Xmmm gives Turkish one more chance
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 8:06 pm
It wouldn't be a new year if I didn't make another doomed-in-advance attempt to get an L4 off the ground.
My previous efforts have been in Norwegian, German, Turkish, Esperanto, and Indonesian. They failed for the following reasons:
Norwegian -- too much like English, not enough fun stuff
German -- too German!
Turkish -- too hard
Esperanto -- too vaguely European, not enough fun stuff
Indonesian -- honestly, this language is just not to my taste! This was a surprising result from an unusually serious effort of about 100 hours.
So for 2018, I've decided to go back to Turkish. "Too hard" was not the best reason to quit. I really like the way the language sounds. I know there's a fair number of novels and a ton of good TV (I miss Vatanim Sensin).
Now ... Turkish has to come last. Russian gets 50% of my time and Italian gets 40%. Turkish has to survive on what's left.
I feel the best use of very limited time will be TurkishClass101 + Anki. If I do a lesson a day and put 6 or 7 words a day into Anki, it will take 15 or 20 minutes. The goal by the end of the year would be to have maybe 2000 words in Anki and maybe two hours of beginner/low intermediate audio that I understand very well.
: Anki
: Minutes of comprehensible audio
My previous efforts have been in Norwegian, German, Turkish, Esperanto, and Indonesian. They failed for the following reasons:
Norwegian -- too much like English, not enough fun stuff
German -- too German!
Turkish -- too hard
Esperanto -- too vaguely European, not enough fun stuff
Indonesian -- honestly, this language is just not to my taste! This was a surprising result from an unusually serious effort of about 100 hours.
So for 2018, I've decided to go back to Turkish. "Too hard" was not the best reason to quit. I really like the way the language sounds. I know there's a fair number of novels and a ton of good TV (I miss Vatanim Sensin).
Now ... Turkish has to come last. Russian gets 50% of my time and Italian gets 40%. Turkish has to survive on what's left.
I feel the best use of very limited time will be TurkishClass101 + Anki. If I do a lesson a day and put 6 or 7 words a day into Anki, it will take 15 or 20 minutes. The goal by the end of the year would be to have maybe 2000 words in Anki and maybe two hours of beginner/low intermediate audio that I understand very well.
: Anki
: Minutes of comprehensible audio