Hi there! I am one of the current EVS’ers of Urbana Mladez from Turkey. The strangest thing for me was to learn how people are interested in Turkish language (because of Turkish soap operas for sure 🙂 ) (and yeah I am a fan of Burak Özçivit as well lol) After having met Lea, a Croat studying Turkish language at university, I decided to create an event “Turkish Table” for Croats who are studying Turkish, or learning Turkish on their own. After asking for help from some Turkish Erasmus friends, we decided on a date and finally met in a cafe. We talked about languages, how a language can be learnt, history, Turkish soap operas, KARA SEVDA, the words that are used mutually in both countries. For the ones who aren’t aware yet, I made a list of those words (everybody knows džezva- cezve. but what about others? There are plenty of them.)
alat – alet bar/barem – bari
boja – boya bubreg- böbrek
budala – budala čarape – çorap
čekić – çekiç čelik – çelik
čizme – çizme čorba- çorba
dadilja- dadı dućan- dükkan
dugme- düğme džep- cep
džezva-cezve (h)ajde -haydi
inat -inat jastuk- yastık
kat – kat komšija -komşu
mušterija- müşteri pamuk- pamuk
papuče- pabuç podrum-bodrum
sanduk-sandık sat- saat
šamar- şamar šećer- şeker
tava- tava tavan- tavan
tulum-tulum zar/zarem- zar
(some of them may be in Bosnian :D) With this project, I aim to learn Croatian while teaching Turkish like Tandem partners.
If you want to take part in our next Turkish Language Cafe, please contact me via gulsahcangc2@gmail.com
Take care!