Complete the text with the correct verb forms. number one has been done for you
May I ask you something ? Do you think your English is good ? Do you speak English fluently ? Er... how long (have) you (been) (1. be) learn English ? what ( ) you ( ) (2. do) so far ? ( ) you ( ) (3. practice) a lot ?
you know, you can speak English quite well if you understand some English rules. you have to know the words arrangement and word choices, and the most important thing is the tenses. you teachers ( ) (4. teach) you about these things, right ?
I know you ( ) (5. study) them and ( ) (6. try) to use them in communicating with others, haven't you? that's good. don't be afraid of making mustakes when you speak in English. just do it. you know, an English friend of mine, ( ) (7. tell) me that no one will laugh at you when you say something wrong. people will correct your words by imitating your words in the correct way. my friend also ( ) (8. lend) me some movies from which I can learn perfect conversations.
well guys, let's communicate in English. let's practice what we ( ) (9. learn) so far. our teachers ( ) (10. show) us the way. the rest is on us whether we want to speak or not
May I ask you something ? Do you think your English is good ? Do you speak English fluently ? Er... how long (have) you (been) (1. be) learn English ? what ( ) you ( ) (2. do) so far ? ( ) you ( ) (3. practice) a lot ?
you know, you can speak English quite well if you understand some English rules. you have to know the words arrangement and word choices, and the most important thing is the tenses. you teachers ( ) (4. teach) you about these things, right ?
I know you ( ) (5. study) them and ( ) (6. try) to use them in communicating with others, haven't you? that's good. don't be afraid of making mustakes when you speak in English. just do it. you know, an English friend of mine, ( ) (7. tell) me that no one will laugh at you when you say something wrong. people will correct your words by imitating your words in the correct way. my friend also ( ) (8. lend) me some movies from which I can learn perfect conversations.
well guys, let's communicate in English. let's practice what we ( ) (9. learn) so far. our teachers ( ) (10. show) us the way. the rest is on us whether we want to speak or not
Soon enough I’ll be sharing what is by far my favourite video of the entire year, to showcase how amazing Istanbul can be. The video will be in Turkish of course! But first, I thought I’d share my summary points of the Turkish language with you! It won’t be as detailed as my usual language summaries, since I ran into a few (non linguistic) problems this summer, but I learned enough to definitely get by in Turkish and have a great understanding of sentence structure and how the language works from my part-time studies. Turkish in a nutshell As always, my stance is to stand by the certainty that there is no such thing as a hard language, once you have the right learning approach and attitude.And along the same lines as other language summaries, I’m titling this as “Why X is easy / not hard” (as I did in Hungarian, German and Czech). Most of the time I have to do this when natives or learners are so religiously devoted to deluding themselves that it’s the “hardest language in the world”. After hearing that for over a dozen languages, it starts to get quite tedious, as well as dreadfully illogical.Luckily that’s not so necessary with Turkish because locals are extremely encouraging when you try to speak some Turkish. They are a proud people, and usually only refer to the “gossip” case to prove that the language is hard (but it’s as hard/easy as the subjunctive mood in Spanish for example), and will be thrilled to see you trying to speak it. As well as this, many features of the language are very logical and consistent, even if they are of course different enough to make you feel the language is weird at first glance. In this post, for example, I explained how rephrasing of Turkish sentences is quite logical indeed.