Today I had my regular Sunday Bulgarian lesson with my tutor I. It was great.

The only problem was that I haven't really studied Bulgarian for the better part of three months. And the only time I spoke Bulgarian this summer was when I was traveling in Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Kosovo (that last one was in a pinch).  Sure, since I've been back in Sofia, I've said my good morning, hellos, how are yous and order my coffees in Bulgarian but mostly I've been off in the English speaking bubble that is ACS.

Needless to say, my Bulgarian is rusty. And my grammar? Ug. Don't even ask.

My tutor I. decided that today we would review nouns and articles, plurals, adjectives and articles, personal pronouns both the short and long forms and verbs. She had made a serious worksheet to do so.  Good thing. Because basically I stumbled through the whole thing. I think on a whole I answered probably 75% of her questions right. Sure that's better than say 50% which would have been guessing but it's not great.

Sure a Bulgarian would understand me if I made a masculine object plural using the feminine plural rather than the masculine but I used to know all of this stuff last year--and get it right. This year? Apparently, not.

What does this mean? I've got some serious work to do.

So you can look forward to a new composition from me in Bulgarian shortly. It will be titled: What I did this summer vacation.  Just give me a few days to work on it!