As increasing more research has been done on the relationship between foreign language learning and beliefs that learners hold about language learning, it has become clear that it is very important for teachers to understand the beliefs that learners have about foreign language learning. In this research, I shall outline the beliefs Bulgarian students of Japanese have about foreign language learning. 35 Bulgarian university students were asked to fill in a BALLI questionnaire, to which some items were added to find out also what students expect from the teachers. The results show that the learning method the students use is memorization with emphasis on grammar and that they depend a lot on the teachers in their learning process.
