This week we learned a lot about the global learning center and its resources in class. I didn't know that we had all these resources at our disposal, so when I get the chance I want to explore the resources they might have for Turkish learners. Later in the week, I learned how to ask introductory questions (How old are you? Where do you live? etc.) and some vocabulary about family. With Merve, I wrote and spoke some sentences describing famous people and my family. However, when constructing these sentences, some of the words required multiple suffixes. For example, "My mother's name is Kristen" would translate to "Annemin adı Kristen," where "Anne" means "mother," "-m" means "my," and "-in" means "her" (referring to my mother's name, which is a possession), and "adı" is "(her) name." Sometimes I find it difficult to know when and in what order to put these suffixes (-m, -in and others), but hopefully I will get the hang of it by writing more sentences. I also made a Quizlet flashcard set of the words from learning the alphabet and have been using it to reinforce new vocabulary. However, when I was going through these flashcards it took me forever, as I added too many words that I probably will never use (I included words like iron and grill, which are words I rarely use in English). In the future I will try to tailor my vocabulary to words that I will actually use.
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