Biweekly Post #2

[Azin Bahari]

The 3^rd and 4^th weeks of my language learning consisted of learning basic vocabulary and how to refer to the things around you, such as ‘this’, ‘that’, and ‘that over there’, which is ‘bu’, ‘şu’, and ‘o’ respectively. Our language professor had us create vocabulary lists of some basic words, but I accidentally went a little too far and made a Quizlet with 221 terms (https://quizlet.com/318723144/turkish-unit-1-vocabulary-flash-cards/). I was not paying attention when she said “some.” The vocabulary I learned and compiled consisted of basic nouns such as common locations, items, foods, professions, animals, etc. A lot of these basic verbs borrowed or had influence from Arabic, Persian, and English, so I found that influence to be helpful in learning the words. I also learned about asking where someone or something is located, which is “Nerede?”, along with how to say where someone or something is with the location words we learned. We also started learning numbers in Turkish.