Posts Tagged ‘social networks’
Sep
Sep
Do fun things while you learn
One of the best ways to kill progress in a language is, of course, to make it boring. And likewise, one of the best ways to keep your interest in a language is to do things with it that are fun and/or interesting. Here are a few fun things I do in Italian.…
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…
Apr
Apr
The Turkish past tense
Category: Turkish · Tags: agglutination,social networks,verb aspects,verb tenses,vowel harmony,Yonja
Last week, I talked about several things we can learn in Turkish just by looking at the login page from Yonja, the Turkish social network. I mostly talked about vocabulary, and showed how we can learn to understand a word’s meaning and its use just from a login page.
I also mentioned the activity stream…
May
May
Possession in Turkish
Remember when I said there was a lot you could learn from a social network? I wasn’t kidding! I’ve already written two posts about how much Turkish I’m learning from Yonja, and that was without even logging in!
Today, we’re going to change that. I’m going to look at what’s inside, after you log in.…