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Pachalafaka

Portuguese guy moves to Istanbul, learns turkish and lives the new culture.
Um português em Istanbul
Bir portekiz İstanbul'da

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Location: Türkiye

2004-10-04

Biraz türkçe biliyorum!

I finished the first level of the turkish course with top grade!
The exam had the following parts:
  • Reading a text and answering questions
  • Listening to a text and answering questions
  • Grammar test
  • Composition
  • Conversation

I'm very happy with the school (DİLMER), they have a fast rythm 5 days/week course, and our teacher was very good in presenting the course and keeping everyone up to date! I made good friends during this month of course, coming from Germany, USA and France.

My turkish is still very basic: some vocabulaire, present, past and future tenses. On daily life I can express myself much better and I start to understand what they tell me. I still can't read the newspaper, and I get maybe 10% of what they say in television :(

Tomorrow I start the second level. The school has 6 levels, so only 5 to go!


7 Comments:

Blogger (n)Ana said...

Olá Paulo... já ouvi falar muito de ti (principalmente de uma história de teres ficado preso na varanda hehe).
Sou a namorada do teu vizinho mais fixe de Carnaxide ;o)
Ele enviou-me o endereço do teu blog e hoje cá andei a ver como anda o vizinho aventureiro.
Espero que tudo continue a correr muito bem e que te dês muito bem por aí!
cumprimentos!

04 October, 2004 21:05  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Congratulations! You should just take it a level at a time but the truth is that the difficult part is the start! From my experience the fun starts now, when you can really start saying things and having discussions in class...
Cheers, BF

07 October, 2004 18:02  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Birçok kutlama!öpmek, Nnn

09 October, 2004 20:32  
Blogger Aziz said...

Nana, parabens! Tens um namorado super-heroi! Mas não o deixes ver demasiados filmes do SpiderMan :-)

12 October, 2004 17:27  
Blogger Aziz said...

Vida de estudante é um espetáculo, especialmente depois de se ter passado pela vida de trabalhador para comparar :-P
Aproveita tu também!!

12 October, 2004 17:35  
Blogger Aziz said...

Uygar, I'm counting on you for the advanced course on turkish street talk! :)
Come back soon!

12 October, 2004 17:38  
Blogger Aziz said...

BF, you're right! The fun is in being able to talk about something different then tables, glasses and what time I got up yesterday :)

12 October, 2004 17:46  

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