So as promised, I've been obsessing about Bulgarian this week. A couple of days ago, I announced that I'd started a blog in Bulgarian. Since then I've been thinking about it a lot. About what I want to post about. About spelling. About grammar. About comments that have been left for me. And,yes for the record, some of those comments were too difficult for me to understand and I had to use google to translate them for me.

Now there are a couple of interesting things I've noticed since starting this "write in Bulgarian" blog. One is that I have no sense of which words are capitalized or not. I think that this is due to the fact that I never think about Bulgarian being in capital and lower case letters because all Cyrillic looks like it's in capital letters to me. The other reason is because I am so happy to sound out what a word is and understand it that the capitol letters get lost on me. I also dislike the Cyrillic "script" where the "T" looks more like an "m" so I avoid it. <em>Right?!</em> That's an awesome solution.

The other thing I've been struggling with is spelling. This is clearly because I am not a great speller in English but also because I can't reliably hear the differences between certain letters in Bulgarian. Mostly it's this letter which trips me up: ъ as in скъпo. The result of my uncertainty about leads me to pronouncing a word a few times with different emphasis to see if it sound better that way and then I do the same thing different vowels until I have not idea which spelling or pronunciation is correct and I'm forced to look it up on google translate.

The last thing I really like to do which is apparently really annoying to Bulgarian readers is to use "I" way too much. Now this happens because in English a girl has got to use pronouns but in Bulgarian each verb conjugates different for 1-3person singular and plural. Yeah so all you really need is the verb to know who the who of the sentence is. This is a hard one for me to get used to but I am trying.

Needless to say, sometimes it's hard to put yourself out there but I am glad that I am mostly because I don't want people to think I am stupid so I am trying to listen to everyone's advice and apply it right away. Oh and I don't want to accidentally cement any bad habits/mistakes in Bulgarian.t's much harder to get things right after you've done it wrong a few times.

Thanks for all of the support!!