Why isn't this section interested by users?

Its always a chore to write and talk English actually. Even if you somehow get to the native levels, its really hard to get as much comfortable as you would with your native language.

But still, topics like these are actually needed and should be used alot by those who wants to improve their English speaking. Especially for those that do not have the opportunity to travel foreign countries. Best English practice is done by that way, but of course for many of us that is sadly not possible. Erasmus is a good way to achieve that for univercity students however.

Another alternative would be online games. I owe my current level of English to online games mostly. Since I play alot of multiplayer games, I tend to get alot of online friends from different types of countries. Most of them also know English as their secondary language and that actually helps a lot, since both of you do not have to speak perfectly, there will always be a understanding between each other.

And with time, your English evolves, just like that. Just let it flow and you will naturally improve it. You will from time to time, stuck on some sentences and at that point, you should improve your dictionary. Simply, note your newly learned words to a notebook and repeat them every week or every day, thats up to you. Do not memorize! Just read them over at a simple glance. Learn them like you are learning a Turkish word. For example, did you memorize in your childhood that "kapı" represents the "kapı"? Approach the word learning sequence from this way. Learn that the actual thing that befits the "kapı" simply said as "door" in another language.

For example, 1 month ago, I learned a new word, a lesser used word named "taciturn", which means "ketum, sessiz" in Turkish. I didn't memorize it. I just glanced over my notebook every day. And now, whenever I see this word, I can quickly remember its meaning and its really hard for me to forget at this point.

I hope these tips can help you improve your English. Biggest part of learning a foreign language is actually learning TONS of words. Grammar can be handled in 2-3 months with quick lessons. Actually our schools are not that bad at teaching grammar, so if you are still in high school levels, don't neglect your English lessons and try to cement your grammar. After that, just word learning.
 
I have seen this topics, which are below.
Okula Gitmeden Nasıl İngilizce Gelişir?
İngilizce anlama sorunu

Doğrusu, "I have seen these topics" olacak.
Turkey citizens are too lazy to learn english. Your suggestions won't work well in my mind.

Doğrusu, Turkish citizens are too lazy to learn English. Your suggestions won't work well in my mind.

"I" büyük harf ile olması gerek.

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Speaking and writing are two different things. You can improve your English with writing and reading something, but it has a limit. If anybody wants to learn good English, he/she must talk in anybody in English. The accent is critical and you can not improve your accent with writing or reading. Just talk. Don't worry.
Because not everyone is "that" interested in learning/speaking English on a Turkish forum. Besides, people can simply go to another forum where they speak in their main language which is English.

Çok güzel yazılmış, bir kaç düzeltme yaptım:
Because not everyone is that interested in learning/speaking English on a Turkish forum. Besides, people can simply go to another forum where people speak in their native language, which is English.
I didn't say anything about learning/speaking. I said, I had seen some topics about English in spite of I couldn't see any topics in this section.

Make sense.

"In spite of" yanlış kullanılmış:

I didn't say anything about learning/speaking. I said I had seen some topics about English even though I couldn't see any topics in this section.
I didn't say anything about learning/speaking. I said, I had seen some topics about English in spite of I couldn't see any topics in this section.

Make sense.

This makes sense / that makes sense.
I think learning English from forums that don't have native speakers won't provide anything. This place will not be helpful to learn languages except binary

What exactly did you mean when you said "binary"?

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Those who actually care what is being spoken under this section of the forum already knows some level of English and which this kills the purpose of learning English for an absolute beginner.
Even if they might grasp few concepts from the comments, there is no guarantee of what they have learned is syntactically correct, again kills the point.
Nevertheless, it is fun to speak in English even though we can speak and understand Turkish perfectly, so I will be watching : )
I had aimed to this viewpoint, while I was opening the discussion. I am going to check this section - everyday -, too

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I had thought about this viewpoint while I was opening the discussion. I am going to check this section everyday.

I honestly don't agree with you. Do we have to go to England just to learn English? No, I don't think like that at all. It's not like English is some holy language and you have to learn it from a native speaker. I learned it by playing games, surfing on the web and etc. Let me assure you, every little thing helped me to learn English properly. So I think these kinds of places will help everyone who wants to learn English.

@OP: If you're asking why this section is not interested by users, you should think about the amount of users that knows English. Sadly, I don't have an optimistic thought about this situation. It's best to let them be. Of course, if you would like to have some conservations, fun talks or anything that can teach you new things in English, I can gladly help. I'm sure many here will.

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In my opinion, it might provide learning grammar and vocabulary but it can't teach the culture of English. Actually, you can't learn idioms and phrases from non-natives. For instance, you know British people don't call cops "police". They call them "Old Bill" etc. I think it's hard to learn the local usage of languages when you don't learn them from natives. Also, I said "you can't learn from forums", not from games or movies.
Now that you've mentioned a little more about what you wanted to mean, i can agree with you. At first I thought you meant English can't be learned w/o a native speaker.

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Now that you've mentioned a little more about what you wanted to mean, I can agree with you. At first, I thought you meant English can't be learned w/o a native speaker.

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I absolutely agree with you. If we make this section more popular, some people may learn English. And we will be able to learn a lot of terms while we are solving any problems.
Well, the grammar of Turkish is very absurd compared to English. That thing may be the reason why so many Turks can't speak English easily.

There is no way in hell one can say "the grammar of Turkish is very absurd". On what grounds? Who said this? English is the language that has assimilated and absorbed nearly every word from Greek, Latin and French. That is why there are more than 150,000 words in English, most of which are unnecessary, old-fashioned and sometimes useless.

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We had already learning English grammar in all of our education periods. Even British English people don't even use grammer in this century. Writing, reading and listening is improve our English. But especially in the business life, first they want you to speak fluently, after that other things come. I don't think accent is very important. Turkish people speak in an understandable way than lots of other countries' speakers. Our problem is this: we are not trying to talk. A tourist is asking a place and many of people look his/her face as if frozen like ice.

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Good heavens! They do care for grammar. They have Grammar Nazis with a uniform and everything. You're probably talking about people on online games. Anyways, we do learn grammar, but many do not pay attention to it most of the time. Also, grammar isn't the only thing you need. Without the lexicon you can't express yourself appropriately, nor understand other speakers. These both are an inseparable pair. Language input is needed to learn a language, which is indeed true, but we lack that input.
Turkish language features no accent. That's probably why Turkish accent is somewhat comprehensible compared to some other accents. However, having no standard accent means imitating other accents are fairly easier for you. So, why not work on an accent that you find interesting?
Talking in a second language is kind of a self-esteem problem. You need to be more courageous to do that. At least, that's what I think. One last thing to mention, It's kind of hard to understand some accents. I mean, sometimes those tourists speak in the most unintelligible accent. It's literally awkward. An Asian tourist had to repeat the word "Metro" three times in different accents before I understood him/her trying to utter the word "Metro". It sounded something like "Miyatr". At first I thought, they were speaking Russian.

In my opinion, users haven't discovered this section of the forum yet. This section isn't easy to be found. I've joined the forum 1 year ago. I'm trying to improve my English level like a British citizen. I learned it in social media but now, it's like street English. I'm making huge grammar mistakes today. I hope this section will stay where it deserves.

Not: 1 year ago, yesterday, last week gibi "past simple" tensine gonderi yapan cümlelerde, present perfect + verb 3 kullanmak yanlış oluyor.
 
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This guy lives in the heaven.
This guy lives in the heaven.

Also you are the one of the grammar nazis which he talked about..
 
Hoca geldi açılın.
 
This guy lives in the heaven.


Also you are the one of the grammar nazis which he talked about..

Teşekkürler. Cennet denilen yerin sadece bir yer olduğu varsaydığımız için "the" kullanılmasına gerek yok. Çoğunuzun İngilizcesi çok güzel, baya ilerlemiş. "Nazi" kelimesi de ağır kaçıyor sanki. Grammar Pscyho, Grammar King, veya Obsessed with Grammar gibi lakaplar daha yakışır olacağını düşünüyorum.
Hoca geldi açılın.

Teşekkürler.

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We learn the grammar of English but students thinks we won't use them in our social life. Every Turkish citizens want to speak like English or American people, but they never try to learn, or how to pronounce words. As with me, I want to speak like a British, but I know I have to work on it. I know my English is not good, sorry for my mistakes.

Çok güzel yazılmış, bir kaç düzeltme var:

I realized this section just now and I have seen some people who wants to learn English. This speech is for everyone who wants to learn English or other languages. Learning a new language may be the hardest thing in the world. But, why are we afraid of making mistakes? Making a mistake at the beginning is pretty normal, we have to make mistakes when we start speaking. As long as we make mistakes, we realize our missing parts or what we don't know. Maybe we can never speak like an American or British. But even if that is the case, we have to struggle. You can be sure, no one knows everything in his/her own language all of it. We don’t even know how to speak Turkish perfectly. So, never give up, and don’t be a lazy
Because Turkish people don't know English and they are too lazy to use it even if they know how to speak

I don't think Turkish people are lazy. Find a group of young people in Adana. Give them a plan to rob a bank. They will work very hard to rob the bank if they are nearly sure if they are not going to be caught, at least not for the day of the incident. Even if they have to work for a month to plan everything strategically, they will put in every effort to finish the project.

Similarly, if your car doesn't start in the middle of a street and you're stuck, people will come and help you. They will push the car, try to start the car, they will get help, they will not be lazy. They love action.
Because most people don't know English. If you want to speak English, you can learn. But the Turks are too lazy

Give an example why Turkish people are lazy because I find it hard to believe that they are actually lazy. Also, when you use "too", you are actually saying something negative. Lazy is also negative, so saying "too lazy" is very generalized and over-simplified. Don't you think it just might be a cliche to say that "Niggers are stupid" or "Black people smell". This is wrong as much as saying Turkish people are lazy.

Very good suggestions here and there, but I have to make some corrections:

It's always a chore to write and talk English actually. Even if you somehow get to the levels of natives, it's really hard to get comfortable with English compared to your native language.

But still, topics like these are actually needed and should be used a lot alot by those who wants to improve their spoken English speaking, especially for those that do not have the opportunity to travel foreign countries. The best English practice is done by that way, but of course for many of us, that is sadly not possible. Erasmus is a good way to achieve that for university students however.

Another alternative can be online games. I owe my current level of English mostly to online games mostly. Since I play a lot of multiplayer games, I tend to get a lot of online friends from different types of countries. Most of them also know English as their secondary language and that actually helps a lot, since both of you us do not have to speak perfectly, there will always be an understanding between each other.

And with time, your English evolves, just like that. Just let it flow and you will naturally improve it. You will, from time to time, get stuck on some sentences and at that point, you should improve your dictionary vocabulary. Simply, note your newly learned words to a notebook and repeat them every week or every day, that's up to you. Do not memorize! Just read them over at a simple glance. Learn them like you are learning a Turkish word. For example, did you memorize in your childhood that "kapı" represents the "kapı"? Approach the word learning sequence method from in this way. Learn that the actual thing that befits the "kapı" is simply translated as "door" in another language.

For example, 1 month ago, I learned a new word, a lesser used word named "taciturn", which means "ketum, sessiz" in Turkish. I didn't memorize it. I just glanced over my notebook every day. And now, whenever I see this word, I can quickly remember its meaning and it's really hard for me to forget it at this point.

I hope these tips can help you improve your English. The biggest part of learning a foreign language is actually learning tons of words. Grammar can be handled in 2-3 months with quick lessons. Actually, our schools are not that bad at teaching grammar, so if you are still in high school levels, don't neglect your English lessons and try to cement your grammar. After that, just word learning.
 
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Because lots of members still can't write Turkish sentences properly, without any
punctuation or typo problems. I don't think that they can write in English, when they're not able to write in their main language. Maybe we need to open a topic for practicing, if we already have, send me. Everybody can make mistakes, but also everybody can learn the right one.
 
@Arduo bey, o düzelttiğiniz kişiler büyük ihtimalle zaten doğrularını biliyorlar, yazmaya veya anlık olarak düşünmeye üşenip yazmışlar belli ki. Hepsini tek tek alıntılayarak düzeltmenizi saçma bulmakla beraber karşıdaki kişiler için küçük düşürücü olduğunu düşünüyorum.

Bizim esas sorunumuz böyle küçük şeyler olmamalı. İngiltere'de veya Amerika'da yaşayan insanlar da bu kişilerin yaptıkları hataları yapıyorlar, sorun dili bilmemek değil üşengeçlik. En basitinden kendimiz düzgün kullanıyor muyuz Türkçe'yi? Ben dahil Allah bilir kaç tane hata yapıyorum. Sebebi bilgi eksikliği değil, üşenmek veya o anlık öyle düşünüp direk yazmamız.

Elbette ben burada hiç kimsenin süper İngilizce bilgisi olduğunu düşünmüyorum ama en azından anlaşılabilir seviyede konuşuyoruz. Esas sorun, yıllarca İngilizce dersi görüp WH Questions bile yapamayan kişiler. Peki, bu, sistemin hatası mı yoksa onların mı? %50'ye %50 derim.

Uzun lafı kısası bu tip küçük detaylara takılmak yerine önce halkımız anlaşılabilir seviyede İngilizce nasıl konuşur, onu düşünmek lazım.
 
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