Archive for January, 2011
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Ongoing action: -iyor
Today, I’m excited to share my first grammatical observation about Turkish, which I’ve learned without studying at all!
As I mentioned recently, I changed my iPod to Turkish on new year’s day of this year, and since then I’ve been interacting with the device in Turkish and learning things as I do.
When I’m checking…
Jan
Jan
Using one language to learn another
The very first thing I learned about Turkish this year was actually an interesting revelation about languages and translation tools.
On New Year’s Day, I commented on a friend’s Facebook photo, and decided to do it in Turkish, since this is my Turkish year. However, since I began the year knowing no Turkish, the only…
Jan
Jan
Travel report from Italy
My trip to Italy is More than half over now, but it’s been quite interesting so far. The experience has been rather eye-opening! Things got off to a rather negative start. In fact, for the first few days, I was beginning to question the entire idea.
Upon arrival in Rome, all of my “romanticized” ideas…