turkish chat

[soditt]

Try your local library, my wife did and got a "learn turkush pack" it had a few cd's and an instruction manual which was very good. All for free, if your library does not have one in they can order it. The pack costs about £80 and you can keep it for about 1 month and then renew

[soditt]

sorry not free is was £1.25 hire cost, still cheap enough. Also if you have the gear you can copy the cd's and the manual and keep them for ever.

Thought for admin or ICR, you could do this and sell/hire them out for the icmelerites. lol

[Icmeler*wonderbabe]

I seem to learn something new every time i go over there! I have learnt things by myself reading things on here and listening to conversations, but hopefully i am going to be able to speak more by the end of the summer. I am going over for 5 months so i should learn some more.

[flora79]

I've just come back and I'm buzzing now with how much I know (yet there is always more that you don't know).

I do have an added advantage though as I am a language teacher so learning new languages tends to come fairly easy.

Turkish really is a tough one to learn though!

Any one need any hints I'd be happy to share the little I know as sometimes it helps to explain something to someone else as it really helps YOU get the point in your brain.

Anyway, it would be great to share some knowledge and I'd love to learn what you guys know!

Laura

[reesy1959]

Hi Flora

Any tips would be great if you could share please.

I have a couple of books and a dictionary, and also the 201 Turkish verbs, which is quite useful.

Gorusuruz

Mary

[flora79]

201 Trukish Verbs is my language bible - a definite must for serious learners.


Well Ok I'll have a quick go at explaining the infinitive and imperative.

You may or may not know that verbs found in their original form in the dictionary(the infinitive) tend to end in -mek or -mak in Turkish.

For example

bakmak - to look
çalismak - to work
gitmek - to go
gelmek - to come etc....

To make these a command you simply take off the last three letters and use what's left (the stem).

So;

Bak = Look!
Calis = Work!
Git = Go!
Gel = Come!

And so on.....

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[flora79]

I should add that these commands are what you would use when talking to someone informally - there are more forms to consider when talking to officials etc...

[reesy1959]

Hi Laura

Thanks for that. Where I am tending to get lost is in verbs for other people. EG

Istemek = to want.

Istiyorum = I want
Istemiyorum = I dont want.
Istiyormusun = do you want?

But then I dont know if I am making words up by thinking,

Istiyorsun - Is this a word?
Istemiyormusun - I dont know if I have made this one up.......

Confusing myself now.

Mary

[skilly]

Thanks Flora, it is so much easier when someone explains in simple terms.

[LynnJenny]

my sister-inlaw went last year with her 3 kids when they came back the two yougest could order beers and say goodmorning and goodbye kids can pick it up so easy they came back a lovely colour but depressed to be back lynn

[flora79]

Hi Mary - don't know why you're confusing yourself all seems right to me.

Forms of istermek - to want are as follows

Istiyorum I want
Istiyorsun You want
Istiyor He/She/It wants

Istiyoruz We want
Istiyorsunuz You (polite) want
Istiyorun They want

Hope this helps.

[LynnJenny]

lol i tried spainish no good i dont stand a chance at turkish lynn

[reesy1959]

Hi Lynn and Flora

Thanks again for your help.

Isn't it great how the kids can pick things up so easily - oh to have a young brain again

Mary

[jivebunnie0]

OMG - this is all so difficult, I think I better download from the website, to see if that helps make it easier

[LynnJenny]

hi flora lol i give up am hopless the lads in dreamboys were saying things to me then said remember for the next night i forgot after 5 min lynn