SDLC 105 Learning Journal # 8

[Sydney Freeman]

These past few months, I have been able to challenge myself to learn a variety of new words from simple greetings like how to say hello, to classroom objects and clothing. Overall, I would estimate that I have learned around 150 new words. I learned most of these words via classroom exercises stemming from classroom games, memorization, using them in conversation and visually seeing the objects and connecting the Turkish word to them. For instance, I was able to learn how to say Turkish numbers like (bir, iki, uc, dort, bes, alti, yedi, sekiz, dokuz, and on) from memorizing them and then filling in the blank when playing a classroom game. Other terms like mehaba, which means hello, and gule gule! which is goodbye in Turkish have been learned by constantly applying these words in everyday interactions with people. Overall, I do think that my goals are on the right track. I know that I will not learn 1,000 words in a semester, but I do know that this course will give me a foundation of basic vocabulary that I can continue to expand on throughout my travels and studies.