The letters of Turkish alphabet and the sounds associated with these are in the following table...
| Letter | Pronunciation |
| A, a | like the a in car |
| B, b | like the b in bet |
| C, c | like the g in gender |
| Ç, ç | like the ch in chance |
| D, d | like the d in debt |
| E, e | like the e in less |
| F, f | like the f in felony |
We’ve been learning a few words of Turkish from our co-workers and friend Diane who is the other American we know in Turkey; however, our friend Ibrahim (he is fantastic just a sample of his work above) over Friday evening and gave us our first Turkish lesson. He was very generous with his time and talents and put together some PowerPoint's with the Turkish sounds for the alphabet, words for greetings, and some words for restaurants. He said on his Facebook page that we did well but I think we have a long way to go. Jerry is going to use the PowerPoint with his classes to teach English. Thanks very much Ibrahim.
Another interesting discovery we have made is that Google has a translation service where it will take your language and change it into whatever language you want; however, it doesn’t work very well. The translations are too literal and it ends up being really funny. Jerry tried it with a letter to his students and they had a great laugh. Then I got a report from one of my 6th graders about the Sahara Desert and she must have used the translation program because it made no sense.
Jerry did some substitute teaching today to help out Diane. She had to make a trip back to the states to see her father who is ill. He’ll be helping out next weekend as well. She teaches at another private school in Eskisehir and then teaches on the weekends at the schools that just teach languages. Too much for me, I love my weekends!
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