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@@brucewayne1394 çabalayan bir insanı mükemmel olmadığı için yargılamamaktan bahsediyorum, kültürümüzün ve dilimizin yayılıyor olması da hoş tabii ki ama bundan faydalanacağımı sanmıyorum
Erken- erkek I used to say erkek instead of erken. The first time that I said sıkıldım my teacher laughed, he made me practice that word a lot, now I know why.
I made all of the big mistakes that you mentioned- wanting to say sıkıldım, but getting the pronunciation wrong, saying "bekar mısınız", asking for sıcak erkek- all the hits. Also, when I tried to say "inecek var" on a minibus, I said, "inek var" and when I tried to say "müsait bir yerde inibilir miyim", I said, "mükemmel bir yerde inibilir miyim" . I'm really good at giving massages, but I learned very quickly that "vermek" is the wrong word to use, as it has a sexual meaning- I now know to say "yapmak" when it comes to massages. Finally, from my students' pranks ("Hocam, how do you say 'hasta' in English?" "Sick" Hahahaha), I learned to say "ill" when talking about not feeling well.
I made a really embarrassing mistake when I tried to say thanks for nearly a year. Instead of saying Teşekkürler (thanks), I would say Taşaklar (testicles), for some reason nobody corrected me except for my dad when he finally heard me saying it at a Turkish grocery store in Canada... Another story: I was just in Turkey and I made many mistakes, I was trying to explain my job to my family in Turkish. I work as a nature educator at a national park. I was explaining what I teach, so I said "Doğayı (nature), kuşları (birds), ayıları (bears), ve kürtleri (Kurdish people) öğretiyorum". I confused kürt (Kurd) with kurt (wolf), my family was very confused!
TRUE STORY: I'm bilingual (English-Greek) and when I was in Turkey (still in the beginning of my Turkish - learning journey) I went to an ice cream shop and was able to interact with the seller in Turkish. So, naturally, very happy with myself, I went back to get a spoon for my ice cream because he forgot to give me one. BUT the word for SPOON in GREEK is very similar to the word for FORK in TURKISH. So i confidently asked him to give me a fork for my ice cream, and even insisted when he asked again, and again. I don't think I've ever seen a more confused person before in my life.
This is a real story: My mom has a friend. We all live in Istanbul. Her daughter moved here around 10 years ago. And when she first came her mom asked her to go to bakal (local shop) and buy some bread. So she told her daughter to tell them “Iki ekmek istiyorum” which translates as “I want 2 loafs of bread”. She went to bakal but instead of saying “iki ekmek istiyorum” she said “iki erkek istiyorum” which stands for “I want two men”. The old guy who was running the store had his eyes wide open and asked her couple of times what she wants. And every time she was saying the same thing. There were couple of neighbors in the store as well, they were just sitting, chatting and having some tea. All of them laughed their asses off. The owner also asked her “Why do u need two men? Isn’t one enough for you?”. In the end she pointed at bread and then they understood what she wanted. But they had a good laugh for sure just as I did when I first heard the story 😂🤣
Can't stop laughing with this. I made some similar mistakes and I find it funny. For sure I'll be making more mistakes while learning this beautiful language of yours!
I made a mistake similar to the first one, but in English. I wanted to tell my friend "I'm pissing you off", but I said "I'm pissing with you", he was shocked and then he started to laugh. And I feel embarrassed everytime he reminds me by it.
My sister used to watch turkish dramas like muhtesim and magnificent century,from which she learned a lot of turkish language,I thought at that time how one could easily memorized a foreign language,but then by watching Diriliş Ertuğrul,Kuruluş Osman and Uyanış Büyük Selçuklu, i can proudly say that now i have learned more turkish than her😂😂
@@betul2398 okay okay,but the dialogue delivery was just awesome♥️🔥,and what inspired me to learn some of turkish words was burak ozcivit's(aka OSMAN BEY) acting🔥🔥
Bir keresinde otelde kalmıştım Pamukkale'de ve küçük bir yerdi, otel sahibi iyi uyudun mu diye sorunca yarak sertti demiştim :( instead of yatak yani :(
@@huseyiinbudak kiz demis ki yabancilar bineceğim şeklinde öğreniyor sen yuvarlayip binicem diyorsun onlar icin bunun hakkinda video yapabilirsin sen ne sacmaliosun
@@koksalozturk2611 Oops! You are quite right, I don't know where I saw this new word ? I'll try to forget it cause I fear I used it several times. And I confess I am no more a child since at least 65 years...
Now I finally found out what ay siktir means!!! In Greece it's like go to hell, we have forgotten it has a sexual meaning. When we say siktirizo we mean I curse someone.
I learned " my Turkish" myself, so I had listened carefully how they be polite. The very first time when I met my Turkish mother was a cold day, so I wanted to offer tea for her. My Turkish husband loved awkward situations so he reminded me to be polite. So I brought the tea for mother, she thanked and said loud and clear "işeydim" cause i had somehow mixed it with "bişey değil". Now İ can't understand how but İ did 🤣 You can just imagine my mother's thoughts 🤣
Bu video çok eğlenceliydi. Yıllar önce Kadıköy'deki Şekerci Cafer Erol'a gittim bir kilo karışık lokum almak için. Cümlem o an yanlış çıktı, bir kilo karışık lokma istedim. 🤠
Bir gün turkcel ofiste "sim kartım konuşmuyor" dedim . "Çalışmıyor " demek istedim . The Lady i was taking to, could hardly hold herself from laughing out. She was really nice and polite
Greeks make a really common one: There are many Turkish loan words in Greek, and they often get an -i ending to fit into Greek grammar. Karpuz > karpouzi, tavan > tavani, etc. Greeks realize that to find the original Turkish word, you just remove the i. So...the word for “ashtray” in Greek does come from Turkish, from the word “tas,” but they add the ending “-aki,” the diminutive. Tasçık yani... But they forget, and just leave off the “i.” And the Greek “s” sounds a little like “ş” anyway. So in a meyhane in Nevizade my friend from Thessaloníki pointed to the ashtray at a table full of women and loudly said, “Taşak! Taşak”! (Testicle! Testicle!). Almost every Greek who smokes makes that mistake exactly once. 😉 Turkish actually got me in trouble in Greece. I used to speak pretty fluently but hadn’t lived in Greece for about 25 years. So it got rusty. I had moved into a new apartment in Istanbul, and was telling my Greek friends about how the paint had all peeled (kavlamak). And without thinking it just slipped out - I said in Greek that the paint had “kavlosei”. Which means “got a hardon” in Greek. 😜 My friend Niki laughed and said, “I don’t quite understand what you’re trying to say, but I’m pretty sure your paint didn’t get a hardon!” («Δεν κατάλαβα ακριβώς τι θέλεις να πεις αλλά η μπογιά σίγουρα δεν είχε καυλώσει!»)
@@Karagozesr Evet bir noktaya kadar doğru. :-) Çünkü Yunancanın kelimelerinin, çekimleri için değişik sınıfları var. Hepsi de ya S, ya N, ya da bir sesli harfle biter. “Karpuz” veya “duvar” gibi bir kelime herhangi bir isim sınıfına sığmaz, öyle bir kelimenin çekim ekleri için bir “başlangıç noktası” yok. (Mesela adam/adamın/adamı/adamları Yunancada ánthropos/anthrópu/ánthropo/anthrópus...) Onun için “duvar” gibi bir kelimeye bir İ ekliyorlar, sonra duvári/duvaryú/duvári/duvárya olur. Türkçe ise Yunancadan aldığı kelimelerinin hep çoğul şeklini alıyor. Mesela “domates,” Yunancada “domatesler” demek, o yüzden Türkçe “domatesler,” kulağıma “domateslerler” gibi geliyor. :-)
I just discovered your channel a few days ago, after returning from Turkey after a one-week holiday. I've been to Turkey twice before, but last time I didn't really try figuring the language out, but this time I spent some moments looking up Turkish grammar on Wikipedia while drinking çai, and as a language enthusiast, I found Turkish agglutinative grammar very fascinating, especially in its seeming regularity and simplicity while also allowing for a lot of nuance of expression. So, naturally, after returning home, I decided to learn a bit of Turkish for fun, and also so I can use some words and phrases whenever I go to my favourite Turkish restaurant as a way to show how much I appreciate the food, the service, and the friendliness of the people working there. And, in my quest to pick up some Turkish, I found your videos, which I must say I quite enjoy. There are other good Turkish learning resources on RU-vid, of course, but I like your style and the interesting subject choices for your videos, and I feel I learn something fascinating every time. Keep up the good work!
I am Azerbaijani and want to note this: To work - "çalışmaq"(chalishmag) is also used in our language, but actually we say "işləmək"(ishlemek) for the verb "to work". The word "işəmək"(ishemek) - to pee , made me laugh)).Samely we use this word meaning "to pee".
I actually sounds like あ from Japanese. I've confused a few words in Japanese like for few 最終 with 少数 thinking that one of the words I'm saying has the 小 Kanji when it actually doesn't, so when I say "最終言葉," I'm actually saying "final words" instead of "few words," which is 少数言葉. I've also confused words in Swedish as well as not saying the imperative command correctly. The imperative command adds a but some of these words don't like skriva and also not made the adjectives plural and even in Japanese confused 現在 with 限界. 現在 means present, current, or now whereas 限界 means limit or maximum. If these people wouldn't make me talk so much, I wouldn't have made so many of those mistakes, which brings me back to 少数言葉, thinking few is 最終 (saishuu) and not 少数 (shousuu). See? Those 2 are different!
I learned my first few words in Turkish today and already managed to confuse ekmek and erkek. Sooo glad I'm not the first one to make that mistake, lol. Also very glad that I learned about sıkıldım before I even get tempted to use that word, like EVER. I do think that I pronounce the ı the way it's meant to be pronounced, mostly because we have similar sounds in German dialects, but I'd rather not end up saying "I got fucked" to my boss 🤣
There is a verb derived from "iş" though : "işlemek" and that means "to embroider" or "to elaborate". It also means "to work" but for non-living things only (mechanisms, systems, plans, tools). We even have a proverb: "İşleyen demir ışıldar" : Working iron shines.
@@enescan3155 I thought it was actually Sağol, ağabey. I'm also learning something new here ♥ Yeah, the Turkish-specific consonants just means that those of us who learn have to change our keyboard layouts ;)
Kafanı karıştırmak istemem fakat, cümledeki "allah allah" ve "ya" kelimeleri cümleyi, "hiç de komik değil" olarak değiştirebilir. Fakat eğer türkiyede yaşamıyorsan bunları yaşaman çok doğal. Çünkü cümleler tonlamalara göre farklı anlaşılabilir. Eminim bu sorunu sesli konuşurken yaşamazsın. Genelde yazarken olur.
I was talking with my friends last week and I said "diğer gün..." and they laughed at me saying its "geçen gün" I felt so embarrassed as they laughed they now use it to mock me
Arkadaş yapmak is ok in slang actually. Or manita yapmak ( making a girlfriend/ boyfriend). Manita means girlfriend in slang, but sometimes girls ara using it for their boyfriend too
Hi I would love to go to Greece and Turkey, my husband is greek. I speak English, I don't know any of these languages. I did try greek little, and by accident said something very different. Is it acceptable to use a translator by voice? where a person speaks English and it translates in there's. I love the foods, and cites I have watched on you-tube. Diana
It was so good to learn And know it but I want to share with you something The word bekar you Said that it is Used for single, And in India bekar word in Hindi Or gujarati language means (waste) So just like that I wanted to share🤣🤣 And I am laughing like omg after learning this
A friend of mine (girl) from Germany, that was learning Turkish at the time, but had little knowledge, went to İstanbul with a few Turkish friends. They went to a party, which was really boring. For half an hour she was kept saying to everyone "Öff be, bugün çok sikildim!" and they let her saying it for a while, because it was quite funny. Then they told her and after a little embarrassment, she also laughed. After that, she was trying to remember to whom she had told that she was fu..ed all day! Also a common mistake for us Greeks when we visit Türkiye is when we want an ashtray for our cigarettes. Ashtray in Greek is tasaki! And you understand how this could become very, very wrong, especially in a cafe asking for a "tasaki"...
07:37 Ohh that's wrong but not totally wrong. Yes you can say even you have to say Arkadaş/Flört/Manita/Sevgili yaptım but that's generally use in street Turkish. That means generally people speaking like that but thats wrong as grammaticly. Old people speak like that but that's important think, you can get friendship (Arkadaşlık edinmek)
I've never spoke to anyone in Turkish before, but here is my most embarrassing mistake. Basically, I didn't know that "ağlamak" was a real word. I used to think they were just saying "almak" in a weird way. I was really confused!
I also had a similar situation. During my military course of tank battalion commander course near Ankara turkey back in year 2000 . My turk commander asked me if i am well looked after. By the way i am from pakistan . I replied him yes your seargent major ( baş çavuş) is very helpful. Somehow in the flow of the tongue i uttered , your baş tavuk is very helpful. There was a roar of laughter in the entire hall which was really imbarising . But more imbarassing was that that poor gentleman was named as baş tavuk by his friends in uniform for as long as he was in service in uniform. A typical example of humour in uniform. Stay blessed my Turk brothers. Çok yaşa
My dad once was abroad and wanted to try on a pair of trousers that were in a shop window, but when translated he actually said to the assistant that he wanted to try on the trousers, and do it in the window
Your new subscriber here, I really appreciate this information, and at the same time this is such a fun video to watch 🤣. Thanks and please keep it coming 🙌
Kanalınız harika ve öğretim yönteminiz etkili. Çabalarınız için teşekkür ederim. Türkçe metni ve Arapça çevirisini sunmak, Türk dilini öğrenmenin kesin bir yoludur. Ancak, yeni başlayanlar her iki metni de okumak için videoyu duraklatmalı ve başlatmalıdır. Bu metinleri bir PDF dosyası olarak sunabilirseniz, öğrenci sizi takip edebilir ve öğrenme daha etkili olacaktır. Öğrencinin videoyu oynatırken not almasına gerek kalmaması için metinleri sunmak mümkün müdür? Bu PDF dosyaları için ücret talep edebilirsiniz. İyi çalışmaya devam edin ve Tanrı sizi korusun
Karakol doesn't a compound word, so Karakol doesn't mean black arm just like the word "manage " doesn't mean "adam yaş" or man*age. so Karakol means pollice station.
Unfortunately I have to correct you as you do not always have deep knowledge in Turkish language to always teach correct. Yes you have verb of İş = work İş = work İşlemek = to work İşlerım = I am workıng, and if you want to say it with the ending yorum which does not exist outsıde today's anadolu then it is İşliyorum. I am from western Balkan, as close as you can come outside today's borders and we do not know the word Çalışmak. It seems to be two words put together like Çal = play sound / or steal and İş = work.
Merhaba ! Can ! 👋🤗 Nasilsin ? That Was Fun To Heared That ! 👍 I liked a lot Your video ! (sorry For my English) ..my English is Not Perfect ! i'm a French Canadian i apreciate Your Turkish courses ! 🤩. From Downtown Montreal ⚜️🇨🇦 👋👋🤗 🤩🥰💞💞💞
Merhaba Can ! Yes ! i apreciate than i can LEARN another Langage the 👉 Turkishle ! 👍 What i Found It's Funny to know than Some Words got another Meaning in Other languages ! 😁🤣 ...i gave my Lover speak Also Farsi & i learned a Little bit But i Been So Surprised & sometime It Make me Laughed (my English is Not Perfect ) i am a French Canadian🇨🇦 . Tesekkürler! Görüsurüz!
Though I never mde these mistakes . But I seriously cannot thank you enough Can ! These are super important things you need to know while dealing with Turkish Çok çok teşekkür ederimCan ❤️❤️
Very poor service from Turkish airline.I agree, i do not recommend to fly withTurkish airline to anyone, and I had the same experiences and they charged me $230.00 because ther way a 14 hours layover between my flight from Van to Istanbulda and Istanbul to USA, but they did not pay for it. They mostly do not speak English and they acting very mean and unprofessional. For a night. Then after I returned, my luggage were broken and my new items were missing and one of my cartons was missing and they did not take care of it after I called them more than 20 times. Nothing take care off. Very poor service.
When I was talking to my dad I wanted to say “bıçaklarını beğendim” (I like your knives. I was trying to be funny ok?) but I ended up saying “bacaklarını beğendim” (I like your legs). Another one I made was saying “ellerimi yıktım” instead of saying “ellerimi yıkadım”
The "are you single one" was soo embarassing, I think I would laugh straight up for five minutes if I ever saw this in real life 😂. By the way, the entire video is very funny and helpful for me as a foreign guy learning Turkish, so thank you!
Arkadaşım Türkiye'de kız garson olarak çalıştı ve bir gün mutfağa girerken "usta bana iki cacık yapar mısın" yerine "bana iki çocuk yapar mısın" diye sordu 😂
I made these mistakes in istanbul: 1. Ben bugün iki erkek yedim (instead of ekmek i said erkek) 2. Almanya'da cok eski insanlar var (instead of yaslar i said eski insanlar). people laughed out loud in both situations :D
