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Introduction
Eric: Welcome to 3-Minute Turkish Season 1, Lesson 9 - Talking about Nationalities and Adjectives. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to talk about nationalities in simple sentences in Turkish.
Body
Eric: Here's the informal way to say 'I am Turkish.' in Turkish.
Icten: [Normal] Türk'üm.
Eric: This expression has only one word meaning 'I am Turkish'
Icten: [Normal] Türk'üm [Slow] Türk'üm
Eric: Listen again to the informal word meaning 'I am Turkish.'
Icten: [Slow] Türk'üm. [Normal] Türk'üm.
Eric: Ok, now let’s take a look at the formal way to say 'I am Turkish.'
Icten: [Normal] Ben Türk'üm.
Eric: First is a word meaning 'I'
Icten: [Normal] Ben [Slow] Ben
Eric: Last is the word meaning 'I'm Turkish'
Icten: [Normal] Türk'üm [Slow] Türk'üm
Eric: Listen again to the formal phrase meaning 'I am Turkish.'
Icten: [Slow] Ben Türk'üm. [Normal] Ben Türk'üm.
Eric: Next up is the informal way to say 'We are Turkish.'
Icten: [Normal] Biz Türk'üz.
Eric: First is a word meaning 'We'
Icten: [Normal] Biz [Slow] Biz
Eric: Last is the word meaning 'we are Turkish’
Icten: [Normal] Türk'üz [Slow] Türk'üz
Eric: Listen again to the informal phrase meaning 'We are Turkish.'
Icten: [Slow] Biz Türk'üz. [Normal] Biz Türk'üz.
Eric: Finally, here is a formal way to say 'You are Turkish.'
Icten: [Normal] Siz Türk'sünüz.
Eric: First is a word meaning 'You' for a formal situation.
Icten: [Normal] Siz [Slow] Siz
Eric: Last is the word meaning 'you are Turkish'
Icten: [Normal] Türk'sünüz [Slow] Türk'sünüz
Eric: Listen again to the formal phrase meaning 'You are Turkish.'
Icten: [Slow] Siz Türk'sünüz. [Normal] Siz Türk'sünüz.
Cultural Insight
Eric: Now it's time for a quick cultural insight.
Icten: Be careful because in Turkish, we do write nationalities with a capital letter like in English! That shows respect to the nationalities while writing.

Outro

Eric: And that’s all for this lesson. Don’t forget to check out the lesson notes, and we’ll see you in the next lesson!
Icten: Hoşçakalın.

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