The Turkish Listening Library

In today's episode, I share of my family's time of language training in Colorado and more specifically of our forays into the surrounding countryside after class each day and on the weekends. Each day we would load our daughter into the kid carrier and hike down to the playground at the end of the reclaimed railway line. My son never complained of the walk because of the fun playground at the end. Then one Saturday, we awoke before sun-up, drove out to the trailhead and climbed up to the peak of one of the local mountains. The kids did great and while we rested a lot on the way up, we made it. It was a beautiful day with great views and just a lot of fun. I hope you enjoy the show and that it will be a great part of your language learning repertoire. Be sure and visit the Turkish Listening Library website to download just the Turkish. I would love it as well if you would visit itunes and leave a comment and a rating for the show. Well, until next week . . . Kolay Gelsin.

In today's installment, The Great Fish Disaster, the story of our cleaner fish's demise at the nipping lips of our very carnivorous Zebra fish is shared. My son, whose fish they were, was a bit worried when he found his cleaner fish, still alive, but missing eyes, tail and fins, floating at the top of the aquarium. I quickly removed it to the toilet - all drains lead to the ocean right? and then removed his terrified brother fish to another small fish bowl. We have never had much luck with fish - or pets in general for that matter. We do love animals, we just are not very good at caring for them. My apologies if you were waiting for this episode to come out sooner. We transitioned back to Turkey two weeks ago and all has gone well - except our internet connection. As always, you can find the Turkish only audio at the Turkish Listening Library website without the nice music and my summarizing voice. Kolay Gelsin

In today's show, the strangeness of being a full time language learner is the topic. How often it was that I would have my lesson and then come home to watch the kids while my wife had her lesson. More than once I found myself at the local park with the kids, a lot of other young kids and . . . their nannies. They were kind to me, but it was strange none the less. One of the weird ways of my language learning journey. Be sure to stop by the website to download the shorter, Turkish only version of the show. Put it on your ipod and listen to it while on the bus, in the bathroom or while out for a walk. The repetition is a great way to improve your over all fluency. I hope you enjoy the show. Kolay Gelsin!

Welcome to the first official podcast of the Turkish Listening Library Handcrafted Audio Podcast. In todays show a brief summary is given before the Turkish telling of our train trip from Istanbul to Edirne via the train. The day started early as we worked our way across the Bosphorus to the station. The trip was very comfortable and beautiful, but very slow. Please visit The Turkish Listening Library's handcrafted audio page to download just the Turkish. With this you can listen to the story repeatedly, internalizing the grammar, words and expressions. As well, if you have 90 seconds of time and want to help Turks learn English, visit our English language site, English4Turkey at www.english4turkey.com Well, enjoy the show. -Kolay Gelsin!