I made a really big change in my life last August, I decided to go to Istanbul...
Thousand miles away from my country, my hometown, my friends, and my family.Which means almost everything I owned, since I lived my first seventeen years and eight months there (and I haven't even turned eighteen!!!).
And now here I am... in the city of a thousand masjids....
I have lived here since the first of September, but officially became an Istanbul citizen since the 14th of October (that's when my residence permit were issued...). In this two and a half month, I have quite learnt the language they use here, Turkish, because it is a neccesity to survive in the town (or in the country) where most of its people barely speak English.
Okay, it's true that I've met some really good english speaker here, but to be able to encounter them on the street is a miracle (it's even more difficult than meeting a polar bear in a tropical forest :D). And most of them only know phrases like "hi!", "how are you?", "what's you're name?", etc. sometimes without even knowing it's mean....and the rest... are helpless.
Other conditions that force me to learnt turkish is the fact that my lessons are taught in Turkish (Oops.. have I told you that I'm a student?? Sorry...).
Yups, I am a student here, A student in one of the oldest university in the world, Istanbul University (I think so, since this year is it's 555th years...actually I don't know if there is any older university... if you know any, feel free to tell me), specifically in the faculty of pharmacy of Istanbul University. Since the lessons are taught in turkish, on 16th of September I had a turkish exam. And after I had a two-weeks-express-turkish-course (that turned me from know-nothing-about-turkish me into at-least-know-something-about-turkish me) I entered the turkish exam. They announced the result the following day, and (surprisingly) I passed the exam, thank's god... TT_TT.
When I told you that I have quite learnt Turkish, it doesn't really mean that I can understand and speak turkish really well. I can mostly understand written turkish now (with a dictonary on my hand), but to understand the spoken turkish is not an easy thing, esp. because they speak quite fast and most of the words are not spoken the way it should be spoken (you get what I'm trying to tell, right??). And then, to speak in turkish is not as easy as it's sounds. It's quite a challenge to construct sentences, with a really different pattern with the way you always use and with so many grammatical rules. For writing things, I'm quite confident, since you have quite much time here...
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...
...
you know what...
I have just realized something...
I have never really written in Turkish...
I mean writing a paragraph or anything that really has meaning...
Can I really do it???
OMG....
And I'm facing the mid-term exam in one week...
\(>.<)/ I'm doomed....
...
...
...
Okay, I think I should learn and practice my Turkish this week...
Wish me luck....
See you later...
Fahmi <3
Thousand miles away from my country, my hometown, my friends, and my family.Which means almost everything I owned, since I lived my first seventeen years and eight months there (and I haven't even turned eighteen!!!).
And now here I am... in the city of a thousand masjids....
!!!WELCOME TO ISTANBUL!!!
v(^^)v
I have lived here since the first of September, but officially became an Istanbul citizen since the 14th of October (that's when my residence permit were issued...). In this two and a half month, I have quite learnt the language they use here, Turkish, because it is a neccesity to survive in the town (or in the country) where most of its people barely speak English.
Okay, it's true that I've met some really good english speaker here, but to be able to encounter them on the street is a miracle (it's even more difficult than meeting a polar bear in a tropical forest :D). And most of them only know phrases like "hi!", "how are you?", "what's you're name?", etc. sometimes without even knowing it's mean....and the rest... are helpless.
Other conditions that force me to learnt turkish is the fact that my lessons are taught in Turkish (Oops.. have I told you that I'm a student?? Sorry...).
Yups, I am a student here, A student in one of the oldest university in the world, Istanbul University (I think so, since this year is it's 555th years...actually I don't know if there is any older university... if you know any, feel free to tell me), specifically in the faculty of pharmacy of Istanbul University. Since the lessons are taught in turkish, on 16th of September I had a turkish exam. And after I had a two-weeks-express-turkish-course (that turned me from know-nothing-about-turkish me into at-least-know-something-about-turkish me) I entered the turkish exam. They announced the result the following day, and (surprisingly) I passed the exam, thank's god... TT_TT.
When I told you that I have quite learnt Turkish, it doesn't really mean that I can understand and speak turkish really well. I can mostly understand written turkish now (with a dictonary on my hand), but to understand the spoken turkish is not an easy thing, esp. because they speak quite fast and most of the words are not spoken the way it should be spoken (you get what I'm trying to tell, right??). And then, to speak in turkish is not as easy as it's sounds. It's quite a challenge to construct sentences, with a really different pattern with the way you always use and with so many grammatical rules. For writing things, I'm quite confident, since you have quite much time here...
...
...
...
you know what...
I have just realized something...
I have never really written in Turkish...
I mean writing a paragraph or anything that really has meaning...
Can I really do it???
OMG....
And I'm facing the mid-term exam in one week...
\(>.<)/ I'm doomed....
...
...
...
Okay, I think I should learn and practice my Turkish this week...
Wish me luck....
See you later...
Fahmi <3
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