greetings folks,
I dont agree that the best way of learning a language is to live in the country where the language is spoken.
I have learnt my english on my own and have improved it in a fair level by mainly reading books. I also have ignored any serious efford on pronounciation at early stages. As a result I could improve very fast. Afterwards when only when my english was already good enough to deal with daily life issues I recently have come to the UK. Now I live here for nearly a year and when comparing the progress I had in a year when studying on my own I feel quite dissapointed. I certainly have learned a few unusaul things like `cheers`, `mate`,`blody hell`, and things like that you know. I speak a little more fluently but the difference isnt so incredible. I mean if I had kept living in turkey and had continued working hard on my english I would probably have less problems now finding the right words to express myself properly.
Also one might consider that turks in daily life arent really using that much vocabulary. Modern turkish consists or around 10.000-12.000 words. But in daily life the ordinary man on street would be using 1000 words mostly. There is also a little more irregularity in daily speech of turkish and certainly there are all these suffixes you need to have studied a bit to understand.
Being a turkish teacher in the UK now I have some diffuculty finding easy stories revised according grammer and vocabulary. These were my biggest help when I was learning english and obviously I want to use this kind material for turkish. I am therefore writing my own texts. Unfortunately my texts are yet handwritten and need to be transferred to the PC. Lets see if you will find the material below usefull.
Infinite: suffıxes -mak,-mek (like in dictionaries)
Merhaba.
Konuşmak güzel.
Türkçe konuşmak çok güzel.
İngilizce konuşmak güzel mi?
İngilizce çok kolay.
Türkçe kolay mı?
Evet. Türkçe öğrenmek çok kolay.
Deniz çok sıcak. Yüzmek çok güzel. Hava çok sıcak. Çok
Imperative: third person singular. no suffıx
(also negatıve suffıxes -me,-ma)
Türkçe konuş. İngilizce konuşma. Çok Türkçe konuş. Türkçe çok kolay.
Deniz çok sıcak. Hava çok sıcak. Çok su iç. Kola içme.
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