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Offline SuzzPuss

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Re: Why English is hard to learn
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2013, 19:32:52 PM »
With the help of google translate I think I know now.  Clever.   ;D
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Re: Why English is hard to learn
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2013, 01:03:27 AM »
They all have one word to cover all these words in Turkish !! And that's without Google !!
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Re: Why English is hard to learn
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2013, 09:19:10 AM »
Quote from: Colwyn on January 11, 2013, 18:24:51 PM
what do hundred, face, swim, front, cheek and obverse have in common
Yes, in Turkish they are all yuz.
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Re: Why English is hard to learn
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2013, 12:17:32 PM »
Fabulous!  Thanks Colwyn.  With such a limited vocabulary I imagine Turkish won't take long to master.   :P
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Re: Why English is hard to learn
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2013, 18:14:41 PM »
My friend Dr Can from Caretta Apartments tells me the same. He says that people laugh when he says that someone is "in the plane" but they are - and why is it in the car but on the plane or bus anyway!!
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Re: Why English is hard to learn
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2013, 18:57:15 PM »
Wing-walking comes to mind.  Always quite fancied trying that...  Not!
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Why English is hard to learn
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2013, 08:28:13 AM »
How about the following sentences:
 
I read the paper
I read the paper yesterday

Unfortunately no "standard" pronunciation as in Turkish.
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Re: Why English is hard to learn
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2013, 11:21:34 AM »
Another Turkish friend speaks excellent English but can't get his head round the fact that the plural of 'information' is not 'informations'.
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Re: Why English is hard to learn
« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2013, 11:26:53 AM »
How does he like the plural of fish? Sometimes fish and sometimes fishes.
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Re: Why English is hard to learn
« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2013, 11:31:05 AM »
He thinks it's a load of baliks
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