Posts Tagged ‘discovery’
Jan
Jan
Discovering a language with my iPod
This year started with me settling into a new apartment, frantically working to finish my Italian eBook, and then leaving the country! I’m away from home, away from my computer and all the things that I use to learn, but that’s not stopping me. I’m already learning some interesting things about Turkish, thanks to my…
Jan
Jan
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…
Feb
Feb
Game mechanics
In 2005, I bought my first iPod. It was the first to use the new click wheel. I didn’t know that, though, and the iPod didn’t come with any instructions. I had used it for two days before finally, by some random chance, I dragged my finger along that wheel and heard the click, and…
Feb
Feb
Discover clothing in Turkish
This week I decided to learn about clothing terms in Turkish, and in doing so, to discover more about the Turkish language, grammar, etc.
In order to get started, I needed to know what to search for. I checked Google Translate for “clothes” and it said “giysi…“, but searching Google for
Mar
Mar
Learning Turkish with Tarkan
If you’ve been reading this site, you already know that I love using music to learn. Right from the start, one of the first things I do with a new language is find music to help me learn.
At the beginning of this year, I found several Turkish singers, one of whom was Tarkan. Admittedly…
Mar
Mar
Negation investigation
While browsing through referers to my web site, I found a thread on a Turkish forum. Cool! The thread is a discussion of Russian, and they linked to my explanation of Russian prefixes.
I decided to browse the thread and see if I could find something I can understand. But even better, I found something…
Mar
Mar
First person conjugations
We’ve looked at a few properties of verbs already, and already figured out a lot about verbs without using any instruction at all. But we still haven’t established even the basic first-person conjugations. After three months, I can’t even say “I’m hungry” yet!
Well, it turns out, I can say it. Actually, I can say…
Apr
Apr
Yonja: the Turkish social network
As you know, social networks are a large parts of my learning strategy. They’re very useful to the learner because they involve realy people using the language in real ways, rather than the formulaic dialogs and robotic vocabulary memorization that you find in books, flashcard systems, etc.
Today, I’m only going to look at the…
May
May
Bu Böyle
Today I’ll be continuing my investigation of the Turkish language with a look at the song Bu Böyle by Sertab Erener. I found this song by clicking the related videos… links along the side of a Turkish video on YouTube. Tools like that are a great way to find new things.
Okay, we’ll start with