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Turkish language progress
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13 Nov 2006 Mon 08:38 pm |
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Quoting lady in red: I think I need to spend a few months in a remote village in the mountains surrounded by non-English speakers!! |
Go east! Nice people, beautiful views, delicious food and hardly any English! 
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13 Nov 2006 Mon 10:54 pm |
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I must say I am not helping myself to night, listening to MUSE full blast and I mean full blast!!
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13 Nov 2006 Mon 10:58 pm |
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Quoting libralady: I must say I am not helping myself to night, listening to MUSE full blast and I mean full blast!! |
Poor neighbours...
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| 13. |
13 Nov 2006 Mon 11:30 pm |
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With headphones, so poor ears!
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| 14. |
14 Nov 2006 Tue 04:32 am |
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My progress?
I have been struggling with turkish for one year +
and since I became a member of this site it has improved quite a lot! I teach turkish myself due to lack of materials and courses here in my country (Chile)
and believe me, with determination and TIME you can learn...
I can write intermediate sentences and to practice I help with some easy translations here,
I still make mistakes but this is how I learn by correcting them! ( I am stuck wıth adverbial clauses of time though!)
but when it comes to SPOKEN turkish... I have no way to practice it here! and I do not understand when I hear turkish language on the internet or songs because my head collapses but I guess I just need to hear turkish as often as possible or to go there !  (When I save enough money lol )
Buna rağmen devam ediyorum çünkü türkçe'yi çok ama çok severim!!
İyi şanslar!
Good luck all of you!!
Dilara
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14 Nov 2006 Tue 07:40 am |
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Guys,
I'm just curious. Recently I posted the link to free online courses with audio material. Has anyone checked it out?
Free FSI language courses
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14 Nov 2006 Tue 10:55 am |
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Quoting Dilara:
Buna rağmen devam ediyorum çünkü türkçe'yi çok ama çok severim!! |
Why do you use "severim" in this case? Shouldn't it be "seviyorum"? 
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14 Nov 2006 Tue 03:14 pm |
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Quoting Elisa: Quoting Dilara:
Buna rağmen devam ediyorum çünkü türkçe'yi çok ama çok severim!! |
Why do you use "severim" in this case? Shouldn't it be "seviyorum"? |
simdiki zamak (-yor tense) is used for actions happening now, in the moment of speaking (e.g. ben pencereden bakiyorum= I`m looking over the window); the exception is when we say "seni seviyorum= I love you"
genis zaman (-ir tense)is uded for actions happening in general, on regular basis (her gun ogretmenime giderim= I go to my teacher every day; dondurma severim= I like/love icecream)
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15 Nov 2006 Wed 03:49 am |
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Quoting aslan2: Guys,
I'm just curious. Recently I posted the link to free online courses with audio material. Has anyone checked it out?
Free FSI language courses |
Yeah... thanks so much for the link! So far the material has been very very VERY useful, especially the drills. I downloaded the audio unto my mp3 player to help to correct my (mis)pronunciation. I am only at unit 2, but already there are three things I really like about the material:
1. The correct stress and pitch of each word/phrase are given in both the book and the audio
2. Each word and phrase is broken down into its separate components, so I can actually see how the language is put together and think about how I can make up my own expressions
3. The dialogues start off with Turkish conversations at a normal pace, and then the dialogue is reapeated slowly enough for me to listen, repeat, listen again and correct my pronunciation if I need to. NIIICEE! 
For me to successfully learn a language, I have to both see and hear the material I am studying, so this course is helping me to finally progress beyond the "Merhaba! Nasılsınız? ...umm let me grab my dictionary" stage I've been stuck at for some time now.
One thing that I've been worried about though... The course is from 1966. Does that mean that some of what I am learning outdated?? That would not be cool 
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15 Nov 2006 Wed 07:47 am |
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Quoting harikayım: One thing that I've been worried about though... The course is from 1966. Does that mean that some of what I am learning outdated?? That would not be cool |
Wouw! Really?
If it is, yes, it must be some old.
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15 Nov 2006 Wed 09:04 am |
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Quoting harikayım:
One thing that I've been worried about though... The course is from 1966. Does that mean that some of what I am learning outdated?? That would not be cool |
At worst, some words may be out of date. Don't worry the grammar is the same grammar.
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