Turkish final post: Evaluation

[Noraya Razzaque]

I'm not disppointed with where I am in Turkish- I know that it's always tedious and language learning is kind of slow at the beginning of starting a new language for me because I struggle to contextualize everything with the little information that I have. And not being in a formal classroom affects that a little bit. However, after a semester of exposure, I tend to do better and perform faster. Two of my goals from my learning plan were not met, but I did a learn a lot of other things in place of it. I also found that since I'm not applying the concepts as often as I should (in terms of speaking and practicing grammar), it's been harder to use them in context. For example, the suffix pronoun ordeal is very difficult for me and studying it doesn't help since I'm not applying it as much on the spot. I've made the most mistakes by forgetting to attach the suffix to the end of a word so my grammar in Turkish probably sounds like a caveman. Regardless, here are some new goals for next semester: SURVIVAL TURKISH- asking for directions, transportation, family, and immigration/refugee vocabulary (just to have that in my book for what I'm interested in).