First, I'll take you through how I learned two other languages in my life (aside from English). French was a strict, everyday in high school sort of thing, some kids in school took Spanish, I did French. It wasn't something that I could say helped me to become fluent, but it definitely opened my eyes to a whole range of possibilities as to where I could take the language. What really made me a lot more fluent in the language was being able to speak to my dad, friends overseas and relatives in French. In addition, I used the power of the internet to find every single Claude Francois song out there and memorized all of the lyrics! Music was the biggest contributor for sure to my learning abilities!
Arabic is a similar story except there was no formal schooling associated with it. Arabic has been spoken around me since I was born, and finally around my freshman year in college I started being able to respond back to people when they spoke to me. It obviously helped spending three months in Lebanon on vacation, but on top of that, I still listen to Arabic music every day, and already can start translating some songs on my own.
With Turkish it will be a little bit more difficult. Having lived with my roommate, Yigit, for more than a year now, I now a few words and pronunciations, but I still believe that I will need a little bit of formal teaching in order to get the ball rolling.
The goal is to go to Istanbul with a good background in Turkish and use my time there to perfect an accent. However, for now, I will continue on the "social" track and speak as often as possible in order to gain more and more vocabulary. To be quite honest, that is the one thing that I try the hardest to learn through experience - vocabulary. You can know every rule of grammar, but if you forget the word for wolf and think it's a Kurd, you might be in big trouble!
Anyways, I think I'm going to pick up the language pretty quickly, but I will need to practice every day and listen to Turkish music (maNga, Hayko Cepkin, Mor ve Otesi, etc.) everyday in order to start to be able to pick up words and phrases.
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I am glad to hear that you also use music to learn languages. I've seen that two or three of your classmates have the same tendency. This might lead to an interesting project. It's too late for my brain to function very creatively right now, but we can brainstorm together tomorrow in class.
(btw, my sister met the Manga guys when they were all in Norway).