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I couldn’t begin with Turkish. I am, after 10 years (half dozen) of trips to Poland thinking I should finally learn a few words. It was only 18 months ago I was seeing dzięnkuje written down and associating the ‘ng’ sound it puts on the ‘e’.
pdlouche-
I’d aleays heard that Turkish was an easy language to speak, in that it’s supposedly quite phonetic - once you know what the accents and some of the pairs of letters (excuse my ignorance of the correct terms) do, you just sound it out.
In practice, that was not my experience of speaking Turkish :-)Went to Bulgaria once - that’s a fun language to try and read!
Also, the nodding/shaking for yes/no bring reversed - took me till the last day I was there to get the hang of, then we went to Romania where they do it the way round we do.
AlexD
Ah, I remember being kind of taught German analogues at school when we were typing stuff out on their rubbish computers that only seemed to have French accents in the character set. I taught myself Turkish accents just so I could by records in the market book stalls in Istanbul. I was SO bad at making myself understood in Turkish.