Well we did it in a wrong way 'cause curriculum was wrong. But still you don't have right to tell us we didn't try.
I call it the way I see it. And I have every right to say that, actually, considering I do private tutoring. You just might not want to hear it, and that is okay, too.
I don't mean to shame you in any shape or form, but you claim to have worked so much on your English over the years, how come you're still making an awful lot of mistakes? Is there a chance you might have been following some pages or channels who speak/write broken English?
As I said we learned English from Turkish teachers.
Don't we all? I was taught both English and German by Turkish teachers. Not a real problem. Actually very few people are fortunate enough to have a native speaker as their teacher.
And their accent is a rip off.
Rip off? No. Turkish accent? More like it.
I was following tons of instagram pages, YouTube channels etc. I tried to improve my accent. You don't know me or my friends.
It's very unlikely that you can improve your accent by watching videos alone, you need to practice. A lot. You have to keep trying hard until you can pronounce a word the way you want it. Yes, I don't know you or your friends. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't trust my experience in the field enough to come to a pretty accurate conclusion. I still may very well be wrong, though.
So you don't have right to tell us we weren't pushing to learn that.
I didn't say "you weren't pushing". I said "were you pushed". Passive voice. You're on the receiving end of the verb. Same as saying "Did someone push you?"
You ain't know a thing bro.
No. Don't. Slang doesn't make you seem more like a native speaker. Not only that is VERY informal, but also grammatically wrong. Ya can use it in da hood all ya want tho dawg. Peace.
You don't know my mother is an English teacher. Even she is an* English teacher, she is* having problems with natives. Like what the hell? She graduated from a Turkish university. And I saw that, the Turkish education system for foreign languages is ***.
I didn't say education wasn't bad and probably never will. It IS bad.
To whom does your mother teach English? It's pretty normal to lose your edge on a language when you've been talking to people who doesn't speak as well as you and you don't have anyone else to talk to. I know it because I went through it too.
Most of the students that graduated high school branch foreign languages, they are not able to speak fluently
They don't teach you how to speak. Never said they did, nor they should. There is simply not enough time for that. They are either going to educate you for the upcoming Uni exam, or teach you the real world English. If they were to teach you real world English either no one would be majoring in degrees like ELT or even the most clueless people would get a high score from YKS.
As per the language students, from what I've seen, people who graduated from a "high school's branch of foreign languages" (which I just want to point out doesn't translate that well to English) have a pretty good comprehension of the language itself. They know their grammar even if they can't speak all that well just yet.
So don't blame the students. Okey?
Bruh. This is the most Turkish sentence I've read in a while
Gave me a good laugh. And just for the record, I don't put all the blame on students. All I'm saying is that students have their fair share of mistakes too.
First time I had conversation with a native irl, I always needed to ask him to speak so slowly.
We all did. Many still do. That's natural. Nothing to be ashamed of or to feel bad about. That's not about you or the education you had. For instance there is a British friend of mine who speaks so fast and pronounces words unlike anyone you've heard, and to this date there are times when I can't figure out what the heck he's saying lol. It happens. I bet it happens in Turkish too
We just don't realise it.
I think I addressed everything. If I didn't, I will tomorrow. My attention span got quite shorter during the pandemic and haven't had coffee in weeks...
