I took the test to asses my level of competence in the language and my results show that I am a beginner. I am a beginner in interpersonal communication, interpretive listening, interpretive reading, presentational speaking and writing. I am looking forward to grow my own way from the beginning to hopefully advanced level.
I met with my language partner and we discussed my learning plans and goals. She is very enthusiastic about teaching me her language, and I am very happy to be able to practice Turkish with her.
The goal that I set out to reach this semester is to pronounce Turkish correctly and read in Turkish (without having to understand everything), alphabet, greetings/farewells, colors and numbers. In addition, I want to be able to talk about food, buying and ordering food in a restaurant, and I also want to be able to talk about my family and to introduce my family to somebody else. I want to learn how to talk about school and lead a basic conversation with my Turkish friends. I also want to learn some grammar such as present simple/continuous, and depending on my progress I could also try to learn past tense.
So my first step is to learn Turkish alphabet, and be able to pronounce every letter correctly. I already practiced Turkish alphabet with my language partner. I can say that Turkish alphabet is not very hard to learn, but there are several letters that are not included in either English or my mother tongue alphabet. So, I still have trouble pronouncing those letters, but with repetition I am sure I will improve. My language partner introduced me to greetings/farewells. There is this one greeting "Merhaba" which we also use in my country so it was easy to remember. My roommate from high school, who is Turkish, would always tell me "gule gule" which means bye bye in English, so my language partner was impressed when I already knew the meaning of this phrase.
I am planning to work more on alphabet as well as greetings/farewell and be very good at it, so that when I meet a Turkish person, I can show off my Turkish skills.
After alphabet and greetings, I will move on to talking about food, family, school and hobbies as well as learning some grammar. I am very excited about learning Turkish language.
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