Learning Bulgarian is a great and difficult task and it is really important to get all the help that you can find. In this regard Chat GPT can be a very valuable partner in conversation and learning as long as you don't trust it all that much.
It is indeed very capable in generating random texts, however in Bulgarian it is having numerous issues such as syntax, vocabulary (it often includes some Russian words and expressions), often there are grammatical inaccuracies especially when it comes to past tenses. I have tried to get grammatical explanations and clarifications on numerous questions and Chat GPT doesn't really know what it is talking about, the information is almost never correct.
What could be a possible benefit is having a conversation with it in Bulgarian and checking if you can be understood and whether you can understand sample answers. You can also ask it to translate, rephrase and clarify. It is quite capable in providing short texts and dialogues on different topics so it can generate a good amount of reading content but one needs to bare in mind that it is not 100% trustworthy in terms of structure and grammar.
With many people one great deficit is having a place and a partner to practice with and I do believe that in case you really have no better alternative, then Chat GPT can be a very useful partner to talk to in Bulgarian. It can also create exercises but, again, it is not 100% sure that you will be exercising actual Bulgarian.
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