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onurdolar
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Speaks: Turkish*, English
Studies: Italian, German

Message 17 of 21

19 May 2012 at 11:36pm | IP Logged

"işte" is equal to "Look! There it is" where as you use "bak" in situations such as
"look, there is a cat over there"

But well "işte" is still very much in use in Turkish; probably either you pronounced it
very bad or your student is a 3rd generation Turkish-German, those know very little
Turkish if any at all. The Turkish they speak can be considered a whole new dialect.
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Sunja
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Germany
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Studies: French, Mandarin

Message 18 of 21

19 May 2012 at 11:59pm | IP Logged

He's second generation but I think that you're right; either I caught him off guard or he just didn't know the word. When I get better with speaking I'll test him to see how much he knows ;) Thanks for the clarification on the words!

edit: typos

Edited by Sunja on 20 May 2012 at 10:42am
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ungoo
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Taiwan
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Message 19 of 21

20 May 2012 at 5:56am | IP Logged

Thanks Sunja.

I hope the French and German version are of the same quality, both goods and the bad. I guess I'll go ahead and
buy it.

It looks like there are enough grammar notes in and one could start listening to native audio with transcription
after the Assimil.
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CaucusWolf
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Message 20 of 21

22 May 2012 at 6:27am | IP Logged

Günaydın

I started using the FSI Turkish course and was wondering if the vocabulary is so outdated that it wouldnt be worth finishing FSI??

Thanks
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pingvin10
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Message 21 of 21

22 May 2012 at 6:37am | IP Logged

CaucusWolf wrote:

Günaydın

I started using the FSI Turkish course and was wondering if the vocabulary is so outdated that it wouldnt be worth finishing FSI??

Thanks

It's been discussed before, try this topic or the FSI forum.

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