برچسب: Giving
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Giving Simple Directions in Russian – Focus
Hi everyone. I am Anastasia Komarova. Всем привет. (Vsem privet.) Меня зовут Анастасия Комарова. (Menya zovut Anastasiya Komarova.) Welcome to the Russian Whiteboard Lessons. So today in this lesson you will learn how to ask and give simple directions in Russian. Let’s get started. Поехали. (Poyekhali.) And now let’s look at the dialogue. When I read I want you to pay attention to prepositions that show direction. Find these prepositions and see how it’s used in the dialogue. Imagine that you are lost or can’t figure out how to find a building, place or some object you need. Где находится библиотека? (Gde nakhoditsya biblioteka?) Where is the library? Библиотека находится перед школой. (Biblioteka nakhoditsya pered shkoloy.) The library is in front of the school. The question. Где находится библиотека? (Gde nakhoditsya biblioteka?) The answer. Библиотека находится перед школой. (Biblioteka nakhoditsya pered shkoloy.) Библиотека, the library, находится is перед, in front of, школой, the school. Библиотека, library, school, школа. Sometimes the verb can be omitted. It will sound a little informal. Now let’s look at the sentence pattern. This pattern was the structure that our dialogues followed. Place находится direction. Place is direction. For example, например, библиотека находится direction. The library is direction. The words that we use for asking and giving simple directions. Находится, лежит, is. -
Giving Email Addresses to Teach the Alphabet – Part 1
Hey you guys! Welcome back to another whiteboard Turkish lessons. Today we’ll talk about how to give your email address. Are you guys ready? Let’s get started! Okay first we need to learn the Turkish alphabet, the letters. I will say them how we pronounce them in Turkish. A – ah B – beh C – ceh It is pronounced like J in Jam. Ç – che And this is pronounced like ch in church. D – deh E – eh F – feh G – geh Ğ – This is soft G. This is how we say yumuşak ge. But the sound is actually ğ And after that H – heh I – ih This sound is sometimes hard for Turkish learners. It is like the “”ih”” sound in mansion. You have to make that “”ih”” weird face when practicing. You don’t have to do it while you’re speaking ih. İ – ih It’s like “”i”” in sit. J – jeh It is the sound like you make pleasure. pleasure K – keh L – leh M – meh N – neh O – oh This is also different. Ö Like bird Ö bird Ö P – peh R – reh And this is we say R. R It’s more subtle. It’s more dominant when it’s at the beginning. But if it’s at the end it’s more like R. You just, you don’t make that hard of a sound, reh. S – seh As in setup. Ş – sheh This is like the sheep. Okay, Ş T – teh This is U – uh like bull U ü – üh It’s like a whistle. ü It’s like ü in rue V – ve Y – yeh And z – zeh This is how we say it in Turkish. Okay we are done with our letters. And let’s see how to give our email address now. Okay, First look at our dialogue. E-posta adresiniz lütfen. E-posta adresim seda@innolang.com. (E-posta adresim seda et innolang nokta com) Your email address please. My email address is seda@innolang.com. Okay? And let’s check out our sentence structure. It is very easy. You just say e-posta adresim. And after that you give your email address. Okay, e-posta adresim [e-mail address]. And in English my email address is [e-mail address] This is the same sentence. So we talked about this before. This im at the end. Because address means address. And this “”im”” at the end means “”my””, Okay? This is the first person singular possessive suffix. My e-posta adresim. My e-mail address. Okay? So this im at the end is this my of the English version. So I would say literally e-mail address my. Okay? e-mail address my. And there is no is in the sentence. So you just say my email address. Then you say your email address. Okay that’s it. I think this was easy. Now you can give your email address. email adresiniz Lütfen Benim email adresim E-posta adresim Sorry, sometimes we say email as well. We say e-posta or email. But normally the proper one is e-posta. E-posta adresiniz Lütfen E-posta adresim seda@innolang.com. (E-posta adresim seda et innolang nokta com) -
Giving Simple Directions – Part 2
Do you remember how to say, ”there”? Orada Do you remember how to say, ”library”? Kütüphane Do you remember how to say, ”the library is there”? Kütüphane orada Do you remember how to say, ”here”? Burada Do you remember how to say, ”behind”? Arkasında Do you remember how to say, ”in front of”? Önünde Do you remember how to say, ”inside”? İçinde What about ”outside of”? Dışında What about ”theater”? Sinema salonu Do you remember how to say, ”cafe”? Kafe What about ”bank”? Banka Do you remember how to say, ”school”? Okul What about ”park”? Park Well done! In this lesson you learned how to give simple directions in Turkish. And I’m Seda and I will see you next time at Turkishclass101.com.com Hoşçakalın! -
Giving Someone Your Phone Number – Part 1
Hi everybody, I’m Seda Sürel. Herkese merhaba, ben Seda Sürel. Welcome to another Whiteboard lesson. In this lesson, you will learn how to say your phone number in Turkish. Let’s get started. Before getting started, I would like to give a disclaimer. When giving phone numbers in Turkish, we typically don’t say the digits separately, like 1, 2, 3, 4. We tend to use hundreds when providing phone numbers, like 554 for 265. But as it would be difficult for beginners, we’ll use single digit numbers for this lesson. Cell phones are typically used in daily Turkish life. For the most part, these numbers start with 0532, 0533, 0535 or 0542. For general phones at our homes, every city has its own area code. You need to learn the area code before calling that city. For example, Istanbul has two codes, 212 or 216. Turkey’s general code for calling from other countries is plus 90. Keeping that in mind, let’s get started. Okay, let’s look at the vocabulary. Bir, iki, üç, dört, beş, altı, yedi, sekis, dokus, sıfır. One more time. bir, iki, üç, dört, beş, altı, yedi, sekis, dokus, sıfır. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and zero. Bir, iki, üç, dört, beş, altı, yedi, sekis, dokus, sıfır. Now, let’s go over an example conversation. Imagine someone is registering their phone number in an office. Numaranız nedir?, Numaranız nedir?, Numaram sıfır, beş, üç, üç, yedi, sekis, dört, iki, bir, dokus, altı. One more time, a bit slower. Numaranız nedir?, what is your number? Numaram sıfır, beş, üç, üç, yedi, sekis, dört, iki, bir, dokus, altı. We stop after this, ok? My number is 0-5-3-3-7-8-4-2-1-9-6. Numaranız nedir?, Numaram sıfır, beş, üç, üç, yedi, sekis, dört, iki, bir, dokus, altı. Let’s take a closer look at this dialogue. First, we see the request. Numaranız nedir? Numara means number and nedir means what is. Then you say numaram, like my number, then you say the numbers. When giving your phone number in Turkish as a beginner, it’s okay to give each digit separately, like 0533. After each group of digits, include a short pause, like I did, in place of these hyphens, okay? Nine, sorry, dokuz, altı, pause, okay? That’s it. Normally, we would read these numbers in hundreds, hundreds, and this is like 21 and 96. But for now, just say them separately, it’s okay. If you pause, then the Turkish person understands what you are saying. Let’s look at other examples, okay? Numaram, my number is 0216 pause, 315 pause, 6 0 pause, 1 4 pause. My number is 0216, 315, 60, 14. Let’s look at the other example. Numaram, my number is 0542, 399, 4589. Okay, now let’s look at the sentence pattern. This pattern is the structure that our dialogue and examples have followed. Numaram, phone number, my number is phone number. You just need to say numaram, okay? Numara means number, and the M at the end is my, my number.