I am proud to say that Ms. Hanife and I accomplished our goal. Our goal was to finish the rest of the book that we used last semester and during these two weeks we managed to finish it off. I simply cannot believe that we have covered so much material in such a short time, but everything was going smoothly and just at right pace.
These last two weeks we worked a little bit on grammar, and mostly we were revising the material we covered throughout this semester and focused on conversation. I was surprised that I was able to lead conversation in Turkish using more advanced grammar, vocabulary and even some idioms. We spent one session listening to Turkish songs, reading poems, and talking about Turkish culture. After talking to Ms. Hanife about Turkish culture and traditions I finally figured out what I want to deliver my presentation on. I have decided to talk about Turkish bachelorette party. Ms. Hanife’s sister is getting married and she told me how the entire family is already preparing for the wedding that will be held in June. Miss Hanife gave me this idea and now my task is to do a lot of research and be ready to present it. Even though I was initially planning to talk about hookah, I have realized that it will be much more interesting to talk about the bachelorette party, especially because it is much more different from what bachelorette parties look like in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United States.
These last two weeks, I was revising with Miss Hanife all the material that we have covered this semester. We covered the entire book, and my language partner said that I improved a lot. Going back to the first chapter, I realized how easy that material is compared to the material in the last chapters. Revising present continuous, past simple, future tense all the way to reporting tense and learning how to say that you are doing two actions at the same time, I came to realized that we have covered more material than I thought we ever could in such a short period of time. There are of course some tenses that when I looked at back were a bit blurry and I could not remember exactly how to use them but when I revised them, I remembered. I also wrote my “I can statement” and me and Ms. Hanife went over it again. My final exam is in a few days but my Turkish learning will definitely not stop there. I am determined to learn Turkish and I am really motivated to learn it and I will continue learning it, watching Turkish TV shows, and listening to Turkish songs and most importantly keep communicating in Turkish with my Turkish friends. I am looking forward to improving even more and one day speaking Turkish fluently.
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