One : Bir (beer) Two : iki(ee-kee) Three : us (ewch) Four : dort (durrt) Five : bes (behsh) Six : alit (ahi-tuh) Seven : yedi (veh-dee) Eight : sekiz (she-keez) Nine : dokuz (doh-kooz) Ten : on (ohn)
So, Let's keep making word using these words.
Eleven : on bir (on beer) Twelve : on iki (on ee-kee)
When you combine words together, you can make any number vocabulary :)
Today, I will tell you some of Turkish idiom. Some of them were already posted before, but It is really useful for speaking and also when you go to Turkey, It's not hard to use in various situations.
*Help yourself : Afiyet olsun! *It was really delicous (After meals) : Eline saglik! *Take care yourself : Yolun acik olsun ! *Nice job, Good job : Aferin ! * It's okay : Canin sag degil! *Good bye or bless you! : Gule Gule! *Good luck : Rasgele!
How are they? Fabulous! For the next post, It will be fun too :)
Today, let's take a look for useful expression when you go to Turkey for a trip First, in a hotel. *Is there any rooms for staying? : Herhangi bir oda var? *How much ? : Ne kadar?
Second , when you buy something. *Can u discount for this ? : Indirim lutfen? *Ok, okay, got it : Tamam. *Sorry? or Excuse me? : Ne ? , Pardon
Lastly, say Thank you! *Thanks: Tesekkur ederim *See you later : Gurusuruz!
Merhaba ~! Today, I will tell you some useful words in Turkish.
If you go to the restaurant, you might say some good word for food. Then, you can say these things.
*Thank you : Tesekkur ederim *guzel : good, excellent, great *cok : very, really *How much..? : Ne kadar ?
These are useful expression for travelling in Turkey too. 'Cok guzel' is very nice expression and being used various way. It means very good, but depends on situations, you can use this word for strong meaning. It can be used for food, and also for women, it means very pretty or very beautiful. Tesekkur ederim means Thank you, you can just simply say Tesekkur!.
One more thing, I went to eat Kebab (Turkish food) today, by accidentilly, at Seoul amusement park. Here is the picture :) the food was awesome, and I had some conversation with cooks who are Turkish lol. It was quite interesting, because there were very few Turkish in Korea.
Today, let's learn more about basic Turkish. I'd like to say for today we can study basic things together for the last time, from next posts, I hope we will figure out more higher vocabulary and sentences structures.
First, let's take a look for answers in Turkish.
*Yes : Evet ; simply say evat in English version pronounciation. *No : hayir ; ha-yar in English version pronounciation.
Then, how can we ask some short and easy questions?
*Excuse me : Afedersiniz ; a-fe-der-sinaz in English. It is commonly used :) *Please : lutfen ; loot-fun *What/huh : ne ? *Who : kim (sen) ? *Where : nerede ?
Another important saying. *I don't know / I don't understand : anlamadim
For these simply and concise sentences, we can communicate with Turkish people !
For today, let's me tell you how to say 'where are you from ?' Before to start, one thing pretty important to know, in Turkish you do not say 'I or you' in front of the sentence. What I'm trying to say is this. When you say where are you from in English, you say ' I am from ...... ' But, as I know, Turkish like omitting. So you don't need to say I ... here, just you can say, ' Korean' or 'American'. Not necessary to say I am Korean. just 'Korean' It is simple and easy !
Where are you from in Turkish is *(Sen) Nerelisiniz? -> Here Sen is 'you' in English. You can omit.
The answer is (if you are Korean)
*(Ben) ... Koreliyim -> Ben means 'I am'
Here are some tips for nationalities.
American : Amerikan : almost same :) Canadian : Kanadali Turkish : Turk
and more.
Lastly, put 'yim' ending of the sentence. It means 'am' . Quite different from English. But you have to put some ending word in Turkish. Those are several be-verd and verb forms.
Today, I will introduce Turkish music. First, Look at today's title. Muzik is music in Turkish, letter u, should be with dots. Anyways, I have one question. What kinds of music do you like and usually listen to ? Well, in my case, I love pop, hip-hop, R&B, and more. Personally, I use music for my studying. Since I came back to Korea, I've listening only pop music, sometimes, spanish version too. Music is a good tool for learing languages.
So, today I will recomment one Turkish musician for you. Obviously, she is Turkish, her name is Sertab Erener. She is not a top star grobally, but I think, her music is pretty comfortable to listen and there is clear and accurate pronunciation too. Among her songs, my favorite song is called Rüya. Rüya means dream in English. This song is not a recent one, but I love its melody and lyrics. Also, most of her songs are translated to English, so it is easy to understand.
What I want to say is even you do not have any knowledge about some language, you can enjoy music. Turkish music is one of the major motivation for me to study and learn Turkish. I hope somebody who is interested in Turkish can enjoy their music too. Their style is not too luxurious or sophisticated but it is worth to enjoy it !
Hi! Today, Let's talk about the biggest city in Turkey, as I mentioned, this is Istanbul.
Well, first I wanna inform one thing. I don't talk about just boring information about Turkey which you can find from internet with one clicking. Here, I'm posting based on my personal experience and view.
Istanbul is very different from the other city which are located in Turkey. It is main and the biggest city in Turkey, It was the captital in the past, but because of the location, capital changed to Ankara. Virtually, Turkish people believe Muslim, some of rules are very strict and conservative. In Ankara, I saw lots of women wear hijab. There are various kinds of style clothings which make women to cover their body from strangers in Musilm culture. However, I've seldom seen those kinds of women in Istanbul especaially who are young. I knew older people are quite conservative about their religoin still, but young people really do not care about that. Also, It depend on their family's atmosphere.
The history of Istanbul is very long. I think al least everyone watch movies about old Roman empire or ancient the Ottoman empire. Turkish people are very proud of their long , stunning history. I majored in history, but I couldn't have any opportunities to learn about history of Turkey.
There is a surprising news for learing history of Turkey. The exhibition which is about the progress of civilization is holding now. The period is from May 1st to September 2nd. It is about the Empires of Istanbul. It sounds very intriguing, I will visit soon. If anyone, who is interested in this exhibition, let's go together !
What do you know about Turkey? Kebab? or just huge country? Well, at first I had very small knowledge about Turkey. Many years ago, I met one man in Canada who was from Turkey. He looked really exotic for me, so I asked some questions. When he said he was from Turkey, I asked again. 'Wow, do you speak Trukish?' God! He looked so disappointed at me.. I didn't know that Turkish was even existed. I was stupid :(
Anyways, for several weeks, I'm going to give some basic information about country, Turkey. As I mentioned before, I love Turkey, Turkish people, their food and culture. Here is the first question. Where is the capital city of Turkey? I assume.. most of people think, Istanbul. I asked over 10 friends, and they answered like this. The capital of Turkey is Ankara. It used to be Angora. Have you ever heard about Angora cat ? Actually, Angora catsis from Turkey long times ago. Now, they are well- known for French cats but their actual origin is Turkish.
Ankara is located at the middle of Tureky, this reason made Ankara capital. Easten of Turkey, there is Bulgaira located, this part belongs to Europe. However, westen part is located in meddle Asia. The funny thing is Turkey joins European soccer matches, but geographically, Turkey is Asian country.
So far, It was just brief introduction for Turkey. See you next page !
Today, as I promised before, it is time for consonant ! Turkish has 21 consonants. Different from voewls, consonants are easy to pronunce. You put 'ae' sound after one letter. Let's see the example. b sounds bae. b + ae sounds bae. f sounds what? fae, right?
There are some excpetion for here. c sounds not like cae. It sounds jae. Don't emphasize j sound here. It sounds quite similiar to j but, little bit different. Next, G with accent we call yumusak ğ .Basically, it doesn't sound that much. So, when you see the ğ with little point on it, you don't necessary pronunce it !
Is it hard ? Well, pronunciation is very tricky but funny! Some words are hard to pronounce perfectly :) Don't be frustrated !
In Turkish, there are 29 alphabets. Among these, 26 alphabets are same as English except Q, W, and X. These three words are not existing in Turkish. But , there are new 6 alphabet in Trukish, which are ç, ğ, ö, ı, ş, ü.
Vowels are these : a, e ,i, ı, o, ö, u, and ü
You can pronounce using these vowels.
a sounds, ah in Enlgish. e sounds ae, i sounds eae, ı sounds eii , o sounds o same as English, u sounds woo, ü sounds wo and o sound mixed. It's almost same sound with German umlaut.
These look little bit difficult, but when you practice few times, it's gonna be funny!
-Christine Yildiz-
