Hello Catwoman,

Everything is fine. Thanks for asking. Cheers.

Hi teaschip1,
I'm not actually 'back', just passing by. Yes, I'm still in London. I will return back to Turkia when my job finishes. Bye.

Hello,

This is a lyric of a Müslüm Gürses song. Müslüm Gürses is the king of arabesk music, which I call 'music of pain'.

This song, being a typical Müslüm song, has all the characteristics of sadness. The translation above is pretty good actually.

The first line could be translated as: "I don't feel like living anymore. I'm so troubled, so sad."

"Merhaba Hayatım. Nasılsın? Uçak biletlerimi aldım. Ben gelmeden önce sana ait bir daire var mı yok mu öğrenmem gerekiyor. Eğer yoksa ben kendime kalacak bir yer ayırtırım ama önceden bilmem gerekiyor."

Hello Folks.

I'm back and I look forward to have some nice discussions with our fellow members. But be careful. You might get banned if you are using a language that is too argumentative or slang or implies a religious perspective. I'm sure we will be able to find a forum rule you are violating.

Just kidding. It's nice to be remembered. Cheers.

Last updated on 07 Aug 2008. Hello, Here is a list of online sources on Turkish language. If you feel like contributing to the list please post your links in this topic and they might be added if the website is not too commercial. Regards Erdinç

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Online Turkish Language Sources:

1. TurkishClass Grammar Pages

2. verbix.com A Turkish Verb Conjugation Tool.

3. Some Online Lessons. http://users.pandora.be/orientaal/classroom.html

4. All you need to learn about Turkish Grammar. Navigate through the menu the left. http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/

5. A List Of Most Popular Websites on Turkish Language On the Internet http://www.alexa.com/browse/general/?&CategoryID=559196&mode=general&Start=1&SortBy=Popularity

6. Explains grammar, gives examples and then tests you. http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~guvenir/CATT/GrammarTutor/

7. Scroll down to see the contents. This website is unfortunately not very well organized. http://www.practicalturkish.com/learning-practical-turkish--table-of-contents.html

8. Some Language Related Games http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/babur/home201_2002.htm

9. Turkish lessons at the University of Arizona. You can listen to some simple conversations. http://cali.arizona.edu/maxnet/tur/

10. The website explains some basic topics with many examples. The navigation isn´t the best but you can listen to the sentences and see the translations underneath. http://www.princeton.edu/~turkish/practice/tlepss.html

11. These are fragments of some Turkish films. Click on lessons on top and choose first lesson. Very useful listening material. http://www.international.ucla.edu/turkishtutor/pages/home/blackborder-fs.html

12. Basics of Turkish grammar, explained clearly. Look for the list of all suffixes. http://www.cromwell-intl.com/turkish/Index.html

13. List of Suffixes, formulas and functions with examples. You can click on a a suffix on the alphabetic list on the left and it will explain what it is and will also show some examples. http://www.dnathan.com/language/turkish/tsd/

14. This is a small, nice and clean website that offers lessons for intermediate and advanced learners. You need to navigate from the menu on the right panel. You listen to a text and than answer a few questions about what you have listened. http://babel.uoregon.edu/ylc/selfstudy/turkish/lessons/

15. This website has some puzzle games with audio. http://cassandra.sprex.com/teachionary/Turkish.html

16. English-Turkish Vocabulary Quizzes http://iteslj.org/v/tr/

17. WinMekMak: The Magic of Conjugating Turkish Verbs http://www.ipb.nu/winmekmak/

Scroll down and click on the link for the latest version. There is no installation. Simply put the exe file somewhere on your computer and double click to run it. For instance, save the program on your desktop and leave it there. This program is for free. I strongly recommend it. I have contributed to the last version myself. I think it works great. It recognises the verb while you type. Type an infinitive and it will give you full conjugations. You can also type a conjugation and it will tell you the infinitive. To do this, run the program and press F3 on your keyboard. A new window will appear where you can type the conjugation. Here is a screenshot:

18. There are many test on this website to test your Turkish level. The interface is not the best. http://www.dilmer.com/practice/

19. This online tool replaces Turkish characters with with English letters. For instance, it will replace ç with c, ş with s and so on. It works perfectly. Simply paste your text and press ´submit text´ button. http://www.hlst.sabanciuniv.edu/TL/ascii.html

20. This is the opposite of the previous tool. This will recover Turkish characters where they are missing. It works with average precision. http://www.hlst.sabanciuniv.edu/TL/deascii.html

21. "Sevgili Murat" is an instructional film for Turkish learners. There is a sample movie on this page. You´ll need to order the DVD to watch it. This is movie is for advanced learners only. http://www.nmelrc.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=16&MMN_position=38:34

22. Here are audio recordings of some stories. http://korler.bilkent.edu.tr/archive/SesliKitap/ The stories were selected from the book, ´99 stories from 99 authors. Selim İleri, a Turkish novelist pick famous stories from our literature. These are defianetly for advanced learners. This is the book: http://www.tulumba.com/storeItem.asp?ic=zBK982739QA392 http://www.ideefixe.com/kitap/tanim.asp?sid=KC50FQ0P4M5RNE6LF4BQ

23. List of Turkish words that English speakers are able to understand. Thanks to our members who helped me on this mission: http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_6_1710

24. A new, small website. http://www.learnturkish.bravehost.com/

25. Tenses in Turkish:

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_2565

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Dictionaries

1. Our dictionary. You can also access to this dictionary by double clicking on words in this website. Try double clicking on any word you see, right here in this topic. http://www.turkishdictionary.net/

2. A Turkish dictionary with sound. You need to click "dinle" (listen) to listen the sounds.

http://www.seslisozluk.com/ The sounds are very correspondant to the actual sounds.

3. An interesting multifunctional dictionary by Sabanci Üniversity

http://www.hlst.sabanciuniv.edu/TL/ It has an Morphological Analyzer of words.

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About Turkia:

1. Many articles and news about Turkia http://www.mymerhaba.com/en/main/index.asp

2. http://www.turkeytravelplanner.com/

3. e-book about Turkia in English. I have downloaded this e-book myself. It has lots of good articles accompanied with pictures. I think it gives a good picture about the country. http://www.globaled.org/announcement050227.php

4. There are many articles in English on this page from an official website. http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/kitaplar/turkiye2003/content/english/index.htm -----------------------------------------------------------

In French

1. http://malenki.mon-asso.org/turk/

2. http://coursdeturc.free.fr/index.php

3. http://pagesperso.laposte.net/hbayard/apprentissage/cartes/fabric/liens.php -----------------------------------------------------------

In Russian

1. http://www.franklang.ru/tr.html On this wensite you can find books in Turkish, links to online libraries, Turkish dictionaries, Turkish grammar, pronounciation, Turkish short stories, Turkish poetry (translated to Russian and English), Turkish songs translated to Russian. This link was mentioned by Slavica.

2. http://www.turkce.ru/ This link was mentioned by renatka.

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In German

1. http://www.berin.de/turk.htm

2. http://www.tuerkisch-lernen-online.de/

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Here are some pictures from İzmir rally.
http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/modules/gallery/070512izmirmiting/

"Mandy'nin annesi dün akşam öldü. Mandy'i çok kötü etkilendi bu. Hayat öyle kırılgan ki!"

Yes, others explained it correctly. The -arak -erek suffix applies only to verbs. Therefore it doesn't apply to araba or otobüs which are nouns. You can identify verbs by looking whether or not they have the -mek, -mak version.

These are verbs as you can see from the infinitive suffix (-mek, -mak):
yürümek - to walk
koşmak -to run
gülmek -to smile

Now you that suffix and it makes adverbs out of these verbs:

yüyüyerek
koşarak
gülerek

An adverb is a word that tells us in which way an action was done.

Here are examples:
Okula yürüyerek gitme, otobüsle git.
Ahmet koşarak geldi.
Çocuk gülerek gitti.

I think the picture is real. The numbering is understandable.
It says:
women's desk 1
women's desk 2
men's desk 1
men's desk 2