SDLC 105: Learning Journal 3

[Tenaya Bien]

As I learned my first target language in an immersion setting, the structure of the language was basically taught to me through showing us how the language worked. In this case my approach has been very different, and also being older and more able to understand the complex aspects of language structure, language structure is something I found to be the most interesting and also the most important. Luckily, the structure of Turkish is actually quite simple from what I can tell. They don't use gendered words and make use of suffixes to indicate person and tense. In this way, it makes learning the language much easier and faster because the word "love", for example, can so easily be translated into "I love" or "You love" just by changing the ending. I do think that a reference grammar would be helpful actually even more so because the structure is relatively simple. Because of the way that Turkish is set up, it would be easy to see patterns in a reference grammar.