Merhaba arkadaşlar! I decided to write a short story to practice my Turkish. It is a very silly one, but my goal was practicing Turkish. I wrote a very simple story so that everyone could take part in practicing (new learners could post their own translations and ask for explanations if they don´t understand something). Also, If I made any mistakes, please let me know. I think this a good way for both me and other learners to practice our Turkish. Any feedback is most welcome, thank you!

Ali, yirmi yaşındaki bir öğrencidir. İzmir´de tıp okuyor. Ali´nin her gün çok ders çalışması lazım. Gece gündüz ders çalışıp kitap okuyor, hiç boş durmuyor. Sabahları erken kalkabilmek için geceleri erken uyuyor. Hep çok stresli olduğu için, Ali tatile çıkmak istedi.  İstanbul´a yolculuk etti. Orada iki hafta kaldı. Ali, İstanbul´da yeni insanlarla tanıştı, onlarla arkadaş oldu. Beraber partilere gidip, çok eğlendiler. İki hafta sonra da, Ali İzmir´e geri dönmek zorundaydı. İstanbul´da kalkmak istemesine rağmen, İzmir´e gitmeliydi çünkü sınavı vardı. Evde sınavına hazırlanmaya başladı. Sınavını başarıyla verdi, çok mutlu oldu. 

Writing stories in Turkish is a great way to learn. 

My only comment as a learner is that

Iki hafta sonra da looks strange to me, but I´m not sure what you were trying to say

I look forward to more stories, and any corrections or improvements that our Turkish friends make to help you. 

Thank you very much for your feedback! Actually, words that express time, such as gün, hafta, ay, yıl do not take the ablative suffixs with time adverbials like sonra. However, you have to be aware that postpositions like beri require the noun to take the ablative suffix (e.g. iki yıldan beri) What I wanted to achieve with "da" was to emphasize what happened after two weeks, something like "AND/BUT/HOWEVER, after two weeks..." However, I am not sure if it sounds good to native speakers so their feedback is very welcome. Thank you again, I will definitely try to write more stories when I get the time. Cheers!

Thanks for the explanation. Sadly some of my Turkish grammar knowledge is often jumbled, and I should check before posting what I think. 

You made no mistakes, bravo! But for the smoothness of the story, I would only suggest removing all the Ali´s except the first one to avoid repetition. And just to make clear, "İki hafta sonra da" is correct grammar, it means "and after two weeks"

As for Henry´s "iki haftadan sonra", it doesn´t sound bad to me, actually. It is not correct to use here but in a context like this:

Tatil güzel ama iki haftadan sonra sıkıcı olmaya başlıyor. (Holidays are good but it starts to get boring after two weeks)

It is perfectly natural. If it is a mistake, it is one that native speakers make all the time.

Thank you so much gugukkusu! Very clear explanation! Have a good day!

my try with reading words I know only and some poetic justice on thoughts of how to construct.

Hello. It´s been a while since the last time I posted a short story translation here. This time, I searched the Internet for free-to-use short stories (no copyright issues) and I deided to try translating some. I will be posting bits of the story as I go. Feel free to check as many sentences as you´d like, even checking just 1 is enough. If you feel like some of my sentences ARE correct BUT could be written in a better way, please include your own suggestion. I appreciate the effort and I thank you in advance.

Penny was a little girl who lived in Alaska. Penny, Alaska´da yaşayan küçük bir kızmış. It was ice-cold there. Orası buz gibi soğuktu. She kept praying that she could play in the lush, green and warm gardens like we do but of course, she couldn’t. Yemyeşil sıcak bahçelerde bizim gibi oynayabilmek için dua etmeye devam ediyordu.

Her father, like all the men there, didn’t have a job. Babasının, oradaki bütün adamların gibi, bir işi yoktu. He hunted seals and caught fishes as was the custom. Geleneklere göre fok ve balık avlıyordu. So her father hadn’t even heard of money and even if he had money, there weren’t any aero planes to take them abroad. Bu yüzden babası paradan hiç duymamıştı, parası olsa da bile onları yurt dışına götürecek uçak yokmuş zaten.
Now somewhere near Penny’s house was a deep, dark forest. Şimdi, Penny´nin evinin yakınlarında derin, kara bir orman vardı. Everyone was afraid to enter it. Ormana girmekten herkes korkuyormuş. They said that whoever entered it would be sucked in by a great hole. Oraya her kim girerse büyük bir delik tarafından içine çekeceğini söylediler.

One day, Penny was playing with her Eskimo friends when one of the boys shouted “Hey, I dare one of you to enter the magic forest." Bir gün Penny Eskimo arkadaşlarıyla oynarken oğlanların biri ´Hey, herhanginizden sihirli ormana girmeye cüret ediyorum" diye bağırdı.

No one dared. Onların hiçbiri cesaret etmedi. Penny picked up a twig and threw it at the edge of the forest. Penny ince bir dal alıp onu ormanın kenarına fırlattı. Nothing happened. Hiçbir şey olmadı. Penny was astonished. Penny şaşırıp kalmış. It’s all a legend! Hepsi efsanedir! We can play hide and seek in the woods if we want, she thought. İstesek ormanda saklambaç oynayabiliriz diye düşündü. She walked slowly towards the woods. Ormana karşı yavaş yürüyordu. It was getting colder and colder she took each step. Penny adım attıkça hava soğuklaşıyordu. She walked right into the middle of the forest. Tam ormanin ortasına yürüdü.

Thank you very much for your help. It is very disappointing to see how bad my attempt was. It seems to me like I will never get better at it. Very disheartening.