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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.
MARKETING PIECE
Iva: Listeners, do you know the powerful secret behind rapid progress?
Becky: Using the entire system.
Iva: Lesson notes are an important part of this system.
Becky: They include a transcript and translation of the conversation...
Iva: key lesson vocabulary...
Becky: and detailed grammar explanations.
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Becky: Go to BulgarianPod101.com, and download the lesson notes for this lesson right now.

Outro

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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