Bulgarian Basic Phrases

Military-related Bulgarian phrases for language learners. With Bulgarian text and audio.

Using this app, you can select an English phrase and view its translation and how to pronounce it in Bulgarian.

This app was originally developed as an entry to the 2010 CIO/G6 "Apps for the Army" competition, and it is based on the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center's 1996 survival-level booklet "Surviving in Bulgarian" and its cassette audio, publicly available online from DLIFLC. While this app's subject matter relates mainly to military topics, the app is broadly useful with content relating to a range of topics.

• Contains about 301 phrases; most of them, but not all, have native speaker audio recordings from the original cassette
• Dictionary lookup: Type or say what you want to search
• Pronunciation help: See the transliterated/Romanized text
• Good for language learning, or as a reference

This app is part of a series of phrasebook apps published for many different languages and dialects. Phrasebooks in the series are available as "basic" and "medical" variants.

• Text may be exported as Anki flash cards
• Works offline: No network connection is required
• Search bar for quick vocabulary lookup
• No login or registration needed
• Dark background color minimizes eye strain

Many of the languages covered by this series of phrasebook apps are under-resourced, with translation apps and dictionaries not widely available from other sources.

Categories

Common Words & Phrases
Days of the Week
Numbers
General Military
Interrogation
Commands / Directions
Medical / Sanitation
Clothing / Distribution

How to use

1. Choose a subject category from the menu. That category will be expanded.
2. From the expanded list of phrases shown, tap on the phrase you want.
3. On the phrase detail page, the Bulgarian phrase is shown alongside its pronunciation and the equivalent English phrase. Press the Play button to hear the audio pronunciation by a native speaker.

Ideal for

• U.S. military service members
• Doctors, nurses, and medical professionals
• Travelers
• Aid workers
• Linguists

Other phrasebook apps in this series

Each language and dialect below is a separate app. This app contains 301 Bulgarian phrases.

Algerian, Amharic, Azeri, Baluchi, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Cebuano, Chavacano, Croatian, Czech, Dari, Egyptian, Emirati, French, Gan (Jiangxinese), Georgian, Gujarati, Haitian, Hassaniya, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian (Bahasa), Iraqi, Japanese, Javanese, Jordanian, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean (North), Korean (South), Kosovar (Albanian), Kurmanji, Kyrgyz, Lebanese, Libyan, Lingala, Malay, Mandarin, Mongolian, Moroccan, Nepali, Palestinian, Pashto (Afghanistan), Pashto (Pakistan), Persian-Farsi, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Europe), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Saudi, Serbian, Sindhi, Somali, Sorani, Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Venezuela), Sudanese, Swahili, Syrian, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamashek, Tamil, Tausug, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Tunisian, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Shanghainese, Yakan, Yemeni, Yoruba

Making flash cards: Launch app and choose "Export to Anki" from the menu in the top corner, and follow the prompts.

Materials in this app are adapted from publications authored by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (www.dliflc.edu). This app is not affiliated with DLIFLC or any other government or military organization.