Those people who are participating in the groups - please tell us what you thought of it and what suggestions for improvements you have. Your feedback is very valuable!

I think the groups are GREAT!!!

i dont think ive ever leanrt so much in sucha  short period of time

and evrything helped me understand more and more a little bit

(even though i still feel so ignorant :S)

anyway,

cause i oearned so much i get confused sometimes so i was wondering if  they can make like revisions, to like make an excercise or a revision sheet or something that includes everything together  every couple of lessons,

and if between every couple of lessons would be hard, i was wondering if they could make one before the exam, cause i get so confused...:S

so if therew as something tom put everything together like a final revision sheet or something like they do in school, with all the basic rules and everything and a couple of excercises

anyway, i think the groups are AWESOME

(but i think i might fail in the exam lol, no, REALLY!! im so scared :S )

anyway thx erdnic for making the homework and thanks to all the teachers and catwoman and everybody who put this together!!!

 Ohhh doudi

Revision sheet? You really remind me of school

To put everything together like a final revision sheet or something,with all the basic rules

is what we already have in the lessons,they are the basic rules,and they are also not in details

But for more exercises i go with you

İ never thought exercises can be that useful !

Currently we have a lot of work to put together all the homeworks and lessons, so unfortunately, I cannot promise any review sheets. But Doudi - if you want to make one, as a way to review it yourself, we could publish it here...

Yeah but theyre also really useful!

like in chemistry we have all the most important equations and stuff, and the most important definitions and some explanatory excercises, i take it with me and hold it until 1 second before the exam we all do, lol

same in physics because if you know the main rule you can work everything around it

i really hope they make one!

or else then ill have to make one for myself, but the excercises will be the only problem

man i feel like its a real exam!

im getting so nervous its almost here!!

i dont feel like this about school exams!

AH!! i just saw this lol,

i will try and make one for myself!

(i do it alot, with other subjects but mostly the school or teachers give us oe or i just go and buy one from the library lol)

ill try

and i dont blame you for anything i know you have a lot of work!

thx a million!!!

hello admins! classes are great, i learned a lot and i am very proud of my progress my teacher, gencturk, is very helping and gives extra explanations and example when i need.there was 1 exercise where the lesson didnt really fit with the homework, gencturk said he would tell about it i also hand copy vocabulary sheets and take tones of notes about everything i learn.

only thing missing to classes is pronounciation and understanding spoken turkish. maybe you already thought about it and give those lesson in intermdiate? thank you very much for your time and efforts you put to make this possible

Yes, we are working on pronounciations. Thank you for the suggestion though.

I love the classes!! they are VERY informative and I am learning lots and lots. its amazing to see where I make my mistakes!! I like doudi am dreading the exam .. .. I´m afraid I too will not pass .. I make stupid mistakes and I can see its because as an english speaker we make our sentences completely different - of course english grammar was my worst part of english and why I almost failed it 2 yrs in a row!!! but I am learning!! I have printed out all the lessons!! I too appreciate all the help the teachers and tc has put forth in this learning effort!! its shown me that I know some .. but there is alot more for me to learn!! I will not give up!! I will get my head wrapped around the sentence structures if it kills me ..

great job teachers!!!!

Groups are great,and teachers are doing more than great job explaining things,helping us and also pointing and correcting our mistakes at the evaluation.

Thanks Erdinç for your time and hard effort really

Although,i would like having more exercises,if it can be possible.

Later it maybe or at different section group for those who want to practice more

But what i feel is needed,that to add some amendments to the lessons

Vowel harmony is one and lAr ´the plural suffix´ is another,some had problems understanding them and how to use them

 Same goes for negative suffix,and question suffix.

And building questions at beginners 2,although the explanations that already exist at the exercises are very useful and would be great to add them to the lessons.

Those are the matters i remember i faced with other students here,and the matters that i encounter myself.

So does anyone has some notes too ?

The lessons are great but I think the steps in learning are too large. Just one exercise and then next subject while expecting that learners know that previous subject is not enough I guess. When I see that in only four weeks we are expected to build sentences of our own, I think I will never pass the exam. (I´m just comparing to my own teaching practice.) The idea of Doudi with next steps with ´build in´ previous stuff is a great one. Now I not only have the feeling it goes too fast but also that subjects are not related to eachother.  

 I agree, sometimes i am concentrating so much on the current section, that I am worried I will forget everything I learned in the previous section.  However I guess it is up to us to keep on top of it.  Perhaps some extra exercise before the exam covering everything we have learned would be a good way to revise before the exam.

Ohh and is there any chance I could have a sneak preview of the exam paper, that would be really helpful. 

i have been enjoying having the stucture and step by step teaching. it is difficult remembering all the rules but the lessons are laid out in such a way that it is easy to extract the information required for each session. my teacher has been helpful and is very clear and concise with evaluations and corrections.

i would also also like to thank teachers and admin for the time and commitment given to these classes. it really is much appreciated

I think the classes are great too. Very useful and the homework/ exercises very good.

I reiterate what other people said though too - I *think* I started out ok (mltm will agree or disagree! ) but I´m starting to feel as if I´m losing my way slightly. There´s just so much to remember.

I also worry that I  *may* be able to do the homework if I sit down and allow a long time to think about it, but that I´ll never be able to translate it into real conversation/ even basic sentences. I find myself forgetting things that only come back to me when the homework is marked.

That said, if I manage to pass the exam, I would love to be considered for the second round of classes!

Pronounciation would also be good, as would anything you can recommend that will help us learn words over and over again. I learn certain words for homework then seem to promptly forget them again. (My brain isn´t so much a sponge as a big thing with holes that words just fall through!)

Thanks very much though for all your hard work - it really is appreciated and I think this site is fantastic.

LG

Thank you for all the feedback so far, it´s very useful for us to know how you feel about the groups, what was helpful and what was not... Please keep them coming!

While some of the suggestions are too difficult/time consuming for us to incorporate, some of them might be easier and possible. I like the idea of having a quick review of everything at the end along with some exercises. I do not promise that we will have it ready before this group ends, but if we start working on it now, it might be ready for the next round.

All of your suggestions are very useful. Please keep posting.

hi i think the groups were very good, i know i have fell behind with my home work , but with holidays , work and family commitments it is hard to sit and do home work but i think that the classes have been very helpfull thank you to mltm my teacher and to all  the admin.the classes can only get better with every body having an imput.after my exam maybe i will do beginners class 1 again. once again thanks for every bodys help.( now i will do some homework )   

I am really thankful to all people that contributed to these lessons, Erdinc, Catwoman, Caliptrix n Admins..

I have a big question: when is the exam??

Will we have a  Revision before?

an Evaluation of all homeworks, to know how is our "durum"?

I am realy thankful for the great efforts that have been made by the organizers, Miss Catwoman and our great class teacher Mr gencturk. the sections have been of much benefit, I can see myself making up sentences in a way I couldn´t dream off a couple of months ago.

although i agree with my fellow collegues that further exercise for pronounciation  is required. Because when I vist Turkey I find it rather difficult to understand what they are saying because they say it very fast. We here are learning how to read and write but not how to talk and say the word in the proper way.

I hope this matter could be considered in the future.

Thank you very much for offering this oppertunity to all of us. Its a great affort from your side , and a great benefit from ours.

best wishes