Just thought I'd do an update on my progress on my own online courses. I've been slogging away at Turkish for beginners for around 4 months now. I don't have much talent for languages, and Turkish is a language with very little similarity to English, so no help there.
However, I do enjoy this course. One of the reasons is that I can spend as much time as I need over each section, and can go back to a previous section to do a reprise of anything I have "lost". This is particularly useful as the pronunciation of letters is so different in Turkish, and the online package has sound as well as written parts.
I'm now at a stage where I need practice in conversation, more than any online course can give me. I am lucky enough to know several native Turkish speakers who have volunteers (at the price of a home-cooked supper) to come round for a Turkish conversational evening. I have a feeling that they will also bring several bottles of Buzbag - a Turkish red wine, so either the conversation will flow, or we will think that we understand each other without the need for any language.
# posted by Mary @ 10:33 PM
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