Local Talk
Learning Centre
What is Local Talk Learning Centre?
Local Talk Learning Centre provides Bulgarian language courses and lessons for foreigners in Varna (Eastern Bulgaria, northen Black Sea coast)
Local Talk is the only one learning centre in Eastern Bulgaria (and one of very few in the country), that spеcialzes in providing courses and individual lessons in Bulgarian language for foreigners. What we offer is seemingly traditional learning set up of group or an individual interacting in a room with a teacher. Different is what is going on in the room:
Our teaching methods are in line with the contemporary foreign language education techniques and are carefully adapted to the Bulgaian language;
We use our own teaching system (''Living Bulgarian language for foreigners''), which consists of texts, recordings, listening, speaking, reading and writing exercises, images, games and roleplays, all of which gradually build up your language skills;
Local Talk is a small organisation, which focuses not on enlargement, but on improving and maintaing the high quality of teaching;
We offer only Bulgarian Language courses and lessons and no other foreign languages education. This makes it possible to focus all our capacity on a very specific and limited area and therefore to offer better service;
At Local Talk we are young educated professionals and teachers who have the corresponding education.
Why choosing Local Talk
There are about 50 small schools or centres for foreigner languaes in Varna alone. Most of them now offer Bulgarian for freigners amongst the other languages. It would cost you about 6 lv for study hour (45 min) to enroll in a cheap place. The think is that these schools very rarely have people (if any) who study Bulgarian, so they don't maintain and develop capacity for teaching it - their main business is usually something else – English, tourism, translations, properties etc. and they don't have a concept about teaching system for Bulgarian. If you enroll for a course in one of these school you usually have for a teacher the English, French or German teacher, depending on the language you speak. She will use one of the ready text books on the market and they don't really work. (Buy and try them if you don't beleive.) So the attempt for teaching and learning usually ends up in confusion and frustration for both the learner and the teacher. And let the low price not mislead you: if you pay 6 lv/45 min, then probably the teachet gets 2-3 lv/45 min. Now think: will a serious professional work for this money? And if she does in some reason, how happy would she be teaching you. It's a bilateral intelectual and emotional process after all, so unhappy teacher has unhappy students
For all these reasons we beleive that focusing on teaching Bulgarian only can secure good quality and meaningfull training for your money. We've dedicated ourself to developing Bulgarian language learning system and we train both our students and teachers in the most up to date methods of teaching and learning.