The Digitized Old Books: First Grammar to Teach Romanian Language for Bulgarians

The paper offers analysis of digitized copy of the first printed school book to teach Romanian language for Bulgarians published in Bolgrad, Romania in 1865. The related study uses a digital copy of the book which was recently available on-line as a part of the initiative of the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for digitizing old and rare printed books of its large collections. the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for digitizing old and rare printed books of its large collections. The overview of the approach used for the digitization and the teaching methodology with related approaches are presented by analyzing the book's content including its bilingual Romanian-Bulgarian thematic dictionary. The book can be considered also as the first comparative grammar of Romanian and Bulgarian language, since it contains grammar and lexical examples of related parallel bilingual linguistic phenomena. The analysis, focused on the interpretation of both grammar and lexical phenomena of both languages given in the book is presented together with the related pedagogical implementations.