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1.       tinydancer
3 posts
 13 May 2005 Fri 04:22 pm

Anyone got any experience of being at Uni in Turkey? The reason is that in the academic year (sept-jun) of 2006-7, I'll be going to Tomer in Ankara. I'm doing Turkish at uni over here in England now but I've already been accepted to do a semester or maybe a year in Ankara in what will be the third year of my degree.

Just wondering if anyone has any experience of higher study in Turkey or of Ankara itself, as that is a city I haven't visited.

2.       Anatolian
21 posts
 07 Jul 2005 Thu 03:22 pm

Hi There

I studied at the Gazi University in Ankara, well Ankara itself is not a touristic and real active city but of course there are some bars and pubs to go (not many though). As for tomer, it is the department of linguistic (?) of the university of Ankara. The best language center to learn or improve turkish. You will surely be satisfied.

If you need any help before coming to turkey just contact me i will do my best to help you

greetings
tayfun

tayfun "at" turmail " dot " com

3.       admin
758 posts
 08 Jul 2005 Fri 04:41 am

I went to university in Ankara for four years and I didn't really like the city. But looking back now, I think that it wasn't bad at all.

Ankara is a relatively well organized big city in Turkey. There is subway access to important locations, public transportation is ubiquitious and not very expensive. For students (that generally means limited budget), you can find places to get things for cheap - I liked Maltepe Pazarı. Ankara is sometimes called a student city since there are many big universities there. ODTU, Bilkent, Gazi, Hacettepe and Ankara University are the main ones I can recall in a hurry.

There are also nice, classy (and expensive ) places to hang out if that's what you like. Ankara is a city with a population of more than 3 Million, so you can find something for all tastes. Housing is quite expensive for Turkish standards if you want to live alone as a student, but I don't think it is too much compared to what you have in Manchester.

The climate is (not too) hot in summers, high 30-35 C at most. But the heat is not very bad because there isn't much moist. Winters are cold and snowy, but nowhere as cold as what we have here in Cleveland You can see snow around for 3 months or a little more.

Overall, I think Ankara is a good choice to live in as a student.

4.       erdinc
2151 posts
 08 Jul 2005 Fri 09:16 pm

Greetings,
before I came to the UK I lived in Ankara for a few years. I was a teacher in a primary school and had also continued my postgraduate education at Metu. Middle East Technical University is like a city on its own in Ankara. It has a very big and beautiful campus. Some students living in the campus rarely go out. It is a place worth visiting. At Metu and at Bilkent Universities as well as a few smaller ones language of instruction is English.
http://metu.edu.tr/visitor/index.php#
On the other hand Ankara University, one of the founders of the Tomer organisation, together with Gazi University is well known on foreign language studies and language of education is Turkish. In most universities, practicing in Turkish there is also an English preparation class that you need to attend if you can’t pass the proficiency tests. You are a native English speaker, as I understand. I would say it would be a very good idea if you could take an English teaching certificate with you like tefl or celta before you go there since you might find a job there in a university or even at tomer. Tomer is also well known for English courses. About a year ago I visited Tomer in Ankara, Kizilay. I especially wanted to see how they courses are on Turkish as a second language since I was about to move to London as a Turkish language teacher. Well yes they are doing OK. I have seen many foreigners talking Turkish at my visit. If I remember correctly at least half of them were Chinese or Japanese.
All tomer branches in Ankara are in the centre of the city. Usually the places will be full of youths joining the many English courses. But certainly Tomer is the main place to go for Turkish courses. They have their own publications on this issue. I have checked all their books about Turkish as a foreign language. I personally wouldn’t use the material in my lessons but the books are specially written for classroom environment following the communication based learning strategy. Can be useful but more than that I believe you will benefit from learning in daily life. There are also some good self study books which I have mentioned in this thread: http://www.phrasebase.com/forum/read.php?TID=4734

In general Ankara could be considered somewhat boring comparing to Istanbul or European capitals. But still there are lots of good places to go out on evenings and even after midnight, as it is common to go out to bars after midnight. In summer it will be much hotter than it is for instance in London and much colder on winter. Actually it will be freezing. There are much less parks and trees in the city than you would expect from any British city. But there are many ordinary apartments everywhere you turn your head. Don’t expect too much green in Ankara, except metu, which feels like a completely different place. All in all it depends on your expectations. As someone who has spent many years next to the Mediterranean Sea I found Ankara a bit to dry and ordinary. But it was the place where I fall in love for the first time. It is very hard to say where someone will happier. It should be a good experience for you for a year or two as a stranger in town. Afterwards you might miss home and all the places where you feel familiar.

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