Turkish Language

  • The Turkish-French connection

    Written by Melissa on September 6th, 2010 in Turkish Language2 Comments
    The Turkish-French connection
    Although French was not technically my first language, it was the language I spoke at school from the age of five. When you learn a language as a young child, you develop an innate rather than a mechanical sense of how things work and how words fit together. Although I can’t particularly explain French grammar in any meaningful way, I know what sounds right and what doesn’t. And when I look at French words written down, I don’t have to think about how they would be pronounced – it just comes automatically, even if the spellings may look illogical to...

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  • The Right Words

    Written by dawn on August 9th, 2010 in I was in Turkey, Turkish LanguageNo comments yet
    The Right Words
    If you are first grasping the basics of the Turkish language, whether you’re just passing through and getting by or you’re on a mission to become fluent, it is helpful to know its many ritualistic phrases. Many of them have no literal meaning that makes sense, but they are appropriate for occasions that often go unmarked in English. If you know when to say them and how to answer when people say these things to you, you will probably impress them and possibly even deceive them into thinking your Turkish is much better than it actually is. Even when you...

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