Journal entry #5

[Mark Kligman]

I tried to do some reading in my language with my language assistant and to my surprise he praised my pronunciation. I have reviewed the alphabet several times and I am very familiar with every letter with the Turkish alphabet, therefore it was not a difficult task to read the words but difficult to guess the pronunciation on words that I did not know of. I learned around 8 new words, house, father, mother, job, businessman, professor, student, university. I think it is realistic for me to be able to read simple texts without complex words by the end of the year with an ability to understand the context of the text. I have learned that reading in Turkish is not difficult, but understanding the meaning is rather difficult in longer readings, compared to shorter reading where it is easier to understand. From reading I highlighted words that I did not know and looked up after, if I keep up m readings I believe that I will accumulate a significant amount of vocabulary.