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Summarize your work this semester, the progress you made and the difficulties you encountered
- Turkish expression that I practiced this semester
Greetings/Farewells/Introduction/Identity/Family/Colors/Numbers/Some expressions about traveling
From the very starter of the Turkish learner, although still I cannot many Turkish expression, I now know how to speak some basic stuffs and some expressions about traveling situation.
It was totally different language with English or Korean, it took more time to get used to it. Memorizing all new expression is quite hard, I should keep practicing not to forget the expressions.
- Learning goals of this week: situation in transportation
I made some situation that could happen in Turkish transportation then translate it in Turkish and practiced it by keeping speaking and writing the expressions.
These are examples for expressions in Turkish
ex1) (In the taxi) ~~~ please
ex2) Can you drop me off ~~~
ex3) How much do I owe you?
- Learning goals of this week: situation in the street
I made some situation that could happen in Turkish street then translate it in Turkish and practiced it by keeping speaking and writing the expressions.
These are examples for expressions in Turkish
ex1) Excuse me
ex2) Where is the nearest ~~~
ex3) Which way is ~~~
- Learning goals of this week: situation in the restaurant
I made some situation that could happen in Turkish restaurant then translate it in Turkish and practiced it by keeping speaking and writing the expressions.
These are examples for expressions in Turkish
ex1) I would like to order now
ex2) Can I have the bill please?
ex3) What do you recommend here?
From this week to the end, I just started my expression about Traveling.
- Learning goals of this week: situation in the airport
I made some situation that could happen in Turkish airport then translate it in Turkish and practiced it by keeping speaking and writing the expressions.
These are examples for expressions in Turkish
ex1) what's the purpose of your visit? / I'm just traveling
ex2) how long are you staying? / I'm staying for 2 weeks
ex3) how do I get to subway station?
- Learning goals of this week: situation in the hotel
I made some situation that could happen in Turkish hotel then translate it in Turkish and practiced it by keeping speaking and writing the expressions.
These are examples for expressions in Turkish
ex1) I'm checking in
ex2) I made a reservation for staying
ex3) What time is the checking out
For Turkish, as I mention before, I have never experienced that language so it is totally new language for me. For about reading, it is quite similar to English alphabet so I could just literally "read" and pronounciate the words and sentence. However I am really starter of learning Turkish, so I almost cannot understand what does that mean. Only after learning some words or expression, I could tell the meaning about the language. Writing is totally same situation, just after learning some words then I could write that sentence or expression. More formative or organized writing is kind of impossible for me. However, it is not my personal goal about learning language, so I do not mind. Just speaking is my important option.
The subject of this readings is about intelligent of bilinguals. Some people may think that bilinguals are smarter than normal people, but I don't think so. They just have good skills to learn how to speak in different language which is not related about their intelligent or smartness. Language learning or speaking about several languages is like having good skills and the most important part of it is the experience. Things that decide the capacity of speaking some language is up to their experience, not the intelligent. Of course, some really super smart people could learn some language really easily, but the most factor is not the intelligent I think. They just have lot of experience and already know how to speak for that language. If anybody just get used to learning and using it, then it will be much easier.
Recording
The goal of this week is, first, not to forget some expressions I learned until now, second learn some colors in Turkish. I already learned how to ask some questions in Turkish, so after I knew some colors, I can also ask the color of some things near around me. I learned about 10 different colors which is quite confusing and difficult. Therefore, with my language partner I had practice about one hour memorizing them. Now I could tell 10 different colors in Turkish and ask some questions about colors and answer it. Also there are some youtube clips that explains for this colors in Turkish although those are for little Turkish children. It is still helpful though with some music and imaging effects.
I dealt with greetings, farewell, introduction, and asking about identity. Memorizing some basic words, and number in Turkish. These are what I learned until now. Of course I forgot some expressions, and start to learn again. To avoid forgetting somethings before my regular class with my language partner, I prepared for the time for reviewing and practicing what we've done before. I like and satisfy the way we learned and practiced. Chat with each other, and using some SNS, recording and listening, and using Youtube is also fun way to learn some languages. Now I think I almost done with my basic stuffs so I am going to move on to my travel subjects in Turkish. I am going to imagine my own situation in Turkey in the future, and ask my language partner for translate it into Turkish and memorize and practice.
This week, I learned some basic words in Turkish. It is kind of starting point of my Turkish. As a novice language learner, my language partner gave me some words like pen, desk, teacher, students, school, etc. I kept memorizing those words for some times. It is totally different words that I felt little hard to memorize and keep forgetting about it. However, some words had some common parts which make my memorizing easier. Now I also try to keep memorizing it.
My first artifacts are recordings of my saying greetings, farewells, and introductions in Turkish. My language partner helped me evaluated my accent, cultural appropriateness, and linguistic accuracy. She said my pronunciation was good, and quite accuracy. Therefore, I think I did well on my first artifacts.
I learned week4, and 5 basic speaking skills in Tukish. I also did in my first artifacts about greetings and farewell things, and now I can speak that kind of conversation so I made it my goals for week 4. Also I knew how to ask questions like "What is this?" of "Is this a table?" and answer the questions. I also review the number in Turkish. Until now, I did well on my Turkish learning.
I did study in this week about basic stuffs in Turkish. I finished read alphabet, and start to learn about greetings, farewell, and introduction. Those are what I started last week so just review the expression and speak with my language partner. Because Turkish is difficult for me, I tried not to do too much things in short period. My goal is not that big, so I think I am doing well. For this week, my learning goal is get used to the Turkish number. Numbering is so important in any kind of language. My language partner let me know about 1~10, 20~90. Now I can say from 1 to 100 in Turkish. After I knowing about the number, I just try not to forget and keep remember what I learned. I keep writing, and speaking Turkish number.
I already finished those kind of stuffs such as life survival languages and greetings, farewell, and introduction. I and my language partner practiced how to speaking Turkish from the basic. Firstly, I learned Turkish alphabet and how it sounds like. Next, I started to learn greeting, farewell, and introduction my self, asking questions, answering. Because I did not know anything about Turkish, so my language partner just gave me some papers which has some expressions and conversation on it, and teach me how those expressions sounds like, and what those expressions mean. After getting some meaning and pronunciation, I keep repeating until I felt comfortable for the expression. Although it is quite different with English, of course Korean, I still try not to forget about it.
