TAC 2014 md0 [Turkish]

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23 days late (well, 20, I've been studying from 3 days before making this post), but I think I have a goal for 2014:

Learn Basic Turkish [flag=]tr[/flag]

Rationale: It's mostly political. Turkish is the language of some 30% of the people living on the island I am living, and we are supposed to find a way to live together. Being able to follow their news and communicate with them, even at an individual level, will go a long way towards understanding each other.

Bonus: When I overcome the initial shyness of using a new language, it would be easy to practice the language with native speakers, who will be likely bilingual ([flag=]tr[/flag], [flag=]en[/flag]) or trilingual ([flag=]tr[/flag], [flag=]en[/flag], [flag=]el[/flag]), if over 50.

I have a knowledge of Japanese (still kinda working), so the grammar shouldn't surprise me a lot.

Materials: At the moment, I have "Teach Yourself Beginner's Turkish" Book + CD, "Turkish Grammar" a 400p reference book by a Cypriot linguist, and access to Turkish Cypriot TV channels.

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January, up to now

- Refreshed knowledge of alfabe and basic phonology
- Major Vowel Harmony
- The 5 "cases": ø, i, e, de, den

[Meera]

Yay Turkish!! I will definitely be following your log!

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I will be posting my grammar notes here, in the tr subforum, for peer review, if it's accepted by the subforum mods.

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I guess this goes here.

I saw this book on a friend's house, and I could read the title


It's a book from the UN, it's available online as well
http://www.ahdr.info/ckfinder/userfiles ... urkish.pdf

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Studied some Assimil dialogues with Ektoras. Far better than studying alone and using the TY book.
I got to form a couple sentences in Turkish, for example. Using Syntax™!

I will need to organise my handwritten notes from last night.