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Hi everybody! My name is Seda. Welcome to turkishclass101.com. |
Today we'll talk about conversation starters. |
So this should be fun because we are the people who like the mumble jumble with a lot of questions. |
You wouldn't find it hard to start a conversation with a Turkish person. |
We love talking and a lot of my foreign friends find a little bit weird how many |
and how personal questions Turkish people can ask. |
So buckle up and get ready to be like us. |
First is the simplest. |
Ne haber? Which is the shorter version of ne haber? |
What's up? Literally what news? |
Ne haber? Hey ne haber? |
İyidir sende ne haber? |
Always answer like that. |
But this is actually very casual so don't say it to someone older than you |
or someone you don't know very well. |
So keep in mind that it's very casual. |
So the second one you can say. |
This is a very general question. |
How is the work? |
But it may means more general than work. |
Literally it means how is the work going? |
So you can ask it you know how is the work going? |
But it doesn't have to be the job work. |
It can be work work, the house work, whatever work those people are doing. |
So the other one is Çocuklar nasıl? |
How are the kids? |
This is a killer conversation starter because Turkish people, |
especially Turkish moms, love talking about their kids. |
Actually it's our somewhat tradition to ask about other person's family, |
friends, kids, sometimes cousins and stuff like that. |
It's funny I know. |
And when we do that we add Lailaş, the suffix to make it more general. |
What I mean is for example if I want to ask about parents I may say |
Annenler. |
It means your mothers but what it actually means your mom and dad |
and if you have grandparents those as well. |
That means we are asking about that side of your family, |
that mother side of your family. |
So we can say Annenler nasıl or Annenler nasıllar? |
How are your mothers literally? |
How are your parents, grandparents? |
This can be babanlar, fathers, Ayşeler, Ayşe's names. |
Ayşe and whomever linked to Ayşe, her boyfriend, husband, fiance, etc. |
And in countryside they add an extra suffix to larlar which is gil. |
They say Annen giller, baban giller, Ayşe giller. |
But please note that this is not very common in the city. |
So we can go to the next one. |
Ee neler yapıyorsun? |
So what are you up to? |
And you may also say |
Ee nereden tanışıyorsunuz? |
If you have like two people. |
How do you know each other guys? |
Ee nereden tanışıyorsunuz? |
Ee nereden tanışıyorsunuz? |
Literally from where you are meeting. |
Something like that this question. |
As you can see we add a lot of ee before we ask. |
It's kind of like so we put it here and there. |
Doesn't really mean anything. |
So we can say ee hangi takımlısı? |
Which team do you support? |
Ee or without ee hangi takımlısın? |
Hangi takımlısın? |
This is for soccer, football. |
We say football. |
Of course Turkish people love also talking about it. |
But be careful not to say something bad about their team. |
The team they are supporting. |
Because they can be they may be passionate about it. |
And you may get into a fight. |
And you may also ask. |
Would you like to eat something? |
If you're especially visiting at home you will get this question. |
And if someone is visiting you. |
If you are not you know offering something that may be rude to those people. |
We love to offer food and go out to eat something as well. |
And the restaurants are always open in Turkey. |
Especially in big cities. |
You can always find spots to eat anytime. |
Even in the middle of the night. |
So that's good. |
We love food. |
You can also say bu hafta sonu ne yapıyorsun? |
What are you doing this weekend? |
Bu hafta sonu ne yapıyorsun? |
Bu hafta sonu ne yapıyorsun? |
Bu hafta sonu ne yapıyorsun? |
We say it like that. |
Ne yapıyorsun? |
Instead of ne yapıyorsun? |
Shorter. |
What's your favorite movie? |
En sevdiğin film hangisi? |
So you can change en sevdiğin the part film. |
Put anything you want there. |
We watch a lot of Turkish movies and series besides the foreign movies. |
People are especially love talking about Turkish series |
and what happened in the last episode and things like that. |
And you know you can join that conversation. |
Do you guys also watch any Turkish series? |
If so, which one? |
Go and comment. |
Maybe I know them. |
Okay, the last one is |
Do you do any sports? |
As you can see sometimes we don't say the R. |
Yapıyor musun? |
Instead of yapıyor musun? |
I say yapıyor musun? |
Shorter. |
You can answer this by saying evet futbol oynuyorum. |
I'm playing football. |
I'm doing yoga. |
Whatever you are doing. |
I think that's it. |
Yeah, that's it guys. |
Well done. |
In this lesson you learned how to start a conversation using your Turkish. |
Which sentence would you prefer? |
Write your sentence in the comment section and start a conversation with people |
and try to keep it going in Turkish. |
So you can practice Turkish and you can help each other practice it. |
Because we have a lot of Turkish learners. |
You can go and talk to each other. |
I think I'm done. |
I'm done. |
I'm going guys. |
I will see you next time. |
Take care of yourself. |
Bye. |
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