The main reason the West is going down, is the stubborn and arrogant refusal to learn non-Western languages. Everybody should learn at least one of the following: Hebrew, Chinese, Arabic.
For America, add Spanish, Nahuatl, Ojibwe. For Western Europe: add Turkish, Urdu, Tamazight, Somali. To close for Eastern Europe: again, Turkish, Albanian, Chechen.
As someone said: “Action is everything. If he sets up a site, I can manage a 30 minute lesson a day with whatever language he chooses. It takes very little time to open a wordpress blog. Post lessons everyday. In a month’s time, we’ll see a big difference.”
And so I oblige:
Here some Turkish:
köpek the dog köpekler the dogs
köpegin of the dog köpeklerin of the dogs
köpege to the dog köpeklere to the dogs
köpegi the dog (object) köpekleri the dogs(object)
köpekte at the dog köpeklerde at the dogs
köpekten from the dog köpeklerden from the dogs
bir köpek a dog
etc.
Now the verb:
buluyorum I find
buluyorsun you find
buluyor he finds
buluyoruz we find
buluyorsunuz you find
buluyorlar they find
The past tense of bulmak, to find:
buldum I found
buldun you found
buldu he found
bulduk we found
buldunuz you all found
buldular they found
Here some Albanian:
jam I am
je you are
është he is
jemi we are
jeni you all are
janë they are
Some Albanian for Roosh, the regular verb:
zhvirgjeroj I deflorate
zhvirgjeron you deflorate
zhvirgjeron he deflorates
zhvirgjerojmë we deflorate
zhvirgjeroni you deflorate
zhvirgjerojnë they deflorate
Stay tuned for the next installment!
Here I am, your first pupil. I learn best by doing so I’ll write some sentances later today using all these words, saying them aloud as well.
Good idea. The trick is to write them down several times.
I feel confident with this material so far. I have the stuff on our site plus real classes so I can do one set a day. My lingual background is of course English and German long ago.
Turkish
word
buluyor = to find
-um I
-un you
– he/she/it
-uk/uz we
-nuz you guys/you all
-lar they
-in of
-e to
-i object
– at
-ten from
-ler plural
-lerin of the plural
-e to the plural
-de at the plural
-den from the plural
Albanian
zhvirgjeroj = to deflorate
– j I
– n you
– n he/she/it
-jme we
-ni you all
-jne they
Turkish is more tricky than it superficially seems. For instance, it has vowel harmony. Front vowels are followed by front vowels, back vowels are followed by back vowels. Round vowels are followed by either high round vowels, or low unrounded vowels. Also, consonants assimilate in voice to the preceding consonant, that is, k,t and p change a following d into a t. Otherwise, the plural -ler/-lar is followed by the singular case suffixes.
The verb has two sets of endings. The endings in the present are the same as the verb ‘to be’.