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A question to learners!
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30 Nov 2006 Thu 01:00 am |
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i am learning turkish because i fell in love with turkey whilst i was over there. i love the country, i love the food, i love the people, i love the language.
i will be returning to turkey soon. and when i do i will be speaking turkish. that is what i have told myself.
although at this point in time, i probably won't live in turkey. howevever, never say never!
also on a side note, i agree with dilara. turkish spoken by a turkish man sounds very manly. which is probably why i keep getting my turkish male friend over here to speak turkish to me, even if i don't understand what he is saying! 
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30 Nov 2006 Thu 01:26 am |
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It makes me so happy that you think such that.
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30 Nov 2006 Thu 02:04 am |
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I also have noticed a marked difference in the way the men sound as they speak. They speak more comprehensible (to me anyway) and their lower vocals make the language so much more sensual. To my untrained ears the language has an arabic french and lulling quality when the men speak, and when the women speak it sounds more asian, crisp and quick.
I fell in love with a turkish man, his accent when he spoke little english, the language when he sent me songs and to the few turkish words he taught me. Very romantic 
I continue to learn it. Peace.
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30 Nov 2006 Thu 09:06 am |
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Very interesting views. Nice to read. As a Turkish man, I like more the language spoken by Ladies though. I especially like it when it is spoken by little girls (aged 3 to 7). On the other hand, I prefer male voice in Turkish songs mostly.
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30 Nov 2006 Thu 06:58 pm |
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The famous Belgian linguist and adept in 32 languages, John Vandewalia said:" As I examine the function of the Turkish structure, I find out the Turkish Language and chess are quite similiar. Chess has a limited number of rules which are logical and simple. It is possible to learn how to play chess in a short time. Even a seven-year-old boy ca learn chess. Although it has some rules which are easy to learn, the person can play it throughout his life without ever getting bored. There are infinite number of tactics which you can use while playing chess. Considering all these reasons we can say that chess is an ideal game. The same situation holds for the Turkish langugae and this is one of the magnificient features of it" (exracted from Turkish grammar for foreing students by Mehmet Hengirman.)
Do you agree on the above statement. What other features have you noticed with Turkish while learning it.
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30 Nov 2006 Thu 07:43 pm |
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Quoting qdemir: The famous Belgian linguist and adept in 32 languages, John Vandewalia said:" As I examine the function of the Turkish structure, I find out the Turkish Language and chess are quite similiar. Chess has a limited number of rules which are logical and simple. It is possible to learn how to play chess in a short time. Even a seven-year-old boy ca learn chess. Although it has some rules which are easy to learn, the person can play it throughout his life without ever getting bored. There are infinite number of tactics which you can use while playing chess. Considering all these reasons we can say that chess is an ideal game. The same situation holds for the Turkish langugae and this is one of the magnificient features of it" (exracted from Turkish grammar for foreing students by Mehmet Hengirman.)
Do you agree on the above statement. What other features have you noticed with Turkish while learning it. |
I didn't think it that way but I always think that Turkish is similar to math. You know, the rules almost always apply. All the verbs are regular. etc. etc.
To further support this similarity, just look at the Turkish alphabet. It is actually very well done. The inventors had a lot of time to study the orthographies in existence and create one for Turkish.
Since there are eight vowels, they can be put as the corners of a 3D hypercube, and the dimensions are basically height, frontness and rounding. They are normally written in two groups:
a ı o u
e i ö ü
There are dotless and dotted vowels. They could have changed the e to a with umlauts but the symbols a & e are ubiquitous. so they left them alone.
As for the chess thing, Russians think otherwise as they claim Russian must be the most suitable language for chess by supporting this claim with the number of Russian GrandMasters (though I doubt it).
As for The famous Belgian linguist John Vandewalia, how famous is he? Google gives me no hit, not even one.
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30 Nov 2006 Thu 07:58 pm |
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I have checked it out on the book again. It is spelled wrong there. His name is Johan Vandewalle.
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