- Describe the phonetic inventory of your target language. Are there sounds in your language that don't exist in English? Provide several phonetic transcriptions of important words.
- What do you need to know about the structure of your target language? How will you acquire the knowledge you need? Have you identified resources and textbooks to promote your task-based objectives? Why or why not?
There are sounds in Turkish that don’t exist in English. Regarding the structure of Turkish, the word order of Turkish is different from English. It follows Subject-Object-Verb structure. For example, Ahmet yumurta-yi(egg) yedi(ate) (Ahmet eggs ate).
I learn Turkish with the textbook Gokhan has provided us. Each class we focus on one topic. Gokhan sometimes assign homework, but not much. Those homeworks are helpful for us to practice what we learned. I also watch Youtube videos, which people explain the grammar and verb forms of Turkish.
Turkish is an Agglutinative Language with lots of affixes and suffixes. The majority of Turkish words originate from the application of derivative suffixes to a relatively small set of core vocabulary. Affixes and suffixes can create long words and new words. They also serve grammatical functions.
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