i (still) suck at reading turkish 

hi!! 11:49 , "sakın" does not mean "close to" but it means something like "do not even think about it!" and "yaklaşmak" is to come close to💗 so the sentence means "don't you even think about coming close to me!" in a direct translation but we usually don't translate the sakın, so it can be confusing 😅

turkish seems so fun to learn! i'd love to try someday. love your videos elysse!

Everytime you come up with a new Turkish language video I stop whatever I am doing to study with you. I really enjoy this kind of read along video! Thank youu :)

Please make more videos on turkish! I find them really helpful with my own turkish journey and quite motivating ^_^

3:20 you can think it like ölmek=to die öldürmek=to make it die bcs like koşmak=to run and koşturmak=to make it run or gülmek=laughing and güldürmek=make her laugh this is common thing in Turkish 9:05 elinden kaçmak/ellerinden kaçmak means directly escaped from their hands. It means to miss something when you were so close to capture it. 11:50 lol that was yakın and sakın kinda means Dont ever or be cautious. 12:30 At first Smith rejected him Btw you were very good and its really easy to see your development from last video. You are doing so well.

Your pronunciation is spot-on most of the time. As a native speaker, I'd say that you're doing great 🙌🏻

Harika! Your progress in Turkish is impressive 👏🏻😊

telafuzlarınız gayet güzel, grameri ve dilin inceliklerini bir ölçüde çözmüşsünüz, polygot olduğunuz mantık yürütme tarzınızdan belli oluyor. başarılar👍

Like a human which learning Turkish and also improving English I would like say that your methods really helpful particularly with these moments when I started using these different things in my study process with Turkish my Turkish started growing up, thank you for such good videos.

Your study videos are so useful for me! I'm constantly looking for new ways to practice and your videos have been a huge inspiration for me since I started learning German. Keep em coming!

I think you are doing very well :) böyle devam et eninde sonunda bir şekilde daha fazla gelişeceksin :D

Turkish is fun but also a headache lmao. Most sentences have the exact opposite item arrangement when you directly translate to English. Visited Istanbul about a month ago. Thanks for the video, Elysse!

Waaaaa!! Es increíble como ha avanzado tu español! Hace un tiempo que no veia tus videos y estoy impresionada 😮 QUE BACÁN ❤

2:12 so you mean to tell me that there's another polyglot who looks exactly like Lindie Botes, but isn't actually her

"Sakin" means calm "Sakın means beware/caution

Love it Elysse! Just a note : When you say "sakın" in this way, it doesn't mean "calm" as like an adjective it's like Sakın güvenme Sakın kandırma Sakın inanma (or inanma sakın)

Seni 1 sene önceki Türkçe videondan buldum. Baya ilerlemişsin. Bence altyazılı Türkçe film ya da dizi izlemen dil kavramını ve kelime dağarcığını geliştirir. Ama yine de süpersin!! Yeni abone oldum, ne kadar daha ilerleyeciğini görmeyi merakla bekliyorum. :)

I go to the country to buy books. It’s so hard to find books otherwise. I don’t travel just for books but I always visit bookstores while abroad.

We love a practical demonstration of language practice ❤

Elysse! Could you talk more about moving to different countries? I’m moving to Portugal next year if everything goes to plan and I noticed that you seem to have lived in multiple different countries. It’s my first time even living alone and would love your take and tips on it

I hope you come to Marmaris. I'm curious about your thoughts on this place.

wordreference is so real. i'm currently trying to read ali ile ramazan in turkish after unsuccessfully attempting the turkish translation of the song of achilles. somehow it's a little easier to understand even though it's an actual turkish book??

your pronunciation is very good

heyy l am a native turkish who learns spanish and l def can say that ur accent is perfect for a non native speaker keep going !!!!

As a Turkish, I have to say at 10:09 you sounded 100000% native Elysse! I have to say that you are doing pretty well!

Hello Elysse, I hope you're doing well. Did you buy two books or is it a bilingual edition ? Thank you for the video, take care. God bless you.

Wow Your Turkish pronunciation is very natural and with little accent if any. That's THE most important part. You'll figure out the rest, in time. The text says, "What do the white men mean/say, daddy? Are their skins white because they are sick?" Basically she never saw a white person before and was confused why they had this PALE skin, and maybe because they got sick or something, she reckons! :) Yalnız: Alone, lonely. Yalnızca: Only, alone, solely

Do you do anything with the new words or phrases you learn when you are done reading? I have a terrible habit of reading, looking up words I don't know, and then never acknowledging them again 😅

I started learning Turkish from zero, I wrote my master degree thesis in Turkish, it was a long journey, my mother language is Arabic

I'm curious how long it took you to comfortably read a language without accompanying audio? I'd like to start reading more things in my target language (Romanian) to get more input, but I'm worried about pronouncing things wrong (either in my head or outloud) and having to fix it later down the line.

Have you considered extensive reading (rather than intensive)? That is, just reading without looking anything up? I have done this for several languages, ignoring what I don't know, and it works really well. It also allows you to get through a lot more material, so as you get more exposure, you start to understand more and more.

"Elinden kaçırmak" is an idiom, think about it like this, "adamlar avucumuzun içindeydi ama onları elimizden kaçırdık." / (literal) "we had them in our palm (grasp) but we let them leave our hand" / "we had those man but they escaped", so that phrase is shortened version of this hand metaphor, someone escapes of your grasp. Metaphor actually continues, as "avcunu yalamak" also an idiom, after you let someone out of your grasp, you lick your empty hand (sarcastically said); "Para avcunuzun içindeydi, ama onu elinizden kaçırdınız, artık avcunuzu yalarsınız!" This is something i just made up for teaching purposes, but "avcunun içinde", "elinden kaçırmak", and "avcunu yalamak" can be remembered with this story, so i just wanted to give you something to remember.

Uhh I wanted to help you so bad while watching 😂😂😂 I am also doing reading practices, I read German with English translations, hence I can understand your pain😢😢😅

Your accent is amazing. Try to find natives there to get more pro at that. Bence sakın pes etme. (Do not ever give up) :)

First comment :D, I love your videos ❤

I never knew being stuck in Turkish is a thing that happens to many people….I’m upper intermediate and still I can understand what I’m reading but I can’t write similar texts I can’t speak about everything…I don’t know the exact problem but it’s a relief to know it’s common

Sakın means Dont you dare in that context

Hello Elysse, I will tell you a way that will make learning Turkish much easier; There is the Yunus Emre Institute in Elysee, Washington, USA. This institute is a foundation opened with the law passed by the Republic of Turkey in 2007. This foundation teaches Turkish with professional teachers all over the world. In addition, many activities related to Turkish culture are held in this foundation

This was so fun! Got to practice mi español! ❤ sorry about the ratas

there are several causative suffixes in turkish. so suffixes which describe to make somebody or something to do something. öl- is to die and öldür- is to make somebody to die/to kill. the causatives are as in this example -DIr, -t and -Ar. çık- to go/come out of something/somewhere çıkar- make somebody to come out/take out. you can also use several to describe somebody made a second person to make a third person to do something. sometimes multiple causatives are redundant. çıkarttın mı? did you take it out? here we have the stemm çık- then causative -ar and than a redundant causative -t. additional causatives are not generally redundant but some verbs are known to have redundant causatives like çıkart- sometimes even with a second redundant causative çıkarttır- you know there are some mistakes which natives tend to do. multiple causative without a need is one of them and for verbs with one syllable stemms double passive is also common like de- to say denil- to be said but den- would be already the passive form or ye- to eat and yenil- to be eaten but it should be yen- especially in this case because there is also the verb yen- to win/to defeat and the passive of that one is yenil-

türkçe biliyorum ve bugün türkçe gcse'min 4'ünden 3'ünü aldım

I'm fairly sure "sakın" doesn't have a direct exact one word translation in English. It's used to emphasize negative warnings or ultimatums. "Bana yaklaşmayın!" means "don't get closer to me!" and "Sakın bana yaklaşmayın!" might be something along the lines of "Do not dare getting closer to me!" but it doesn't really have the literal "dare" meaning word by word. You can consider it as an extra caution word for warnings or ultimatums. It's like saying "DO NOT", instead of simply saying "don't" or something :)

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Have you heard of Hasan Abi? He is a native turkish streamer and I bet he'd be down to do some sort of turkish focused collab with you

Türkçe’de sana en zor gelen şeyler neler ? Mesela siz getirmek ya da götürmek için tek bir fiil kullanıyorsunuz, “take”. Bu iki fiil arasındaki ayrımı yapabiliyor musun ?

As a Turkish person, I know it is really hard. There so many suffixes in Turkish and even 1 letter can change the meaning so much. But, your accent is really good and pronunciation too. Congratulations. If I wasnt born in Turkey, I would never be able to learn this language cuz it is so complicated. But, I really love it. It is so beautiful (cuz it is my native language :D) Wish you luck in your journey.

I know "fakat" from the phrase "fakatı makatı yok", "no ifs, ands, or buts".

Mach mal mehr Videos auf deutsch bitteeeeeeeeeee. Danke 😭

you've certainly gotten better at it 💦🍅🍅💦🍅🌜💦🌜🌜💦🌜⭐🌜🌛💦🌛💦🌜

Hi

Türkçe'n çok iyi kolaylıklar dilerim

Merhaba Elysse çok daha kolay Türkçe Öğrenmen i sağlayacak bir yol söyleyeceğim ; Elysee Amerika Washington da Yunus Emre Enstitüsü var , bu enstitü Türkiye Cumhuriyetinin 2007 de çıkardığı kanunla açılan bir vakıf tır bu vakıf dünya nın her yerin de profesyonel öğretmenlerle Türkçe öğretmek te . Ayrıca bu vakıfta Türk kültürü ile ilgili bir sürü etkinlik te yapılıyor .

So I'm a professional translator and it occurred to me that you and your community are agnostic to the fact that most literature is translated first to the closest major market language, retranslated from there and then the opposite occurs for the minority language speakers in the market. This means that if you seek out a work that is originally written in English it may first be translated to Greek or Arabic before it is translated to Turkish (probably not nowadays as Turkish is strong in its own right in terms of readership, especially including former Soviet Republics), BUT if you buy a version in translation in country to e.g. Spanish, it is done completely apart from the original English version. This means that nuances are missed in the original translation (to Turkish) and then exacerbated in the translation to Spanish. The latter stage is also the weakest link. If a market is a given market, between German and English, you know that the quality of the translation is probably high as market forces favor the more skilled translators in human translation and the input data is vastly larger for automated translation. But translations from Turkish to Spanish are surely a niche market in human translation and vastly under supported in terms of data for automated translation. This means that the Spanish version of the text you are trying to read for educational purposes is most likely rife with errors. Considering the fact that this work is very likely available in translation to Spanish, you might want to compare that version with the one you're working with in translation to Turkish then to Spanish.

"Sakın!" depends on the context can mean " never , ever ! " ...kind of a warning ; so like keep that out of your mind , don't even mention it ,...

maybe i missed in video but why are you learning turkish?

Since when have you been learning Turkish?"

I'm learning turkish at college and I swear to god turkish reading is the most hard thing I ever seen😭

Where do you live in

İlk türk yorumu!!

Start a cat sitting side hustle... you can get some extra cash and the rats will slowly become ghosts.

Turkce altyazi olsaydi iyidi

why you reading translated text, try an original turkish book

Your pronunciation is close to native speakers.

If it's your struggle condition... daummmmm

Lies

Why you are learning turkish, turkish people do not use turkish, where you will use it🤔

To be honest, the topic in the text you read was very weird to me. They're literally talking about the whiteness of some white people.

Dont study the language of the people who knows how to make kabab. They only know that trade properly, unfortunately. Try studying Russian or Chinese.

lol seeing someone struggling with my mother tongue really entertained me 😭😭 u r amazing ur pronunciation are really great too !! U got this🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻