Hasta Bir haftadir hastaydım ama şimdi daha iyiyim. I set up this italki account and then I was sick for a week. I didn't feel like logging onto this account until today. There were many kind private messages and replies to my discussion posts, thank you. Being new to this site and not wanting to give out my skype information to a lot of people, I decided to only accept female language partners. I'm excited, I'm almost finished with my Duoling Turkish language tree. Only 3 skills left. Today a Turkish language textbook with audio CD arrived. It's written all in Turkish, so I'm using google translate to look up the instructions for activities and words I haven't learned yet. It seems like a really good book set, but it is clearly designed for classroom settings. I'm not sure how long it will take me to complete the A1 book.

Turkish Dizi Is there anyone on here who enjoys Turkish television series? I'd really like to find someone who also likes those kinds of shows and we can watch an episode once a week and then get on skype and have a discussion in Turkish about the show. What we think about the characters and story, words and phrases we picked up while watching, cultural observations, etc.
Ideally the show would be something neither of us has watched before and has no subtitles, and on the short side (6-20 episodes). We'd watch the episode independently from each other so we can fit it into our regular schedules and take notes while watching. But have a set date and time for chatting about it online.

Or if someone who is already fluent in Turkish and wants to practice English then we can start off talking in Turkish and then transition into English so we both get the practice time.

First entry Are these entries suppose to be in the language we're learning? I'll have to come back and update this into Turkish, right now I'm going through the features on italki and trying to get use to them so I'll remember where to find things. I'm working on learning Turkish and Romanian on Duolingo in combination with a couple of books. I felt like I was making great progress the lass few weeks, then I got a cold and even though I was still logging on and doing the activities I was too foggy brained to remember anything and I'm feeling even more confused than ever with the tenses in Turkish and being able to know who did the action versus who is having the action done to them. I just wrote a horrible run on sentence that would drive my college composition instructor crazy.

Yok versus Hayir I was wondering if the words for no, yok and hayir, are interchangeable or if there is a right time to choose to use one versus the other. Is yok less formal and better to use with peers and close friends while hayir is more formal and respectful? Is it just a conversation style choice up to the speaker?