William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6215 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 9 of 14 16 November 2007 at 8:14am | IP Logged |
A successful phone call in Turkish. This is always trickier than face to face conversations as you can't go on body language and the phone may distort sounds.
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William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6215 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 10 of 14 18 November 2007 at 9:49am | IP Logged |
My spoken fluency is improving. Others have noticed this, and I had a prolonged conversation with a Jehovah's Witness using only Turkish. I was quite proud of myself linguistically but it looks like the gates of heaven are closed (sigh)
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William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6215 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 11 of 14 20 November 2007 at 4:17am | IP Logged |
Stepping up work on Turkish vocabulary. I am going to try and find blank cards so I can write words, phrases and short sentences in them (long a favourite and flexible method of mine).
A side step to another language - I met a couple of Italians in İstanbul and had a short and rather basic conversation with them in Italian.
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William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6215 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 12 of 14 25 November 2007 at 3:22am | IP Logged |
More translation, more vocabulary. I am paying more attention to word endings, as flaws in my use of them have been pointed out to me.
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William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6215 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 13 of 14 27 November 2007 at 3:26am | IP Logged |
Same old single but I had a look for a frequency dictionary (discussed in more detail on another thread).
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William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6215 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 14 of 14 02 December 2007 at 9:13am | IP Logged |
I chatted in broken Italian with a native Turkish speaker who knows il bel parlare. It just indicated how much more fluent my Turkish is by comparison. Also more book translation from Turkish - I finished a chapter.
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