During the 8th and 9th weeks I planned to learn adjectives, watch a Turkish movie, learn the vocabulary of drinks, be able to order in a restaurant, use excuse me, please, thanks, ask where is the bathroom and whatever is close to the content of this plan. I planned to find a famous Turkish movie on IMDB, as well as practice ordering in the restaurant with my language partner. I also intended to do some listening exercises online, as well as listen to Turkish songs throughout these 2 weeks.
As a result, I watched "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" movie with the English subtitles; learnt the most used adjectives of Turkish and paid a lot of attention on pronunciation. I also learnt some new drinks and food vocabulary and made basic sentences of ordering food and drinks. I revised the vocabulary of "polite phrases" as I knew those from the last semester. I also found a couple of resources offering listening practice of the above mentioned vocabulary and sentences. Using listening exercises was very effective, although the overall Turkish pronunciation is easy for me due to my previous linguistic experiences. In order to be able to memorize what I already learnt and build on it, I may need more speaking practice, which I will ensure to have during the upcoming weeks. My language partner has been very helpful so far in combining language and culture learning. Since I also learnt a lot of adjectives, I am now able to create more sentences and expressions and express more feelings. I found these past weeks very helpful. The only challenge remains ensuring I do not forget the content in the future, but I believe more practice will help me reach this goal as well.
Below are some of the artifacts I used these last 2 weeks. They were taken from a wide variety of resources as I keep on exploring them.
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