For the past 2 weeks my language learning goals combined revision, grammar, vocabulary and cultural activities. I planned on revising the future tense, speaking and writing about my spring break plans, learning new actions verbs, going over times vocabulary(since it is a bit harder than it sounds) and briefly going over the past tense along with speaking about Turkey's current political situation, possibly going over a few news articles etc.
Firstly, me and my language partner went over the future tense again and created a few sentences about my possible spring break plans, such as where I will be going, who with, what I will be doing etc. Secondly, we went over the most common Turkish verbs and worked on conjugating those in present and future tenses. Next, we did some revision of time vocabulary and how to ask what time it is and answer. Me and my language partner got to speak about Turkey as a country in terms of economics and politics and how those factors shape the culture. We also spoke about Ottoman empire, 1915 Armenian Genocide, its history as well as some common cultural habits present both in Armenian and Turkish cultures. Lastly, we briefly went over the past tense and conjugated 2 verbs just to get the idea of the tense and how it works.
There was a lot done this week and I felt challenged at times in terms of memorizing vocabulary and being on top of the grammar rules learnt during these past 5 weeks, however with the help of my language partner, classroom discussions and exercises with my classmate, I was able to overcome the challenges and memorize at least 80% of the vocabulary and the majority of the grammar rules. I also took lots of notes during these past 2-3 weeks to make sure my writing, reading, speaking and listening skills were equally developed.
How to say times: Example:
Present tense conjugations:
Past tense conjugations:
Future tense conjugations:
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