The article is devoted to the methodology of teaching the practical Bulgarian language to future specialists in the Bulgarian language and literature at the faculty of Philology of the St. Petersburg State University. A significant place in the teaching of the Bulgarian language is given to grammar: Bulgarian and Russian are both Slavic languages, the basis of written language is Cyrillic, but Russian language is synthetic, Bulgarian is analytical; the Bulgarian language has nine verbal tenses, four moods, article used with nouns. Much attention is paid to the practical studying of the Bulgarian language by students.