Mella, you are doing very good. You could try yourself in our practice forum on the infinitive issue.

Kartal,
long time no see. Your Turkish is so fascinating sometimes I think you can build better sentences than some of our Turkish friends do.

Sizin Türkçeniz çok güzel. Türkçeyi hayranlık verecek kadar güzel konuşuyorsunuz. Tebrik ederim.

Buna bir bakın vaktiniz olursa:
http://www.turkishclass.com/forumMessages.php?topicId=26&titleId=1926

deli,
the easiest way to say what you want to say is this:

" Türkçe öğrenmek çok güzel."

Since Türkçe already means "Turkish Language" we can keep it simple. Çok güzel cümle .


" Geç kalmak güzel değil. "
Çok iyi. Tebrik ederim.

"Benimle konuşmak istemiyorsun"
Bu da çok iyi. Tebrikler.

Sadece küçük birkaç değişiklik yaptım:

Türkçe öğrenmek istiyorum ama bazen benim için Türkçe çok zor ( oluyor ) .Bunun için ( çok ) çalışmak lazım.
Çok iyi. Devam edin.

If you are able to use the infinitive you can soon understand all the other tenses. I think the infinitive is the best tense to start with.

Deli,
as you already have used değil, let me ask you?

Mastar hali çok kolay değil mi?

It's ok to use small tricks while learning. So the accidential smillarity has helped you to remember the words. OK, let me continue the same way:

Sen gülünce yüzünde güller açıyor.
Yazın yazı yazmak çok zor oluyor.
Yemek yemek istiyor musun?
Bu havuzda yüz defa yüzdüm.

Can you understand any of these?

In our practice forum recently I have written about the imperative.
http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_27_1640

The imperative is very easy. Pick up a dictionary and look for a verb. You will immediately notice the -mek -mak suffixes. This is the infinitive.

I'm actually a bit dissapointed since the thread on practice forum didnt rise much attention though it was very easy and I explained how to make a simple sentence with it.

Sorry mella but this topic makes it more confusing for beginners I think. Like in other languages there are many homonymous words in Turkish. These are the words which are written the same way (and pronounced the same way as Turkish is a phonetic language) but the words are just accidentially homonymous.
In other words the words you have written have no relation with each other. They are just completely different words.

Yalnızca and sadece look synonymous to me. I'm trying to think of sentences where they are not interchangeable but I cant think of any. So you could feel free to use any of the two. Sadece looks more common to me. They are both adverbs.

'Tek' has a wider range of meanings. It can be both an adverb or an adjective. Normaly it means "one" or "a single" but it can also mean only.

for instance:
tek ayakkabı
tek kişi
tek adam
This way when it is an adjective it is different than the two.
Also there are a few other cases like these:
tek tek: one by one
tek başına: by himself

Rarely it can be interchangeable with the two above. But it would be better to use it as "bir tek" in this case.

Bir tek seni seviyorum.
Sadece seni seviyorum.
Yalnızca seni seviyorum.
But we say:
Tek sevdiğim kişi sensin.

Desenize biz bunca zamandır boş yere uğraşmışız!

Benim bildiğim sadece bir site var o da İngilizceden Türkçeye çeviri yapıyor yalnızca. Yani tek yönlü.
http://www.hemencevir.com/default.asp

Benzer başka site bilen varsa burada link verirse onları da denemek isteriz. Avrupa dilleri arassında çeviri yapmak için bu site iyi çalışıyor ama Türkçe için yeterince kaliteli bir yer bilmiyorum ben.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Barkin is suggesting to use online tools to make the translations instead posting them in our translation forum. Has anyone seen a useful website for Turkish translations?

I think for 'honey' we could use tatlım or canım, which both are quite common. The literal translation looks too eye catching to me.

I think we just need to accept the verbs as they are. The nature of languages is a bit different. Some details in English look strange to us Turks as well. For instance expressions like "to have breakfast", "to have a shower", etc. Isn't it also strange why the English speakers "have" these things and why they not "do" these things? Smillarly with "making love", "giving birth to", etc.

There are a few these kind verbs in Turkish which are just as they are and we learn them and move on. Here are a few more examples:

sigara içmek (to smoke): maybe you know that we also say, su içmek, bira içmek, kola içmek etc.

ata binmek (at:horse) : but not at kullanmak or at sürmek.

bisiklete binmek : "bisiklet sürmek" is also very common. Bisiklet kullanmak not so common but acceptable.

otobüse binmek: this clearly indicates that the person is not the driver. Otobüs kullanmak and otobüs sürmek are both common and mean to drive the bus.

In these sentences where kullanmak is used with araba, otomobil, otobüs or bisiklet it means to have control over it. Notice the difference between these two:
We had to "use" lots of wood to build this thing.
Can you "use" this machine?

I think when learning a language the best thing is to be flexible. Interestingly democrats learn different structured foreign languages easier. The point is to accept that things can be different than we would like them to be.