https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1203&p=17370#p17370 ----------------------------------- Visitor Thursday, 06 January 2005, 07:49 PM ----------------------------------- We don't use the latin alphabet. There is a Cyrillic alphabet that cotains more characters. Russians use the Cyrillic alphabet too! But I'll try to write a transcription. "rakia" is pronounced like it's written , there is special pronounce for '' Stoichkov". The '' ch" is pronounced the same way as in english. (we have a special character/letter for that sound). "Vazov" is pronounced like it's written,his famous poem ''Az sum bulgarche"... :-k ...well try to pronounce the ''u" as you pronounce it in ''church'' (we have another special character/letter for this one). We always read the letters in the end of the word. The "e'' sound is pronouced the same way as in... ](*,) :-k ...aaa...German when there is no ''umlaut'' (I hope you know what is an ''umlaut"8-[ , because I can explain it! 8-[ I haven't speak German for years, I even can't build a sentence in German [-( ). "Haidutin '' is pronounced like it's written. Well ''chalga" (actually chalga is a Serbian music , so don't use this word. Just don't say ''pop-folk" [-X ). "prituri" this an old dialect word again the ''u" is pronounced the same way as in German (without "umlaud" ](*,) ). "sa'' another dialect word , the correct form is "se" (subsidiary verb) it's pronounced "sa" or "se", that's easy. "planinata" (the mountain "the" = "ta" in the end) this is easy too. It's pronounced like it's written. "Vassil Levski" is pronnced "Vasil Levski". "Valia Balkanska" (we use a special character/letter for the "ia" sound). Don't pronounce "Balkanska" as you pronounce "Balkans" in english, pronoune it as it's written. You'll never understand how hard is this. ](*,) Maybe some expert in slav languages will explain this better. Some good-speaking-english expert in slav languages... :-k . Don't try to write using the Cyrillic alphabet ! If you do it ,you'll start to get mixed up when you're using the latin alphabet. :-k I hope you understood something... 8-[ 8-[ 8-[