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[dngood]

Hi Guys,

Sorry I don't have much time to post on here (the newsletter keeps me fairly busy), but I was asked to start a new thread promoting these Turkish to English Crosswords, so here goes....

Here's a fun way to learn, or practice your Turkish, with these simple Turkish to English crosswords. You can either fill them in on-line, or you can print them out (links at the bottom of each page). Remember, the clues are in Turkish, and the answers are in English.

I'll try to post more on here as I release them, or if you like, why don't you subscribe - after all, it's free, and a lot of the content and articles apply to areas outside of Bodrum.

Here are the crosswords which I've done so far:

• Turkish-English Crossword: Colours
• Turkish-English Crossword: Numbers 1-20
• Turkish-English Crossword: Animals
• Turkish-English Crossword: Fruit & Veg.
• Turkish-English Crossword: Transport
• Turkish-English Crossword: Meat & Seafood

I Hope you enjoy these.

Dave.

[sunny]

Thanks Dave. I quickly tried the colours one. I'ts very good.

[Abi]

Thanks Dave

I am sure a lot of people are going to enjoy doing them, as you say it is a fun way to learn.

Hopefully people who just pop in and look at that section will also subscribe to your paper as well by clicking on the link which is listed at the bottom of your post, as it is free with interesting articles that just don't cover the Bodrum area.

[dande]

Excellent, Dave. Good to see something original like this.

I'm sure many members will be interested in registering with Bodrum Bulletin or, at least, looking for more crosswords. I certainly shall.

[dngood]

OK, another one for you - this time a 'bumper' crossword on things you'd find around the house., you can view it at:

• Turkish-English Crossword: Around the House
  
  Enjoy!

[Abi]

That was excellent, thank you

[Recall]

Hi Everybody!
i am a new Turkish member and i am really ready to help anything about Turkish language..
Take care of u all !

[sunny]

Hello and welcome to our forum Recall. Thank you for your kind offer. Have you introduced yourself in 'Meet and Greet' so everyone can say hello properly?

[Steve]

..got most of the fruit and veg also meats and seafoods,i did enoy that never thought that i get so many

[Turunc]

Hi Dave

This is fantastic,been teaching myself turkish of the winter this will help loads

Trace
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[RokaKoma]

It's funny.. I don't know any turkish words (yet) but i found that we have some common words:
Deve --> Teve
Kus --> It's a male name in hungary Ákos 'Ak-Kus' the white hawk
Aslan --> Arslan - Oroszlan Lion


Is there any native turkish speaker who knows this words:
"boza" --> it was an old fashioned drink in the city where i live, nowadays it is getting forgotten..
"kara" --> means dark or dark brown
"kas(z)ap" --> Surname in hungary, especially in this city, somebady said to me that it is the turkish name of the butcher. Is it true? The word "kasabol" means "to slaughter" in hungarian.

[Cukurbagli]

Hi RokaKoma

Yes, boza is a typical Turkish drink and is made from chickpeas, cinnamon and sugar.

Kara means black or dark in Turkish (as in Kara Deniz) the black sea.

Kasap means butcher in Turkish, and your kasabol will be from the Turkish kasap olmak meaning to be a butcher.

Did you know that coffee and paprika were brought to Hungary by Turks?

[RokaKoma]

Hi Cukurbagli!

Yes i know about the paprika and coffee (kávé). The old name of the coffe was "fekete leves" (black soup)
The city where i live was a "khas" city, which means that the income of the city was more 100000 akcse/year , and come under directly the Szultan, not Pasa of Buda (Bejlerbej)! The city was the part of the Buda Vilajet.
I have a book about the letters of the city from the XVI. century to the XVIII century. Lots of old turkish scripts, i mean arabic letters. Lots of turkish words in the hungarian scripts, odabasi , defterdár etc.
Before the Osman empire this place was the home of Kuns (Kumanlar). Some Kun tribes settled here, They have brave leaders like Törtel and Árboz. Before them it was the home of of the Huns and Avars!
Nowadays it is just a sleepy little town in the middle of the great plain...
I found this interesting video on yuotube:
http://www.youtube.c...feature=related
http://www.youtube.c...feature=related
Greetings
Roka

I decided, i try to learn turkish. Not easy, just english and german teacher here

[sunny]

Good luck with learning Turkish but I think you have an advantage over English speakers as I believe that Turkish and Hungarian come from similar roots.

[Fil]

When we lived in Hungary, we used to spend time with the Turkish members of the local Turkology department. They told us that, according to current thinking, there are two sets of connections between Turkish and Hungarian words. The most obvious are the 200 or so words that date from the Ottoman occupation. They are virtually the same in Turkish and Hungarian, and are often food, clothing or military words. Some words in modern Hungarian, for example kapu (gate) are thought to be closer to the original Turkish than the modern Turkish kapı. The other connections are ancient and barely recognisable, for example the Hungarian word for fruit, gyümölcs, has the same root as the yemiş part of kuruyemiş. These ancient connections are because Turkish and Hungarian are said to be cousins, with a parent language thought to be Chuvash, a language spoken by about 2 million people in the Urals, they have their own republic there inside the Russian state.

The similarities between Turkish and Hungarian are many. The way past tenses are formed, the vowel harmony, the postpositional suffixes. You can even make parallel sentences like:
Zsbemben sok alma van (Hungarian) = cebemde çok elma var (there are lots of apples in my pocket).

I have noticed that speakers of Hungarian, Estonian and Finnish seem to make faster progress in learning Turkish than speakers of other European languages.

[moonchild83]

Yes, Turkish and Hungarian are both agglutinative languages, and we have a lot of words in common as we, I mean Hungarian and Turkish tribes back in the day lived together for a while, before Hungarians arrived where we live now.
That example sentence is great Fil I mean Zsebemben sok alma van = cebemde çok elma var.
And I already found more similar words Still, now I think I should learn words, as I kind of know the basics. Though I'm not sure about suffixes yet, I think learning words is the best for now, and leave tenses for later. Though without a book it won't be easy...

And thank you for the crosswords, they are great

[doriss]

Thanks Dave!!! (although it's been eons since you out these up..)

Love the games..really made me concentrate on my new words...all learning should be this fun.

regards,

Doris

[Lucid]

love it when people help you find threads / posts you hadnt seen before!!
great fun these
thanks dave :-)))

[Abi]

Now that the Bodrum Bulletin is now free I can paste a link to the crossword section. It contains all of the above crosswords plus a lot of new ones.

More Crosswords.