That was beautiful indeed. Çok teþekkürler.

Konuþabiliyor means: he/she is able to speak or he/she can speak. To express that a person is able to do something/can do something you´d take the verb stem and add -abil or -ebil to it (depending on vowel harmony) and then the tense/personal ending. In the actual exercise the sentence is "Merhaba.Türkçe konuþabiliyor musunuz?" so it´s a question that translates to "Hello. Can you speak Turkish?"

"Sizin adýnýz nedir?" is the same as "Sizin adýnýz ne?" - dir is an ending of 3rd person singular, but I think it´s only used in very formal speech or when making statements of fact (for example, Türkiye´nin baþkenti Ankaradýr, which is the same as Türkiye´nin baþkenti Ankara.) - it most cases "dir" is dropped and no ending is used.

One of the ways to say that you want to do or be/become something is to use a verb in its infinitive form + istiyorum - in this case olmak is used as the infinitive form of verb "to be" or "to become" - so in the sentence doktor olmak istiyorum means I want to be/become a doctor. Another way to say it would be "Doktor olarak çalýþmak istiyorum" - I want to work as a doctor (I think, more experienced learners may want to correct me here if I´m wrong).

Ankaralýdýr - same thing as nedir, formal ending of 3rd person singular - it means he/she´s from Ankara

Would wanting to exercise the handful of neurons slacking around in my head a good reason to study Turkish too? There has to be some mental benefit to studying it (one would hope). I´m hoping it´ll ward off Alzheimer better than doing Sudoku. Did I say I´m hoping it´ll ward off Alzheimer ....?

I´ve always thought it would be cool to know a language from a different family of languages than indo-european, sort of forcing yourself to think out of the box and deal with structures that are different than what´s in one´s mother tongue. Of course, the Turkish delight makes it all the more interesting and fun

Oh I see, so it´s either birbiri + verb or verb stem + iþ, but not both at the same time. I think I´m starting to see the light lol. I appreciate the help.

I´m learning Turkish because I have Turkish friends and a boyfriend (probably the main reason is him, really). Also, if things go well with the relationship, I´ll be moving to Turkey within the next couple years so I´m trying to get a head start just in case . I do love the country (I´ve been there before and, in my head, never really left) and the culture and want to be able to understand more of it. I´m in the USA.

the mother-in-law reminds me of my grandmother I guess every culture has the mothers that care just a bit too much (and always know better)

Thank you Deli_kizin. So, from you examples it looks like you added the possessive suffix to the word and then suffixed whatever suffix was needed in a given case. Does that sound right?

So, for example, if I wanted to say "We´re scared of each other", would it be correct to say: Birbirimizden korkarýz? What about: "You visit each other every day" - would it be "Her gün birbirinize ziyaret edersiniz."? I just want to make sure that I got it .

Can you make any verb into the -iþ form? Or do you use -iþ with some and birbiri with others? For example, could I say "Korkuþuruz." or "Her gün ziyaret ediþirsiniz." for the above examples? I have a feeling that wouldn´t be correct, but not 100% sure.

And speaking of seviþmek (), is it correct to say: "Seninle seviþmek istiyorum"?

Thank you again for your reply, it was very helpful (at least I feel less confused now than I was an hour ago lol).

Could somebody kindly explain to me how to use the word birbiri? Is it necessary to use that word if a verb stem is already modified by suffix -iþ? Is birbiri used for both "each other" and "one another"? It´s all confusing to me and I would appreciate some examples, for example how to say things like: we love each other (I´m getting inspired by the translation forum here lol), they hate each other, we gave each other presents, we learn from each other, they saw each other, they talked to one another, you missed each other, etc.

Thanks so much.

You are referring to voiced and unvoiced consonants. Unvoiced consonants are ones that do not require you use your "voice box" to produce - so if you put your hand on the throat while saying them out loud you shouldn´t feel any vibration. Those (unvoiced) consonants are: ç, p, t, k, f, s, þ, h. All the other ones are voiced. I´m not sure how to classify ð as you don´t pronounce it.

And once again, thank you so much.  

I´m hoping it´ll all fall into place eventually if I keep at it.