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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-
Had an incredibly traumatic/amazing trip to Bulgaria once (kind of a ‘goodbye’ week with an ex). Despite that situation I thought Sofia was amazing. Agreed that the language is totally alien to a westerner, but the flea market by the old church, the various relics of each period of history, the military museum, and that ridiculous taxidermy in the natural history museum... I would love to go back under different circumstances.
pdlouche
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’.