As we´re here in Istanbul temporarily, this is a one-time event.

The lesson will be free of charge. All we ask for from the participants of the lesson is that they let us video-record the sessions so that we can promote our website (www.EasierTurkish.com) using sample video clips from this activity.​

The content of this interactive course will include basic verbs and nouns. We´ve already done some preparatory work so that the vocabulary and phrases that you´ll learn will be directly related to the actual context. You´ll get to practice the language with the real objects in the environment. We´ll also give you hand-outs and flashcards. Furthermore, every word and phrase on paper will be available in audio form (to be downloaded from EasierTurkish.com).

Introducing oneself, of course, will be a topic we´ll study and role-play. We´ll customize the content on the spot specifically for each learner so that you´ll be able to introduce yourself correctly, using your own relevant information.

Asking for directions will be another topic. You´ll be required (<no, just kidding!) encouraged to practice this skill on random people in the park or in the street.

And we´ll answer your questions about any subject related to the Turkish language.

Check out the website if you want to join.

Dear Turkish Learners,

There will be an introductory lesson for beginner and elementary level learners this Sunday (01.09.2013). The content of this course will include basic verbs and nouns as well as topics such as introducing oneself etc. Please check out www.EasierTurkish.com for the details, and fill out the form on the website if you want to join us.

We say "geçmiş olsun" to people who are sick/ill, had an accident etc.

çok teşekkürler.

thanks a lot.

I get it now.

Şimdi anlıyorum.

"vay" is fine.

"vay anam vay" is better as it´s more colloquial and funnier. It would look extra cool if it gets out of learners´ mouths!

Esselâmu Aleyküm,

Here is my answer, assuming that you meant to say "the Turkish equivalent of the phrase" by "the opposite word in turkish to the expression".

When we Turkish speakers like someone or something a lot, we commonly use "Maşallah" (pro. "maaşallah"). It´s sometimes used with the belief that saying this word will help protect the admired person or thing against potential evil eyes. I´ve come across people who avoid saying "maşallah" as it is Arabic and/or has religious connotations. Learners can collect many enthusiastic praises by natives just for correctly using that word.

A more secular and less strong version is "Vay" (To make it stronger, say it like "vaay!" or "vaaay!" - the more you admire the more ´a´ you add in the middle.). "Vay be" is also used (Say it like "vay bee" or "vaay bee".

"Wow" is also used in Turkish conversations among some Turkish speakers who speak English. They may be told off or scorned for saying "wow" by some native speakers of Turkish, but you will more likely to get away with that if you are a learner of Turkish.

"Oha" (Say it like "oohaa") is a popular slang word that is used as a reaction to something big, unusual, very good, beautiful, very expensive, unacceptable etc.

Rica ederim.

Hey, native/proficient speakers of English!

My Googling didn´t work, so I would be glad if you could offer a few synonyms and/or Turkish translations for "steady hands" in this context:

Letterer: The letterer must understand and execute both built-up and calligraphic letter forms and be able to design new lettering. Knowledge of the history of lettering is necessary. In most instances, the letterer would work on a free-lance basis for advertising agencies, promotion departments, and package designers. With the increasing use of photo- graphic typesetting, the need for letterers who can also design type is increasing. Absolute precision, expert draftsmanship, and a highly refined sense of proportion, letter spacing, and the interrelationships of words and letters are required. This job demands precision and very steady hands.

Authentic equivalents of phrases and proverbs rather than translations, which is excellent... I want to contribute with some corrections.

Darryl´in arkadaşıyım. Beni arkadaşın olarak ekle lütfen.

I think "bahtı kara" is a good translation. It literally means one whose fortune (destiny, luck) is black (bad). It can be used for someone who has bad luck, but for "uğursuz" would be a better translation to refer to someone who brings bad luck.

Böyle yazmışsa yaradan: If Creator wrote so

Kara toprak yeter bana: The black soil is enough for me

If my destiny (what was written by God) is to die (to be buried in the soil), I accept it (it´s enough for me).

God writes destiny, so in Turkis destiny is yazgı or kader (arabic origin - more common).

Kara toprak (black soil) symbolizes death as most people in this culture are buried in the soil when they die.

Creator can literally be translated as yaratıcı, but yaradan (one who creates) is more common than yaratıcı.

Beni güldürdün. You made me laugh.

Allah da seni güldürsün. And may God make you laugh.

It´s not a proverb - it´s a phrase that is used to express gratitude. You can use it when somebody makes you laugh - literally.

Yusuf´u kaybettim Kenan ilinde

I´ve lost Yusuf in the city of Kenan

Yusuf bulunur, Kenan bulunmaz

Yusuf is found, Kenan is not

Bu aklı fikr ile Leyla bulunmaz

Leyla cannot be found by this mind and reason

Yusuf is Joseph, the son of Yakup (Jacob).  The name here represents love, I think. Kenan symbolizes this world and everything attached with it. Leyla (Leila) is the legendary love figure. It is a symbol of the ultimate love, the divine being.  And Yunus Emre, the poet, seems to express that the divine love is found in a state of dis-attachment or dis-identification with this world, and that such awareness do not come through cognitive tools.

Yusuf´u kaybettim Kenan ilinde

I´ve lost Yusuf in the city of Kenan

Yusuf bulunur, Kenan bulunmaz

Yusuf is found, Kenan is not.

Bu aklı fikr ile Leyla bulunmaz

Leyla cannot be found by this mind and reason

Bu ne yaredir ki çare bulunmaz

What a wound this is, there isn´t a cure

Aşkın pazarında canlar satılır

Lives are sold in the love market

Satarım canımı alan bulunmaz

My life is for sale, nobody buys it

Yunus öldü deyu selan verirler

They announce that Yunus has died

Ölen beden imiş, aşıklar ölmez

What dies is the body, lovers do not die

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  My group lessons for beginners are starting again...
 

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The translation has some mistakes but it is good enough to be understood correctly.

i have never spoken to him

he isn´t my type

i have nothing to do with such guys

çocuk is ´child´, and is often used for young men.  just as a guess, i assume that the writer is a person (more likely to be a woman) who is talking about a man who s/he isn´t interested in.

the corrections:

onla: onunla

diorumki: diyorum ki

böle: böyle

I´ve just become more tolerant of the language moralists!

language is dil (not ´diil´

diil, in this sentence, is how some people say deðil, so "bi çocuk diil" is "not a child"

A pat on your back, jennie, for this understandable translation.

"Bütün umudum odur ki birlikte bir gün çok mutlu olacaðýz" might better hit him in the heart.

I don´t have anything else to add to this magnificant explanation. Þapkamý çýkarýp önünde saygýyla eðiliyorum.

But you don´t introduce this HANDSOME friend of yours to a girl. shame on you xD xD lolllll

b) it´s a big shame, this is my situation as a young person, what´s bad (about that)?

i assume the writer meant to use the punctiation marks which i added later.

i need to see the context to guess the meaning more correctly, but if the writer is referring to his/her picture, then i would translate ´gençlik halim bu´ as ´this is how i looked like as a young person´.

a) i need to photoshop this, too.

´bunuda´ is must be ´bunu da´ (the conjunction ´da´ is always written separately)

photoshop here is used a verb: photoshop´lamak: to edit (a picture, especially with Adobe PhotoShop)

Verb

to photoshop (third-person singular simple present photoshops, present participle photoshopping, simple past and past participle photoshopped)

1. (transitive, Internet) To digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph.

Usage notes

Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, and they object to its usage as a common verb.

Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/photoshop

Swear and taboo words aren´t the message of that conversation - they´re just the decoration of it. Some people may find it distasteful but they were NOT used in a spiteful manner here.

This explanation may cause people to misinterpret the conversation. Yes, these men (their names or nicknames are male) are using lots of swear words, but it´s obvious to me that addressing each other with swear words like ´orospu çocuðu´ (son of a bitch) is just their friendly way of communication. So it´s not a fight.

Here is a translation of a part:

10:09Salih

olum ben passo dukkandayým 24 saat      my son, i am in the shop constantly, 24 hours

bý ýký saatlýgýne eve gýdýoz      we go home for an hour or so

o kdr      just that

10:12 Mehmet

tamam gece gelýrým      ok, i´m going to come at night

10 dakka yaný      10 minutes, that´s to say

cay soyle bana      order tea for me

i might be breaching Salih´s and Mehmet´s privacy but i am doing it to save them from being misunderstood.

I´m starting a new class for beginners on 4 November 2009.

The classes will be at Cihangir Yoga (in the building of Plato Film School, Meclisi Mebusan Yokuþu No: 15, Kat 4 Cihangir, Beyoðlu.)

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Gelmek konusunda gerçekten ciddi olup olmadýðýný bilmek istiyorum.

Birlikte daha fazla zaman geçirebilmemiz için patronumdan birkaç günlük tatil istemem gerek.

Ama bunu erken istemeliyim.

I agree. I also interpret being "objectified", in this example, as being liked for physical appearance.

He might enjoy being liked as an object, though!

As you quoted above, hoþlanmak always comes with -den. "Seninle konuþmaktan hoþlandým."

Hoþuna gitmek never takes -den. "Seninle konuþmak hoþuma gitti."

To clarify the point, here is an example from English:

You marry someone

but

You are married with someone

Yes, this is a piece of cute wisdom! It´s helped me increase my awareness with the friend who´s just started reading this... (Now he´s gone back to his work).

Kimseyi kaybedilemez hakkýnýzmýþ gibi görmeyin.

Yüreðinize yakýn tutun her insaný

çünkü olur ki uyanýrsýnýz bir gün

ve bir elmasý yitirdiðinizi fark edersiniz

siz taþ toplamakla fazla meþgulken

The idiom “To take somebody for granted” doesn’t have a direct Turkish equivalent. So after I went through a bit of research, I came up with “Birini kaybedilmez hakkýymýþ gibi görmek.”

"If you take something for granted, you don’t worry or think about it because you assume you will always have it. If you take someone for granted, you don’t show your appreciation to them."

Source: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/take+for+granted.html

# take someone for granted

to expect someone to always be there and do things for you even when you do not show that you are grateful “I shouted at my boss because I’m sick of being taken for granted.”

# take something for granted

to expect something always to happen or exist in a particular way, and to not think about any possible problems or difficulties. “Losing my job taught me never to take anything for granted.”

take it for granted (that): “You can’t take it for granted that they’ll behave themselves.”

Source: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/grant

birinin varlýðýný kendisine verilmiþ bir hak gibi görmek

Source: http://www.tureng.com/search/take+someone+for+granted

That´s called advance-fee fraud:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud

Red words are incorrect, green ones are correct.

´senle´ is okay but ´seninle´ is better.

Yanlýþ: Dün gece senle konuþmak hoþlandým.

Doðru: Dün gece senle konuþmaktan hoþlandým.

Doðru: Dün gece senle konuþmak hoþuma gitti.

1. hâlâ: still

2. hala: paternal aunt

However, it´s not a mistake to write ´hala´ when it means still. Like most Turkish speakers, I never write ´hâlâ´ as it isn´t worth, spending the extra time to insert the letter â. It may be necessary to write ´hâlâ´ if writing ´hala´ would cause a confusion in terms of meaning. In the sentence above, however, it´s obvious that ´hala´ doesn´t mean aunt.

Discussing what açýlým means is giving me just a little help to decide the best translation. Considering the political context in which the subject is discussed, I think that Kurdish initiative is a good translation for Kürt açýlýmý. This translation is already being used in the Turkish media:

"Recep Tayyip Erdoðan´s request for a meeting to discuss the government´s Kurdish initiative, announced by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government about two months ago and seeking to give more freedoms and cultural rights to the country´s Kurds."

Source: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/yazarDetay.do?haberno=189799

"EU envoys listen to Baykal’s views on Armenian, Kurdish initiatives"

Source: http://www.turkeydailynews.com/news/117/ARTICLE/1810/2009-09-25.html

Also:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/images/2009_09_14/history-for-the-pkk-in-turkey-2009-09-14_l.jpg

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ads/ads_kurdishinitiative.gif

I´m not saying anything.

It´s sometimes used to express disappointment.

"Onu bu sefer unutmayacaðýna dair bana söz verdiðin halde kitabý getirmeyi yine unuttun ya, ben sana artýk bir þey demiyorum."

You forgot to bring the book again although you promised me not to forget it this time. I´m not saying anything to you anymore.

"I can´t believe that you forgot..." has a similar meaning and may sound more natural in English.

´biþi´ is used in spoken Turkish.

bi = bir (one)

þi = þey (thing)

biþi = bir þey (one thing, something, anything)

´bir þey´ is written separately.

This translation has made me smile.  It remindeds me of this:

http://www.turkishenglish.com/images/chickentranslate.jpg

This is a wonderful explanation! It was especially delightful for me to read the last sentence.

It doesn´t necessarily mean that I agree with the thoughts.

We´re now writing under the Turkish Class Forums / Practice Turkish and what an English expression means in Turkish isn´t meant to be discussed here, but it was interesting to learn that point. Thank you for the clear explanation.

 "One needs to have courage to love me."

(Literally: "Loving me requires a heart.")

Deeper meaning, depending on the context, could be something like that:

You´re taking a risk by loving me because I´m a difficult person and/or I may hurt your feelings.

"sevmiþimdir" and "düþünmüþümdür" give a sense of long history. That´s similar to present perfect tense in English. "severim" and "düþünürüm" or "seviyorum" and "düþünüyorum" would also have the same meaning - more or less.

In tales: Bir varmýþ, bir yokmuþ. Ülkenin birinde yaþlý bir kral varmýþ.

Reported events (You learn the news indirectly): Ali Adana´ya gitmiþ.

After the incidence (You didn´t witness it while it was happening): Lanet olsun, birisi arabamý çizmiþ!

I wouldn´t be bothered to send him a long translated version of the letter. He can find somebody to get it translated. If he won´t, I would assume that he isn´t interested in learning your explanations.

Þimdi ve burada baþla!

Akademik detaycýlýðýna bittim!

Both is okay as "Bir ben vardýr bende, benden içeri"

Ne yazýk ki Endonezya´ya gitmiyoruz.

A little correction for Sekerleme:

go: git

come: gel

Buradan Endonezya´ya gidersin. Endonezya´dan buraya gelirsin.

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"gitmeyeceðiz" may also be considered a correct translation if you´re referring to the future.

hamak (hammock)

tenis - tennis

"Mutlu olmazsýn lazým" is absolutely incorrect.

"Mutlu olman lazým" = "You should be happy"

"Mutlu olman gerek" = "Mutlu olman lazým"

"Mutlu olmalýsýn" = "You must be happy" or "You should be happy"

"Mutlu olsan gerek" = "You must be happy"

Örnekler / Examples:

Gözün aydýn, deden Osmaniye´den döndü. Çok mutlu olsan gerek.

Congratulations, your grandfather is back from Osmaniye. You must be so happy.

Burada televizyon olmadýðý için niye bu kadar üzülüyorsun ki? Bence mutlu olmasýn. Kitap okumak için daha fazla zamanýn olacak.

Why are you so upset over not having a television here? I think you should be happy. You´ll have more time to read books.

When in doubt, use the shortest expression possible.

If you just said ´Ümraniye´ it would be perfectly correct in terms of grammar and the driver would understand it clearly!

Go native - talk like us!

[Written as spoken - don´t lecture me over spelling!]

A: Selam, naaber?

B: Ýyilik saðlýk. Senden naaber?

A: Ne var, ne yok?

B: Noolsun iþte; iþ güç, koþturup duruyoruz.

A: Ýþler nasýl?

B: Çok þükür.

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In many cases, they are used interchangeably. yani olsa da olur olursa da olur!

Linguists may want to ponder over the differences, but listening to their technical debate wouldn´t help most learners of Turkish.

Literally:

Why didn´t you care? = Neden aldýrmadýn?

Why don´t you care? = Neden aldýrmazsýn?

However, literal translation isn´t always good.

Why don´t you care? = Neden aldýrmýyorsun? may sound more natural in many different contexts with this particular verb (i.e. to care: aldýrmak, umursamak, önem vermek). So it´s often better to use Present Continuous (aldýrmýyorsun) instead of Simple Present (aldýrmazsýn).

For example, the verbs in English are in Simple Present while they are in Present Continuous in the Turkish translation:

I keep telling you not to leave your socks on the floor, and you still do it ever single day! Why don´t you care?

Bunu yapmamaný sana söyleyip duruyorum ama çoraplarýný her Allah´Ã½n günü yerde býrakýyorsun. Neden umursamýyorsun?

Bir günah iþledin - You commited a sin.