Biweekly Post #1

[Azin Bahari]

The first two weeks of my Turkish language learning consisted of easing myself into Turkish. Our language professor gave us many cool videos going over summaries of the Turkish language and the state of modern Turkey. Turkish and its derivative languages are spoken in so many places! Turkish also has heavy influences on the other languages around it, such as Persian and Arabic, and these languages have also had a large influence on Turkish as well. It was interesting seeing the history of a country and its surrounding regions being present in its language. I also learned about some important introductory Turkish logistics, such as greetings in Turkish, how to introduce myself in Turkish, the Turkish alphabet, and the concept of vowel harmony. Vowel harmony did not make sense to me when I first learned about it at the beginning, but once I started using it in several different grammatical mechanisms in later weeks, it made perfect sense to me.