Turkish Lessons ...

Learning Turkish Language Difficulties-
The Turkish Vocabulary is just tooo hard !(It ain't fair...)

karşı -- opposite, contrary, opposed, against
karşı karşıya -- face to face
karşılayıcı -- a welcomer
karşılamak -- to greet, meet, welcome
karşılama -- a greeting, meeting, welcoming
karşılaşmak -- to meet one another
karşılaşma -- a sporting event
karşılaştırmak -- to compare
karşılaştırma -- a comparison
karşılaştırmalı -- comparative

Anyone got some good "memory hooks" for that list...?!

Turkish lessons

Ğ -yumuşak ge [soft g]

Never appears as the first letter in a word;essentially silent, sometimes lengthens preceding vowel;sometimes pronounced like "y" in "yet" .
sample words including Ğ ( ğ )
dağ =mountain,pronounced "daa",rhymes with the "baa" of "baa baa black sheep" diğer =other,pronounced as "diyer"
some others:
yağmur : rain
çağ : era
değerli : valuable

Turkish Lessons :-)

Learning Turkish Language Difficulties: Sentence Structure

You have to re-sequence the word order of an English sentence in order to create a correctly structured,meaningful Turkish sentence.
For example,let's consider the following...

"The restaurant where we are going to eat is at the corner of this street."

In Spanish and French,the shape of that sentence remains the same when it's translated.And we've read that the same would be true if you translated it to Russian,Greek,and even Arabic. But in Turkish,the shape is quite different... (same in Japanese,Korean as they belong to the same language family Altaic Group)
English: The restaurant where we are going to eat is at the corner of this street. Turkish translation: Yemek yiyeceğimiz restoran bu sokağın köşesindedir.
Eat-future-our-restaurant, this-street's corner-its-at-is.

Did it set your head to spinning ? :-)

turkish lessons

The 3 Spelling Variations of the Suffix 'den' ( from )are : 'dan', 'ten', and 'tan'
This isn't as mysterious as it may first seem. The Turkish language always strives for a harmonious sound,it's not such an horrific task to cater for these minor spelling variations.
So before you set about attaching 'den' to an attachee word you need to be conscious of two points.
Firstly, if the attachee word ends in ç, f, h, k, p, s, ş, t then the 'd' in 'den' must change into 't' before the attachment takes place. Secondly, the 'e' in 'den' (or 'ten') may have to change to 'a' depending on the last vowel in the attachee word -- in accordance with the Rule of Vowel Harmony.
Here is an example with the 'den' suffix and each of its spelling variants:
( how can we say"from Istanbul" in Turkish? )

İstanbul
1. attachee word: ç, f, h, k, p, s, ş, t? NO !
2.So,should 'd' of the suffix change to 't' ? NO !
3.Observe the last vowel of the attachee word.

What does the Rule of Vowel Harmony dictate?
Should 'e' of the suffix change to 'a' ? YES !
and...
Resulting Turkish :İstanbul'dan
English Meaning :from Istanbul
Rule of Turkish Vowel Harmony a ...may be followed by... a or ı
ı ...may be followed by... a or ı
o ...may be followed by... u or a
u ...may be followed by... u or a
e ...may be followed by... e or i
i ...may be followed by... e or i
ö ...may be followed by... ü or e
ü ...may be followed by... ü or e

(phew !!!) want to try these examples ?
from Eskişehir : ......?
from Muş : .............?
from Gaziantep : .....?

yeah !!!

Orkhon (Orhun) script/Old Turkish Alphabet-8th century

my cat is here..where's yours ?

how to prepare Turkish Tea :-)

In Turkey,there are about 200 000 small tea growers in East Black Sea Region of Turkey.They pick green tea three flush in a year from May to October in hilly lands of East Black Sea Region.
To prepare the tea a teapot and a kettle are needed:
Both parts in Turkish mean çaydanlık.Also you need tea glasses (çay bardağı)
1.Measure one tea-spoonful tea for each cup and one for teapot (put more tea for better brew).
2.Pour boiled water into the teapot from the kettle.
3.Reduce the fire under the kettle.The brew in the teapot mustn't be boiled but the water must be hot in the kettle.
4.Brewing time must be 10-15 minutes.

afiyet olsun ! bon appetite !

some Turkish dishes (of my hometown)

from my cat : "miaow ! miaow ! " :-)

* * * Southern All Stars* * * JAPAN

Southern All Stars -from JAPAN :-)

Led by Kanagawa-born lead vocalist and guitarist Kuwata Keisuke and bass player and background singer Kazuyuku Sekiguchi, the Southern All Stars are one of Japan's top rock bands. Their album Kamkura" sold more than 1,000,000 copies and their many hits include such Keisuke-penned tunes as "Hoshi No Eri," "Minna No Uta," "Sayonara Baby," "Erotica Seven," "Mampy No G Spot," and "Paradise." The genesis of Southern All Stars traces back to a fateful day in 1974, when Keisuke and Sekiguchi met as students at Aoyama Gakuin University. The following year, they teamed with Hara Yuko, Nozawa Hideyuki, Omori Takashi, and Matsuda Hiroshi to form the Southern All Stars. While each band member has released at least one solo album, Keisuke has released six albums of his original songs.

and here's one of my favourite songs...

Namida no kis :-)

Ima suguatte mitsumeru soburi oshite mite mo

Naze ni damatte kokoro hanarete shimau

Nakanaide yoru ga tsurakute mo ame ni utareta hana no you ni

Maji de okotta toki hodo sugao ga itoshikute

Tagai ni motto wakari aeteta tsumori

Ikanaide mune ga itamu kara hoka no dare ka to deau tame ni

Namida no kisu mou ichido dare yori mo aishiteru

Saigo no kisu mou ichido dake de mo kimi o mune ni daite

Itsumo warata omoide darake no futari ni mo

Yokaze ga sotto koi no owari o nageru

Kanashi mi no toki wa sugiru kedo kitto ashita no yume wa minai

Namida no kisu mou ichido dare yori mo aishiteru

Saigo no kisu mou ichido dake de mo kimi no tame ni okuru

Furareta tsumori de ikite yuku ni wa

Dame ni nari sou na hodo kanashimi ga kienai

Namida no kisu mou ichido dare yori mo aishiteru

Sayonara wa kotoba ni dekinai sore wa natsu no sadame

Namida no kisu mou ichido dare yori mo aishiteru

Saigo no kisu mou ichido dake de mo kimi o daite itai

ENTER THE STARGATE :-)

STARGATE SG1 (1997-2007)

A secret military team,SG-1,is formed to explore the recently discovered StarGates.
General Hammond summons Colonel Jack O'Neill out of retirement to embark on a secret rescue mission. O'Neill confesses that he disobeyed orders to destroy the Stargate on Planet Abydos, and that scientist Daniel Jackson may still be alive. Arriving on Abydos with his team, O'Neill meets up once again with the scientist, who has discovered a giant elaborate cartouche in hieroglyphics. All signs point to the fact that this is a map of many Stargates that exist throughout the galaxy - a development that makes the dream of the SG-1 team to travel throughout the universe in time a reality.

let's ...ENTER THE STARGATE !
Cast :
Actors/actresses .. .. .. .. .. .. acting as:
Richard Dean Anderson......Jonathan “Jack” O’Neill
Amanda Tapping..............Samantha Carther
Michael Shanks................Dr. Daniel Jackson
Christopher Judge ............Teal’C
Teryl Rothery..................Janet Fraiser
Don S. Davis ...................General George Hammond

Tonari no Totoro:-) My neighbour Totoro

One of the best cartoons of Japan:-)

Tonari no Totoro-My neighbour Totoro:-)

watch it by dailymotion-6 episodes.

Hi everyone! Welcome :-) Hoşgeldiniz :-)
Still trying to organize my blog-thinking of summer :-)
Here we live the spring;sometimes rainy-sometimes sunny.But what I know is a very hot and sunny summer is waiting for us.Oh,I can not wait! I've missed quite a lot walking by the sea;picking up seashellswatching the boats and ships passing by...All in all I've missed the blue !
Take care,loves from Turkey !

Turkish village houses

Wooden-made Turkish village houses...

You can see traditional wooden-made houses some of which are more than a hundred years old.Now it's still spring...daisies are waiting for you-to say"Welcome" Hoşgeldiniz".

Tea-time

Would you like to drink some tea?
çay : tea,tee ocha

Merhaba !Hello! Guten Tag! Konnichiwa !
The Turkish alphabet consists of 29 letters - 8 vowels and 21 consonants.
A B C Ç D E F G Ğ H I İ J K L M N O Ö P R S Ş T U Ü V Y Z
a b c ç d e f g ğ h ı i j k l m n o ö p r s ş t u ü v y z

CAPPADOCIA-TURKEY

Hello (merhaba) from my cat :-)

Here's a short video about Cappadocia (Kapadokya)-Turkey

Amazing fairy-chimneys (peri bacaları)

Istanbul-Timeless City

HI EVERYONE !

MERHABA

from

TURKEY !

here are some traditional costumes of Turkey:-)