Excuse me, but isn´t it English that has a basically Latin alphabet???   You may find Latin easy, but reading the classics simply isn´t.... I lived in California for one year as an AFS exchange student, and latin classes were not exactly up to italian standard over there...

My meaning was concerning something else... How easily people loose track of their own heritage and history! The majority here seem to simply have forgotten too much. But, of course, it si my own opinion.

Hey Caliptrix,

even if in a very different way and different time span, the same happens to most italians:  how many do you think can read and understand latin?  And if we do not want to go that far back in time, how many can read Dante´s divina commedia without the help of an "interpretative translation"?  horribly few. I know the situation is different, butr the feeling is the same....

Thanks, I´ll let them know

Are you kidding???? Is that really true?  This is really bad, I have invited two friends  to visit me here in Italy and did not have any idea it could be a problem for them to obtain a visa. And probably they didn´t have a clue either.....

Hallo everybody!!!  I am new to the forum, I signed in today... I read the whole thread through, and found it quite interesting. I am italian and have travelled a lot in my life, and, among all the other countries I visited, Turkey has won a very special place in my heart.

I speak a few languages ( italian of course, english, german, spanish and a little french), but have a hard time with turkce, being it´s structure so different .. this is why I was curious about this web site - maybe it could help me with my struggles in learning?!?!

To make a long story short, what I wanted to tell Fatima ( provided she´ll be looking up the thread again) is:

I fell in love with Turkey as a country because of the way the people there simply are...men, women, old people and children - everyone. Of course, as everywhere else, you find there are also people you could not define "nice"... but the percentage is lower than in Italy, for instance.

I´m sure Fatima would find living in Turkey very easy and pleasant. A husband?  There are nice men all over the world, and quite a few in Turkey... The point is knowing what to look for BUT ALSO not forgetting that our deep feelings are not controlled by our brain... Our heart sometimes reaches out to someone else without reasoning too much, and that has a tremendous strenght and importance. This is why internet is a very useful tool, but has also great limitations. Use it as a tool, Fatima, not as a way.

The best of luck to Fatima and a tight hug to all my turkish arkadaslar