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Golightly · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject:

I've known English people whose language bears only the slightest resemblance to English...............innit?

sandyhoney2 · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 189

turkishlover25 · Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Charleston, IL USA

Don't alot of the language schools offer you free lessons in the other languages they teach? Do many people pick up Turkish that way? I really want to learn Italian or German actually.

Frizzie Lizzie · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject:

Uhm...I have not heard of a school in Istanbul that does that yet. Perhaps I'm mistaken, and other posters will contradict me. Most "reputable" schools don't even offer Turkish lessons anymore!

molly farquharson · Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 839 Location: istanbul

That is true of ET, Interlang, and Gokdil. However, teachers there can get a discount at Dogu Dilleri for Turkish lessons. I think it is a good idea to take lessons at least to get some basics. Then it becomes a case of what kind of language learner you are as to how to keep learning. I think the process of feeling stupid or childlike from not knowing a language gives us much more sympathy for our students Smile

yaramaz · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:45 am Post subject:

I got free lessons at EF Suadiye last year (though by that time the beginner class offered was too low for me and the intermediate I ended up taking was taught by the worlds most boring grammar drone ) and again this year at Bilgi (which I wanted to take but the timetable conflicted with mine).

lunamoon · Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 13

The question 'Do you know Turkish' seems to parallel neatly the English language learner's usual sorrowful cry of 'How long will it take me to learn English?' or other classic: 'Can I learn English in 2 seconds...er...years?'

I mean, don't harass the asker for not knowing the banality of their question, but show them another way of thinking