Some years ago I taught English as a foreign language, and taught myself some Turkish so that I could make it easier for my students. I have a huge file of Turkish work that I put together for myself, but I´m forgetting so much; my job has changed and I´m teaching back in an English public school where no-one needs my Turkish. I hope that by joining this site I might try to remember a little, but please don´t laugh!!!

I don´t know how to use the site, or if I might be of help also to anyone needing any English translation?

Bilmiyorum, fakat deneyeceğim.

Caro XXX

i forget my own language big time as well. and also when i look at my english papers from 10 years back i see a much more advanced english than i have now. in time its natural that you forget. everyone doesnt have to have perfect memory. what is important is to learn how to remember the info.

I have some opposite observations on myself. I can speak and read some Italian. Time to time, for some periods, I don´t speak or read any Italian. Then, say, couple of years later I read something in Italian and have a feeling that my Italian has improved.

It´s strange isn´t it.

I taught some Italian students too. Hence my name on here. It´s really Caroline.but my Italian students used to call me Carolina, my Turkish students, Sarı. It seems that Caroline is quite difficult to pronounce??

I´ve been having a good look through the site. It´s fantastic, and just what I need. Now I need to dig out my flle and my text books and remind myself of how much I´ve forgotten.

ps. If I want to say Kendini İyi Bak to more than one person, how do I say it? Or is it a ´set phrase´ that encompasses everyone?

Anyway, Sağ Ol ve KİB

C XXX

Kendine iyi bak =take good care of yourself

Kendinize iyi bakın =take good care of yourselves

Note the possessive suffixes:

-(i)n = your sing.

--(i)niz = your pl.

and notice the plural form imperative

bak vs bakın

Si,

thank you so much!!

It´s the ´little´ things like that that I´ve forgotten.

Could it also be ´bakınız´ at the end to make it plural? And would you use ´bakın´ to be polite even if it was ´singular´?

It´s so difficult sometimes, so many languages use the ´plural´ to be ´polite´. I know Turkish does the same, but is that still widely used? When I taught EFL/EAL it often caused a problem, and I still find it difficult now in other languages. I was taught, and learned, very ´correct´ versions in other languages, and now I feel either ´old´ or ´old-fashioned´!!!

C XXX

Iam forget my turkish too that is because i was working as arabic teacher and in the last few months i was ill and work so i cant reading or studying turkish but now i was left my work again but i still ill but i can now continue studining turkish again

I hope to get well soon

Hi,

I think we are very similar.

I want to try to remember my Turkish too. English isn´t your first language either, is it? I´ve learned parts of a lot of different languages, but mostly Turkish.

I hope you feel lots better soon.

İyi Şanslar ve Kendine İyi Bak

(Good Luck and Look After Yourself).

C XXX

I only joined this site yesterday, perhaps we could message privately? When I can work out how?