Learning Turkish
For people of other nationalities, the Turkish language can be a bit daunting and on 3 other occasions I have endeavoured to master this difficult language with not a lot of success. I understand the basic rules of the language and have a lot of single words in my head but stringing a sentence together and trying to converse does not seem to happen. Maybe I haven’t tried hard enough but my partner and I decided we would have another attemp
On a recent visit to the Girne American University on other business, we were hailed by a very familiar face we knew from a different location. This was Tariq Mahmood Chaudhry who is now the Program Director of the Lifelong Learning Centre at GAU. We told him of our desire to be able to speak Turkish as we now have contact with more and more Turkish speaking people and so we decided to enrol on a course at the University to try and master this language.
On 12th December we arrived to start our first class and found that we were a very international group with Bader from Jordan, Arjun from India, Oksana from Russia,
The first lesson progressed well and maybe we were all a little nervous and self-conscious but my initial reaction was that this time I could well master this difficult task as even on the first lesson, as well as learning about the language, Yeṣer was encouraging us to talk and make up small sentences. It isn’t easy but my feeling is that we all need to be pushed to a certain extent and who knows, maybe at the end of the 8-week course I will have grasped a little of the language. Time will tell.
The Lif
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By Margaret Sheard