My past week's goals included creating sentences describing my room and other rooms( how many chairs, tables etc there are); learning how to shop and asking for prices, express opinions and even bargain. Although these sounded extremely hard, I wanted to give it a try, since as a tourist, knowing how to shop and behave at shops is essentially important. I decided to ask questions and figure this out with my language partner along with my online resources.
With my language partner and classmate we created sentences, described surroundings and completed a few paper exercises. The rest of the time we put an emphasize on how to shop or bargain. Since shopping in Turkey is different from shopping in the US(I talked about this in my cultural posts), there is a lot to learn in terms of price negotiation. I learnt to ask prices, say that something is expensive or cheap or that I don't want it anymore etc. We obviously had to also use food and question vocabulary along with other words. This was an effective exercise in terms of combining what I've learnt so far and getting ready to wrap up the semester. I also liked to learn vocabulary and sentences related to a cultural post that I wrote previously. My language partner was of a great help with his native linguistic and cultural perspectives. Overall, although challenging, this week was very productive!
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