While we were in İstanbul I had high hopes that my Turkish would improve a great deal. However, for the most part I was quite disappointed with how little Turkish I actually got to use. Initially my confidence was knocked quite a bit as people did not understand simple things I was saying such as asking for coffee and tea in a cafe. But I soon ( Read more... )

The thought that we might actually be going back to Turkia sometime in the foreseeable future has given me new incentive to learn more Turkish......this however is not good for my sleep pattern - it is gone 1am and I have to go into work tomorrow so I really ought to go to bed ( Read more... )

The postman cometh.......

And now I have a nice new Turkish book and CD!
Already it has given me more confidence that my pronounciation is not too far off being right - this is a good thing :)

*BouNCe*