Because of classes and other commitments for wrapping up the semester, the amount of lessons that I have a week have unfortunately decreased. My sessions with Gökhan have mostly focused on polishing my speaking skills. I believe that I have gotten to a point where I am a familiar with most grammar structures - i.e. I can recognize a lot - but I have problems with producing the structures in timely manner. My biggest challenge is talking about “I said…”, “you said…”, or “he/she said…”, which requires the use of this complex subordinate clause structure. I am able to produce it correctly (...sometimes) but it requires A LOT of thinking. It honestly feels like a math equation. However, in comparison to the beginning of the semester, I believe that I have made a good amount of progress on my timing on responses and also with my listening skills. I intend to practice what I have learned a bit with Turkish people when I go to New York. (Hopefully I can understand them!) I am looking forward to the summer when I am going to have much more time to practice these skills. Gökhan told me that he can set me up with some of his friends so that I could skype them to keep my skills at par. I am also looking forward to seeing my progression in the language in the future.
Ohh! Also, I started watching this show on Netflix called Winter Sun to improve my listening skills. I watch the show with the subtitles in Turkish so that I would be forced to pay attention to what they are saying. I think that it is working out pretty well. I also found this youtube channel of this native Spanish speaker who posts videos helping Turkish people learning Spanish. His videos are also helpful for my listening skills because he speaks a little slower (I think). I think I can also understand him for the most part which makes me happy haha.
Here is a link to one of his videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUFeszBlDQI
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