Herkese merhaba,

Please if you can visit

http://webtv.hurriyet.com.tr/?cid=1&vid=3415

This is my video, singing in Turkish. For everyone like me who is learning, this proves how much learning Turkish is appreciated and that we CAN do it!

Best wishes

Carla

Wow really nice! You sound like a native speaker except for a little accent on some wovels. Congrats for being on Hürriyet!

Btw. as a Turkish person I never understood why people are obsessed with foreigners speaking Turkish. They find it amusing and funny most of the time, not mentioning the Turkish Olympics etc. I guess this has to do with the failed Imperial past and the inferiority complex resulting from being a 3rd world country. Oh well..

I would like to be able to speak Turkish like you .

 I thought turkish really like when a foreigner knows to speak turkish...now you are saying that they ( you) are laughing of us ? 

haha great , from where did they take your vid? youtube? Btw you really did a good job, i enjoy it, congrats . 

Comment below the video: Here you see a foreign woman who settled in Turkey. She hasnt been able to fully pronounce Turkish yet but see how this beautiful blonde sang the song which all we know.  

Hmm no not laughing, I think I wasn´t able to express it with my somewhat poor English. (Doesn´t amusing have some positive connotation? Should´ve looked it up on dictionary Anyway, Turks indeed like it, but I think it is somewhat beyond the borders of normal!

Once again, conratulations. Hurriyet is one of the biggest newspapers in Turkey and its site is one of the biggest news portals!

 what imperial past? And this has nothing to do with inferiority complex, i think its rather when a foreigner tries to speak Turkish, they usually sound cute and Turks enjoy it...  

Uhm, it seems I shouldn´t have posted it here in the first place. Anyway; let´s not highjack this thread and steal OP´s thunder mate. I´ll send a PM regarding my thoughts.

Well done  it sounds lovely

Edited : I didn´t wana take over thread

You have a beautiful voice Carla - that´s a lovely video, well done!  

It seems you will be very famous in turkey.

There are some singers who became very famous with their song in youtube. you can be one of them.

hope to see you in Turkish Tv shows like "Beyaz show"

Carla - WOW, you´ve got a beautiful voice. I can´t say how good your Turkish pronunciation is (only that it´s 10000000000 times better than mine ). Well done, you!

That is one of my favorite songs in Turkish!! weldone Carla) hope you get the chance to sing in better places

p.s. the volume of mic was little high that it was making some echo

Congratulations, Carla 

For me (   ) you sound as native. Besides, you have wonderful voice, you are talented singer and you chose an amazing song. Well done!

wow, you are a singer! no matter what language, i think you could sing what ever language, even chinese or japanese (or estonian ), coz you have the right voice for SINGING 

Wow...fabulous! You have it all, a beautiful voice, you can carry a tune, and you are pretty.

Your singing is quite beautiful........singing Turkish is not easy for a Westerner....different note system....quarter tones and all.  Most Westerners can´t even hear it, much less sing it.

I think people in every country find when foriegners speaking their language iwith a heavy accent cute and amusing.  Some people even exagerate and keep their accent much longer than they really have to, because it gives them an advantage.

MaşAllah !! You have such a beautifull voice ! And you pronounce the Turkish so good.

You can be very proud off yourself !

Where are you from by the way ?

 I agree Beautiful voice for a beautiful song

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there is a different video on the link you sent? a video about flood and villas in istanbul. 

Congratulations, Carla, you sing very beautifully!

the link still works ok, even for orbit downloader.

Today I just see a video of a man talking but the sound is ´garbled´ - I get the same video whichever video I click on on this site . 

Thanks for the offer - but I actually saw the video (and commented) yesterday.  I only looked again today after Toggle´s comment and maybe its just in Turkey we can´t see it now

Thank you so much to everybody for your comments and for taking the time to watch, I feel honoured and appreciate everything so much. My Turkish really needs improvement but this has inspired me to really go for it

Oh and hehe,  maybe I should answer couple of questions I read. I have no idea where they found it, my videos are on YouTube but I would love to say thanks to the person who uploaded it. And I haven´t settled in Turkiye, actually I´m English and adore Turkiye, I live in South West England at the moment,  one day I hope to live in Turkiye somewhere but I have to live there through music and Turkce for now  

and that´s why i checked the link today again - and it worked ok...so yes maybe it is scrambled only in turkey or smth...but then again - i see no reason for that either 

kus bunu cok begendi)))tebrikler Carla!

Thank you so much

This is, wait for it; AWESOME... İzleme Sayısı : 51555. (Number of hits) Seems you are famous in Turkey. Get ready for album offers! Congragulations...

You have quite a good control on your voice. You deserve all the accolades being made.

You need to work on your phrasing a bit. Being able to handle high notes requires professional help. You render the mid-range notes quite correctly. The singing is not exactly Turkish style but it is good.

As for your Turkish, it is quite remarkable that you can render round wovels almost like a native speaker. "ı"s (the ones without a dot) give you away. Intonation is very slightly wrong too.

These are not real problems.  On the contrary, they show how close you are to native like command. I suppose you live(d) here.

Good luck.

Teşekkür ederim. What makes it most rewarding is the fact that I´ve now been learning Turkish completely alone for 4 years, no teacher or anything, just from books and trying to speak with people. I have never lived In Turkiye but believe me one day this is my biggest wish. I know I have lots of improvement to do regards pronounciation but I´m even more determined now. As for the amount of views, I am happy for even 1 person to take time to view the video, but as for so many I am completely overwhelmed.

 woww that is  amazing thing i hope to become like you

for 4 years it is agreat

And this also made my local paper today..

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Carla-taught-Turkish-s-YouTube-songstress/article-1808904-detail/article.html

We can all teach ourselves Turkish if we believe I think

Congrats! I love it!! And I really like your voice=) not bad at all..

I cannot make any comments on intonation or pronunciation but it was really disturbing to see grammatically incorrect subtitles on Hürriyet´s video..  "bakıpta" and "deyipte" should be instead "bakıp da" and "deyip de"..

Izel would be proud.Did you learn by yourself?

ohh can you teach me turkish

Hehe thank you But I have so  much to learn, honestly I´m really shy at speaking Turkish when it comes to having conversations!

Hehe thank you But I have so  much to learn, honestly I´m really shy at speaking Turkish when it comes to having conversations!