My Try:

Mehmet dil* öğren|me|yi** seviyor.

* I think it is singular here because our interest is in the action, not the result...or something like that.

** öğren|me|yi = ´to study´ + infinitive marking + accusative ending (sevmek wants accusative)

I think it should be yemeyi.

ye|me|yi = ´to eat´ + infinitive marking + accusative ending (sevmek wants accusative)

Save your overstatements, jannah_male. I am a learner and really not capable of helping anyone. If I answer someone´s question in the forum it´s just my way to brush up my own knowledge and it has to be checked by the natives always.

My Try:

How come you think this way? I don’t understand. If no one feels pity for you or you can’t do something just go on. You are going right ahead. I always said this to you, now I understand I did wrong.

And don’t forget I want my future to be good and stay that way. Those people who are next to me shouldn’t do things that I don’t want them to do. If they do let them go away from me.

I am going to sleep. Good night. I am happy today. On times like this you find out what people really think. The story is not always good.

You people always find each other.

My Try:

I love you. Don´t you ever forget this. Sometimes when I look at you I feel like saying so beautiful things. Of course it´s so difficult to explain this, I only know it myself. But I am happy this way and I believe I really love you so much.

I remembered a common use of we which people often laugh at. A doctor may ask his patient How are we feeling today actually referring to you with pl 1^st. It’s called patronizing we. Other secondary uses of the English we, the royal we, the author’s we, editorial we, inclusive and exclusive we are presented here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We

I am not an English speaker but they look familiar (except the royal, of course  -  we have a president in F. and he doesn´t use we referring to himself unless he is talking about his young wife also). I wonder if the different we´s could be applied to Turkish also.

For expressing real conditions in verbal clauses V + AOR + -se… is used:

Acele et|mez|se|n, treni kaçıracağız. ‘If you don’t hurry…’

When the condition is unreal, se is attached straight to the verb stem V + -se…:

Erken yat|sa|ydı|n, yorgun olmayacaktın. ‘If you slept early…’

Wishes are spoken out with the same formula. 

The above rule has been explained in a hundred threads before. But I still want to make sure how it works in existential (var/yok) and nominal (‘to be’/değil) sentences.

I choose as simple examples as possible:

In other words, when the condition is unreal the verb ol- is called for help.

Have I understood this correct? Are the translations in the table as they should be?

I have noticed in Turkish the listener is more involved in the speech situation than English speakers have got used to. The speaker even uses certain grammatical markings which refer to the common experience of those present. This shows at least in two occasions:

1. Use of demonstrative pronouns. In English the use of this and that is based on the distance of the object only. In Turkish, the speaker’s view of the listener’s attention is also a factor when chosing between bu, şu and o.

For example, imagine a dinner with two people, where one of them needs to refer to a glass away from her on the table. In English the speaker could say ‘could you pass me that glass? ’ since the glass is away from where she is sitting. However, in Turkish, depending on the addressee’s visual attention on the referent, the speaker would use “şu” if the addressee’s visual attention is away from the glass (e.g. when she is concentrated on the food), but use “o”, that is the distal form, if the addressee’s attention is directed towards or presumed to be on the referent. (Küntay& Özyürek 2003, http://home.ku.edu.tr/~akuntay/KuntayOzyurek.pdf)

 2. Use of 3^rd sg possessive suffix in sentences like       

Dışarısı soğuk ‘It’s cold outside’

where the odd POSS refers nowhere else but to the common perception and experience of the speaker and the listener.

There are at least two things that make Turkish easy for a learner:

1. There are very few exceptions to keep in mind.

2. Turkish is very transparent on every level of language. It´s relatively simple to split a word or a whole sentence into its constituents. Transparency applies to vocabulary also: one root can give many words according to simple derivation rules.

Mastering grammar is vital. No effort a learner makes to understand the structure of the language is ever in vain. When you have learned the basic grammar you are ready to play the game.

What is difficult?

1. The things that you didn´t practice enough yet. Only. I may be an optimist but I believe everything can be cleared if you give it an effort.

2. Acchieving fluency. Impossible if you started studying as an adult. You may be able to create two three correct sentences but you will always stay clumsy, slow and funny.

In addition, I´d like to mention something that I have paid attention to lately. I think in Turkish the gap between written and spoken language is pretty wide. But I may be wrong.