Good afternoon,
As a native English language speaker the prospect of having to learn a new language with a different alphabet in order to go about effectively living in Bulgaria is somewhat doubly daunting.
Even if one does not need Bulgarian language skills for ones work, shopping, running a house, paperwork, healthcare, driving and maintaining a car, talking to officials, social interactions will all require some level of reading and verbal Bulgarian language skills.
You - as an English language native now living in Bulgaria, what level of Bulgarian language skills have you had to develop (if any at all) to be able to adequately get by living in Bulgaria?
Thank you so much.