Japanese scholar Kenta Sugai encountered Bulgarian language during his studies at the Tokyo University of Foreign Languages where he first studied Russian philology. As a linguist he was fascinated by the grammatical features of Bulgarian among other Slavic languages. He focused on the study of dialects of Bulgarian migrants in Romania. For 2 years he specialized in Bulgarian studies at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski “and defended his doctoral thesis. Currently, Kenta Sugai teaches Bulgarian and Russian at Tsukuba State University in Tokyo. He says that Bulgarian language …read more
Source: Radio Bulgaria
