A Surprising Way to Improve Your Turkish: Bureaucracy (Part II)

Read the first part of ''A Surprising Way to Improve Your Turkish: Bureaucracy'' here. Buoyed by your success on the phone to the bank you walk for...

Six Tips For Foreigners To Blend Into Turkish Society

I cried. I cried for weeks and it went on around two months. I even questioned my decision of moving to Istanbul and contemplated...

Introducing Asya Tömer: Comprehensive, Affordable Turkish Courses for All Levels

Undoubtedly one of the most surprising qualities of Turkey's international community is how few foreigners have taken the time to learn Turkish despite choosing...

Diaries of a Couch Potato: How to Learn Turkish via Kiralık...

I have received a mixed bag of reactions from Turkish people when I explain that Kiralık Aşk is “my dizi.” It’s a barely-realistic technicolor drama...

Yabangeese: The Lexicon of the Yabangees

I guess it comes with the territory of being an English teacher abroad, but it is always fascinating to me to watch how language...