Counting numbers
After done with alphabets, Gokhan introduced us to counting numbers this week. He told us counting numbers will be a big part of this semester’s studying. Because the way Turkish people count numbers is hard to memorize. Even for local Turkish people, they prefer the Arabic numbers over their way of expressing numbers. My object is to be able to translate numbers in Arabic form into the Turkish form without the help of a dictionary. We start to learn how to count numbers by learning the Turkish words for 1 to 10. The most difficult part is to memorize each word. It is not like in English, words have the similar post-fixes. For example, “fourth” and “sixth” both have the post-fix “th”. While in Turkish, it is a completely different story. Thus we started to use Quizlet. We created a vocabulary lists, and Gokhan told us to review the words at least a week to make sure we don’t forget. This strategy is effective. Because as I mentioned, the hardest part is to memorize the words for numbers. Because when it comes to expressing a complex or very big number, the mechanism is similar to English. After we are familiar with the words. We can translate the numbers into Turkish very quickly.
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