We’re back!! Woot woot! I did a lot of studying over winter break so the transition for me getting back to work was not that bad thankfully. I had a lot of time to polish the tenses that I learned. I also made a list of the most important words for communicating in any language. These are words that I believe to occur more frequently in everyday speech. I hope that this will help me be able to communicate with not so long pauses. I also have a list of transition and filler words to help fill in these blanks. I showed the list to Gökhan and he gave me some suggestions for some more words.
For the semester, I want to improve my speaking and listening skills overall so I started writing journal entries. In my first entry, I wrote about what I did over the winter break. After I wrote it, Gökhan edited it and gave me some suggestions. Writing the entry was pretty easy for the most part because I used fairly easy words, but I am going to try use more complex vocabularies and structures in the future to challenge myself.
As far as class, we briefly reviewed all of the tenses and cases that we covered last semester and then went right into learning more vocabulary. I wanted to learn how to talk about movies in Turkish so Gökhan prepared a worksheet for me on movie reviews. From the class, I learned the passive tense saying sentences like “the movie was directed by…”, which was fairly easy compared to other tenses that I had learned before. In the next few classes, I am going to practice this tense more to make sure that I understand it.
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