25 years ago today, I was sitting on a school bus. The morning news came on the radio and what was said turned the busy, lively, noisy bus into a silent, sad and eeriely morbid place........

The newsreader simply said:
"John Lennon has been fatally shot"

I can't believe it was 25 years ago - I remember that moment as if it were yesterday. The depth of emmotion that I felt then still brings me to tears to this day!

Hi Guys,

To try and improve my own Turkish vocabulary I have written a test which should aid learning. It only tests nouns, adjectives and verbs (all in the infinitive). If it is helpful to you also please feel free to make use of this tool.

It randomly selects a word from a list and displays either the Turkisk or English word. It then presents the user with a choice of 12 possible words of the same type (noun, verb or adjective) to choose from.

Try out the Vocabulary Test!!!

In more detail, the 'level' option controls the number of words available when you start. Level 1 is 50 words, 2 is 75 words, 3 is 100 words, etc. There are currently only 80 words available so two levels but I hope to add more words later today.

As you get more and more words right, so the number of words available increases. I've tried to start off with common words - the sort of words that you can easily put into everyday conversation. As the word count increases they will get more and more obscure so that anyone new to the language learns words that they can use immediately right at the begining.

Let me know what you think and if you can suggest any improvements......

Plus there is the Vowel Group Test that I wrote a while ago.

UPDATE: There are now 160 words included

There seem to be other words for much the same thing :-S

"yaren" has just come up on the word game