Week 2:
My second week of learning Turkish has gone quite well. I luckily have many resources at my fingertips. In class, we were given a helpful worksheet on the Turkish alphabet and we went through each letter and its pronunciation. I was able to take good notes so that I can practice the alphabet on my own time. Unfortunately I was unable to download Byki because I have a mac, but I have found the other resources such as Mango so helpful in learning how to say words like hello (mehaba) and goodbye (gule, gule). I have also bookmarked in Diigo the Turkish alphabet and how it has changed from arabic to latin. I also found an interesting youtube video on when to say formal greetings in Turkish. Apart from the alphabet and simple greetings, I have learned how to say "my name is" (adim Sydney) in the formal and informal, as well as asking "how are you" (nasilsin). We practiced these greetings, farewells and introductions in basic conversations with our classmates and I was impressed that we didn't rely on our notes rather solely on our memory to have these conversations. Overall, I would say that these first two weeks have been filled with learning the fundamental aspects of the language and I am looking forward to building on this foundation.
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