сладко ли е? |
| Мартин: Да, точно така. Това е буркан с българско сладко. |
| Ирина: Да, това е сладко "от рози". |
| Питър: Сладко от ро-зи? |
| Jonathan: Now let’s hear the conversation one time slowly. (slow speed, broken down by syllable) |
| Питър: Това... сладко ли е? |
| Мартин: Да, точно така. Това е буркан с българско сладко. |
| Ирина: Да, това е сладко "от рози". |
| Питър: Сладко от ро-зи? |
| Jonathan: And Now with the English translation. |
| Питър: Това... сладко ли е? |
| Peter: Is this jam? |
| Мартин: Да, точно така. Това е буркан с българско сладко. |
| Martin: Yes, that's right. This is a jar of Bulgarian jam. |
| Ирина: Да, това е сладко "от рози". |
| Irina: Yes, this is "rose" jam. |
| Питър: Сладко от ро-зи? |
| Peter: Rose jam? |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Jonathan: So Iva, before we look at the vocabulary for this lesson, let’s talk about roses in Bulgaria. |
| Iva: Ok! Well, Bulgaria is famous for the rose plantations in Bulgarian Rose Valley. |
| Jonathan: It’s located between the Balkan range and Sredna Gora Mountains, right? |
| Iva: Yes! The Bulgarian Rose Valley is the home of the exquisite Bulgarian rose oil. |
| Jonathan: And it’s used to created many perfumes worldwide. |
| Iva: Amazing, isn’t it? The Bulgarian Rosa Damascena, cultivated for over 300 years, is considered worldwide to be the best oil-bearing rose. |
| Jonathan: But that’s not the only thing made from the roses. |
| Iva: That’s right. Besides rose oil, perfume and other comestics, Bulgarians use rose flowers to create food specialties including jam and syrup. |
| Jonathan: I think that visiting Rose Valley to see the whole production process for rose oil and for the Festival of The Rose is a great experience. |
| Iva: Yes, I definitely recommend it for lovers of flowers, exquisite aromas, and festivities in rural Bulgaria! |
| Jonathan: All right, now let’s move onto the vocab. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Jonathan: Now let’s take a look at the vocabulary in this lesson. The first word we shall see is... |
| Iva: това |
| Jonathan: this |
| Iva: това (slow, broken down by syllable) |
| Iva: това |
| Iva: да |
| Jonathan: yes |
| Iva: да (slow, broken down by syllable) |
| Iva: да |
| Iva: точно така |
| Jonathan: exactly |
| Iva: точно така (slow, broken down by syllable) |
| Iva: точно така |
| Iva: българско |
| Jonathan: Bulgarian |
| Iva: българско (slow, broken down by syllable) |
| Iva: българско |
| Iva: сладко |
| Jonathan: jam |
| Iva: сладко (slow, broken down by syllable) |
| Iva: сладко |
| Iva: буркан |
| Jonathan: jar |
| Iva: буркан (slow, broken down by syllable) |
| Iva: буркан |
| Iva: роза |
| Jonathan: rose |
| Iva: роза (slow, broken down by syllable) |
| Iva: роза |
| Iva: с |
| Jonathan: with |
| Iva: с (slow, broken down by syllable) |
| Iva: с |
| KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES |
| Jonathan: Let’s take a closer look at some of the words and phrases from this lesson. What are we starting with? |
| Iva: Let’s talk a little bit more about a word we used in our previous lesson too. |
| Jonathan: Which one is that? |
| Iva: “Това”. |
| Jonathan: It means “this”, right? |
| Iva: Yes. It’s the pronoun in its neutral form. |
| Jonathan: It is used to point at something. What are the other forms? |
| Iva: The feminine and the masculine forms are “тази” and “този”. |
| Jonathan: OK, listeners, repeat the three forms after Iva. |
| Iva: (masculine) “този”[pause]; (feminine) “тази” [pause]; (neutral) “това” [pause]. |
| Jonathan: And here we go to the next phrase, “That’s right”. |
| Iva: “Точно така”. |
| Jonathan: Can you repeat it again for the listeners please? |
| Iva: “Точно така”. |
| Jonathan: It means “exactly”, “correct” and “right” in English. |
| Iva: That’s correct. Sometimes it is shortened to “точно” only. |
| Jonathan: “точно”? |
| Iva: Yes, “точно”. |
| Jonathan: OK, that’s easy. What’s the next one? |
| Iva: “Българско”. |
| Jonathan: Oh, we talked about the adjective “Bulgarian” in the previous lesson. |
| Iva: Yes, here it’s in the neutral form because the word “jam”, “сладко” in Bulgarian is also neutral. |
| Jonathan: So the adjective changes according to the noun. How would you say “Bulgarian jam”? |
| Iva: “Българско сладко”. |
| Jonathan: Give us another example with neutral form so that the listeners can remember it. |
| Iva: “Българско знаме”. |
| Jonathan: And it means? |
| Iva: “Bulgarian flag”. |
| Jonathan: And again, listeners repeat after Iva. The masculine, feminine and the neutral for the adjective “Bulgarian”. |
| Iva: “Български” [pause], “българска” [pause], “българско” [pause]. |
| Jonathan: Okay, great! Let’s see the grammar point now. |
Lesson focus |
| Jonathan: The focus of this lesson is forming a question in the pattern [Asking if A is B.] |
| Iva: In Bulgarian, “[А] [В] ли е?” |
| Jonathan: “Is [A][B]?” Simple. |
| Iva: We use a phrase structure like “[А] [В] ли е?” when we want to confirm something we already have an idea about. |
| Jonathan: For example, something like “Is this someone you know?” |
| Iva: “Този мъж познат ли ти е?” |
| Jonathan: This literally means “Is this man someone you know?” Give us another example. |
| Iva: “Това сирене ли е?” |
| Jonathan: “Is this cheese?” |
| Iva: Yep. The construction is composed of a pronoun, a noun, then the interrogative particle “ли”, which you already know means something like “whether”, plus the auxiliary verb. |
| Jonathan: I think we need more examples. |
| Iva: OK. “Това люти чушки ли са?” |
| Jonathan: We keep mentioning traditional Bulgarian stuff. Now it’s chili peppers. |
| Iva: (laughs) Yes, “Това люти чушки ли са?” is "Are these chili peppers?" |
| Jonathan: How about the other pronouns, the masculine and the feminine? |
| Iva: I can give you examples with them too. |
| Jonathan: OK. We have water here… |
| Iva: “Тази вода моята ли е?” |
| Jonathan: "Is this water mine?" |
| Iva: Because “water” in Bulgarian is feminine. |
| Jonathan: And the masculine… |
| Iva: “Този химикал мой ли е?” |
| Jonathan: “Is this pen mine?” |
| Iva: Because “pen” in Bulgarian is masculine. |
| Jonathan: Right. How about some names or places? |
| Iva: OK, I will give you an example. “Това Черно море ли е?” |
| Jonathan: Again, the neutral form of the pronoun. |
| Iva: Yes, “Това”. |
| Jonathan: And what is the translation? |
| Iva: "Is this The Black Sea?" |
| Jonathan: Of course, the Bulgarian Black sea. |
| Iva: The Bulgarian Black Sea in Bulgarian will be “Българското Черно море”. |
| Jonathan: The adjective “Bulgarian” in neutral. |
| Iva: Yep, that’s right! |
| Jonathan: OK, listeners, check the lesson notes for more examples and don’t forget to practice them. Until next time! |
| Iva: Bye! |
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