Her bulgarian name is Nikolina Dobreva. But she simplified it to Nina Dobrev so it was easier for her fans to pronounce.

@blueworlddreams

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Nikolina is so pretty, never heard that name before.

@AB-yk2pq

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@@blueworlddreams Nikolina is common name in Slavic countries actually :)

@ScreamingAtTheTopOfMyLungs

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@@AB-yk2pq 😃 what?

@AB-yk2pq

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@@ScreamingAtTheTopOfMyLungs It is used name in Bulgaria (Nina's origin), Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Russia, Macedonia,Bosnia, Slovenia and they're all Slavic countries. Slavic version of name Nicole.

@quinn6883

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@@AB-yk2pq you forgot Romanian 😁

Technically her last name should be Dobreva EDIT: Wow I’m famous 🎉

@scarypoppins4491

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Her name is Nikolina Kamenova Dobreva

@D0vin00

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@@scarypoppins4491 👍🏼

@TheWurzelx3

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It is

@ayweep

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@@scarypoppins4491 she once spoke about that and Kamenova is her mother's maiden last name. That Wikipedia page wasn't made by her so they made a mistake

@silviamihailova6042

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Exactly, i am from Bulgaria, and the family last name should be -eva, -ova ect for female.......just like in russian name for females

"The way I knowN Bulgarian " had me cracking knao

@phoebereed.

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Erina Ethila meee toooo😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@samharrison299

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you've got a weak sense of humour if you find that funny jeez

@Archonsx

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why? she was mean and belittling

@khalilangelo4605

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Knao indeed

@vashappenin7008

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Same 😂

I wish my parents would have insisted we continued speaking German in our family. I spoke German first but lost it because my parents thought it was better we assimilate and speak English. I still speak some German but I’m not fluent.

@einbrothallo4990

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Deutsch ist eh müll

@TheWurzelx3

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Same only my mom spoke german with me so I never learned her mother tongue which is italian... I learned it later but I might never speak it as fluently as I speak German

@rowing__girl7182

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My aunt moved with her husband and her kids to sweden and my cousin was only 2 when they left Germany so he's not really fluent but when they visit us here his mom and sister can help him if he doesn't know certain words. But he can still speak German it's sad if you lose a language completely

@elos.7259

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But, language to the brain is like going to the gym, so, you just need to get closer, by tv shows with german subtitles, songs, and the german, at least the speaking and reading will come easy

@myrillya

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If it's your "original" first language, it'll come back when you start to confront yourself with the language again. Watch some TV shows or videos in Germany and you'll be back there eventually. 😊 Edit: Typo :D

The cool kids are the ones that speak another language at home and English to everyone else. Just sayin.

@oliwiaacka4505

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This

Can someone get the red dot out of there

@mel-ry6fu

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Frr 😭

@crypticfairy7930

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Frr I thought something was wrong with my phone for a second

@ang3lbabey514

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@@crypticfairy7930 i was fr scratching my screen wondering why it wouldn’t come off 💀

Just imagine How different her backstory is Katherine would’ve been if she didn’t know Bulgarian

I can relate to this. I grew up in South Africa but my Thai mother insisted on speaking Thai and its dialect to me while growing up. Thanks mom!

@Bysior88

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now you can import dem thai sticks

@alicemccree

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@@Bysior88 🤣🤣

@steph-cv7lj

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giiiirl me too! i’ve also grown up in south africa & my dad insists on us speaking cantonese at home☺️

@alicemccree

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@@steph-cv7lj Niiice! It's awesome isn't it? We can communicate with family from the other side of the world 😆 And it's a small flex to speak more than 2 languages. 'Cuase you know... Afrikaans 🤣

@lucianogardelli10

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@@alicemccree try isizulu. 🤣

POV you realize the her character from tvd (Katherine) was from Bulgaria 😳

@ElfinchenTM

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Omg the realisation 👀

@itsclaaara

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Katherine was really from Germany in the books but they changed her background when they cast Nina

@oliviapetrova9933

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@@itsclaaara yees her name in the book is Katherine von Swartzschild

@punklandra

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@@oliviapetrova9933 Nah doesn’t have a nice ring to it, glad they changed it lol

@oliviapetrova9933

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@@punklandra yeah Nina saved the show at this point. And... every other point😅

I’m from Argentina and when we moved to the us we would still speak Spanish to each other around the house because we lived with our grandparents. Once my mom found my wonderful adoptive dad now, we moved out of my grandparents and never spoke Spanish in the house. It’s really annoying and it’s not like I blame my mom or anything but knowing you were once fluent in your foreign language and now you can’t remember even half of it actually hurts a little. But im currently taking Spanish all through high school so I can get it back which is nice.

@catazanoni1455

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Empezá a mirar series argentinas para hablar como hablamos acá y no un español más neutro y no te olvides del voseo :(, Y hablá con tu mamá para que vuelvan a hablar español

@CthRage8946

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And you should know Spanish is the second most spoken language! You definitely would need it as much as you do with English!

@lakoriri3685

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But why you stopped speaking Spanish with your grandparents?

@satoumatsuzaka8002

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@@lakoriri3685 they’re dead 💀

@gimenant

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@@catazanoni1455 yes, and watch videos of Anya Taylor Joy speaking Spanish ;)

She should say I'm bulgarian no "I born in Bulgaria" 😂😂😂

@marianat6127

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Agree

@bobrocker6582

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It's just her way how she told her story. It could also be on purpose because she doesn't define herself as Bulgarian.

@Madi_Ernar

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You can be Bulgarian born in another country and not talk Bulgarian, but if you were born there, that's almost guaranteed.

Iam polish living in The Nederlands but i keept speaking and writing polish language with my son. At school the dutch teachers also told me that it would be beter for my son to speak just dutch at home that my son can learn the dutch language faster, so i told her that as far as she dont pay my bills she need to focus on learning my child good dutch at school like they pay her for and not to tell me which language my son need to speak with me. Now my son speak his mother language plus dutch and english! Am so proud of my action to never stop learning my kid his own language! 🙂

@amac6624

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You need to brush up on your English

@jolantakorszen2686

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@@amac6624 Nope....one thing i need to do is sleep eat and go to the toilet🤣 Thank You

@jolantakorszen2686

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@@amac6624 U americans need to understand that nobody dont need to do a sh** For you guys. I would be ashame to even write something like that even i see somebody not speaking good english bcs u dont know the reason why her language is not perfect. Besides woman have nails and sometimes they type wrongly but yeaaa ur ppl need Blacks to even grow as a country so dont expect from ur nation that u ppl one day can start acting like a living human beings. Ppl are daying and u care of a language writting? Dammn thats vol American Bullshi*****🤣🤣🤣🤣

I feel the same as her. I used to think it was cool to speak english but now that I'm climbing to my 30s, I feel it's important to never forget where you come from, your culture, language, and people are really important

So this is why she sounded so well speaking all those other languages in TVD....I always thought she sounded like she didn't have to try too hard 👍

I was trying to pick off the red dot for at least half of the video then I realized it was just the video

yes, muscle memory for language is a great knowledge

I’am Bulgarian too…I was born in Bulgaria and at 10 moved to Italy, but my parents done the same like Nina’s parents! So I thanks my parents for that!

Nina: "i wanted to speak english in house too" le every south Asian ever: "why do i have to speak English in school!!!!"

Thank you for that!!! ❤️🇧🇬

It's so important to speak ur parents language and u can still be integrated in another country and speak a lot of languages ... it's so important. We don't care that some people gonna judge as a kid u can understand both languages and if u are fluent in those languages it's better

Same here only that I'm from Greece and I moved with my family to Bulgaria when I was 9. I'm so grateful that my parents talked Greek at home because this was I know 4 languages now (Greek and Bulgarian I'm fluen and I know English and French from school)

Anyone gonna talk about the red dot...

Ninaaa is love. The way she emphasizes language❤

I wish I still spoke Swedish. When I moved to England whe; I was little, I got bullied in school so I stopped speaking it. Now as an adult, I wish I still spoke Swedish. :c

At least 80% of the kids I grew up with had foreign born parent (s) or were themselves born in another country and immigrated to Canada before turning five. School was like the United Nations.

@kejeso8736

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Sounds wonderful, something interesting is going to happen from that cultural mixing.

Bruh, I can relate to this! My first language is technically English, but we moved to Puerto Rico when I was 2 so i adapted to Spanish fairly quickly. My parents decided to only speak English at home while we spoke Spanish out of the household. Now, living in the US for 5 years with nobody to speak Spanish to, I feel it's slowly becoming harder and harder to continue speaking Spanish when everyone around me only speaks English 😂😂

I wish she had said " the way i known Bulgarian, is I born Bulgarian " tch

Nina Dobrev is so pretty. She never ages 😍

I did not know that’s how she pronounced her last name

@jordiis

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Well everyone pronounces it like that so a lot of celebrities start pronouncing their name like everyone does so people don’t get confused. Timothée Chalamet for example does the same thing

@horseluver4ever623

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@@jordiis Same with Ariana Grande

@minadahmani6640

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Her last name is DOBREVA , real name Nikolina Dobreva .

@muzikveoyun37

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@@horseluver4ever623 no one cares about ariana grande dude

@horseluver4ever623

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@@muzikveoyun37 Good for you. I don't either, just thought it was a fun fact, jeez.

💯 agree my parents te forced me to read Spanish because I was forgetting and also spoke nothing but Spanish in my house.

My entire family is Bulgarian let’s go 😵

I was expecting her to say "All my cool friends in school spoke... french"

I spent like 15 seconds trying to get rid of that red dot thinking it was a stain.

I’m from Bulgaria too ❤

Yes, I do the same, gotta speak your first language at home.

She looks like the judge for Nicholas Cruz!!!!

Im from asia and moved to America when i was little and i still speak my native language at home 😊

I agree 100 percent im welsh so my first language is Welsh and my second is English hated learning welsh as a kid but now it's incredibly important to me and really really handy to be bilingual

She sounds a lot like Elizabeth Olsen, her facial features too.

She is looking cute

She’s a gift to world

BULGARIA

She's so lucky she continued to speak her first language at home. At age 7 when I moved to the U.S. my parents spoke exclusively English and I forgot all my Italian. I've been re-learning it now for the past 4 years, pretty much from scratch.

When we moved to an English speaking country, one of the worst things my parents did to us as children was push us into learning and speaking English by having us use English as if it were our first language. They'd punish us by subtracting our allowance by half if we spoke a word of Tagalog. I didn't mind it much at first since the move to this country was permanent but as an adult I've come to realise how valuable my native language is to me now compared to when I was younger. I can still understand Tagalog but I cannot speak it fluently anymore.

Да, родена в България и изцяло българска, чието семейство е имигрирало в Канада. Но като отвориш Уикипедия си пише канадска актриса. Great.

Greatest ever = Nina Dobrev I'm a huge fan of Nina's from Jerusalem Israel every day

I really don't give a sh*t how many languages you speak...YOU ARE JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!

I was born In Belgium. The Dutch speaking part. Moved to the German border when I was 10. Now, 20 years later, i still speak Dutch whenever I see my family. I even speak 4 languages now. I'm really happy they did that.

i really wish my mum spoke greek to me growing up

Amazing video! 👍👍

I only knew this because 10 years ago she did a funny or die skit. Called SPF and she talked about it in that.

I only knew because of Nina Dobrev. Heard her speak the language before.

She reads her last name rly cute😂

I just "knewn" you was gonna mention "known"😋

You do have new appreciation for it in many contexts as you get older. I hadn’t realized how much I started mixing my first language with English whenever I visit my parents until my mom just paused one day and told me how much it meant to her that I still carry that part of my parents’ roots with me - I was the only one of my siblings that had enough exposure to it for it to have stuck with me as it has. So…now I try to speak it even more and ask my parents questions about their roots and yea…definitely one of those things I hope others grow to appreciate too 😊

When u buy Elizabeth Olsen at wish

My mom came to America from Bulgaria, but once I was born she never sought to teach me Bulgarian; even though we would visit my grandparents and other family back in Bulgaria regularly. I wish she did though, because i could be able to talk to my great grandmother without a translator lol.

I can relate to what she experienced growing up

I speak Tamil but we live in an English speaking country so I learnt to speak English only. And all the people around me spoke English too so my parents spoke with me in English at home. After I came to my home country u don't know how much I suffered not knowing my mother tongue. Now I even have to go for classes just to learn Tamil

Same in my house, used to get yelled at for speaking English. Now my siblings and I swap back and forth mid sentence between Bulgarian and English. Kinda keeps you sharp in both languages that way.

My first language was Bosnian (I was born in the US though) and even though they spoke Bosnian in the house hold eventually I stopped speaking it and would just respond in English and now I can’t speak it anymore it makes me really sad I understand it and such I just can’t speak it for some reason

Love this girl 😍

I love Nina ❤️❤️❤️

I guess all us immigrant kids felt English was the cool language. I laughed at how relatable that part was.

nina😭😭❤️❤️😍😍

This woman is so beautiful i swear the vampire dairys was good because of her

Nice brows and ears

That pink dot

I relate my mom used to pretend she didn’t know English so I wouldn’t speak it at home 😭

Who else tried to wipe the red speck off their phone?

She's got that Mila Kunis Easter European skin tone and hair color to her.

I feel like watching TVD right now.

My dad and his side of the family are from wales and my mum always insisted that they should speak Welsh around me as a baby so I could grow up speaking English and Welsh,, she asked my grandma to send Welsh books to us as well but unfortunately none of it really happened so I only know the basics like colours, numbers and farm animals etc😔😔

She said one important key word Muscle memory Speaking and acquiring a language is creating muscle memory School gives you knowledge about the language that's how you get to be a coach Acquiring the language using it practicing listening and real daily situations is what gives you language muscle memory That's how you learn to play the game get the starter minutes and possibly become the superstar of the team

Just be a proud.

I was adopted from Sofia Bulgaria. I’ve been in the states since I was 12 and now I’m 32

Gosh I love her 😍

Foke red dot 🔴

God bless!! 🙏🏼💕

I'm from Bulgaria and wanted to tell you that Bulgarian is very hard to learn and speak. But the language is very beautiful

If her first language isn't English, she should be empathetic for the people who don't know English. Some guy would have gotten fired because of her mocking tone .

My dad is Italian, my mum is Greek.. and the only thing I know how to say in either language is swear words

Amazing she can be an arms dealer now. - Tom Segura

Bulgarian girl right here

I’m from cook island and Maori/cook island language was my first language growing up but then we moved to Australia and I didn’t know any english so my parents forced me to speak,read and learn only English so I could be better at school ...so that made me forget how to speak Maori language 🤦‍♀️I could’ve done both

I speak romanian,franch,english and a little bit Spanish. Thanks mum and dad haha 😂

My AK was also born in Bulgaria

Interesting that she is grateful to parents not because they kept her connection to her roots, but as a “muscle exercise”. Sounds like a bulls*t

all bulgarian people searching for this explains the misspelling Kappa

Ahha! My teenage crush is here ❤️

Кажи нещо на български :D (Say something in bulgarian)

Austrian from Australia

I'd rather have phrased it "I was born Bulgarian!" 😉✌🏼 You can be born in Japan and still be Spanish, so.... We're proud of you, Nina! Definitely! But I'd wish from ALL of Bulgarians who chose to live else where (like myself) to still strongly identify their roots to be what they are - Bulgarian!!! For reasons I cannot begin to explain here... So, rock on, you're awesome!!⭐🍀👍🏼

KNOWN XD

Omg my mum made us do that so that we wouldn't forget Farsi (one language of Afghanistan) and i hated because everyone else spoke English at home

Learning a new language as an adult is insanely difficult. I speak Nepalese, Hindi and English with ease and never had to put any effort into learning them but learning Japanese took me years. I don't think I have the energy to learn even 1 more language

great grammar these questions posters use

HOLY CRAP! I HAD NO IDEA THAT SHE MOVED TO CANADA

Damn.

I've seen this lady somewhere.