Learning Plan:
I want to learn the basics of Turkish to be able to travel through Ankara without running into any trouble. This includes developing survival language skills:
1. Greetings/introductions
2. Numbers
3. Asking for directions
4. Transportation vocabulary
Despite being interested in learning the language on a holistic level (including grammar and developing conversational skills), this remains my priority and I hope will lead into everything else.
I want to be flexible about how I learn Turkish, but I definitely want a lot of interactive tools to help me throughout it. I plan to use Byki and other applications on my phone such as Babbel (which I've used before for Arabic). I'm also going to create notecards on Quizlet for vocabulary. I've also found that Quizlet has a lot of vocabulary sets for languages so I'm planning on joining Turkish classes on there and look through the vocabulary lists they have available. Also, since I'm taking Turkish to help prepare for when I go to Ankara (fingers crossed that this plan works out!) and I want to reach out to non-profits working with Syrian refugees, I want to be familiar with refugee/crises vocabulary. Pronunciation and accent is something I'm very particular about so I know that I'll be trying to perfect that as much as possible throughout my learning- I'm going to use YouTube as my main source for listening to Turkish sounds. In that process, I will probably be uncovering Turkish music to make the process a lot less boring and more enjoyable!
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