Right now, I’m hoping to cross my Turkish and archaeology classes a bit. Dr. Baughan, my archaeology professor, has done excavations in Turkey for the last few years and speaks Turkish. Merve had the idea of maybe the three of us meeting up for coffee. Unfortunately I can’t come when they planned to meet up, but I can in the future.
The current goal is telling time. Numbers are very easy… It’s a straightforward decimal number system that simply adds number together… no need to memorize a separate word for “twelve” or “eleven” it’s just ten two and ten one, and it doesn’t obey weird pluralization rules like Arabic (don’t get me started). The big issue that I’m having is with the case endings. ###’de is for “at ### o’clock.” ###den ###2e kadar is for “from ### to ###2.” They’re not that difficult when writing it all out, but when added to the vowel harmony rules already in place, it can be really hard to remember which is which while speaking. I think this is more of a practice thing for me, and it’s just a matter of spending more time with times. One of the tricks I used for learning Arabic numbers was to constantly number things my head, and I’m trying to do the same with Turkish and constantly tell time to myself in Turkish and explain my calendar.
Song of the Week:
Istanbul’da Sonbahar - Teoman
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