for all of you touched by its mistery....

"If I speak in human and angelic tongues, but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails".

(the Holly Bible)

That's ok.
I will save your story as an incentive to learn quicker then

Snow Patrol- Chasing Cars
you can find it on youtube

I highly recommend you "Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse and "Essays in Love" by Alain de Botton.

enjoy your holiday
julia

Thank you very much for the explanations and I appologize for asking explanations which have already been given, but ..... repeating cannot cause any damage

So are the followings correct?:

f)- iii): Yuzerek spor yapar= He/she takes sports while swimming.
e)- v): Plajda yatarak tatilimi geciririm= I spend my holliday sleeping on the beach.
c)- ii): Konusarak ve okuyarak Turkce pratik yap= By speaking and by reading practise Turkish.
b)- iv): Aynaya bakarak makyaj yapti= She did her makeup while looking into the mirror.

I look forward to your help for a) and d)
Thank you.
julia

merhaba!
I've found an exercise and although I could solve it by the help of logics, I would appreciate further explanations regarding the -arak/erek form of the verb.

Please find the exercise below:
for a,b,c,d,e,f one of the i,ii,iii,iv,v,vi must match

a)Agzini kapayarak
b)Aynaya bakarak
c)Konusarak ve okuyarak
d)Parayi sayarak
e)Plajda yatarak
f)Yuzerek

i)cebine koydu
ii)Turkce pratik yap
iii)spor yapar
iv)makyaj yapti
v)tatilimi geciririm
vi)ye!

tesekkur ederim.
julia