Cyprus-Forum.com

[Brittania]

HA, trying to learn turkish!! , judging from my last post i cant even spell lol

I am learning too, don't worry - my teacher is often in stitches with my mistakes - but once the grammar is (almost) learnt the rest isn't so bad, just a case of learning the vocabulary. If you get some small post it notes, write the Turkish name on and stick them up on various items like cupboards, fridge, etc, we had great fun at lessons when we were learning about body parts!!

Oh, Tess, you never. Yaramaz kiz/Naughty girl.

Let lessons begin

You should have heard us singing that song, "head, shoulders, knees and toes" in Turkish............Now that WAS funny

I'll hold my tongue

[denizaksulu]

HA, trying to learn turkish!! , judging from my last post i cant even spell lol

I am learning too, don't worry - my teacher is often in stitches with my mistakes - but once the grammar is (almost) learnt the rest isn't so bad, just a case of learning the vocabulary. If you get some small post it notes, write the Turkish name on and stick them up on various items like cupboards, fridge, etc, we had great fun at lessons when we were learning about body parts!!

Oh, Tess, you never. Yaramaz kiz/Naughty girl.

Let lessons begin

You should have heard us singing that song, "head, shoulders, knees and toes" in Turkish............Now that WAS funny

I'll hold my tongue

No need to as long as you are polite with your'remarks'. There is freedom of 'speech' so to speak.

[SSBubbles]

Went to the north part of Nicosia( turkish part) for first time in my life. And there were 2 things that i noticed:
1. There were almost no women on the streets
2. All the young guys had bad look in their eyes like they are going to jump on me just right now... and i was feeling so insecure



... i didnt like this much. I dont hink i want to go to live there

Thats the biggest load of B******s I have heard in a while............

AGREE WITH YOU TESS!

I have visited the North on many occasions, both with Webbo and with female friends and we have always been made to feel more than welcome

NEVER have I felt afraid or insecure

[SSBubbles]

HA, trying to learn turkish!! , judging from my last post i cant even spell lol

I am learning too, don't worry - my teacher is often in stitches with my mistakes - but once the grammar is (almost) learnt the rest isn't so bad, just a case of learning the vocabulary. If you get some small post it notes, write the Turkish name on and stick them up on various items like cupboards, fridge, etc, we had great fun at lessons when we were learning about body parts!!

That is a good idea Tess, I may give that one a go (in Greek obviously!) but not post-its please - non biodegradable and bad for the environment!

I did try to make myself 'flash-cards' once - but I cannot draw to save my life!

I find the Greek verbs very difficult to learn, so a lot of what I say tends to be in the 'present' -and by far the easiest tense!

[chick a dee]

Get the feeling i might learn some bad habits from you guys !! i'm just learning words at the mo, rather than sentences.. oh and i can count to ten and order a beer "priorities sorted"

[roseandchan]

hi chick a dee, everything is great here in the north, turkish army are not a problem like some would have you believe. i will say that the only way you will get on here is to make tc friends. so learning turkish is a good start, you will pick it up day to day as you go along. so you can count to ten, order an efes but can you swear yet,lol.

[chick a dee]

no but i get the feeling im about to learn, .. farkitmes - whatever is the closest ive got lol, we have a tc friend, orhan who helps and vice versa, also some staff at my dad's local, i think its much easier learning from people rather than a book or the linguaphone thing..

[laptachap]

pontians want more rights !!

Lapta rules ok

[Tim Drayton]

I see some adverts offering instruction in Cypriot Greek in the South. Are any courses in Cypriot Turkish available anywhere?