movenglish 3/3

1 Thessalonians 5:19 Quench not the Spirit.

MOVENGLISH

Michael Diva

BOOK / CHAPTER 3: CONCLUSION [SONUÇ]

You need to compete for something greater than the experience of simply winning. – Anonymous Every morning, we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. (Her gün yeniden doğuyoruz. En önemli şey, bugün ne yapacağımızdır.) –Off the movie The Chosen One My best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

Life is shorter than a movie! Watch it! (Hayat bit filmdan daha kısa! Dikkatli olun/Onu izleyin!)

A) Common Turkish expressions compatible with English, most asked by my students. B) And many more!! [In Part ‘A’ of this chapter, I tried to write more conversation for your practice. With no exception, I’d show slight body language and intonation. A lot of students excelled their English with body language and intonation. It’s a new door, a new world. This is your right, this is your LIFE. Afiyet olsun: [Bu kalıbı SADECE yemek yeyerken ya da hemen başlarken kullanılır.] 1. Bon appetit /bon.a.pı.Tİ’/NOT bon.a.pı.Tİ’T/(Bu Fransızcadan geldi ve Amerika’da da kullanıyorlar.) 2. Enjoy your meal. 3. Enjoy it. 4. Enjoy! Ok, guys.

Let’s eat. Enjoy it. –Enjoy./ [They are eating, he comes in and says] Bon appetit, everybody (=Herkese afiyet olsun)!/ Waitress: Here’s your order. Enjoy your meal. –Thanks. [Türk kültürüne göre, siz bir kişinin yemek yemeye gitmesini görürsen, o gidinca, ‘Afiyet olsun’ kalıbını söylemek için, ‘I hope you enjoy your meal!’ diyeceksiniz. Yükarıdaki her hangi 4 kalıp OLMUYOR.] [Türk kültürüne göre, ikram ettikten sonra, örneğin, restoranttan çıkınca, misafiriniz size teşekkür ederse, teşekkürün yanıtı olarak ‘MY PLEASURE’ diyebilirsiniz. Yükarıdaki her hangi 4 kalıp OLMUYOR.] [>Bu kalıpları Türkiye’de yaşamasaydım, ASLA öğrenemezdım!<] Çok yaşa!: Bless you! [About to sneeze] Aa-a-achooooo! –Bless you! –Thanks. –You need a tissue /Tİ.şu/ (=kağıt mendil/PÇT)? – Oh, yes please.

Sıhhatlar/Sağlıklar olsun!: [Kültür farkından dolayı, İngilizcede böyle bir şey yoktur. Fakat iltifat edebilirsiniz. > Nice haircut! Nice haircut, buddy! –Oh, thanks! Kıtlama: [Kültür farkından dolayı, İngilizcede böyle bir şey yoktur. Fakat açıklayabilirsiniz:] In Baku, Azerbaijan, people don’t stir sugar in tea, but put a lump of sugar(kesmeşeker) in their mouth and drink their tea with it. In Turkish, it’s called ‘kıtlama’. It’s a traditional(geleneksel) way of using sugar.

Varmı bir şey isteyen?: 1. Dışarıya gidiyorum. Var mı bir şey isteyen? : I’m going outside. You need something? 2. [Sohbetten sonra arkadaşça bir şeyi isteyen olup olmadığını sormak için. > Kültür farkından dolayı, İngilizcede böyle bir SORU sormak yoktur. Fakat şöyle olabilir:] If there’s anything you need… CALL me(LET me KNOW). (=Her hangi bir ihtiyacın varsa, beni ARA/ HABERDAR ET.] >Ok. Here are your medications(ilaçlar). If there’s anything you need, just let me know. –Ok. Thank. You’re my neighbor but better than my own sons! >I’m going, ok? So… call me if you need anything.

Her şey gönlünce olsun!: [Kelime kelime çevirilmiyor.] 1.Have a nice time(day/night)! 2. Take care! Ok, I’m going. Thanks for everything. Have a nice day! –Yea, you too.

Geçmiş olsun!: 1. Feel better, sweetie/hon/my friend/…! (>EN KULLANIŞLI) 2. Get well soon! (Amerika’da hemen hemen kullanılmıyor!) [Red Eye] Flight attendant: Hi. What can I do for ya? Rippner: Leese? Did you need another pillow or something?

Leese (with tears down her eyes): No, I don’t need anything. R: She’s just had a really rough day, a death in the family. F: Oh, I’m so sorry. R: Yeah. F: I’ll get you water and some tissues. Be right back. R: Thanks. [After a few moments] F: Here you go. R: Thank you so much. F: Sure. Feel better, hon!/ I got cold and my friend Em from the U.S. texted: Feel better!/ He didn’t go to school today.

About ten of his students texted him, saying: ‘‘Get Well Soon, Teacher!’’ Such adorable people!

Tanrı bereket versin/razı olsun: God bless you! God bless you, Uncle Tevfik!/ ‘God bless you!’ actually means if you have health, God gives you ten times more; if you have wealth, God gives you ten or hundred times more.

Nasıl gidiyor?: How is it going? || Her şey nasıl?: How is everything? || Hayat nasıl (gidiyor)?: How’s your life (going)? || [Zor olmasına rağmen] Hayatı nasıl idare ediyorsun/geçiniyorsun?: How you holding up? Oh, hi! Long time no talk (Uzun

zaman konuşmadık)! How’s it going? –Mmm. Not bad(şöyle böyle)! How’s your life going?/ He-hey, bud! How are ya? How’s everything? –Cool, man!/ I’m sorry about the loss of your husband. –Thanks. –How you holding up these days?

Bir şey söyleyecektim!: I was gonna(I was going to) say something!/I wanted to say something. İstanbul’a gidecektim!: I was gonna/I had in mind to go to Istanbul!/I wanted to go to Istanbul!

Ben -ecektim: I was gonna(=I was going to).../ I wanted to.../ I had in mind to... Since morning, I was gonna eat something, but I didn’t have any time!/ Boy: I wanted to ask you out, but as I saw that guy already asked you out, I said nothing./ She had in mind to take a shower but her brother was in the shower. So she waited till he came out.

Haklısın!/Doğrusun!: You’re right! ‘Red Lentil Soup (Kırmızı mercimek çorbası)’ is most Turkish people’s favorite soup. –Yes, you’re right. We love it!/ Girl: You don’t deserve me, Jason! –Yeah, you’re right. May my absence be your happiness (Yokluğum mutluluğun olsun*)! –What? –Nothing. Goodbye. [*: Facebooktaki grubun adı.]/ In America, they measure things in centimeters, kilos, and liters. –No. They measure things in feet, pounds, and gallons. –Oh… you’re right. I stand corrected (Yanılmışım)!

Hemen döneceğim!: I’ll be right back! [There’s no monitor or computer in the class and the teacher sees there’re no colorful markers either so he says] Ok, guys, I’m gonna head(=go) to the office and get some colorful markers. What do you think you can do in the meantime(bu arada)? –[A student] We can pairwork. –Do you agree with her? –Yea/Sure/Yep/… –Look! You gotta be better than EVERY class in this school, ok? BE CREATIVE. Talk about your favorite topic. Show it to me that YOU are the BEST. BE the best! Are you ready? –[Everybody] Yeahhhhhhhh! –Way to go(=Bravo)! Keep rocking (Harika olmayı devam edin)…[smiling]… I’ll be right back.

Ben (devlet) memurum: I work for the government. || Memur/ Devlet memuru: 1. Civil servant 2. Government employee A civil servant is anyone who’s paid to do the job for the government./ According to science20.com, the number of government employees or people who work for the government in America is more than the private sector. [*Employee:(daha masada oturan) görevli/işçi/eleman> Employees: çalışanlar>How many employees work in this company? || Worker:(daha kol gücü ile çalışan) Do all workers have social security insurance?]

-abilmek için.../ -ebilmek için.../ -ebilmesi için... [resmi] To be able to... To be able to have an enjoyable life, we need to be positive./ To be able to be healthier, we need to go jogging more often./ To be able to earn more, we need to learn more./ Movenglish is for you to be able to have a better now and future. Şaka mı yapıyorsun?: Are you kidding? || Are you joking? || Are you messing with me? || Are you playing with me? || Are you fooling around? I watched ‘Soul Surfer’ 7 times. –Are you kidding? –No. It’s a motivational movie. Let’s watch it together!!/ [He wakes up and yells, ‘Help! Where am I?’ And starts to run around the room. His roommate who’s freaked out says] What?

What’s wrong? –What? –That! –What that? –You were yelling and walking around the room like mad men! –I have no idea what you’re talking about. –Are you messing with me? [Actually he was fooling around but his roommate, the party pooper, didn’t get the HUMOR.] Şaka yapıyorum: I’m just kidding/joking/playing/messing/joshing with you! Are you prepared for the exam tomorrow? –What?

We have exam tomorrow? –Yeah! Aw, I forgot to tell you the other day! [He’s about to freak out.] –Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. What should I do? –HaHa! Relax, dude! I’m just messing with you!/ ‘I’m joshing with you’ is more up-to-date than ‘I’m kidding/ joking/ playing/ messing with you’./ [He’s smoking and his friend says] Hey, the Dean is here! [He panicks and asks] Where? –HaHa, come on, man. I’m just joshing with ya!

Ciddi misin?: Are you serious? || Seriously? || Do you mean it? Mandy! Someone cracked your car window. –Are you serious?(Do you mean it?) –Of course I’m serious.(Of course I mean it.) I think you should call the cops./ [She’s on a date. But after 5 minutes, she’s leaving. Her date asks] Are you going? –Yes. I have to. –Seriously? –Yea, I’m sorry. Rain check?

Ciddiyim: I’m serious. (Ciddi söylüyorum bak!) || I’m being serious. (Ciddi söylüyorum bak!) || I mean it. Cheryl! The fashion show secretary called. You got accepted! [She is so overwhelmed she doesn’t say anything for a moment and looks at her with doubt.] –I’m serious! –Oh my gosh! That’s fantastic!/ HaHa! You must be kidding! –No, I’m being serious./ If you don’t go away right now, I’ll call the cops (=the police). I mean it (=I mean what I said).

Emin misin?: Are you sure/certain/confident/positive? Ma’am! Are you sure he’s the same guy? –Yes, I’m quite positive./ Are you certain (that) she lives in room number 4? Maybe it’s 14?/ Are you confident you want this job? You must be totally prepared.

It’s banking job (bankacılık), you know.

Eminim: I’m sure/certain/confident/positive. Their game is on Saturday. –Are you sure? –Yeah, I’m sure(certain)./ I’m quite confident that I’ll get the perfect score at SAT/es.ey.Tİ’/ (Amerika’da YGS gibi)./ I’m hundred percent (100%) positive (that) I can do 100 push-ups (şınav) in 1 minute!

Tanrı aşkına!: [beklenmeyen/istenmeyen konular] For God’s sake! || For Christ sake! || For the love of God! || For crying out loud! || For once (=bir kez de bile olsun= Tanrı aşkına) You two are brothers. Stop fighting, for God’s sake(for the love of God)!/ [Lance has been dealing with his hair for about one hour!! His mom gets mad and says] For God’s sake, Lance! Turn off that damn hairdryer!/ [In the movie ‘The Rebound’, Aram (Justin Bartha) works at a coffee shop but his mother finds him another job and says] Oh, it’s depressing, and you’re a college graduate, Aram, for crying out loud./ For crying out loud, man, you say the same thing in every conference!/ [Pic] I refuse to be sick. I’m wearing Valentino, for crying out loud./ [Coach] Save your Money, for once, Nick, okay?/ And for once, when did you do your job properly? You’re all a mess!

Tanrı aşkına?: [şaşırdığın zaman soru TONLAMA gibi] (=Gerçekten mi?) Really? I’m going to Peru this year. –Really?/ How old is your son? –17. He’s getting married. –[Surprises] Really?

Onu niçin yaptın Tanrı aşkına?: Why on earth did you do that? Why on earth did you throw the chewing gum in the street?

Psalm 31:3 Since You are my Rock and my fortress, for the sake of Your name, lead and guide me. …hatırına: For the sake/SEYK/ of... || Because of... / ’Cause of... She didn’t get a divorce for the sake of her son./ I stayed quiet because of my family./ I go campin’ ’n read Movenglish there, ’cause of myself.

Tanrıdan bir şey olmadı!: We were lucky nothing happened!|| Luckily/Fortunately nothing happened! Today I came out of the house and a car just passed by me. It was about to run me over (Neredeyse bana çarpıyordu)! I was lucky nothing happened!/ I lost my way in that silent village in the dark. I heard a wild dog following me! I was scared to death and afraid to look back! I suddenly met a farmer. I dared to look back. The dog was literally following me. Luckily nothing happened! Do you know why? – Why? –The dog was hungry. It’s my dog now!

Kendine gel!/Kendine toparla!: Pull yourself together.* || Hold it together. Come on, man! You can win. Just pull yourself together and go get it./ [They’re playing bad. A fan shouts] Come on Man U (=Manchester United)! Pull yourself together!/ [He’s afraid of interview to get the job. His friend says] Dude! You’re the best I’ve ever seen. You should just pull yourself together and go get the job. It’s just a simple interview. Come on. You’re a genius!/ Hey… hey! I need to talk... I need to talk to you. –Are you drunk? –No… I’m not. –I think you should go home. Please! Hold it together.

Kendine geldi: She’s back./He’s back. [=Kızgın olmaktan sonra sakin oldu.] [She loses her control for a few seconds and gets mad, but she pulls herself together, and her brother says] Ok. She’s back!

Ne demek o?/Bu ne anlama geliyor?/ Bu ne demek yani? [kırılıcı, beklenmeyen ya da şaşırtıcı şeyi duymaktan dolayı diyorlar] What does that mean? || What does that suppose to mean? || What’s that supposed to mean? [He had one job and their life was good but he’s an overachiever (fazla başarımak istiyor). His wife expects him to be home but he’s always at work.

Now she’s angry and says:] Yea yea I think you can do two jobs! –What’s that supposed to mean?/ [1] ...and we were in the woods and... [Now person 2’s new friend sends him a text message but he doesn’t want to be friends with him anymore, so he groans]

Again? [Now the person 1 thinks he’s talking to him so he gets annoyed and says] What does that mean? [2] Oh, I’m sorry. It’s the text. Go on please./ [Pic] What’s that supposed to mean? (>The most famous ‘What’s that supposed to mean?!’<) ‘…’ der ken?: What do you mean by ‘…’? Can I have those towels in a baggage? –What do you mean by ‘baggage’ (=Bagaj der ken?) –Oh sorry, I mean, in a bag (demek istediğim poşettir)./ Are you gonna put the leftovers(artan/artık yemek) in the fridge? – What do you mean by ‘the leftovers’? –[Pointing at the food on the table] I mean these. Put these in the fridge. –No. Jasmine hasn’t had her meal yet. These are not the leftovers, these are hers. –Aw. Gotcha. Sorry./ Do you know anything about aromatherapy? – What do you mean by ‘aroma’? –It’s a ‘pleasant smell’ like aroma of vanilla or cinnemon. –No, I don’t.

Nasıl yani?: How come? || But… how? [surprisingly] || How? || What do you mean? (=Ne demek istiyorsun?) I earn good money but I hate my job. –How come? –It’s really tiring (yorucu)./ Keith and Aubrey split up (=broke up) today. –But… how? They loved each other! –Aubrey just confessed to me on the phone that they fought every day and every second. Those long kisses in front of us were just shams. –Oh boy! Poor guys./ We owe our ease and adversity to technology. –How? –We go from place to place faster, we don’t take our time to wash our clothes with hands, yet we always lack time!/ I am out of town tomorrow. –What do you mean? How about your job? Are you leaving your job?

Nasıl?: [Türkçede biri bir şey söylerse ama anlamadığız zaman ‘Nasıl?’ İngilizcede: 1. Sorry? (>Daha başlangıçta, duymadığımız zaman<) 2. What do you mean? (>Konuşma ortasında<) Excuse me, do you have change(bozuk para) for five? – Sorry? –Change for five. –Oh, let me see./ No dog food is left. –What do you mean? I bought a pack just a week ago. –Nothing is left. –Oh my.

Bildiğim kadar: For all I know || As far as I know || As much as I know || As I know || To my knowledge (Hatırladığım kadar) || To my understanding (Anladığım kadar) For all I know, Iranian rice is number one in the world! They are large and smell nice when turnd to pilaf/pi.LA’f/(pilav). Ever tried?/ Economics student: How many billionaires does Istanbul have? Economy expert: Well, as far as I know (as much as I know), according to the Forbes, the stats(istatistik) website, the number of billionaires in Istanbul is 28 which makes this city 4th in the world after NYC (60 billionaires), Moscow (50 billionaires), and London (32 billionaires)./ As I know, you promised you don’t tell that guy that you were here. –Yes. –But you told him that my house was clean! –Yes. –Then how do you expect him to believe you were not here when you talked about my house? – Oops! Yeah, you’re righ. My bad!/ ‘To my knowledge’(As I recall: Hatırladığım kadar) and ‘To my understanding’ (Anladığım kadar) have quite close meaning to ‘As far/much as I know’./ To my knowledge, you’re Aussie/O.si/(Australian), right?/ To my understanding, computer engineering is no harder than any other engineering curriculum/kı.Rİ.kyu.lım/.

Ne olursa olsun: Whatever it takes (=No matter what it takes) || No matter what. Listen. Whatever it takes, I’m gonna do it, okay?/ No matter what, you have to stay calm, all right? This will save your relationship./ [Pic] If a guy wants to be with a girl, he will make it happen, no matter what. (Eğer bir erkek bir kızla birlikte olmak isterse, ne olursa olsun, onu gerçekleştirecek.)

Kerrie Roberts No Matter What lyrics: I'm runnin' back to Your promises one more time - Lord, that's all I can hold onto - I've got to say this has taken my by surprise - But nothing surprises You - Before a heartache can ever touch my life - It has to go through Your hands - And even though I keep askin' why - I keep askin' why - No matter what, I'm gonna love You - No matter what, I'm gonna need You - I know that You can find a way to keep me from the pain - But if not, if not, I'll trust You - No matter what - No matter what - When I'm stuck in this nothingness by myself - I'm just sitting in silence - There's no way I can make it without Your help - I won't even try it - I know You have Your reasons for everything - So I will keep believin' - Whatever I might be feelin', that You are my hope - And You'll be my strength - No matter what, I'm gonna love You - No matter what, I'm gonna need You - I know that You can find a way to keep me from the pain - But if not, if not, I'll trust You - No matter what - No matter what - Anything I don't have, You can give it to me - But it's okay if You don't - I'm not here for those things the touch of Your love - Is enough on its own - But no matter what, I still love you - And I'm gonna need you - No matter what, I'm gonna love You - No matter what, I'm gonna need You - I know that You can find a way to keep me from the pain - But if not, if not, I'll trust You - I know that You can find a way to keep me from the pain - But if not, if not, I'll trust You - No matter what - No matter what İlla ki!: [Tek gelirse] (=Mutlaka) You bet!, Absolutely!, Definitely!, Certainly!, Totally!, Sure! > A Turkish writers know Turkish literature best. –You bet (Absolutely= Definitely= Certainly= Totally= Sure! [Cümleyla gelirse] (=Ne olursa olsun) No matter what, Whatever it takes > Çocuk illa ki bu sucuğu istiyor: No matter what, the kid wants this sausage/SA:’.sıc/!

Anladın mı?: You got it? || You get it? || You see? || (Do) you see what I mean? (=Demek istediğimi anlıyormusun?) || You follow me? || (You) understand? || You get my drift? || Do you catch my drift? || Clear? (=Anlatabiliyor muyum?/ Net miyim?) || Am I clear? (Anlatabiliyor muyum?/ Net miyim?) || You feel me? || Are you with me? He’s cheating you, you got it (you get it/ you see/ you understand/ you see what I mean/ clear/ am I clear)?/ This is the way you should play basketball, you follow me?/ Your job is your ID Card, you get my drift?/ ‘Do you catch my drift?’ means ‘Do you understand what I’m trying to say?’/ Danny! You will not take dad’s car driving downtown with your lousy friends, am I clear (=clear)?/ So, Ava! If a guy teases you a lot, he likes you, you feel me? –Mmm! Interesting./ [The Grace Card (2010)] The two little sisters are fighting over a doll named Winky. Their mom says, ‘Oh I like Winky. And she’ll go great in my room(odamda koyarsam daha yakışacak). But if this fight doesn’t end right now, that’s exactly where she’s gonna live. Are you with me?’/ Forrest Gump’s mother made him believe that he’s no different from other kids. Because of this self-belief, he was successful. You don’t have to be intelligent to be successful, you see what I mean?

Anlaştık mı?: Deal? ||| Anlaştık!: Deal! The rent fee for our scooters for the whole day is only 50 bucks (=dollars). –All right.

We’ll rent one. –Great. But you’re gonna have to bring it back tomorrow morning before 10 o’clock. If you’re even one hour late, I’ll charge you double. Deal? –OK. Deal. –Good. Sign here, please./ [To her roommate] There’re two things to do. I scrub the sink, you mop the floor, deal? –All right. Deal. –’K. Let’s get started./ You pay me 30% now, and 70% at the shipment point. Deal? – Deal.

Ben dersdeyim: I’m in the class. [NOTTT: I’m in the lesson. (OLMAZ!) Lesson is like: lesson one, lesson two, English lesson, math lesson.] I’m in the class, but my mind is with him. I think I’m in love! –But when I’m in the class, I’m in the class. (=My mind is only in the class.)

Ben kurstayım: I’m in the class. [NOTTT: I’m in the course. (OLMAZ!) ‘Course’ is a ‘time’ and its pronunciation is /KO’Rs/ as in ‘Of course’.> I took an English course last year (=Geçen sene İngilizce kursa gittim).] [Mom on the phone] Where are you, sweetie? –I’m in the class, mom.

Kursa gitmek: Go to (the/English/...) class [Pic] Are you going to class today? –I don’t know if I’m emotionally ready./ Do you go to yoga class?

Dershane/Dersane: Tutoring Center (özel ders merkezi>en kullanışlı) || Tutoring Services (özel ders hizmetlerı) || Test Prep Center || Exam Prep Center/ Exam Preparation Center (sınav hazırlama merkezi) [A Walk In My Shoes] Honey, why don’t you just go to the tutoring center? –I will, I will./ Our tutoring services are ready to give private lessons to students of all grades./ John’s studying in Kaplan Test Prep for ACT/ey.si.Tİ’/. [ACT> Amerika’da öğrencinin Lise’de ne öğrendiğin testi. ||| SAT/ıs.ey.Tİ’/> Amerika’da YGS gibi.] [Dil Okulu/Dersanesı: Language School/ Language Center ||| İngilizce Okulu: School of English] İyi dersler!: [Türk güzel kultür] Have a nice lesson! [Student’s uncle after speaking to the tutor leaves them alone and says] Have a nice lesson! –Thanks. İşte bu: That’s it! || This is it! || There you go.* || Here we go. I read Movenglish while I’m waiting at the bus terminal. It’s awesome. Yeah, I go for it. –That’s it!  [*Here you go (=There you go) also means ‘Buyurun’ when you give something to someone.]/ I listened to you, Mike, and now I can speak English. –Wow. That’s it, that’s what I’m talking about (işte bunu söylüyörum ya). You listen, you win./ [After drinking Nescafe, 3 in 1 (üçü bir arada) Rich (bol kahve), the green package (yeşil paket), he says] Yes! This is it! This is the coffee (Kahve işte bu ya)!/ [Playing basketball] Wow. Three pointer (Üçlük atti)! There you go./ [They are in Paris] Yeah, here we go! This is Louvre. Finally. Wooh, look at that.

You wanna wait in that long line?

Buyrun/Buyurun: Önden buyurun: After you! Asansör/kapı’da giderken ve aynı zaman’da başka bir kişi ya buyrun söylerken: After you. (Burada ASLA ‘Here you are’ demeğin. Birini bir şeyi verirken ‘Here you are’ söylüyorsun.) [Opens the door but sees a lady arrives, so very polite and with the body language of the hand he says] After you. –Oh, thanks. Very kind of you (Çok naziksiniz).

Buyrun: Bir şey verirken: Here you are(Buyrun). || Here you go (Buyrun/Şöyle verim). || There you go (Buyrun/Şöyle verim). Can I see your passport and return ticket please? –Here you are/Here you go/There you go./ Here’s your soup. Anything else? –No, thanks. –Enjoy(Afiyet olsun).

Buyrun, içeri girin anlamında: Come in (please). [Someone knocks the door of his Office, he’s sitting in the Office and says] Come in, please./ [Opens the door and sees some guests, she’s excited to see them and says] Oh, hi. Hi. Come in. Come in. [They kiss] How have you been? –Good./Fine, thanks./Great, how you doing?

Buyrun: Efendim anlamında: Yes? Ariana! There’s someone at the door. He says he wants to talk to you. [Ariana goes to the door but doesn’t recognize him and says] Yes? Yemek/İkram paylaşmaya davet: Help yourself, please. [Sitting around the table and ready to start eating, the host (ev sahibi) says] Please. Help yourself. Alexa, would you pass the soup to Mr. Ryan? [İstemedığın konu] İşte başladı!: Here we go! || [İstemedığın konu] Yine başladı!: Here we go again! [The son asks his dad to buy him the new computer game, the dad says] Uhh, here we go!/ [They talked about this issue before and again he says] So… you’re 42. Aren’t you gonna finally marry? –Oh my God! Here we go again! Çorba içmek: have soup (have, had, had) || Drink: (içmek) > when you don’t use your teeth. || Eat: (yemek) > when you use your teeth. || Have: > no matter if you use your teeth or not. (the best is this) What did you have for breakfast? –I had soup, bread, olive, cheese, and tea./ Hey, Stephanie! Whatcha havin’? –It’s pineapple juice. So yum! [Have: sahip olmak>What do you have in your life?] Çak: Give me five! [Bir elde beş parmak>Yani bir el ile çak] || Give me ten! [İki elde on parmak> Yani iki el ile çak] || (Give me) high five! [yukarıda bir el ile çak] || Give it up! I scored a goal (Bir gol attım) today! –Great! Give me five(ten)! That’s my son (İşte bu benim oğlum)!/ Yes! We could cut this deal. It’s awesome… [looking at his colleague he asks] are we too old for a high five? –No. [They high-five and the colleague says] good job, man! –Yeah, great job./ Uncle: WOW. You’re number one student in your school, huh? I’m so proud of you. Give it up, buddy!

Kes şunu: [Bir şey seni rahatsiz edersa, söylüyorsun] Knock it off. || Cut it out. [They are arguing over buying the stroller for their new-born baby or not, Evelyn gets mad and says] Knock it off guys! I’m trying to study here for God’s sake./ This body lotion is the best in the world. –Cut it out. It made all my skin itchy. How do you say so? İşi alındın: [patron/müdür/iş sahibi söylüyor] You’re hired. || Kovuldun: [patron/müdür/iş sahibi söylüyor] You’re fired. || İşi aldım/Bana iş verdılar: [işi alan söylüyor] I got hired. || Kovuldum/Bani kovuldular: [işi kayıp eden söylüyor] I got fired./ I got canned. [Resume in his hand] Lemme/LE.mi/(Let me) see what you got. You got the university degree, the experience. –Yes, sir. –Mmm, you’re hired. You can start tomorrow. Be here at 9 o’clock./ I told you not to chat on Facebook at work. –Yes, ma’am. – But you did it again. –Yes, ma’am. –I’m sorry, I can’t help but saying that you’re fired./ [After getting hired, to herself] Oh my God. I can’t believe I got hired!/ I got fired today! –Really? Again? Oh, man! This time what’d you do?/ He got canned because he talked a lot on the phone with his friends at work. [Dismiss: işten çıkarmak, kovmak>biraz daha resmi< The manager dismissed him.] İşi alındım: I got the job. || I got the gig. Sam? I got the job in L.A. I’m flying tomorrow. –Wow. This is amazing. We have to celebrate./ How was your interview? –Cool, bro. I got the gig. –Awesome, man! İşi bıraktım: I left the/my job. (leave, left, left) || I quit (the/my job). (quit, quit, quit) What’s new about your boss? –I don’t know. –Why? Don’t you see him anymore? –Nope. I actually left the job. –Oh, sorry./ I quit my job about a week ago and now I’m looking for a new one.

Hayatta olmaz!= Asla= İmkansiz= Olanaksiz: No way! (=Hayatta olmaz) || Impossible! (=İmkansız/ Olanaksız) || Never!/Never ever! (=Asla) Will you call her again (Onu tekrar arayacak mısın)? –No way!/ I just need one signature to clear the goods through the customs (malları gümrükten çıkarmak) but the customs inspector says, ‘Impossible (İmkansız).’ –You need to have the proper forms, man./ You believe in crystal healing? –Never. It’s stupid. –Have you done that before? –Yes, I have. It’s temporary change of feeling, that’s all.

Artık: [olumsuz cümlede] anymore (konuşma dili olumsuz cümlede ‘no more’ de olur) || Artık: [olumlu cümlede] 1.>çevirisiz: hiçbir şey kullanmayın ve tonlamayla belli olacak< 2. from now on (yani:bundan sonra, artık) [Pic] I still love him. But I don’t want to love him any more./ [Pic] Just don’t cry no more, please. [>So sweet!<]/ We don’t talk anymore!/ I’m tired of talking about love. Let’s talk about work (Haydi artık iş konuşalım)! [>çevirişiz<]/ From now on, I want to study harder.

Yok artık!=Yok canım!=Hadi canım!=Yürü canım!=Yapma ya: [şaşırtmak tonlama] No way!

(Yok artık!/Yok canım!) || Come on! (Hadi canım!) || Get out! (Yürü be!) We’re going dirt biking.

–No way! Oh, man! That’s rocking awesome! Can I join you guys?/ My fiancé bought me a diamond ring! –Come on! Lemme see that!/ Woohoo! I’m so happy. I’m debt free! –Get out! Wow. That’s great!

Yok artık!: [böyle devam edemem] Not anymore!/Not any longer! || No more!/No longer! Do you still want to focus(lean) on just books to learn to speak English? –Not anymore!(Not any longer!)/ Do you want more cake? –No. No more. Thanks./ Honey, do you want to take the pill? –No. Not any longer. Ever since I started reading the Bible, it is disappearing.

Hadi ama!=Bırak ya!=Yapma!=Bir huzur ver!=Bir moğla ver!: Come on! || Give me a break! || Give it a break! [It’s 3 a.m in the morning. Jill is chatting on computer. His dad wakes up and says] Go to bed, kiddo. Right now. –Come on, dad! It’s only 3 o’clock!/ I wanna put on (çalmak) some rap music. –Oh, no. Give me a break!/ [Kayla is arguing over why her husband picked (=chose) purple bathroom tiles, but her husband wants her to quit arguing and says] Oh, please, give me a break, Kay./ [The amateur guy is playing a musical instrument in the house.

He’s totally enjoying it but the rest of the people in the house are bothered, and finally one of them yells] Ugh! Give it a break!

Ne oldu? / Sorun ne?: What happened? || What’s wrong? || What’s going on (=Neler oluyor)? || What’s the matter? || What’s the problem? || How come... (Nasıl)? || What’s the deal? (=What’s the dillio?>SL<) || What’s up? (1. N’aber? 2. Ne oldu?)

[He’s on the bus and is watching Movenglish when he giggles! His friend asks, ‘What happened?’/ What’s wrong? Why are you sobbing, baby?/ Hey! Why are you packing your suitcase? What’s going on?/ Woah, woah, wait. What? W-what’s the matter? Are you breaking up with me? –[She says nothing and slams the door.]/ What’s the problem? Why are you removing my desk? –You’re gonna be promoted. –Really? –Yeah, you gotta change your office!/ How come you never told me you had a kid?/ Are you gonna tell me why we’re here? What’s the deal?/ Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty: What’s the dillio? –[Jennifer Aniston] It’s a blood drive (Kan Alma Merkezi)./ 1.Hey dude! What’s up? –Nothing much. As usual (=As always= Her zaman gibi)!/ 2.You’re not returning my texts anymore. What’s up? Something wrong (Bir şey mi oldu)?

Senin derdin/sorunun ne?: What’s your problem? || What’s the matter with you? || What’s wrong with you? || What’s your deal? (İkinci anlama: Senin hikaye ne?/Senin olay ne?> Birinci ve ikinci anlama, tonlamayla değişiyor.] Scott: Hey, Nicole!

Nicole: I’m good, how... [Now Norman interrupts her and says] Nicole doesn’t wanna talk to you. Scott to Norman: Hey! What’s your problem?/ [Sitting on the couch, eating chips, his brother says] Yo, go to your room. –Why? –’Cause I said so (Çünkü ben öyle söyledim). – What’s the matter with you?/ You look a bit weird today. What’s wrong with you?/ I don’t like this guy. –Why? What’s your deal? –Don’t know. –Maybe you should change the way you look at people./ So, are you new in town? What’s your deal(Senin hikaye ne)?

Ben onun arkadaşım: I’m friends with him/her. (Friends, NOT: friend). || I’m his/her friend. I’m friends with him since college. He’s my best friend./ She’s very pushy(ısrarcı). – Hey, watch it. I’m her friend. –I’m just saying.

Michael W. Smith ft. Israel Houghton – Help Is On The Way lyrics [Great concert. This is Michael W. Smith’s warm-up for this song: Life gets hard and marriage gets tough and you just get so discouraged that you don’t think there is any way out. Sometimes it gets really hard, you feel like you’re in the desert, like, God, where are You? I know You’re there. But I don’t see You, I don’t feel You, I can’t touch You. Where are You? And if you’re one of those people, tonight, I have a song for you, ’cause you know what? Help Is On The Way (applause). So be encouraged even through the tough times in the desert, wheather you realize or not, God’s using you for the good. So this song’s for you:] People say that time will heal - But you know, they just don't feel what you feel - Times are hard but God is so good - He's never failed you, and He said He never would - He sees your tears - He fights your fears [Chorus:] Hold on, help is on the way - He said he'd never leave you or forsake you - Stay strong - Help is on the way - He'd said he'd help you - Just reach out and take His hand - [Verse 1:] He knows your heart, He lifts your head - He's always close enough to hear every word you said - When you're weak, He said He's so much more - His arm is long enough to reach you where you are He sees your tears - He fights your fears - [Chorus 2x] Help is on the way [10x] Yoldayım (geliyorum): I’m on the way. [yolda: on the way] [On the phone] Hey, where are you? The meeting’s gonna start in 5 minutes. –I’m on the way. Guess I can make it (Gelmeye başaracağimi sanıyorum), don’t worry. –Ok, see ya then./ The manager is on the way. Please… have some Turkish delight (lokum)./ He’s on the way to Çanakkale (O Çanakkale’ye yolunda).

Arka sokak: back street || Arka bahçe: backyard Come on guys. I know a cozy cafe back street. Let’s go there. –Are you gonna smoke waterpipe(nargile) again?/ It’s a neat cafe. You can sit at the backyard, sip your coffee, and enjoy the silence.

Turşu: [bir tane] pickle [genelde çoğul: pickles/Pİ.kılz/] || Kürdan: toothpick The secret of the best-selling Döners in Turkey is cucumber pickles! It’s so yum with tomatoes./ Çubuk is famous for its pickles, both cucumber pickles and mixed pickles./ Traditional Turks like to remove bits of food between their teeth with toothpick after they have their meal. I think I like it ’cause it’s simply like instantly brushing the teeth. [Chopstick: Çinlilerin/Asyalıların yemek çubuğu>These days children know how to use chopstick better than us!]

Dut: mulberry /MA:L.be.ri/ The meaning of ‘Dut’, ‘Mulberry’ has been the most asked question when speaking with my Turkish friends or students.  Balık ekmek: fish sandwich Would you like a fish sandwich? –Sure. –Anchovy/AN.çı.vi/ sandwich (hamsi ekmek) and mackerel (uskumru) sandwich are very popular in Turkey.

Ayran: [Amerika’da ayran yoktur ama onu en benzer şey:] butter milk Here. Have some butter milk.

Terlik: slippers If wearing slippers is important for you, before taking a trip abroad, have them with you coz they normally don’t have any in their hotel rooms.

Bu insaf/adil değil!>Bu adaletsız!: This isn’t fair. || Gayet adil!/Yeterince adil!: Fair enough! A woman: I work as hard as a man in my office, but he’s paid more than me. This isn’t fair!/ You were supposed to give me the information before the meeting, not now. –I brought it to your office on time but apparently you were out for a couple of hours. So I left it on your desk. –You could have called me! –I called you like ten times but you didn’t answer. –Aw… yeah, fair enough. I left my phone at home! Thank you anyway./ Psychology professor: Life is full of techniques. Imagine person A and person B are roommates. ‘A: Yo, wake up. You gotta do the laundry. It stinks! B: Leave me alone. I wanna sleep!’ Now use this technique: ‘A: Dude! There are two things to do. I do the dishes, you do the laundry. B: Fair enough!’ You see the difference? We can use the same technique for our kids.

Böyle/Böylece: In this way || (In) This way || (Just) Like this = (Just) Like that When Brittney Spears was so young, a palm reader told her she’d be famous but she didn’t believe her at that time. Time passed and one of Radio stations broadcasted her songs.

In this way, she became famous./ Golf in America is not a fantasy sport any more. There’re a lot of golf clubs out there. All the person has to do is to book the golf court for a couple of hours. In this way, everyone has the chance to play it./ Allison: Have you heard anything about ‘community garden’, Zuha? –No, what’s that? –In America, there’re some gardens that only people make them, not the government. Everybody can grow flowers, or plant a seedling (=fidan) in there. Just like that, they can later have some events, celebration or birthday parties there. –That’s lovely. –You bet.

Öyle mi?: Oh, yeah? || Is that so? || Really? [surprisingly] || You were/did/can/could/are/…? [soruyu göre değişiyor] || You think? (=Do you think so?) Hey look! This is my new invention. –Oh yeah?/ You see that guy over there? –Yea! –He can hypnotize/HİP.nı.ta:yz/ people. –Oh, yeah?/ Lady: I went to the spa in the neighborhood. –Uh-huh. –I got hot stone massage*? It’s pretty awesome. –Is that so? –Yep. –I think you should try it./ In case you wanna have, it’s garlic bread. –Really?/ I was a head cheer leader at school. –You were (Öyle mi)?/ He can lick his elbow. –He can (Öyle mi)?/ This Kimono is beautiful. –You think? [*Massage:/mı.SA:’j/ masaj. Message:/ME.sıc/ mesaj.>You got a message from Mr. Angelino.]

Uğraşıyorum!/Çalışıyorum!: Just working!/I’m working. || (I’m) just being busy. Hey man. What are you doing? –Just working./ [On the phone] Hi, Maurice! What’s up? –Nothing much. Just being busy. You? –Me too. Just working!

Uğraşmak: deal with People who work in Turkcell, Vodafone, and Avea deal with millions of customers all around Turkey./ He has dealt with this job for a long time.

Onun üzerine çalışıyorum/Onu yapmaya çalışıyorum/Uğraşıyorum: I’m on it. || I’m working on it. Nathaniel? Did you finish making the website for your new business? –I’m on it, Mr. O’Donnell. –Good. ’Cause when you’re done, I’d like to ask you to make one for me too. –That’d be my pleasure./ Did you fix the broken couch? –I’m working on it.

Bu makineyı böyle uğraşmayin: Don’t work on this machine/mı.Şİ’n/ like that.

Ulaşamıyorum: [telefon] I can’t reach him/her/... I’m trying to call but I can’t reach her. Probably she’s in the subway./ I called but I couldn’t reach you./ Bahadır’s mobile is off. I can’t reach him. –Oh, look. He’s here./ I can’t reach my girlfriend. I think something’s wrong with her phone.

Birini uğurlamak/yolculamak: see someone off This is a tradition to see your guests off to the door (kapıya doğru/kadar)./ Oh, please! You don’t need to see me off. I know my way back(Geri dönme yolumu biliyorum)! –No, no, it’s my pleasure. Actually I enjoy talking to you. –Thanks! That’s very nice of you(Bana çok iyisiniz).

Uğramak: Stop by || Come by || Swing by (swing,swung,swung) || Visit someone (=Pay someone a visit): birini uğramak We enjoyed talking to you. Stop by (Bize uğra), sometime./ Thanks for stopping by (=Uğradiğin için teşekkür ederim)./ I’m glad you swung by./ Come visit us sometime./ I was going to the beach. I thought I’d pay you a visit. –Thanks. How are ya? I missed ya, pal!

Exodus 18:23 God will direct you, you will be able to endure. Öyle hiç yaşamadım: I’ve never experienced it/that (before)! Have you ever been lost in a foreign country? –No. I’ve never experienced it before./ Ever been alone in a valley? –Nope. What’s it like? –Incredible feeling! You see yourself surrounded by the beauty of nature. –Wow. It must be amazing. I have never experienced that before but I guess I will... someday.

Beni etrafta gezdirdi: He showed me around! The first day of work in this company, I met Jack. He showed me around. [>Great technique for managers to make their staff feel good about themselves.<] Bu ona ne ilgisi/alakesi var?: What does it have to do with that? Bu para o eva ne alakesi var?: What does this money have to do with that house?

Bu ona hiç ilgisi/alakasi yok!: It has nothing to do with that! = It doesn’t have anything to do with that! Bu para o eva hiç alakasi yok: This money has nothing to do with that house. = This money doesn’t have anything to do with that house. Bu ona çok ilgisi/alakesi var!: It has a lot to do with that. This money has a lot to do with that house.

Ne alakesi var?: How does it relate? (=How is it related?) || How do they relate? (=How are they related?) || How is it relevant?/How are they relevant? I’m gonna ask Hale out. What do you think? –Well, if you think of marrying your best friend, you should be prepared to lose her. –How does it relate? –’Cause she sees you as a friend, not as a husband. It’s a bit risky. Are you prepared for that? –I think I’m prepared ’cause I love her./ I feel like having some Snickers and Pepsi. –Snickers with Pepsi? How do they relate? –Don’t know. It’s the way I feel (İşte öyle hissediyorum)./ I wanna dump her. –Why? –Weren’t you there? She smiled at Pablo like she likes him. –How is it relevant? You smile at other girls too.

Randevuniz varmı?: Do you have an appointment? Hi. I’m here to see Dr. Dixon. –Sure. Do you have an appointment? –Yep. I got an appointment under Lisa Anderson. –Let me check. [She checks the schedule on the computer and says] All right, Ms. Anderson! Please have(take) a seat. Doctor will visit you in a minute. –Thanks.

Sağlık Ocağı: [=Aile Sağlığı Merkezi]: Family Health Center The idea of Family Health Center is wise because it helps hospitals become less crowded.

Başardım!: [Üzerine çok çalıştığım işi sonunda yaptım.] I did it! || I made it to (bir yere)! [(bir yere) gelmeye başarıdım!] Yes! I finally fixed this car. I did it!/ Woohoo! I made it to the top of the mountain! Uhhh! This view is really great. Guys? Are you coming?

Tanrım, beni sabır ver!: God! Give me strength! [He cleans the house. She comes and nags instead of thanking him. He says to himself] God! Give me strength!/ She cried to God ‘Please give me strength!’

Tanrı sabır versin!/Sabırlı ol!/Güçlü ol!: Hang in there!* Sorry about your loss (=Eşini/ çocuğunu/ sevdiklerini kayıp ettiğin için özgünüm). Hang in there.

Kafana takma!: 1. Hang in there!* 2. Don’t worry about it. I heard about what Jack did to you. He didn’t have the right to raise his voice. Hang in there (=Kafana takma)! –I will (Takamam)!/ I’m sorry I missed your birthday party. –Don’t worry about it, man!

I’m not much of a birthday guy (Pek doğum-günü-parti-yap-falan adam değilim)!

Sorun değil: (It’s) no big deal. (=No biggie!) || It’s not a problem. || No problem. || It’s all good. || It’s all right./It’s ok./It’s fine. Hey pal. I came here to appologize. Sorry I said bad things to your face the other day. –No big deal, man. I don’t have time to worry about that. My mind is on higher things. But I appreciate that you stopped by. You want some coffee?/ I like this girl so much! Is it too early if I ask her out? –I think it’s no biggie. Ask her out!/ You broke up with me, it’s not a problem. You broke my

heart, no problem. But why are you still talking about me behind my back? Isn’t it that you still love me?/ [She’s jogging in the park. Out of the blue, a youngster crosses her way and they collide. Then she says] Oh, I’m so sorry. Are you all right? –Yeah. I’m good. –You sure? –Yeah, it’s all good, ma’am./ Buddy, this apartment is very good and you’re a good ‘person’ but I can’t stay here.

It’s too far from my work. So I’ll move out by the end of this month. –Oh! It’s ok(fine/all right)!

Bana uyar/Benim için uygun dır/Bana göre iyi: Sounds good to me. || Sounds perfect (to me). || Sounds great (to me). || Suits me fine. Is it ok we meet at 5 instead of 5:30? –Sounds good to me./ What do you think about staging our house and buying some new furniture from IKEA? –Sounds perfect to me, honey. Yeah, we actually need new stuffs in the house./ These Ülker Golden chocolates are really yum (yummy/delicious)! Do you like them? –Yeah. They’re full(bol) of pistachio. What do you say we make some tea? –Mmm. Yeah. Sounds great./ So, what do you say? Shall we order takeout (paket yemek)? –Suits me fine!

Niye zahmet ettiniz?/ Bunu yapmak gerek yoktur.: [başkaların beklemeden iyilikler için] [Aw] You didn’t have to do that! || [Aw] Why did you trouble yourself? [Babysitter] Children are asleep. I also made you some soup. –Oh thanks. You didn’t have to do that!/ [The new landlady] Jocelyn! I did your laundry. You can pick them up. –Oh, thanks, Ms. Martinez! Why did you trouble yourself? –It wasn’t a trouble at all. Come upstairs sometime. I’ll be happy to have a chat with you. –Sure. That’d be my pleasure./ [To aunt Marilyn, after the party] I’ve done all the dishes. –Aw, why did you trouble yourself? Thanks. –My pleasure. Önem vermek: …is important for… #... isn’t important for || …care about… a lot/this much/too much #... doesn’t care about… at all || Give importance to… (ilgi duymak) # Doesn’t give importance to…(=İlgi duymamak) || Consider… important # Doesn’t consider… important || Pay attention to… a lot (çok dikkat etmek/önem vermek) # Doesn’t pay attention to… at all || Place importance on Why is hair style so important for you (=Niye saç modeline bu kadar önem veriyorsun)? =Why do you care about your hair style a lot? =Why do you care about your hair style this much?/ Asians/EY.jınz/ give importance to respect./ He’s a stickler for grammar. He pays attention to the accuracy of grammar a lot./ Some children draw something and show it to their parents to impress them. In this matter, how should parents place importance on their child’s effort? – Well, they could stick it on the wall, or they could frame it and then put it on the wall.

[May Lovely Lord help me place the most importance on Him and on Him for ever and ever. Amen.]

Darlene Zschech - Amazing Grace lyrics (one of the most soothing songs ever): Amazing grace! how sweet the sound - That saved a wretch like me - I once was lost, but now am found - Was blind but now I see - 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear - And grace my fears relieved - How precious did that grace appear - The hour I first believed - Through many dangers, toils and snares - I have already come - 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far - And grace will lead me home - The Lord has promised good to me - His word my hope secures - He will my sheild and portion be - As long as life endures - Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail - And mortal life shall cease - I shall possess within the veil - A life of joy and peace - When I've been there ten thousand years - Bright shining as the sun - I've no less days to sing God's praise - Than when I first begun

İlgilenmek: Daha>To be interested in something || Daha>To be attracted to someone The boss is not interested in having a business with him./ I’m interested in improving my personality./ Do you think jogging improves people’s confidence? –Absolutely./ He’s attracted to you, don’t you see?

You, still captivate me, fascinate me - You still captivate me, saturate me –Delirious? İlgilendirmek: Daha>Fascinate (hem de: Interest) This new job offer fascinates me./ The contemporary Christian music of sky.fm interests me. [İlgilenmek: daha>To be interested in... || İlgilendirmek: daha>Fascinate.] [İlgilendirmek>meşgul etmek anlamında: keep someone busy>Twin babies are fun. They keep us pretty busy!]

Bir şey olmaz!: It’s gonna be all right(Her şey düzeltecek)./Nothing will happen(Kötü bir şey olmayacak)! We’re two months behind the rent! –Don’t worry, honey. It’s gonna be all right./ Sam! I’m worried about the end of the world. –Well, Nostradamos predicted it would be in 2012. So why nothing happened? Nothing will happen, unless God says so, Amen? –Amen. So what should we do for it? –Pray? –Excellent. –Yea, you are right. I’m a bit relieved! Let’s pray then, honey.

Her şey düzeltecek/Her şey iyi olacak: Everything’s gonna be fine/ok/all right. Oh God! We have no job and no money. We’re broke! –It’s gonna be fine(ok/all right), baby. Don’t worry. I’ll protect you. – How? How are you gonna protect me? Wake up, Jack! You’re dreaming./ My son doesn’t show any interest to his lessons. I’m really worried about him. I don’t know what to do. –Is he a teen (juvenile)? – Yep, he’s 13. –You were 13 once, weren’t you? It’s a sensitive time of a change in his body and mind.

He’s growing up. You should give him some slack (biraz onu serbest/ rahat bırakmalısın), man. I think you’re too worried. Everything’s gonna be all right. Is he interested in bowling? –Yeah, I guess. –Ok. Then don’t forget to talk to him while playing bowling. He should feel relaxed with you. You should be his friend before being his father. One thing, though. Talk about your experiences. Teens hate to be obliged to do something, like ‘you should do it’ and ‘you shouldn’t do it’. –Okay, I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the tip (öneri/tavsiye/öğüt). –Any time!

Bakacağız: Let’s see!/We’ll see! Dad? Is there any swimming pool at uncle Larry’s? –Not sure. Let’s see (=We’ll see)./ Houston will beat Minnesota today. –Oh, yeah? We’ll see!

Bakacağım: I’ll see!/I’ll look around (Arayıp bakacağım). Will you do it for me? –I don’t promise, but I’ll see./ Mom! I want cup corn. –Sweetie, they sell it only at the super store downtown, and the car is broken, but I’ll look around.

Bakacağız: I’ll see what I can do. [To the tour guide] Can we go to the Underground City today? –It’s not scheduled /sKE.cu.ıld/ in the package, but I’ll see what I can do. –Ok, thanks.

Elimde ne gelirsa yapacağım: I’ll do what I can. Doctor: There’s no hope for your little brother. I’m so sorry.

But I’ll do what I can.

-nin sayesinde/ -dan dolayı: Thanks to...(...sağolsun) || Because of... || Due to... Thanks to technology, we’re having a better life now./ Thanks to this filebook, I understood why I know a lot of words but I can’t speak English. I should watch one movie a day and I’m going to do that. I love movies./ Because of your favor, my family has a house now. God bless you./ Due to the heavy snow, all the schools in town are closed today.

Geçebilir miyim?: [iki ya da birkaç sandalyeda oturan kişilerin arasında geçmek için] May I get past? || May I? [vucüt dil işaretiyle] [In a crowded cafe, some customers replaced the chairs and blocked your way. You want to go in between. So you say] May I get past? –Yea, sure./ [Two people blocking your way and you say] May I? –Sure. Sorry. –No prob. Thanks. İyi yolcular: Have a nice(safe) trip! || [Genelde hostes(flight attendant) diyor] Enjoy your flight! ’K, I’m goin’. –Have a nice trip, baby. Call me when you get there(Orada gidince beni ara)./ The flight attendant: Attention passengers! In preparation for takeoff, please turn off all electronic devices. Thank you and enjoy your flight.

Sıra sende: You’re up./ You’re next./ (It’s) your turn. After Chester gave his presentation in the class, the teacher says: Larry!

You’re up./ [They’re playing games, she says] So... I’m next? –Yes, you’re next. Go ahead(Devam et)./ Last night I did the dishes, now it’s your turn. –Oh no!! [Who’s next?= Whose turn is it? >Sıra kimde?]

Şöyle bir şey var…: Here’s the thing… ‘Here’s the thing’ is so popular in America that we have it EVERYWHERE on the Internet./ Here’s the thing… this company must make more money, this is our ultimate target. Great companies have had great ideas. But to get to that point, we need a solid, unique plan. Now I want you guys to give me ideas. I’m looking forward to ideas.

And whoever gives me the best idea, I’ll give him $10,000 reward./ Look, here’s the thing. If you really want to speak English, you should be crazy about it, you should be in love with it. And a person in love NEVER rests unless they GET what they want: SPEAKING.

İnanilmaz/şaşırtıcı: Unbelievable [olumlu&olumsuz anlamında]/ Incredible [olumlu anlamında] Sign at a shoe store: Converses at unbelievable price!/ The guy just ate 5 sandwiches! Unbelievable!/ Oh my gosh! Did you just see that? He walked on fire! That’s unbelievable!/ [He took a shower in 3 minutes! His new roommate says] Did you just take a shower? –[Without any surprise answers] Yeah! –Gee! That was incredible!/ See the guy over there? –Yep! –He can speak 8 languages. –Really? That’s incredible. Let’s go talk to him./ This short movie is incredible. Discoveries in the world happened because most discoverers were lonely!

Hayret bir şey ya!: That’s/It’s weird/odd/strange/kinky/cranky/peculiar! || (It’s) unbelievable! I just put my key here. Where is it now? It’s weird(odd/strange/ kinky/cranky/peculiar)!/ The guys in the neighborhood fight like 24/7! Unbelievable! Do you think we should call the cops? –I say let’s pray for them./ [Pic] I’ve written myself into my screenplay. –That’s kind of weird, huh? [Senaryomda kendime yazdım (içerledim). Hayret (Tuhaf) bir şey, değil mi?]

Seninle gorur duyorum: I’m proud of you. You’ve become the best student of the school. I’m so proud of you!/ You’re doing two jobs to save the family. I’m so proud of you, honey. –I’m proud of you too. I love you.

Tadine çıkar!: Enjoy! Enjoy the party (=Partinin tadine çikar)!/ If you’re not living in America, bring America to your home. English movie with English subtitle is the dreamland in your home. Enjoy! [Yemek yerken ‘Enjoy!’ yani: Afiyet olsun!]

Zannetmiyorum/Sanmiyorum: I don’t think so. Are you going to buy a new cell phone? –I don’t think so. I’m totally satisfied with the one I have.

Bende aynı fikirdeyim: I think so too! Good things never come easy. –I think so too.

Sanırım öyle: I think(guess/suppose) so. [Carrying the boxes (kutular)] Is it the last box? –I think so.

Galiba/Heralde: I think so. (sanırım öyle) || I guess so. (sanırım öyle) || Maybe (belki) || It’s possible. (olabilir) || Possibly (olabilir) || Probably (muhtemelen>belki’den evete daha yakın) Is that Shakira in Venice Boardwalk? –I think so. Let’s go see what’s going on. [They ask someone and she says] I think they’re making her new video ‘Loca’./ Will you visit your uncle this summer? –I guess so. Why (=Why are you asking?=Niye sörüyörsun ki)?/ Is there any chance this world could be any better? – Maybe! –Why do you think so? I mean a lot of people are pessimistic about it. –Well, I say that because more people are educated.

All I’m saying is there’s more awareness (#ignorance) than the past. –But the more we know, the more problems we have. –Well, this is a major feature of knowledge called ‘Struggle!’ –You’re right. I’m with you in that point of view./ You think it will rain? – Possibly. –Why do you say so? –I just checked Yahoo Weather. –Interesting! I like it when you use technology in its proper way. – Thanks./ Do you think 3D (three dimension: üç boyutlu) clips are the future of all TV channels in Turkey and everyone has to buy 3D glasses to watch ’em? –It’s possible. But not in a very near future. It takes some time, I guess./ They say a tourist is not really a tourist unless they traveled India. Is that right? –Probably. –You’ve ever been to India? –Yep. Well it’s really the land of surprises.

There’s social class difference among people, they make 1000 movies a year and mostly sell them to Arab countries, their clothing is different like women wear long Sari, their food is mostly spicey, Indian clips are done mostly with group dance, they got many names including ‘Khan’ like Imran Khan and Salman Khan, there’re really amazing places like Shah Jihan, and they have great technology and tremendous computer hardware (bilgisayar donanımı) production. It’s a wonder land! There’re people who put something in your ear and clean it like you really surprise and ask yourself ‘I take a shower once or twice a day. How did this man remove this much ear wax from my ear?’ –Sounds interesting! –You bet.

Her şey yolunda(düzenli) mı?: (Is) everything ok/all right/cool/fine/good? How was the first day of school, honey? –[Doesn’t say anything] –What’s wrong? Everything ok?/ What up? Everything all right? –Yeah. Well, actually no. I got flu. –Sorry, man./ How’s work? Everything cool? –Yeah. Everything good. How’s yours? –Uh, not bad (şöyle böyle/fena değil/idare ediyorum)./ Hey Leonard! Long time no see! Everything good? –Hi, Moni. Yeah, everything fine.

Hak etmek/ layık olmak: deserve The other day, the girl was standing out the subway, shooting a video of people coming up the subway scalator with her cellphone camera. I don’t think she had the right to do so. I mean if she wanted to shoot, she must have asked first. Everyone deserves privacy and this is the violation of people’s private life./ Everyone deserves a better life and learning a new language is opening a new door to your life. Try but don’t bore yourself. Learn with fun!/ Wow. You won! You deserved it(=Sen bunu hak ettin=Helal olsun sana)!

Yapacak bir şey yok: There is nothing we(I/he/she..) can do about it. I’m sorry. We lost him in the surgery. There is nothing we can do about it./ [The repairman] This elevator is too old to fix. There’s nothing I can do about it. You need to change it.

Olduğun gibi: as-is, as it is, as I am, as she is, as we are, as he is, as you are... I love her as she is./ I wanna sell the house as-is (=without any change).

Bir yol bulmak/Bir çare bulmak: Figure it out || Come up with something Again the copy machine doesn’t work, boss. –Don’t worry. I figured it out. We should take it to the pawnshop and buy a new one./ [After they see the Notice of Eviction on the door] Oh no. This isn’t happening (=Böyle olmaz). We should come up with something.

Bunu sana telafi edeceğım: I’ll make it up to you! I know I did wrong. I’m sorry. But I’ve changed. And I’ll make it up to you.

Believe me./ I confess I lied to you. But I promise I’ll make it up to you, OK?/ You came to visit me but I wasn’t available. This doesn’t count. I’ll make it up to you next time.

Etkilendim/Çok etkilendim: I’m impressed. I’m really impressed by your great speech at the seminar. You were really good!/ What is it? –You said you walk a lot and I figured out (düşündüm’da) I should do something to surprise you. So instead of buying you some cheesy flowers, I got you this. This is a reservasion for you for a foot massage in the spa! –Oh my gosh! You’ve impressed me a lot lately. You’re so spontaneous! –[Speaks Spanish!] –HaHa! I don’t know what you said but thanks! –I said, ‘It’s my pleasure.’

Midem bulaniyor: I feel sick. || I got(have) nausea /NA:’.zi.ya:/. || I feel like vomiting/ puking/ throwing up! || I wanna vomit/puke/throw up! || I think I’m gonna vomit/puke/throw up! [After seeing her ex-hubby] Is that Lauri? Ugh! I feel sick!/ When seeing the photos of massacre, she says: I got nausea./ I had poisoned food I guess. I feel like throwing up/vomiting/puking!/ [After going up and down in roller-coaster in Lunapark] I don’t feel good. I think I’m gonna puke/throw up/vomit! [Midem bozuldu: My stomach is upset.>I had hot food and chilly(buzlu) drink. My stomach is upset now!]

Ben varım!: I’m in. (Count me in: Beni de say.) || Ben Yokum!: I’m out. (Count me out: Beni sayma.) We’re going on a road trip. Who’s in (=Kim var)? –I’m in. –Aw yup, me too! Count me in. –I’m out! I have to study. –I’m definitely out.

Heycanlıyım: 1.[Sınav/Konfrans/Canlı Program/kendinin düğün’dan önce>olumsuz anlamında] I’m nervous. 2.[iyi anlamında] I’m excited.=I’m psyched(Syked).=I feel ecstatic. Man! I can’t believe it’s my wedding day. It’s a big day. I’m pretty nervous. Is everything in order (Her şey düzenlimi)? –Everything’s fine. Relax, dude! Everything’s under my control./ We’re taking a trip to Florence. I’m totally excited!

Hillsong United – You Are More lyrics: On the day I called - You answered me - And the hope in my soul increased - I lift my hands And turn my eyes - To the God who heals my heart - And gives me peace - You are more than - My words could ever say - You are Lord over all - Over all of my days - I will see this season through - I will fix my eyes on You - Only You - Only You - I worship You -

And lift You high - God forever let Your name be glorified - I lift my voice - And sing Your name - For you gave Your life to cleanse my sin - And took away my shame - You are more than - My words could ever say - You are Lord over all - Over all of my days - I will see this season through - I will fix my eyes on You - Only You - Only You – Hallelujah - The earth will sing - May Your name be glorified – Hallelujah - The earth will sing - May Your name be glorified - You are more than - My words could ever say - You are Lord over all - Over all of my days - I will see this season through - I will fix my eyes on You - Only You - Only You Ismarlamak: Buy || Get || Offer Can I buy you a drink (=Sana bir içki ısmarlayabilirmıyım)?/ I’d like to buy you a drink. (=Sana bir içki ısmarlamak istiyorum.)/ Let me buy you a beer (=Sana bir bira ısmarlayım)./ I’d like to buy you a cup of coffee./ Can I get you a drink?/ Can I offer you something (=Bir şey ısmarlabilirmiyim)?

Benden: [ısmarlarken söylüyorsun] It’s on me. || Be my guest (=Misafirim ol!) || My offer! || My treat! (=Benim ikramim!) I’d like to invite all of you to drink. It’s on me. (=My offer.=My treat.= Be my guest.)/ Masseuses/ma.SO’z/(bayan masajor) to the tourist lady: This last massage is my offer. –Oh, thanks./ Get this Credit Card and buy yourself whatever you want. My treat. –All right. Thanks./ Let’s go to the movies. My treat!

Ben ödiyeceğim: [parayı öderken söylüyorsun] I’ll get it. || Allow me. || It’s on me. [To the waiter] Check (hesap) please! [When the waiter brings the check, he and his friend are insisting on paying it] No I’ll get it. –Oh no, please, allow me. –Oh, no, it’s on me.

–Ok. Thanks. [Kim ısmarlayacak?: Who’s gonna treat(offer)?]

Acımasız: Brutal/ Harsh/ Cruel/ Rough/ Tough/ Ruthless/ Merciless/ Relentless/ Unrelenting She left you as she found you love her? That’s brutal, man!/ Hey, why did you kick the cat? You out of your mind? That’s harsh, man!/ Execution is considered a cruel kind of punishment./ Life is rough and time is tough! We need someone to relieve us./ Mirrors are ruthless ’cause they always tell you the truth!!/ Who is the most merciless person in the world?/ Love is not relentless(unrelenting), but human self can be.

Dengesiz: Unstable His situation is totally unstable!/ This table is unstable. Half of my tea spilled on the saucer/SA:’.sır/.

Boş konuşuyor: S/he doesn’t know what s/he’s talking about! [While playing poker] [1] Guys! Which one’s better, flamenco or flamingo? [2] What? What are you talking about, dude(Oğlum ne diyorsun)? [3] Nothing. He doesn’t know what ’s talking nonsense…(to 1)…hey! Did you get enough sleep last night(Dün gece iyi yattınmı)? [2] HaHa! [1] (With a confusing sense) Huh? Kesinlikle: Absolutely || Definitely || Totally (Tamamen/Aynen öyle) || Of course (Tabii ki) || Sure (Tabii ki) || Certainly (Elbette/Tabii) || With no doubt (Şüphesizle) Is everything all right? –Absolutely.

Everything is fine./ Of all the values in the world, I think family value comes first. – Definitely!/ [Knocks the door of the neighbor and says] Hi. My name’s Cassidy. I live in the neighborhood. We just moved in (Yeni taşındık). Is it ok if we have a garden party this weekend? –Oh yeah. Totally. I missed the old days. –Well, I actually wanted to invite you too. –Oh, thanks. So sweet of you. Of course. I’ll be there. What time? – Saturday night from 5 o’clock. –Yeah. Totally./ [Manager to his driver in the car] Take a turn (Dön). I need to buy some new suit (takım elbise). –Certainly, sir./ Do you think we will have internet access under tunnels or down in the subway in a few years? –With no doubt. With the progress in technology, everything’s possible! [Aynın öyle: Exactly!/Precisely!/Totaly!>He’s been glued to the computer for 6 hours straight! He’s addicted to the Internet! –Exactly.>Identity theft is, I think, number one crime of the future. –Precisely. I’m with you (Katılıyorum).>Success is 99% attitude and 1% aptitude. –Totally!]

Artık bunu yapamam: I can’t do this anymore. Housewife: I’m sick of cooking and cleaning. I can’t do this anymore./ You know what? I can’t do this anymore. –What? Aren’t you gonna marry me anymore?

Yaza tura atmak: Flip for something || Toss up || Heads: Yazı || Tails: Tura Guy! Chill! So you want to watch Leon The Professional, and she wants to watch War Horse. I say, ‘Let’s flip for it!’/ Okay. We flip for driving. Heads I drive, tails you drive./ Okay. I’m gonna toss up. Heads I drive, tails you drive./ Heads I win. Tails you win. OK?/ Heads we go, tails we stay. Ready? 3, 2, 1… yayyyy! We stay!

Aceba…: I wonder…/I was wondering… || I was thinking… || Do you probably…? I wonder what you do with your money (Aceba paranla ne yapıyorsun/ Paranla ne yapacağını merak ettim)./ [3 o’clock in the morning] Chaps (Çocuklar/Arkadaşlar)! It’s a small town but I was wondering, is there now any deli open in town?/ I was thinking, why didn’t you pick up the phone? –’Cause that was my father. –You don’t talk to him? –Nope. –Why? – It’s a long story, but… –Do you know how many people plead (çok istemek) to have a

father? And now you have him but don’t know his value? Get out!/ Excuse me, do you probably have chocolate chip cookie (çikolatalı kurabiye)? –I’m afraid, it has just finished. But you can stop by tomorrow morning. We’ll bake fresh ones. –Ok. Thanks.

–How about some fresh cupcakes for now?

Var mısın, yok musun?: [Varmak: To be in. Yokmak: To be out.] Are you in, are you out? || Deal, or not deal? Our proposal is 30,000 dollars. Are you in? Are you out?/ This is our new offer: Answer one more question and go to the next step(round). But if you don’t answer that, you’ll lose all the money. Deal, or not deal?/ There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as LIFE in-between! [EXCELLENT.]–Pat Riley

Aramızda kalsın!: This is just between us! || This is just between you and me! Arzu’s parent: How’s Arzu doing? – Tutor/TU.dır/(Özel öğretmen): Uh, not bad. Well, this is just between us, she didn’t like English very much but I’m trying to help her look at things from a new perspective. She seems to be encouraged a lot now. –Oh, thanks. This is actually what we expect her to do. Because I’m a doctor, I know English and I tried to teach her a thing or two, but I couldn’t make her interested. But you’re a teacher and you know the techniques of teaching so you could be of great help. What do you think we can do to help her improve her English? –Well, good question. If it’s possible, try to watch new English movies at home so she could be indirectly encouraged.

She needs a role model and because she loves you, she seeks (=searches) it in you. –Yes, good idea./ You met my new roommate.

How did you find her? –Well, she seems a very nice person, but this is just between you and me, she’s a bit dreamy. –How? –She thinks she’ll be a billionaire. Poor girl lives in dreams! –Who knows, maybe she becomes rich. –Oh, now you are on her side? – Don’t be silly. I’m not on her side. I’m just saying she has a good voice and she trusts her abilities, so maybe she becomes rich later or a famous singer. Do you know who she gets inspiration from? –Who? –Celine Dion. She always sings a piece of her duet song with Frank Sinatra: ‘Who knows where the road will lead us? Only a fool would say!’ This is the song she’s inspired by. I guess it’s a good thing to have ambitions(büyük amaçlar). –Mmm.

Ev tuttum: I rented a house./ I rented an apartment. I rented a house in Cevizlik./ Do you still live in Dikimevi? –No, I rented an apartment in Ümitköy. Higher rent, quieter neighborhood.

Eve taşındık: We moved in. || Evdan taşındık: We moved out. [Knocks the door of his neighbor. When the neighbor opens the door he says] Hi. I’m your new neighbor. We just moved in. Name’s Natasha. –[He pauses a bit, in awe of her beauty and says] Oh, hi. I’m Ben. Lovely to meet you. –You too. Actually I’m painting the wall myself. Do you mind if I borrow your ladder? –Not at all.

Let me help you with that. –Aw, that’s very kind of you. –No problem. [While he carries the ladder to her door, he asks] What do you do Natasha? –I’m a florist. You? –I’m a stager. Maybe I should come by your store. –[Smiles] I think you should. This is my card. Give me a call./ In my dream I saw we moved out to a new place with a stunning yard, a cozy swimming pool, with a trendy parquet, garbage shoot, central heating system, the free Internet, and an equipped gym in the building basement. Such a pleasant dream!

Tree63 – ‘King’ lyrics: We have heard the thunder - We have seen the storm - Echoes of your kingdom coming - Rumors of our home - Where one day we will stand before you Lord - Our altogether beautiful reward - And we will give you glory bring you honor - King above all kings - You deserve our everything - We will lift our voices with your praises - Jesus you are our king Though now we walk in darkness - Though now we see in part - Right now we're warmed by the burning flames - Of the fire in our hearts - You've promised you would lead us to your throne - Where we will worship you and you alone - And we will give you glory

bring you honor - King above all kings - You deserve our everything - We will lift our voices with your praises - Jesus you are our king

-e taşınmak: move to Did you move to your new office /A:’.fis/? –Yeah, we did. It has a good vibe. You should come visit us sometime. –I will. Just that I’m a bit busy these days but I promise I’ll come visit you, guys. –I’m looking forward to it!

Staj: internship I’m here for the internship, sir./ I’m doing my internship here./ What’s in it for you (=Ne faydası var) to do the internship?

Etüd: make-up session, make-up class During the course, we didn’t have our teacher for two weeks. We need to have some makeup class./ All the students who missed their classes can take part in our make-up sessions.

Zabıta (Belediye Zabıtası): Municipal Police (Konuşma Dili: ‘cops’ yani ‘police officers’) Municipal police controls the prices in local businesses and takes care of city’s construction, and stuffs like that./ [The peddlar/vendor to his friend] Pick ’em up, pick ’em up (Bunları toparla, toparla)! The cops are coming! İşportacı: (Street) vendor The street vendor was shouting, ‘Simit!’ I bought a Simit and talked to him for a while. Such nice person. Most of these vendors have stories to tell. Lovely people.

Akdeniz: the Mediterranean/me.di.tı.REY.ni.yın/ Sea/Sİ’/ || Karadeniz: the Black Sea || Ege denizi: the Aegean/ı.Cİ’.yın/ Sea || Marmara denizi: the Sea of Marmara Every Turk must know: Turkey is bordering the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea, and the Black Sea. The European part of Turkey is separated from the Asian/EY.jın/ part by the Bosphorus /BA:’S.fo.rıs/(İstanbul Boğazı), the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles /da:r.dı.NE’Lz/(Çanakkale Boğazı).

Misafirperver: hospitable /HA:’S.pi.tı.bıl/ || Misafirperverlik: hospitality /ha:’s.pi.TA’.lı.di/ Turkish people are hospitable. =People in Turkey(The Turks) have hospitality. =Türkler misafirperver.

1 Peter 4:8-10 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace.

Dayanılmaz: Irresistable Nothing’s like the smell of a hot cinnemon salep in a cold winter night. It’s irresistable. –Yeah, you bet.

Dokunmatik: Touchscreen: (=Touch Screen) Seller: Here’s the new iPhone 3G Touch Screen. It’s incredible.

Kıpkırmızı: cherry red/ crimson || Simsiyah: pitch black/ jetblack || Bembeyaz: milky/ great white/ totally white || Yemyeşil: grass green [These words are Turkish art.

Congrats to those who created them.] What color is your car? –Cherry red. –Awesome!

It’s my favorite./ There’s a 2000-movie named Pitch Black. Have you watched it?/ The baby’s skin is so milky./ You got great white teeth (Bembeyaz dişlerın var). Did you have them bleached (Beyazleştırıldın mı)?/ I’d like green paint for the wall. –Well, we have a variety of green paints. –I’d like grass green. –Sure./ The writing up there and the couch are grass-green! Imagine the teddy bear ‘Ted’ having coffee!!  Mis gibi kokuyor: It smells (so) nice/great/sweet.../ It’s fragrant. Mmm! It smells nice in here (Burada mis gibi kokuyor)./ This fabric softener(yumuşatıcı) is really good. It’s fragrant.

Sünnet olmak: to be circumcised/S3R.kım.sa:yzd/ He was curcumcised when he was 6.

Müsait misin?/Uygun musun?: [NOTTT Are you suitable: yani sen uygun bir insan misin?] [Bu soru ZAMAN hakkında dır.] A: [Telefon’da>yani konuşabilir misin/yani konuşmak için iyi bir zaman mi?] Can you talk? B: [Yüz yüze>yani seninle bir saniye konuşabilir miyim] Can I talk to you for a second?/You got a minute? C: [Bir zaman sonra için>yani boş zamanınız var mi] Are you free? D: [Banyo’da/Kendine özel oda’da olunca, biri kapıyı çalar ve söyler] Are you decent? (yani giyimiş misin?/müsait misin?/uygun musun?/ müsait ya da uygun bir zaman mi?) A: Telefon’da: [She calls John but she knows John is always busy. As John takes the call (John telefona cevab verince), she asks] Hi, John. Can you talk? 1. Yeah

(Evet/Müsaitim/Uygunum). What’s up? 2. I’m sorry. I can’t talk right now (Şuanda müsait değilim)./ B: Yüz yüze: [He knocks the door of general director’s office, enters, and asks] Mr. Walsh! Can I talk to you for a second?/Do you have a minute (Müsait mısın/Uygun musun)? 1. Yes (Evet/müsaitim/Uygunum). Come in. 2. I’m afraid. It’s not a good time./I’m busy right now./I have to be somewhere./I have somewhere to be. (Şuanda müsait değilim+sebep)./ C: Bir zaman sonra için (telefon’da de olabilir/yüz yüze de olabilir): Amanda! Hi. –Hi, handsome! –Listen. I was wondering, are you free on Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock? We can catch up and have a drink. 1. Yeah (Evet/Müsaitim/Uygunum). It’s a good idea. 2. I’m sorry. I’m very busy (Çok meşğulum/Müsait değilim/Uygun değilim). But I’m free Sunday afternoon (Pazar oğledan sonra müsaitim/uygunum)./ D: [The wine spilled on her dress. She went to her room to get changed. Her cousin comes and knocks the door and asks] Angela? Are you decent? 1.[YES] Yeah, come in. 2.[NO] No, not yet./Just a minute! Şimdi müsait değilim! Bir şeylere meşgulum!: I’m in the middle of something! [On the phone] I’m in the middle of something.

Call me back in half an hour.

Bize bir saniye müsait edermisiniz?: [(Konuşmak için) bir saniye bize yalnız bırakabilirmisiniz?] Could you excuse us for a second? [Person 1 and person 2 are speaking. Person 3 who was friends with the person 1 comes in and says] You liar. Where’s my money? I want my money or I’ll sue you. –[The person 1 pretends he doesn’t know him and says] I’m sorry. I think you’ve mistaken me with somebody else… [he turns to the person 2 and asks]… could you excuse us for a second? [Person 2 leaves them alone.] Üstelik/Ek* olarak/Ayrıca/Hem de/Bir de: On top of that (üstelik) || In addition (ek olarak) || Besides (ayrıca/hem de/bir de) || Also (ayrıca/hem de/bir de) || Furthermore (ayrıca/dahası şu ki) || Moreover (ayrıca/dahası şu ki) || By the way (ayrıca/hemde/aklıma gelmişken) The price is 199.99 (one ninety nine, ninety nine) Turkish Lira(s). On top of that, a free mobil modem is granted as a gift./ [Ms. Sherman, in the university meeting] This year, we have forty students coming for the research project. And everything seems to be in order. In addition, the guesthouse is booked but we need to double-check with them about the heating system. [2] Yes, I agree. [3] I’m sorry, I don’t think I totally agree with Ms. Ryan. We just need to reconsider the budget. It’s too low. It’s not even enough for their food. [2] But they’re going to stay here only for 2 days. Besides, we are of limited budget. Also I’d like to mention that the point of their invitation is not fun, it’s the research./ These days when you look around yourself, you’ll see the more technology we have, the more we have the need to learn English.

Furthermore, by learning English, we prove that we are more powerful than technology!/ Silence is golden. Moreover, it’s healthy.

However, when angry at our partner, we should talk calmly, mentioning that we want our partner to listen up (=be quiet until we’re finished talking). It’s better for us to talk than to keep the anger./ [Pic] By the way, thank you. For saving my life.  [Ek* hizmet: Additional service] Üstüme gelme!: Leave me alone! || Give me a break! || Cut it out! || Knock it off! || Give me some slack! I said I don’t want dinner. Leave me alone!/ Oh, come on. Why are you so stickler for grammar? Are you a ‘grammar police’? Give me a break!/ Don’t argue about this topic to me…please! Just cut it out./ What? Lady Gaga is not better than Katy Perry? –No, she is. –You know what?

You’re pissing me off. Just knock it off, ok?/ With or without pijamas, I wanna sleep. Give me some slack!

Ihlamur çay: linden tea Would you like some linden tea?

Kaşar peynir: cheddar/ÇE.dır/ cheese Mmm! Cheddar cheese! I love it, especially when you grate /gREYt/* (rendelemek) some on salad! [Great/gREYt/* harika, güzel, büyük] Poşet: bag I like the design on your shopping bag./ Excuse me, can I have an extra(bir daha) bag please? –Sure. Here you go(Buyurun/Şöyle veriğim). –Thanks./ Put the trash in a plastic bag and keep it with you until you find a trash can. [Bag: bayan çantası> Do you think women need to always carry big bags with themselves?]

Daha doğrusu: To be exact || To be more specific How many centimeters is a foot? –It’s about 30 centimeters. Well, 30.4 (=thirty, point four) to be exact (to be more specific)!/ A couple of years ago, to be exact, 5 years ago, I was living in Laos.

Herşey dahil: including everything/ everything included The price is 299 TL (two ninety nine/two hundred and ninety nine), everything included.

BMW’nın hayranıyım!: I’m crazy about BMW. He’s crazy about computer games.

Tuşlamak: Dial Dial 987 654 32 10, extension/ıks.TEN.şın/(dahili numara) 247./ [Tek rakam varsa, ‘press (basmak/tuşlamak)’de söyleyebilir siniz>For English, please press ‘2’.]

Yanımda geldi: S/he came to me. [Pek ‘S/he came near me!’ DEMİYORLAR.] || Onun yanında gittim: I went to him. [Pek ‘I went near him! DEMİYORLAR.] Nadia: She felt

lonely. So she came to me. We had a small chat and a quick meal./ I went to him this evening. He didn’t mention anything about it.

Bu konuda: about it/this [Pek ‘about this subject’ DEMİYORLAR.] || Bu konuyla ilgili: about it/this [Pek ‘about this subject’ DEMİYORLAR.] Do you remember we talked about this (bu konuda)?/ We’ll talk about this later (Bu konu ilgili sonra konuşuruz)./ [Pic] I’m gonna go talk to some food about this. (Bununla ilgili/ Bu konuda gidip bir yemekla konuşacağim.) :D Bana göre…: [Pek ‘According to me!’ DEMİYORLAR.] To me… || I (personally) think… || In my idea… || In my opinion… || I consider… To me, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Beşiktaş, Trabzonspor, Bursaspor and other teams are great, but the thing is I really don’t have time to sit in front of TV and follow soccer./ I think there’s nothing wrong with technology, but the wrong usage of it. –I think so too./ I appreciate it, but in my idea, we shouldn’t have done that./ In my opinion, we don’t need more staff./ I consider the color pink a bit ‘womanish’! (Bana göre penbe rengi birazcik kadınsı!) İyi ki sordum!: Glad/Good that I asked! Sinem? How do you make Turkish coffee? –[Smiles] Aw, I can make us some. So, look.

First, I add water, coffee, and sugar in cezve/ibrik (long-handed pot). Then brew it on low flame until the foam comes up. Now I remove the ibrik from the heat until the foam settles. Again, I return the ibrik on the flame until the coffee boils for the second time, or even a third time. It’s ready. Now I pour some foam for you and some for me, and I share the rest of the coffee for you and me. – Mmm! Glad that I asked! I would never know it without your help. Thanks! –My pleasure! Enjoy! Maybe I can read your coffee ground after you drank! –Aww, yeah! Totally!

Kombi/Şofben: boiler (central heating boiler) || Kalorifer: radiator The boiler was working. I checked the radiators, they were working too. But the room was cold. I checked around and found out that (öğrendım ki) one of the windows was open.

AVM: (=Alışveriş Merkezi) Shopping Center Ankamall, CEPA, Kent Park, Gordion, 365, FTZ, Armada, Optimum, Başkent, Bilkent, Forum, Arcadium, and Dekocity are some shopping centers in Ankara.

Esnaf: shopkeeper, tradesman [çoğul: tradesmen] A grocer, a butcher, a barber, a baker, a tailor, and a carpet seller are all tradesmen/ shopkeepers.

Oturma grubu: sofa set(s), seating set(s), furniture set(s), [hem de nerede için kullanacağinizi bağliyor>] living room set(s), bedroom set(s) Your living room set is amazing. –Thanks! It’s actually the same old one but we had our house staged. –Wow. Great job, then./ Children like funky furniture sets./ I don’t like fancy life, but I do like fancy bedroom set.

Kazak: Sweater /SWE.dır/ || Sweatshirt /SWET.ş3rt/ Put a sweater on. It’s cold out there./ Girl: Red sweater, blue jeans, and white sneakers are so my style.

Atıyorum…: (mesela anlamında) Let’s say... || For example/instance... A Turkish person earns, let’s say, 2000 Liras a month. Is it enough for a family of four(4 kişilik aile)?/ Turkey has developed a lot in a lot of aspects and sports. For example (For instance), did you know that there’s a national footbal (Amerikan futbol) team in here? –Really? I had no idea! [Attım işte: I said that as an example!/ It was an example!> Can you make a sentence with ‘own’? –My dad owns a coffeeshop? –Really? –(Smiles) No, it was an example.] [Her akşam saat 9’da çöplerı dışarıda atıyorum*>I throw the garbage away at 9 o’clock every night.]

Kusura bakmayın: Sorry... || No offense! [>1.Cevap: None taken. >>2.Cevap: No offense taken!] Sorry! Me again (Yine de ben)! –Oh, no problem. How can I help?/ [Her house is messy, she says] Sorry for the mess. I wasn’t expecting company(misafir). – No, I am sorry for the intrusion(habersiz gelme)!/ Man 1: But I think your brother shouldn’t have involved in the fight, no offense.

Man 2: None taken. I totally agree with you. He’s a bit edgy sometimes. But I’ll talk to him. Thanks, pal./ You’re a great guy but I think you and I agree that we’re not each other’s type. No offense! –No offense taken!

Ayarlayacağim!/ Ayarlarim!: I’ll get it done! || I’ll figure it out. Will you fix this for me? –Ok. I’ll get it done./ We need a salesperson for the store. –No worries. I’ll figure it out/I’ll get it done.

Kamu: [sıfat] governmental It’s a governmental building./ She works for a governmental organization./ This is a governmental association. Kamuoyu: public/citizens/people Kamuoyunun dikkatine!: To the public’s attention!= Attention, people!= To dear citizens’ attantion! Kamuda çalışanlar: People working for the government, civil servants His dad works for the government (=Babası kamuda çalışıyor= His dad is a civil servant).

Konsey: (=kurul) council /KAWN.sıl/ We need to talk about this in the council. (Bu konuyla ilgili konseyde söz etmeliyiz.)

Hafta içi: weekday || Hafta sonu: weekend Ahlatlıbel is a park in Ankara. In the weekdays it’s so quiet, but in the weekends, so crowded./ Hafta içi her gün açığız: We are open weekdays.

Dolmuş: minibus/MİNİ.ba:s/ I like the way people pass the fare/FE’r/(ücret/yol parası) to the minibus driver./ Does this minibus stop at Ankara University?

Denk gelmek: [tesadüfen karşılaşmak/ bulmak/ olmak/ sahip olmak/ bilmek/...] Come across (-e) [NOT Come across WITH> across:edat. With:edat>iki edat olmaz] || Encounter || Bump into || Run into || Happen to see/ meet/ find/ be/ have/ know/... || Get to see/ meet/ find/ be/ have/ know/... || Suddenly/Coincidentally/Incidentally || see/ meet/ find/ be/ have/ know/... Nicholas Sparks: ‘‘You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.’’/ I was walking in the street. Then I encountered (bumped into/ ran into/ happened to meet) my high school mate, Melissa. It was a nice surprise!/ If I get to see a hopeless person, I’ll try to help (Bir umutsuz insanla denk gelirsem, yardım etmeye çalışıceğim)./ We were looking for bread but all bakeries were closed. But we suddenly found (happened to find) a sandwich shop that had a lot of sandwich bread. They looked fresh. We asked the guy and he said he could sell some to us. We got what we were looking for. Luckily!

Denk gelmek: [uygun olmak] fit Neleri, nasıl yazacağımıza gelince, yaşadığım günden başlayıp, denk geldikçe geriye dönüşlerle.

(Whatsoever, when it comes to how to write, I start from the days I lived, if it fits, the rest will follow like flashbacks.) –N. Meriç.

It’s a nice/good coincidence: İyice denk geldi! I needed to talk about a topic no student talked in the class but I had no idea. In my hopelessness, I thought I pray to Jesus, although I didn’t have any hope. Right after, a friend of mine called and came to me. He showed me the video of ‘Magnifying the Universe’ on YouTube. Wow. It blew my mind because I found my topic. I could SHOW rather than TALK. It was a nice coincidence that I found my topic the best way! Praise the Lord. Einstein was right!  Dergi: journal/C3R.nıl/,magazine/MA’.gı.zin/|| Dernek: association[genel],union[iş],club[sosial] Do you have any tips to write a journal?/ Our university team publishes this medical journal in a monthly basis./ We have soccer association, medical association, workers’ union, social club, national press club, etc, but as ‘kulüp’, we have night club, soccer club, tennis club, sports club, etc.

Aşk olsun: [Gerçek anlama ile] You should be ashamed of yourself!/Shame on you! || [Alay anlama ile] Bravo!/Nicely done!/Well done! [My Name Is Earl, season 1, part 5: Earl teased people who spoke with an accent, and now is talking to Catalina.

She says] You made fun of the way people talked? You should be ashamed of yourself!/ Wow. You can’t even make tea! Nicely done!/ You broke the laptop, you broke the car! Nicely done, son, nicely done!

Mesafe koymak: [Aslında: ‘keep (a / one’s) distance from’ fakat bunu pek demiyorlar. ‘Mesafe koymak’ yani ‘uzaklaştırmak’ > ‘Avoid’ = ‘Distance’ How about your friend Liam? What’s he doing? –I don’t know. It’s been a long time I haven’t seen him. –Why? –He lied to me so I try to keep (a/my) distance from him. –Sorry about that. –It’s ok./ Stu? Are you avoiding me?/ Do you think that God created everything and distanced Himself from people? God’s love is everlasting.

Hayran kalmak: Be amazed at || Be in awe of I’m always amazed by the Lord’s grace!/ I’m amazed by what human beings can do./ She’s amazed by the beauty of the natüre./ He’s amazed by what he saw./ I’m in awe of the LORD. Lord I’m amazed by You –Lincoln Brewster

Uygulamak: apply (to) /ıp.LA:Y.-/ We need to apply a more appropriate(proper) policy. (Daha bir uygun gizemi uygulamamız lazım.)/ We need a program that could apply to our system. Do you think you can do that? –[The computer programmer] Yes, sir. I have done that sort of thing before. I assure you that I can entirely prepare you this program. –Good. I want it in a USB flash drive on my desk(Bu programı masam üstünde görmek istiyorum/hazır istiyorum) by the end of this month. [Apply for: -e için başvuru yapmak>Did you apply for the job? –Yeah I did.]

Somut: tangible/TAN.cı.bıl/(=physical)[Karışmamak için: Table: Tangible. ‘T’ ile başlıyor.] || Soyut: intangible /in.TAN.cı.bıl/ Table is tangible. It means it exists, you can see it, you can touch it. Wind is intangible. It means it exists, but you can’t see it, you can’t touch it with hand. You should see the EFFECT of the wind –or feel it with your heart! [Somut: Concrete> He has no concrete evidence to accuse me.] [Invisible: görülmez> (Pic) Why me? –Because you saw me when I was invisible.]

Büfe: newsstand /NU’Z.stand/ Old worker to the new one: Every morning, the boss sends you to buy him New York Times and a pack of American Eagles Yellow from the newsstand at the corner of the street… [showing him from the window] do you see that? There. –Oh, yea I saw it. –Good.

Fabrika: factory /FAK.tı.ri/ He works in a clothing factory (giyim fabrikası). He’s actually a tailor./ We have several factories in Turkey such as: Sugar factory, chocolate factory, ice cream factory, food factory, car factory, steel factory, cement factory, glass factory, paper factory, drug (=medicine) factory, furniture factory, toy factory, etc. İşin gücün yokmu?: [=Niye bu işi pek uğraşiyorsun, başka bir işin yokmu?] Don’t you have a life? || Don’t you have some work to do? || Don’t you have anything (better) to do? [The Rebound] (Aram sends Sindy several text messages, Sindy’s friend says) Who is calling you? Don’t you have a life?/ Again Facebook? You ‘just’ logged off! Don’t you have a life? / She comes to the study (room) and asks her brother a lot of questions. Her brother says, ‘Don’t you have some work to do?’/ [The factory worker comes to another factory worker and they play chess. The floor manager sees them and says] Don’t you have work to do?/ [She comes to the kitchen, looking at her mom cooking. Her mom asks] Honey, don’t you have anything to do? –No. –Then help me a little, will you? –What do you want me to do?/ What are you staring at? Don’t you have anything better to do?

Kavuşmak: Try to reach/achieve/be… || Meet Ad on subway wall: ‘Ankara Yeni Bir Görünümü Kavuşuyor.’ ‘Ankara Is Trying To Reach A New Appearance/Face/Outlook/View/Sight/Scene.’/ I’m busy but I’ll try to be there at 10. (Meşgulum ama saat 10’da orada olmayı kavuşacağim.)/ The two lovers met each other again after ten years.

Hayırlıdır/ Hayırlı olsun!: Congratulations! (Congrats!) They finally got married! –Congrats for a new beginning!!

Vazgeçilmez: Indispensable || Can’t say no to...! What is your most indispensable possession and why?/ Money is an indispensable campaign resource./ You can’t say no to ice cream!!/ She can’t say no to banana cake! –Neither do I. –Oh yeah?

Ortam: environment /ın.VA:Y.rın.mınt/, atmosphere /AT.mıs.fiyır/ The ‘work environment’ needs to be ‘friendly’ but ‘staff’ need to be ‘responsible’./ There’s a nice atmosphere in this painting gallery.

Bu iş için çok emek sarfettım/harcadım: I put my heart and soul into this. || I put so much into this. || I tried so hard for this. || I worked so hard on this. [Purple Violets] The critics loved his old books but the new book, uh-uh no. Now he’s mad and his friend says, ‘Look, man, of course it’s gonna hurt. You put your heart and soul into this book.’/ [Soul Surfer (2011)] So I told her I’m not coming to Mexico. I mean she knows that I have two important competitions coming up, right? I mean she knows how much I’ve put into this, you know?/ I tried so hard for YGS. –So you think you’ll pass? –What? ‘I think?’ No. I believe. I know. I’m positive (emin)./ Do you think you want to drink alcoholic beverages? –Nooooo! I’m 5 years sober. I worked so hard on this. I’ll never drink.

Dersten soğumak: lose one’s interest to lessons/ lose one’s enthusiasm for lessons Topic: Why do some teens lose their interest to lessons?

Sahip çıkmak: be responsible for İşini sahip çıkın: Be RESPONSIBLE for your job.

Sahip çıkmak: (=Vefali olmak/kalmak) Be/Stay faithful (to) [(-e) sahip çıkmak] Facebook Group: ‘‘BENİMSİN’ Demek KoLay ~ Bir Ömür Boyu SahiP Çıkmak OLaY ;)’’ ‘‘Saying YOU’RE MINE is easy. Staying faithful for a lifetime matters (=is hard).’’

Sahip çıkmak: (=Kuruyucu olmak) Protect Kültürünü Sahip Çık means Protect Your Culture.

Seve seve: enjoy..., having/with fun, with love, enjoyably Oh my gosh, you made cake just because of us? Why did you trouble yourself(Niye zahmet ettin)? –It wasn’t a trouble. I enjoyed making these cakes. Enjoy!/ Bu kitabı seve seve yazdim: I wrote this book with love/enjoyably/having fun. İngilizceyi Tarzanca konuşuyor: He speaks broken English./ He barely speaks English. [NOTTT He speaks like Tarzan!] To my surprise, there was no translator there. Then they brought a Russian girl who spoke broken English (who barely spoke English). I had a hard time making her understand what I meant!/ Tarzanca bunu bana anlattı: With broken English, he explain it to me.

Sana kıyamam!: I spare you! Last Night(00:11:27) Keira Knightley kocasını şüpheli olduğun rağmen onu bir şey demıyecek: ‘I spare you (Sana kıyamam)!’/ ‘I spare you!’ means ‘I WON’T say something to hurt you.’ Or ‘I AVOID/PREVENT to treat you badly or say something –so I keep it to myself.’/ A girl and a guy wanted to get married but the girl’s dad never lets the girl to marry the guy. The guy thinks it’s unfair but he loves the girl so much that he doesn’t say anything to HURT her feelings. So the guy says to the girl: ‘Sana kıyamam(I spare you)!’

Hakkını helal et!: Please forgive me! Please forgive me, brother (Hakkını helal et, kardeş)! – You are forgiven (Hakkını helal ettım)!

Aslan parçası: [gaz verme amacıyla] Attaboy! / Attagirl! [Atta aslında ‘what-a’dır> Whata-girl! / What-a-boy!] Did you finish your lunch, son? –Yes daddy. I brushed my teeth too. – Attaboy!/ [Eay Pray Love (2010)] Liz to Sofi over accepting to eat the rest of her pizza: Attagirl!

[Oğlum aslan parçası!/İşte bu benim oğlum!: THAT’s my BOY! || Kızım aslan parçası!/İşte o benim kızım!: THAT’s my girl!]

Aslan gibisin ya!: [Sağlamsın/Hiç hasta gözükmüyorsun!/ Bomba gibisin ya!] You sound/look healthy!/ You’re a bomb/BA:’m/! Sesim nezle olmuş gibi mi? –Hayır canım. Ne nezlesi? Aslan gibisin ya! (=My voice sounds like I got cold? –No, girlie! What cold? You look healthy and sound)!/ Boy1 : Do I look sick? Boy2: No dude! You’re a bomb!

[Pic] And hunter...–Yeah?–You’re a good friend.[Heal the hearts. Breaking them is easy!] A very special page on the WISDOM of the FALLEN-FROM-HEAVEN model, BAR REFAELI Sometimes people are beautiful; NOT in looks; NOT in what they say; just in what they ARE. True liars never love, and true lovers never lie.

Don’t trust the person who has broken faith on you once.

Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

It makes me so mad people never make eye contact when I’m talking!!

It’s incredible how quickly people can forget how lucky they are. I pinch myself every single day!

Love is like an earthquake: unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over, you realize how lucky you truly are.

Don’t waste your days judging other people. Take a look at yourself first.

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you; it is when you don’t understand YOURSELF. When life gets bitter, BE BETTER! There will be plenty of time to sleep when U R dead. Life is for living; so wake up and PERFORM. I hate it when I smile at someone and they look mean back. Seriously, smiling and manners cost nothing, people!

Keep on moving; don’t pause; don’t stop. Or else people will take your place over (Yoksa başka insanlar yerine geçiyorlar).

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say KEEP DREAMING and MAKE REALITY. The words you speak today could be the words you eat tomorrow... you better make them SWEET. Give up the good. Go for the GREAT. [See the spirit?]

I think women prefer go to hell in high heels than go to heaven in flat shoes!!

What’s the best cure after 2 hours from gym??? Hmm… I’m thinking about junk food. Is that balance? [HaHa. Bernard Shaw said, ‘Why not???’]

Enjoying steak, once this girl said ‘You hate animals if you eat them.’ Then I looked at her plate full of salad and said, ‘Do U hate vegetables?’

Some people are addicted to drugs and others addicted to alcohol. Me? I’m addicted to pomegranate juice.

Drinking a lot of water is the first thing I do when I get out of bed... off to gym (=I go to gym) after.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

Let your inner child shine. Try it once today; it’s a much more fun way to live.

I can sing anywhere. It makes me happy to make noise. [HaHa. Good one!]

Never tell your problems to anyone; 20% don’t care; and the other 80% are glad you have them!!

Have the passion, take the action, and magic will happen. [Excellent.]

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before Me. Money: Para When you go to the U.S., the very first thing you need to talk about is money. Now look how it works: In America, ‘buck/BA:K/’ means ‘dollar/DA:’.lır/’. It’s ‘slang’ or ‘friendly talk’.

And they use it a lot. Buck: Dollar. A buck: a dollar. 10 bucks: 10 dollars (on dolar/papel). > How much is it? –Eleven bucks. || Grand: 1000 Dollar || Large: 1000 Dollar || One grand: 1000 dollars || 10 grand (NOT 10 grands): 10,000 dollars || 60 large (NOT 60 larges): 60,000 dollars || 500 K /KEY/: 500,000 dollars>Yahoo! News: ‘Woman discovers antique is worth $500K’ [Very important note especially for accountants (Çok önemli bir not özellikle mühasebeciler için): Comma and point change their places in Turkish and English numerical system (Virgül ve nokta İngilizce ve Türkçe sayısal sisteminde yerlerini değişiyorlar): 10,000. (English) = 10.000, (Turkish) || 1,000,000. (English) = 1.000.000, (Turkish)] Now look at these: $2.25: two twenty five || $3.75: three seventy five || $4.00: four dollars (bucks) || Now look how they say these: $1200: twelve hundred || $1800: eighteen hundred || $1.50: dollar fifty (150: One fifty) || $1.95: dollar ninety five (195: One ninety five) || $ 1235: twelve hundred thirty five || $ 100,000: hundred thousand dollars = hundred grand/large/K || $ 1,500,000: one million five hundred thousand dollars= one and a half million dollars= one point five million dollars || A million/MİL.yın/ dollar=A million dollars=One million dollar(s) ($1,000,000) || Billion:/BİL.yın/ milyar (1,000,000,000) || [In the movie Just Go With It, Danny(Adam Sandler) is buying a pair of (high) heels and asks, ‘How much are these?’ The saleswoman answers, ‘1700 (Seventeen hundred) dollars.’ Danny surprises, ‘1700?? My parents’ house costs 1700!!’ :D [Note: You may ask what’s the difference between ‘Two fifty’ 2.50 and ‘Two fifty’ 250? Well, the answer is what you SEE or what you KNOW. If you want to buy a pen, you see it’s just a normal pen so it mustn’t be 250! Or the hotel room price for one night cannot be 2.50 as you KNOW it!] || Change: bozuk para > Excuse me, do you have a ten dollar change? > It’s 9.50. You gave me 10 bucks. Here’s (=Buyurun/ Şöyle verim) your 50 (fifty) cent change. > To the cab (taxi) driver: Keep the change (üstü kalsın). [Üstü kalsın>Daha kibar ve çok kullanışlı>Keep it.] || Coin: metal para || Bill: kağıt para > Got (=Do you have) some coins in your pocket? –Why? –Gonna (=I’m gonna) buy some ice cream. > I gave her a dollar bill. > [Pic] Call it (Söyle bakalım> yaza mı tura mı?) –The coin don’t have no say. It’s just you. (O metal para yaza turayı söylemayacak. Söyleyecek kişi SENSİN.) [>Two grammerical rules are powerfully changed by brave American language. Students should really thank American language!!<] || Nickle: /Nİ.kıl/ beş sent > They promised to give me 2500 (twenty five hundred) dollars but I didn’t even see a nickle (bir kuruş de bile görmedim)! || Dime: /DA:’Ym/ on sent > Oh, you want 300 more? You’re gonna have to kill me before I pay you a dime! || Quarter: /KOR.dır/ yirmi beş sent If you put a quarter, the coin, in the middle of the United States, the country, that quarter is our Solar System, and the United States is the whole Universe. God is REALLY BIG, BEYOND MEASURE, POWERFUL. Can’t He create a leg or an arm? Of course He CAN. –Mel Bond Andy Chrisman – Complete lyrics: (Awesome song! Awesome lyrics!) Don't be disturbed if I'm not melancholy all the time - Don't be surprised to find a smile upon my face a mile wide - And don't be alarmed if it's so hard for me to stand still right now - But there's something going on right here - Even as I sing this song - There's a joy I know dancing in my soul - And it comes from being with You - It's unbelievable how my heart is full - And it comes from knowing the truth - That I am complete in You - Don't be afraid to jump right in and help me sing this song - Don't be surprised to find a smile upon your face a mile wide - And don't be embarrassed if it's hard for you to stand still right now - 'Cause there's something going on right here - Even as I sing this song There's a joy I know dancing in my soul - And it comes from being with You - It's unbelievable how my heart is full - And it comes from knowing the truth - That I am complete in You - Yeah that I am complete in You - Money won't complete me - Fame won't complete me - I am complete in You - A big house won't complete me - A nice car won't complete me - I am complete in You Yeah, yeah yeah no I won't do it - Nah, nah nah I still won't do it - I am complete in You - Well all these things yeah, they're nice things - But I am complete in You - 'Cause... Yeah I am complete in You - Yeah I am complete in You - Yeah I am complete in You John 17:21-23 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

Years: Yıllar And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln 1200: twelve hundred || 1500: fifteen hundred || 1800s: eighteen hundreds (bin sekiz yüzler=1800-1899’ı arası) || 1806: eighteen oh six || 1903: nineteen oh three || 1998: nineteen ninety eight || 1999: nineteen ninety nine || 2000: two thousand || 2005: two thousand and five/ two thousand five || 2011: twenty eleven/ two thousand and eleven/ two thousand eleven || 2012:

twenty twelve/ two thousand and twelve/ two thousand twelve || 2015: twenty fifteen/ two thousand and fifteen/ two thousand fifteen || 2050: twenty fifty/ two thousand and fifty/ two thousand fifty Numbers: Numaralar/Sayılar When you really love someone, age, distance, height, or weight is just a damn number.–Megan Fox It’s 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. [Hava 98.6 Fahrenhayt/37 Santigrat derecedir.]

[In the U.S., they use Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit – 32 x 5/9= Celsius (Centigrade). Example: The temperature in a city is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. It makes: 98.6 -32 x 5/9= 37 degrees Celsius.]

It’s —5 (below five) degrees. [Hava eksi beş Fahrenhayt derecedir./Hava –-20.5 eksi yirmi buçuk Santigrat derecedir.]

Honey, look! It’s below 10!!

My friend said (that) in some parts of Canada, it’s below 80*F. (–62.2*C). Some people’s ear cracks!

2/3rd: Two third [3/4th: three fourth] [1/5th: one fifth] Did you know that 2/3rd of marriages in London end up in divorce? –How do you know? –From the movie ‘Bridgit Jones’! –Don’t believe in everything you hear in these movies!! I love London.

[B irth, Death, and Res urrection is in our L O RD Jes us Chris t’s hands . ]

1 John 4:19 We love Him because He first loved us. [.inci] 1., 2., 3., 4., 5.,…: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, …, 10th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, …, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, …, 100th, 1000th, etc.

1st Street. [NOTTTT 1.Street!!!] 2nd Street. 3rd Street. 4th Street. 5th Street...

First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth...: Birinci, İkinci, Üçüncü, Dörtüncü, Beşinci, Altıncı, Yedinci, Sekizinci, Dokuzuncu, Onuncu, ...

First time I saw her, she was wearing all black. Second time I saw her, she was wearing all white. I am wondering what she could possibly wear the third time!

Can we meet on the twentieth of this month (Bu ay’ın 20.si buluşabilir miyiz)?

From almost the beginning till 14th of February, gift shops sell well!  Bus number 202: two oh two. 305: three oh five. 212: two twelve. 390: three ninety. 444: four forty four. 537: five thirty seven.

[American language is really wise if you know what I mean.]

Hotel room number 445: [Preferred] four forty five. OR four four five. 318: [preferred] three eighteen. OR three one eight. 302: three oh two.

[Movie: The Management] Mike! The heat’s out (ısıtma gitti/sorun var) in 118 (one eighteen).

Phone number: 1 818 310 87 66: One, eight one eight, three one oh, eight seven, six six [American language has made everything of the language easy, even the way you read a phone number! You always read phone numbers ‘one by one’(=tek tek okuyacaksınız), easy, huh?] [İstisna> 1 800 555 12 21 is read: One, EIGHT HUNDRED, five five five, one two, two one.] [‘0’ is said Oh/O’/ or Zero/Zİ.ro’/.]

Dahili numara: Extension /iks.TEN.şın/ [Kısaltma: Ext=Ex=X] 530 477 32 32 Ex 332 (extension three three two) 911: [Nine one one]The U.S. Police and fire department or emergency telephone number 9/11: [Nine eleven] 11.Eylül Hey, call 911 (nine one one). Somebody’s dying here!

9/11 (nine eleven) has changed everybody’s fate in the world.

In America, 9/11 (nine eleven) is also called Patriot Day. Three NYC firemen raised the U.S. flag in the afternoon of 9/11.

Q: Where do we say ‘and’ in a number?

15,834: Fifteen thousand, eight hundred and thirty four.

212,690: Two hundred twelve thousand, six hundred and ninety.

9,368,952: Nine million, three hundred sixty eight thousand, nine hundred and fifty two. [NOTT Nine million AND three hundred AND sixty eight thousand AND…AND…] A: 1: We say ‘and’ one time and that’s: before the last two digits –unless the last three digits are ‘0’s. (Bir numarada, ‘and’ bir kez ve iki son rakamdan önce söylemiştir –sağdan üç sıfır dışı.)] Example: 850,000,000.: eight hundred and fifty million

977,000.: nine hundred and seventy seven thousand Signs (İşaretler/Tabelalar) A smile on the face is a sign that the heart is at home!! –Anonymous Keep Out! [Çimenden v.s.] Uzak Durun!, Yaklaşmayın!

Honey, you shouldn’t go out there. Look! It’s written ‘Keep Out.’ In parks, you can probably find some ‘Keep Out’ signs./ [Pic] Keep out. Or enter, I’m a sign, not a cop. [Girmeyin. Ya da girin. Ben bir tabloyum, polis değilim.] 

[Incorrect (Yanlış) English] Chinese Restaurant. All you can eat buffet. Not mean all day buffet. You no come stay 4 hour. You eat. You go home. [haha] (Çin Yemek Lokantası. Yiyebileceğiniz her şey büfedir. Anlaması bütün gün burada oturmak değil. Gelip 4 saat oturmayacaksınız. Yiyeceksiniz. Eve gideceksiniz.) [Correct English: Chinese Restaurant. All-you-can-eat buffet. It doesn’t mean all-day-long buffet. You don’t come stay 4 hours. You eat. You go home.] A-A Liquor. [A-A is for alcoholics who want to quit drinking! (A-A içmeye bırakma isteyen alkolikler içindir!)]

For Sale: 1.(dükkan/mağaza’da) İndirim, İndirimli 2.(evin/mağazanın/arsanın önünde) Satılık Cut Price!: İndirim/İndirimli!

Cyndi! LC Waikiki’s clothes are for sale this season. 30% off!

In front of the house there is a sign: For Sale.

Hey look! It’s written ‘Cut Price Fireworks’! Let’s buy some!!

[For Sale>Kelimesi kelimesine bakışında (satış için) tercüman edemezsın çünkü mağazada her şey satış içindir zaten!!!]

For Rent: (ev) Kiralık In front of the shop, there was a sign by a realty with its phone number and website address: For Rent Foreclosure: parayı ödemediğin için ipotekli malı sahibinin elinden alma, rehine el koyulması, cebri icra I hope nobody in the world would see this sing: Foreclosure.

Push: İteniz Pull: Çekiniz> Almost in every shop, you can see the signs ‘Push’ and ‘Pull’ at the door.

Caution!: Dikkat!> Caution! Military Area.> [On some coffee cups, it’s written] Caution! It’s hot!

No Trespassing!: Girilmez!, Girmek Yasak!> No Trespassing! Wild Dog Here!

Entrance: giriş || Exit: çıkış >Look at the sign, honey! Here’s the entrance. >Excuse me, sir. Where’s the exit (door)?

Arrival: Geliş/Varış Departure: Gidiş >Arrival at 5 AM. Departure at 3 PM.

How to read an E-mail or a Website address: Example: xxx_yyy@zzz.com is read: xxx/eks-eks-eks/, underscore/a:n.dır.sKO’r/(alt çizgi), yyy/wa:y-wa:y-wa:y/, at sign @ /AT.sa:yn/, zzz/zi zi zi/, dot/DA:’t/, com/KA:’m/.

Example: [ÖRNEK] chuaiske-3@hotmail.com is read: chuaiske/si-eyç-yu-ey-a:y-es-key-i/, dash /DA’ş/, three/SRİ/, at sign, Hotmail/HA:’T.meyl/ [NOTTT /HOT.meyl/] dot com.

Note: Slash/sLA’ş/: bölü* işareti>www.gggg.com/jjj is read: www /DA.bıl.yu-DA.bıl.yu-DA.bıl.yu/ (ya da /DA.bı.yu-DA.bı.yuDA.bı.yu/) dot gggg /ci-ci-ci-ci/ dot com slash jjj/cey-cey-cey/.

[Note: Backslash= \ (ters bölü).*] Slash: ve, hemde>[konuşma]Girl: I’m an actress slash model. [yazma]=I’m an actress/model.

Konuşma: He’s my dad slash boss. = Resmi olmayan yazma: He’s my dad/boss.

[Resmi yazma/konuşma için: He is both my dad and my boss.]  Chat on the Internet/ Text message Miley Cyrus: You are what you experience. (Bir durumu yaşadığın kişisin.)

ASL: Age Sex Location (Yaş kaç? Cinsiyetin ne? Nerde yaşıyorsun?)

BRB: Be Right Back (Hemen döneceğim) LOL: Laugh Out Loud (Çok güldüm ya!/Çok komik!)

U R: You are… (Sen... -sın.)> U R kool (=cool)!  B4: Before (-den önce, önce, eskiden) 4ever: For ever (sonsuza kadar) OMG: Oh My God! (Aman Tanrım!)

L8er: Later (Sonra/Sonra görüşürüz) >8 /eyt/ >Later /leyt.er/>l8er!

C U L8ER: See You Later (Sonra görüşürüz) TTYL: Talk To You Later (Sonra konuşuruz) XOXO: Kiss (Öptüm seni!)

FYI: For Your Information (Bilgin olsun) TGIF: Thanks God It’s Friday (Tanrıyı Şükür Bugün Cuma>Bunu diyorlar çünkü ondan sonra iki gün tatildir. Çalışmayacağın dolayı!) [You know Katy/KEY.di/ Perry’s song Last Friday Night (TGIF)!]

Important: Language isn’t a package. I mean there are thousands of ways to speak in a hotel or coffee shop, not one ‘package’ way. So I wouldn’t memorize these scenarios but imagine and act.

SCENARIO IN THE COFFEE SHOP First, ‘coffee’, THEN ‘Good morning!’ HaHa. coffee coffee Coffee Coffee COFFEE COFFEE!!

[In America, they call coffee shop, coffeehouse too.]

Black coffee: Sade kahve / White coffee: Kremalı kahve / Sweetened: Şekerli / Unsweetened: Şekersiz / Non-fat: yağsız / Extra-hot: çok sıcak / Cinnemon: tarçınlı / Ginger: zencefilli / To go*: dışarıda için, kapaklı / Coffee house (Coffeehouse): coffee shop (coffeeshop)[İçerde içmek için ‘to go’ söylemeyin.]

Scenario 1. [Remember, in America, they’re busy. Be a bit ‘fast’ when ordering!]  Customer: Hi. A tall, black coffee to go, please: Bir uzun boylu (tall) sade kahve dışarıda/gitmek için(kapaklı) lütfen. Coffeeshop lady: Sure. $2.99 please.–[He pays, gets the coffee, and says] Thanks.

Scenario 2.

Coffeehouse guy: What can I get you? Customer: Uhh, I’ll have a large, cinnamon, unsweetened, white coffee to go, please: Bir büyük, tarçınlı, şekersiz, kremalı kahve dışarıda için(kapaklı) alacağım lütfen. –$3.25 (three twenty five). –[Pays, gets the coffee, and says] Thanks. [That’s all (Bu kadar)!]  SCENARIO PSYCHOLOGY OF COLORS Beautiful minds love colors.

- Hey Berna! How you doin’?

- Hey Mike. Good. What’s up?

- Today, I was reading somethin’ about the psychology of colors. It was really amazin’!

- Really? How? - Well I think it’s true about everybody up to 60%. For instance, what’s your favorite color?

- Mine? Well, pink. I like pink a lot.

- All right! You’re very kind and you like sharing (paylaşmak) things a lot. Is that true?

- Yeah. True! I also like white. What’s the meaning of it?

- Well, it means you like peace. You never fight and you like to take some moments alone and be relaxed.

You probably like reading books and having aquarium at home.

- Yeah! True! Can you tell me about the meaning of other colors? I’m wondering!

- Sure! People who like yellow are cautious(dikkatli). They don’t shop instsantly but take their time, go around the market places, search enough, and then buy something.

- Mmm! Interesting! Yes I have a cousin. He’s exactly like that.

- Yeah. If someone likes red, they love excitement and being active. They like dancing, discos, raving music, and never like going fishing because they have to wait a lot. Most of them are energetic, like to be in the center of attention, and want everything ‘fast’. Speaking of which, have you noticed why the main color of McDonald’s, Burger King, and KFC is red?

- Because red stimulates the appetite.

- Exactly. Johannes Itten once in his book said, ‘There was a guy who threw a feast/party. So while people were eating, without their notice, he had the light’s color gradually changed (=yavaş yavaş ışıkların rengi değiştirdi). When the light was white, the guests were more talking and less eating; when red, everybody was eating, a few, talking.’

- Mmm. Interesting! So, what’s the meaning of green?

- Well, it’s said that green is the color of jealousy. But I don’t tend to (=normally) agree with that. I think it’s the favorite color of people who like to be in touch with Devine stuffs.

- Okay. How about purple? I have another cousin who likes purple.

- Purple is the color of the robes of kings and queens. People who like purple, like to be rich one day.

They like fancy (=luxury) life.

- Yeah, it’s totally true about her! She likes fancy stuffs and has a very beautiful, fancy car.

- I bet she has. And people who like brown, don’t like city life much. They love to go to the nature and live in the country (=kır/köy). People who like orange, love to care about their health. In Greek mythology, orange has been the color of health. Have you noticed why street sweepers wear orange?

- Mmm! No, I haven’t, but that’s fascinating!

- [Smiles] Blue means being realistic. People who like blue live in reality. The guy in the movie said, Blue is soothing. It’s the color of communication.’ Very true. And people who like black are modern people. They like the Internet, technology, and the newest cell phones. They don’t like to think old, and some of them are fans of Metal music and hard rock. And people who like gray normally like black and white photography, good documentaries, and helping the poor. They see things not very colorful, but they look for the inner beauty of things. They like to add meaning to simple things. Uh, that’s all I remember.

- Wow. I really liked it. Thanks! Can you tell me the meaning of each in one word? I wanna take notes and tell them to my friends!

- [Smiles] Okee-dokee! But before that, check this website colorquiz.com and take the quiz in 5 minutes. It’s very real! You’ll love it! 

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

SCENARIO REAL FRIEND If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere. –Zig Ziglar - Hey, Grace! Do you have any real friend?

- Wh-hat? Any real friend? Duh!! What kind of question is that??

- [Chuckles] I read a beautiful article about friendship.

- Oh yeah? What’s that?

- Well, it says we have three sorts/types (tip/nevi/tür) of friends: Season/Sİ’.zın/ Friend, Reason /Rİ’.zın/ Friend, and Activity Friend. Season Friend is the one who picks (=chooses) you for a short while like for one season time (=three months/short while)! They’re a lot around us.

- Yeap, I agree. I had a bunch of them that I now don’t. Go on.

- Yea, and Reason Friend is someone who becomes friends with you for a reason. For instance, you’re a good swimmer and they want to stick with you (be with you) just because they could take some advantage!

- Uhhh! Don’t tell me that! I know!

- And Activity Friend is the one who is your friend because of a common activity. For instance, a person you go to gym with, to painting class with, to play basketball with, or whatsoever with. Most of our friends are Activity Friends. You can’t say they are your real friends. Probably your friendship will end as soon as the activity ends!

- Okay. But what about real friends?

- Good question. Real friends could be among any of these catagories. Jean-Paul Sartre said, ‘Being sick has 1000 disadvantages but at least 1 advantage, and that’s when you know your real friends.’ I think the one who comes and takes your hand when you need it is your real friend. In good times, everyone’s your friend. It’s in bad times when you get to know them.

- Amen /ey.MEN/ to that (Tam doğru söylüyorsun)! Now... are you my real friend?  Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.

SCENARIO PHONE CONVERSATION 1.

Receiver: John Curtis’ office.

Caller: Yeah hi. Is John in?

Receiver: Yeah. May I ask who’s calling?

Caller: This is Ashley Wilfred. [*NOTTT I’m Ashley Wilfred.]

Receiver: I’m sorry, one more time.

Caller: Ashley Wilfred.

Receiver: Ashley Wilfred. Can you hold please? Thank you. [*Telefonda ve kapıda başka tarafı ‘it/this/that’ söyleyeceksiniz çünkü onu görmüyorsunuz.]

2.

Jack: Hey Bill. It’s Jack. (NOTTT I’m Jack.)

Bill: Oh, hey man! What’s up?

Jack: Look, I’m having a party in my house Saturday night. You in (Var mısın)?

Bill: Aw. What time?

Jack: Round 9.

Bill: Sounds good to me (Bana uyar). Okay, I’ll go/I’ll come. Thanks.

Jack: You bet (Rica ederim)! I’ll catch ya then (=O zaman görüşürüz). Ciao /ÇA:O/ (=Hoşça kal). [Ciao>Originally Italian]

SCENARIO GETTING A CAB /KA’b/(TAXI) [Pic] Where to, miss? –To the stars.  Passenger: [Raising her hand for a cab] Taxi! [It comes. She gets in.]

Cab driver: Where to (Nerede gideceksiniz)?

Passenger: Number 17, Green Road please. [NOT ‘Green Road. Number 17, please.’*] Cab driver: Yes, ma’am. [He turns on the meter /Mİ.dır/(=taksimetre) and goes on the way.] [Some cab drivers are quiet, some are friendly-talking (muhabbet yapan) people, especially NYC cab drivers. They break the ice and even share their life stories till they get to the destination.]

Cab driver: Here we are (Geldik işte/ Buradayız)! [He pulls over.]

Passenger: [She sees the fare is 18 dollars on the meter. She pays 20 and says] Keep it.

Cab driver: Thanks, ma’am. Have a good day!

Passenger: You too!

[In English language, the address is in this order(bu sıra ile): *Apartment Number> Building’s Name or Number> Street’s Name or Number> District’s Name> City and Zip Code (Posta Kodu)> Country.]

SCENARIO HOTEL [Inspired by the movie The Hangover, to encourage you watch more movies!]

Receptionist: [Managing a smile] Hi. Welcome to Ceasers /Sİ.zerz/.

Couple: Hi./ Hello.

Receptionist: Checking in? [>The couple also could say: ‘We’re checking in.’<] The lady: Yeap. We have a reservation under Dr. Bloom. B-L-O-O-M /Bİ-EL-O’-O’-EM/.

Receptionist: Ok. I’ll look it up for you. [She quickly checks the name on the computer in front of her and says] So, I’ll have you in a double room on eleventh floor with a view to the beach. Is that okay?

The lady: Sounds perfect! Honey? Credit card! [The man gives the credit card to the receptionist.]

Receptionist: [When checking in, she asks for the man’s signature] May I have your signature, please?

Man: Sure. [He signs the form.]

Receptionist: Thank you. You’re all set. Here is the key-card to your room, 1122 (eleven twenty two). Have a pleasant stay.

The couple: Thanks./ Thank you. [The bellhop comes and helps them with the bags.]

SCENARIO SHOPPING [Sales person] Hello. May I be of assistance (=Yardımcı olabilir miyim)?/ How can I help you (=Size nasıl yardımcı olabilirim)?/ Can I help you (=Yardım edebilir miyim)?/ Is there anything I can help you with (=Size yardım olacak bir şey var mı)?

Customer: Yes please. I’m looking for a mini skirt for myself. [>İstemezsen: No, thanks. (I’m) just looking (Sadece bakıyorum). – Sure. (The sales person leaves her alone.)<] S: Sure. Please follow me. [They go upstairs to mini skirt section.] Ok, here are our mini skirts... what kind of mini skirt do you have in mind (Ne tür mini eteği düşünüyorsunuz)?

C: Oh, I’d like it blue jeans.

S: All right. I think you’ll like this one.

C: Oh, that’s beautiful, but do you have something a bit longer. This is too short.

S: Sure... uhhh... let me see(bir bakim)... uh, here(buyurun/işte burada/işte budur/şöyle verim)...

C: Great. How much is it?

S: 10 dollars. It’s for sale (İndirimlidir)!

C: All right. I’m gonna try it on (Denemek/prova yapmak istiyorum). [>Use ‘ME’ language.<] S: Sure. The changing rooms are over there(orada).

C: [After trying it on.] I think I’m gonna take it (Sanırım bunu alacağım)!/ I’ll take it. It’s gorgeous.

S: Perfect choice. Would you like it wrapped (Ambalaj pakette yapım mı)?

C: Yes please. Thanks. [İstemezse> No, thanks. Just a bag is enough (Sadece poşette koyun yeter).]

S: Right away (Hemen). [She wraps it for her and says] Here/There you go(Şöyle verim/Buyurun)./ Here you are (Buyurun).

C: Thanks. [She pays 10 dollars.]

S: Thank you. [İngilizcede kültür farkın dolayı ‘Güle güle kullanın!’ diye bir şey yoktur.|| ‘Yinede bekleriz!’ ‘Hope to see you again!’ olur ama bunuda alışverişten sonra hemen hemen asla demiyorlar.]

Have a good/nice day!

C: You too. [Burada ‘İyi çalışmalar!’ diye bir şey yoktur. Fakat onun yerinde ‘Have a good/nice day!’ söyleyebilirsiniz.]

A real scenario! Look what a person did to prove himself (Bak bir insan, kendi gerçekleştirmek için neler yaptı)!

You think you really LOVE English? Ok. So you may want to hear Sylvester Stallone’s story, the man who’s known as his nickname ‘Sly’ or ‘Rocky’. Since he was very young, he KNEW he wanted to go into movie business and nothing else. His mind/heart/soul were movies. So he went to different movie agencies in New York City but since he wasn’t famous, he was constantly rejected hearing ‘NO!’ and ‘NO!’ and ‘NO!’ He says, ‘I must’ve been thrown out of these agencies more than 15,000 times!!’ So one day at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, one of the agents who had earlier rejected him a couple of times, saw him standing in front of the agency. Sly had stayed there the whole night, up to the next morning when the agent saw him there again, so he said, ‘Come with me.’ Sly got happy and thought since the agent saw his insistence, he was going to give him the lead role (başrol) in a movie. But the agent gave him a 20-second role of a guy who’s BEATEN in the movie! BEATEN! He didn’t give up and continued with two more movies with some-second roles, but those weren’t what he wanted. He WANTED the lead-role BADLY and ONLY the lead-role. His wife screamed at him everyday to go get a JOB but he didn’t, why? Because he KNEW if he got a job, he’d earn money and wouldn’t be HUNGRY enough for movies, so he KEPT himself hungry to ONLY fill himself with MOVIES!! WOW. What LOVE does to a person!!!

He was broke(meteleksiz/parasız), he was starving, he didn’t even have money to pay for the heat(ısıtma) of his apartment, and in that freezing cold, he went to the New York public library to get warm. As he was there, someone left a book of poems of Edgar Allan Poe. He got the book, read it, and Poe’s book totally got him out of himself (Poe’nun kitap onu kendinden çıkarttı/kendini getirdi). [Who said Poe is dead, who said?

Then how could he change Sly’s life??] So as he was there, he WROTE a script called ‘Paradise Alley’ which years later, he made a movie of. He tried his best to sell it with a high price but all that he could do was to sell it for only 100 bucks!! He couldn’t live like that so some time later, he honestly said that he had stolen his wife’s jewelry, and confessed that he mustn’t have done that! So his wife got divorced. He was so broke he had nothing to eat so the only thing that came to his mind was to sell his DOG, Butuks, his best friend in the whole world. He took Butuks in front of a liquor store to sell it to people who came out of the store for 50 bucks and finally sold it for 25 bucks!!! He cried so hard after. [Have you ever loved a pet dog? Their love is ‘unconditional (şartsız)’.] In those days, he watched the fight (boks yarışması) of Muhammad Ali vs. Chuck Wepner. Oh man! It impressed him, it gave him vision, it changed him, it moved him so much that gave him the biggest idea of his life, ‘Rocky’. Look what ONE CHANGE can do to a person! So he went home and excitedly wrote Rocky’s script in 3 days straight!!! [G! He sure is fast!! HaHa. But what was the reason?] When he finished writing it, he was sooooooo excited that he was shaking because he EXACTLY knew what kind of movie he wanted to make. He was PREPARED. So he, excitedly, took the script to the agencies but they, one by one, said, ‘This is stupid.’ ‘This is predictable.’ ‘This is sappy(iğrenç/ fazla duygusal)!’ [He wrote whatever they said and later when the Rocky movie won the Oscar, he told the audience what those agents had said to him.] But among all the agents who read the script, only one of them loved it and believed in it. [What does being different mean?] He offered Sly $125,000 for his script. Oh... my... gosh! A hundred and twenty five thousand dollars! A HUGE amount of money for someone who didn’t have 50 bucks in his pocket!! BUT... haha, Sly was soooo moved, soooo motivated, soooo enthusiastic, that he said to them he’d accept their offer in ONE condition (bir şartla): ‘I must star it.’ But they said, ‘What are you talking about? You’re a writer!’ But he firmly said, ‘No. I’m an ACTOR. That is MY story and I’M Rocky!’ WOW. But they said they wanted Ryan O’Neal play Rocky and he said, ‘I’M Rocky. Take it or leave it. (Kabul edin yoksa gideceğim.)’ WOW. IMAGINE this: A man who didn’t have ANY money, didn’t accept $125,000 just because of the LOVE he has had for being a lead ACTOR. [What LOVE does to a person!] A week later, that agent called and offered him $250,000 without him in the movie but he turned it down(bu teklifi reddetti)!!!! The agent wanted this movie to be made so they finally agreed to give Sly $35,000 with him acting the lead role –a big money for the first time lead-role in his life.

Olay, Rokey, just ROCK it (salla) now! So it was time for Sly to PROVE himself and his abilities. [Self-actualization is the most amazing feeling in a person’s life.] The movie costed the agent $1,000,000 and it grossed (gişelerde sattı) $200,000,000. [This is the agent’s reward for being different.] So what do you think he did when he got his money? Did he give a party or something? NO. He went to that liquor store for three days in a row to find the man who had his DOG!!!! [Man! I’m CLAPing for him right now!

Impressive!] So he found the man and offered him $100 to get his dog back, but the man already loved the dog so he didn’t accept!

He begged him and said it was his best friend in the world and raised the offer to $500! The guy absolutely didn’t accept!! So he offered $1,000 for his dog, and the guy said, ‘NO WAY (Hayatta olmaz)!!’ So he went for the extreme and offered the guy $15,000 for the DOG and a part in Rocky!!! WOW. WHAT DOES LOVE DO TO A PERSON?? REALLY IMPRESSIVE!!

Now... DO YOU LOVE TO SPEAK ENGLISH AS MUCH SLY HAS LOVED TO BE IN MOVIES? [Smile] What I like about Sly is the gift he has to MOTIVATE others with simple words. This is his speech to his son in Rocky Balboa with the most amazing intonation ever: [Read the underlined words with stress.] ‘Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbow. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now if you know what you’re worth, then go on and get what you’re worth, but you’ve gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that, and that ain’t you. YOU’RE BETTER THAN THAT.’ [I watched this part maybe 125,000 times to stay motivated! THANK YOU, SLY!] [Nobody’s gonna hit as hard as LIFE is so true. Do you remember that engineer who became a simple worker? But ONE decision, ONE move, ONE brave action changed his whole life.

What is YOUR NEXT MOVE??? Are you ready to take a MASSIVE REVENGE OF SUCCESS by BEATING THIS BOOK? GO GET IT.]

Discipline is remembering what you want(Disiplin ne istediğinizi hatırlamaktır). [Excellent.]–David Campbell  ON SPELLING There are just two points I need to mention: 1. I see it all the times in my students’ writings. In English we DON’T have ‘İ’ but ‘I’ so it’s NOT İnternational but International, NOT the İnternet but the Internet, etc. Also ‘J’ is capital letter and ‘j’ is small letter so you should’t write: I Just told him.

But: I just told him. NOT: We are going swimming. Do you want to Join us? But: We are going swimming. Do you wanna join us? [Note: Recently, they write ‘İ’ instead of ‘I’ for FUN but it is NOT formal.] 2. Here is a tip for your convenience (=kolaylık). Everytime you type something on Microsoft Office Word, spell check it after. Or: Go to your Gmail account (it must be in English), click on ‘Compose Mail’, then copy what you typed and paste it in that ‘Compose Mail’ part. As if you typed it in Gmail! Then click ‘Spell Check’ on the top right part of Gmail. It highlights the wrong-spelled words with yellow color. Right click on the yellow-highlighted words and choose an option or correct it yourself. After you’re done with the correcting, click ‘Done’ and Spell Check it again. Your writing is spellchecked in a few seconds! So always spell check your writing. 

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. (Ya da okumaya değer bir şey yazın, ya da yazmayı değer bir şey yapın.) [Outstanding!]–Benjamin Franklin  ON WRITING [COMPOSITION OR ARTICLE WRITING] [Picture] To begin (Başlamak için).

What students shouldn’t do: Take the topic of the ‘blue bead’. If a student starts like: ‘Blue bead is very good and I like it very much. It is beautiful and...’ the listeners or readers would say ‘We already KNOW these!!’ Not interesting! Besides, it’s not a good idea to start a topic with the topic’s name, like, ‘What do you think about technology?’ ‘Technology is very useful for...’ Or ‘Write about the importance of water.’ ‘Water is very important for living...’ Not professional! Plus, a topic shouldn’t be answered like a question! On top of that(Üstelik), readers’ or listeners’ attention should be grabbed with warm-up at first! Now every smart writing includes:

1. Warm-up/Introduction (Coşturma/Giriş): Better be surprising! DON’T write about the topic itself at first! (İlk, tam konu hakkında yazmayın!) [I’ll explain.]

2. Body (Metin/Gelişme): It is the INFORMATION of the writing and should be impressive, informative, and different. [Get help from the Internet.]

3. Conclusion (Sonuç): It’s the PEAK or the MOST impressive part of the writing.

Do you want me to show you a sample of a simply amazing writing?

Do You Really Want More Faith? [Paraphrazed of the original by David J. Stewart] God in Hebrews 11:6 says, ‘But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is the Rewarder of them that diligently search for him.’ Faith pleases God! The Bible speaks of having ‘childlike faith’ to be saved and ‘faith as a grain of mustard-seed’ to move mountains. So what is faith?

Imagine there’s an unsteady looking chair and you need to stand upon it to change a light bulb and this particular chair is the only thing at hand. Even though it looks unsteady, you stand upon it and change the light bulb. If a person says, ‘I believe, I believe,’ but never actually stands upon the chair, that is NOT faith, it is mere optimism. Faith is the act of standing upon the chair. As long as you act upon your belief, it doesn’t matter how much doubt you may have. Hebrews 11 says ‘by faith, Noah built an ark.’ The Bible doesn’t say, ‘By faith, Noah thought about building an ark.’ Faith is what moves us to serve God through action.

It takes faith to pray, and when we pray, we must believe that God answers in His own way. It may take over a year for one pray to be answered. We mustn’t put God on trial every time we pray. If God answers, amen, if not, God knows best. It is important that we learn to live and rest upon the promises of God; and not lean upon experiences, feelings, or circumstances.

Unshakable faith comes from having our faith shaken. Once we are saved, the trial of our faith begins. It would be those very hardships and persecutions which would strengthen our faith. It was this strengthened faith that enabled Peter to preach mightily at Pentecost. It was this faith that prepared John for the island of Patmos, where he wrote the book of Revelation. It was this faith that allowed Peter and Silas to sing praises in prison while their feet were bound in shackles. It was David’s sins of adultery and murder that enabled God to use him to write the Book of Psalms. If our faith is to grow, it must go through hardships, our own failures, and trials. There is NO other way.

God always makes a way! Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery, and then Joseph went to prison. But God had a divine plan for Joseph, which eventually elevated him to become the governor over all of Egypt. God didn’t abandon Joseph in prison. Sometimes we have to beg for bread, sometimes we have to file for bankruptcy, but in all those times, God is always there, and our faith is put to test. We must learn to cherish those moments as the Apostle Paul did.

"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.’ (2nd Corinthians 12:9-10) Amazingly, Paul rejoiced while going through hard times. We must appreciate the problems in our life. We may not like them, but we can learn to see the silver lining of the storm clouds in our life if we walk with God. Problems are a blessing. This may sound strange, but it is Biblical.

The Apostle Paul realized that his own weaknesses were being used by God to strengthen his faith. You CANNOT please God without faith according to Hebrews 11:6. God wants our faith to mature; therefore, our faith must be tried as of James 1:3-4. God doesn’t need our talents. God doesn’t need our brain. God doesn’t need our money. God doesn’t need our social status. God doesn’t need our wit and charm. God needs nothing from any of us.

"For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence." (1st Corinthians 1:26-29) God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble, as of James 4:6. Truthfully, we are all sinners as mentioned in Ecclesiastes 7:20, we all deserve hellfire. Problems will come; but when they do, hopefully we will be spiritually-minded, counting them a blessing for our Lord’s sake. What an opportunity to keep going for God! The measure of a man’s faith is what it takes to stop him. Our problems are a stepping-stone, a perfect opportunity for us to make God happy by continuing our faith in Him. The sun is always shining somewhere, and God is always shining in the heart of believers who abide in the Scriptures. Faith pleases God. Our level of faith determines how we respond to life’s difficulties. There is a sweet closeness to God that cannot be obtained until a person has suffered through great emotional and physical pain and loss, and loneliness, having God by our side through it all as of Hebrews 13:5.

God only requires the smallest amount of faith. Therefore, the Bible does not teach different levels of faith. All the faith you need for God to move mountains is the smallest amount.

Whether we like it or not, our faith WILL be tested. The test is not the problems in our life, the test is our faith itself. Unsaved people have problems. Saved people have problems too. But saved people’s FAITH in the Lord is tested.

Do you really want more faith? A greater faith requires to continue serving the Lord when burdens arise. Anybody can serve God in fair weather; but when the storm clouds rise and all the hordes of Hell come after you, it requires much stronger faith not to give up.

God only requires the smallest faith to move mountains. Jesus met a Roman soldier with ‘great faith.’ The truth is that even the simplest faith would have been adequate, but it pleased Jesus greatly that this man had so much faith in Him, as of Luke 7:9. The greatest faith in the world is to simply take God at His PROMISES. “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

God increases our faith with troubles. Faith is not something that just happens, it is a gift from God. “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.’ Romans 12:3.

Let us put 100% of our faith upon the Lord to save us, as mentioned in John 20:31. Hallelujah!

Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Matthew 21:22 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

Genesis 32:26 I will not let You go unless You bless me.

Hillsong United – Glorious One lyrics: You oh Lord I know are all I need - To You I give all of me - Finding You in love my soul will sing - To You I give the glory - The universe declares Your majesty - Lord of all the heavens reign in us - See You lifted up - Over all our lives - Hear our praises rise to You - Beautiful God - See your kingdom come - Your will be done - As Your glory fills the earth Glorious One - Letting go of all I thought I knew - I hold on now to only You - Leaving fear I run into Your hope - And stand upon one faith and love - No other name is greater - No other name is higher - There's no other name - But the Author of salvation - His

name is Jesus - I lift my hands to heaven - And receive the grace and love - Poured out for me - Now I stand here in surrender - To the One who gave it all and died for me - To bring You glory - To bring You glory - I will live - I will live

Wow. What a tremendous writing! In the first part, warm-up (*), the reader wonders what he is going to talk about. If he said ‘Do you want more faith? Do this and do that!’ the reader would say, ‘We know it!’ But he didn’t answer it like a question. Humans are CURIOUS so he used our CURIOSITY to make the writing more ATTRACTIVE. He doesn’t mention anything at first, until he connects the article to the body part (**). This is where he gives us extraordinary examples of faith the reader probably DIDN’T KNOW. And then he gives a great ending, REMINDING us that faith is a GIFT FROM GOD. Now, after reading this writing, if someone asked you to SPEAK about faith in English, wouldn’t you do it better? Of course you would, because you already read this idea in English! And this is the importance of writing for speaking. [Wink] What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say! (Yaptığın o kadar yüksek sesle konuşuyor ki ne dediğini duyamıyorum!) [=Action speaks louder than words.] –Ralph Waldo Emerson Tips for better writing: TIP: Writing about a topic is like climbing a mountain. Do NOT write about the mountain at first. I repeat: Do NOT write about the mountain at first. But write from the time you’re home. Or write how your feel about the climb, if you’re excited or stressed out. Write why you’re going climbing. Write who you’re going with, what conversation you have and what you see on the way. Write how you get to the base of the mountain, by a Jeep or taking a walk. Write some funny things you see on the way. And NOW that you are at the base of the mountain, write about the ‘climbing’ itself! See? The whole process up to the base of the mountain is called ‘WARM-UP’, the BIGGEST part of a writing ALL students should WRITE.  Tip: For the warm-up part, you can: 1) Write an anecdote and connect it to the main topic.

Imagine the topic is: ‘Responsibility!’ So you start with an anecdote like: ‘‘Mom! Did you do my laundry?’ ‘Mom! I’m hungry! What’d you make for dinner?’ ‘Dad! Can I get some money? I wanna buy All Star Chuck Taylor Converse!’ [Smile] ‘Dad! I need more allowance. I’m gonna go to Burger King with my friends!’ It seems that children today expect their parents to do everything for them. The question is: As parents, how can you teach you children to be independent? Or are you responsible for all their needs? And why ‘Take your own responsibility’ is the first grade’s first lesson in American schools?’’ 2) Write an amazing or surprising fact or story about the topic. The important part is you SHOULDN’T mention the topic at first, but something related to that. For example, Biriz picked the topic of ‘April Fool (bir Nisan şakası)’. So this is her warm-up: ‘‘Today I read two amazing stories on the paper. They said that finally spacemen discovered drinkable water on the moon. And that scientists were able to create human blood. I got really surprised and happy by the news, but when I read it to the end, and looked at the date of the newspaper, it suddenly struck me: ‘Oh, April Fool! The news was just a joke!’’ [Creative, huh?] 3) Go back in time and write stories or facts. For example the topic is ‘Technology’: ‘‘Years ago, if someone was walking alone and talking, people would consider them crazy or mad. But nowadays, if the same person does that, people should most probably guess that the person is talking on their mobile phone using handsfree! So what are the pros and cons of technology? In this writing, I am about to discuss them.’’ [You can use 1), 2), and 3) in ONE place!]  Tip: Especially in warm-up part, use your creativity as much as you can. Shock reader(s)! Here is an example. The topic is ‘Donation’: ‘‘One... two... three... die. One... two... three... die.’ [>Here the reader would say: What? What do you mean by ‘Die’?<] [>Ok! Wait and read!!<] [And you continue like] Did you know that according to Live 8 video, every three seconds, a person dies of hunger in Africa? Every three seconds! [>And now the reader would understand the point!<] [So you continue with a thoughtprovoking question] Do you agree that if each of us could donate one dollar a day, only ONE dollar a day, we could save Africa?

Only ONE dollar a day!’’

1 John 4:7-8 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Micah 6:8 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. [Picture] The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return. (En büyük öğreneceğin şey, sevmek ve karşılık olarak sevilmektir.)

Tip: Like I said, don’t start the writing with topic’s name! Example: ‘Who do you think is the funniest actor in the world?’ Writing: ‘The funniest actor in the world is...’ STOP! Don’t answer it like a question!! Make readers WONDER with WARM-UP! Oh yeah, of course you CAN.  Tip: The body part is the slope(=yokuş) of the mountain. It’s ABOUT the mountain itself. Write facts that most people DON’T KNOW, the history of the mountain, what its name means, stats about it, if a lot of climbers climb it, if a lot of people go on hike on it, and... how your trip is like, how you feel at times, why you feel like that, if you think of giving up, if you have fun and joke around, if it’s cold of hot, what problems you face, what you eat, how and where you set up a tent, how you sleep, if you encourage each other, how the view looks like, etc.

Tip: Important: In the body part, you should write both the pros (advantages) and cons (disadvantages) of the topic. Write different view points and discuss.

Tip: The conclusion part is the PEAK (zirve) of the mountain. In this part, you should impress the reader in the strongest line called the PUNCH LINE (vurucu yanı). [They say ‘punch line’ is only for jokes, but I believe it can be used for any kind of writing.]

Example: ‘I learn English not only to enjoy and feel good about myself, but also to be a useful person for my family, my relatives, my friends, my community, my beautiful country Turkey, and ultimately, to be a person of the world!’ So for the punch line, go from small to big: Myself>Family>Relatives>Friends>Community>Turkey>the World!

I think the best punch line is a thought-provoking quote related to the topic. For example, the topic is: ‘What is the most inspiring quote you know?’ After warm-up and body part, in the conclusion I write: ‘‘So are you asking me about the most inspiring quote of all times? Well, to your surprise I should say it is neither from the man of the 20th century, Albert Einstein, nor from the people who had the most impact (effect) on the world like, Mohandas Gandhi, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Gates, Nelson Mandela, or Oprah Winfrey. But it is from my lovely father. He said, ‘Do whatever you think you can’t do, son!’ And that is how I did this book!’’ 

Tip: Use quotes (ünlü sözler) in any part of your writing, especially the last sentence of it. (Better be IMPRESSIVE because not all quotes are worthy.) The best writing without quotes is like the best food without salt, pepper, or spice. It’s hardly enjoyable! Wink.

Tip: Wherever possible, ask penetrating (zeki ve keskin) questions, especially in the conclusion part to make the reader(s) ponder.

Tip: Grammar-related point: All tenses should be alike! In one story, don’t switch from present tense to past tense or vice versa. So: 1) Pay attention. 2) Watch movies. It solves all English problems!  Tip: Preferably, don’t use contractions in the whole writing. Example: I am, NOT I’m. He is, NOT He’s. I did not, NOT I didn’t.

UNLESS it’s a direct speech (copying what someone exactly said): ‘‘The richest African-American of the 20th century Oprah Winfrey once said, ‘It’s much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That’s the truth.’’ [You copied what exactly Oprah Winfrey said. She didn’t say It is but It’s, or she didn’t say That is but That’s.]

Tip: You’re living in the E-age so avoid writing what everyone knows. Get help from the Internet.  Tip: The key to a professional writing is playing with the opposites. This will make the writing contrastive and stunningly beautiful.

Here are some crystal clear examples: The end of this relationship was obvious(clear) from the start (Bu ilişkinin sonu baştan belliydi)!

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof based on a Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece: ‘‘Truth? Lie is the truth we’re all living with!’’ [Some classics are ALWAYS fresh!]  Metallica: Dream is my reality.

The more she doesn’t want to show her age, the more she knows her age. (Ne kadar yaşını göstermek istemezse, o kadar yaşını farkındadır.)

Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.

(Ateş ve buz, bir türlü birbirine yıkmadan beraber var olurlar. Onu ait olduğum bir daha kanıt.) –Bella off Twilight Psalm 75:1 Unto You, O God, we give thanks.

2 Corinthians 3:3 You are a letter... written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. [Used in the true-story movie ‘Letters To God’.]

Be like postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there! (Posta pulu gibi olun. Bir hedefin peşinde, onu ulaşacağını kadar yapışın)! [Some people see a stamp as stamp, some others make great quotes by!]–Josh Billings  EMAIL/LETTER WRITING: FORMAL & INFORMAL EMAIL/LETTER They write big books on formal and informal letters –at the time that we don’t have time- while the whole idea is just about two pages!

FORMAL EMAIL/LETTER

Dear Sir/Madam, * [Asterisks (*) are just for explanations (Yıldız işaretler sadece açıklama içindir).]

I am writing to inquire about the price of your new product Mimaki JV34-260 Ink Jet Printer. ** We are a flag producing company, XXX Bayrak (Flag) in Ankara, Turkey, and we are seeking for a quality printer.

I would appreciate if you sent me the detailed specifications and the best price of this printer. *** Thanking you in advance, I look forward to hearing from you in your most convenient time. **** Regards, ***** Tevfik Tekkeli [Bu isim bir örnek.] ****** XXX Bayrak No 19, 657th St., Yeni Ziraat Dist., Diskapi, 06110 Ankara, Turkey. [Dist.=District: Mahalle] Web: www.xxxbayrak.com.tr Tel: +90 312 999 99 99 Fax: +90 312 888 88 88 ******* Easy, huh? * If you know the name of the person, write like: Dear Mr. Eddy Yu, Dear Mrs. Rubinstein, Dear Ms. Amurri, etc. ** FORMAL Emails/letters usually START with ‘I am writing to…’, then write what you want (ne istediğini yaz) at FIRST! Important. (Don’t talk about yourself at first.) *** Write WHO you are and explain a bit. **** THANK them. Then you can write like: ‘I look forward to hearing from you soon.’ ***** If you need to be too formal, for example you are writing to a high-rank person such as a university professor, use: Yours truly, or Yours respectfully, which is very polite. [They say if you don’t know the receiver’s name, use: Yours faithfully, and if you know their name then use: Yours sincerely. BUT honestly, I find it confusing! So simply just write: Yours truly, which is the BEST!]  ****** Write YOUR name. ******* Write the company name, and your address and phone number. Important: Most students make mistakes or don’t know how to write an address. I said that earlier: Address in English starts from SMALL, number, and ends in BIG, country. [In this Email: St.=Street (Sokak). Dist.=District (Mahalle).] [Yurt dışında, Türkçe harfleri okunamayabilir. O yüzden, Dışkapı’yı ‘Diskapi’ yazdım.]

And because it’s FORMAL Email, don’t use contractions. [I am, not I’m.] That’s all! So easy!  [Note: [1] Where are you guys from? [2] I’m from Kansas City, Missouri and my wife is from Miami, Florida. [3] I’m from Arlington, Texas, and my wife is from Tulsa, Oklahoma.>>City>State<<] John 15:14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

INFORMAL EMAIL Andy Dufresne’s voice: [In a letter to Red] Dear Red. If you’re reading this, you’ve gotten out (of prison). And if you've come this far, maybe you’re willing to come a little further. You remember the name of the town, don't you? Red: [Whispers to himself] Zihuatanejo.

Andy’s voice continues: I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels. I'll keep an eye out for you and the chessboard ready. Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well. Your friend. Andy. –Shawshank Redemption [I love to watch it, love to learn! And remember: Andy knew the Bible so well.]

As of its name, informal email/letter is friendly so write it just as you speak!  Hey, L! * How have you been, lovely lady?

Thank you for the delicious meal the other day. I had no idea you’re such a good cook! As of me (Benden sorarsan), I’m the worst cook in the world! HeHe, maybe I can fry some eggs! Or I’m more of a take-out person (Daha paket yemeği sever/alan biriyim).

Though, I guess I should learn a thing or two from you! [wink] I can’t wait to see you this weekend.

Send my best(Selam söyle) to your dear son. See ya. ** Love, *** Mila **** That’s all! Easier than formal email, huh? * Depending on the person, you can write: Hello, Hey, Hi, Hon(Şekerim), Sweetie(Tatlım), My dear (Canım), etc. ** Write whatever comes to your mind. There’s NO RULE about it! You can use ‘contradictions’ too. *** You can write: Best, or Best wishes (if you’re not too close), or Love (so friendly), Lots of love (so friendly), Missing ya a lot (love email), Yours forever (love email), etc.

**** Write YOUR name. [>As the guy in Shawshank Redemption says, ‘Easy-Peasie-Japanesie!’<]  Galatians 6:9 And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary.

To me, success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world, that I am able to change it in positive ways. (Bana göre, başarı dünyada etkilenmek demektır, değerlerım ve düşüncelerımı dünyaya taşınabilmek demektır, olumlu yöntemlerde onu değişebilmek demektır.) –Maxine Hong Kingston  RESUME OR CV WRITING A resume/RE.zı.mey/ (resumé/résumé) or CV includes: General Information, Objective, Education, Skills, Work Experience, Reference(s), and Interests. Here is a sample: Resume General Information Name: Türkan Dönmez [NOT Türkan DÖNMEZ][İsim ve bilgiler örnektir.]

Gender: Female Date of Birth: 1.1.1986 Place of Birth: Kırşehir Marital Status: Single Mobile Phone: 0999 999 99 99 Home: 0888 888 88 88 Address: No. 22/2, Baldıran St., Şenlik Dist., Keçiören, 06310 Ankara, Turkey Email: xyxzx@hotmail.com Website: www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com Objective I am a dynamic, highly motivated and self-confident graduate, looking to develop my personal career. With a great art of communication, I am interested in working in the field of Positive Psychology. I aim at achieving my Ph.D. or Psy.D. Degree in the near future.

Education Bachelor’s Degree in Social Psychology graduated from Middle East Technical University of Ankara, Turkey, in 2008.

Master’s Degree in Positive Psychology graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, the United States, in 2010.

Skills Windows, Excel, Word Fluent English (Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking) Work Experience Part-time translator in YY Translation Office Ankara in 2005 and 2006.

Assistant psychologist in XX Psychological Clinic Ankara from 2007 to 2008.

Part-time assistant psychologist in AAAA Positive Psychology Center in Pennsylvania from October 2010 to March 2011.

References Dr. Stephanie Maiden, Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania. Phone: +1 215 999 99 99 Dr. Glenn Pastor, Psychologist, AAAA Positive Psychology Center. Phone: +1 215 888 88 88 Interests Reading, watching movies, listening to music, photography, jogging, swimming, and playing tennis.

The foundation of any country is the education of its youths. (Her ülkenin temeli, onun gençlerin eğitimdir.)

[EXCELLENT.]–Diogenes Laertinus  THE TEENS TEACH OTHERS BY THEIR CHARACTER What does a teen do when her mother gives her $4000? She most probably goes shopping! What 14-year-old Rebecca Black, ‘the Honor Student’ did with this money? She made and uploaded a video on YouTube, and gained worldwide success. Is success a chance or a choice? Hadn’t she practiced every day before making the video? Wasn’t she prepared?  Another example? Ok. Farrah Gray. Born in poverty. Age 6: Sold body lotion door-to-door for $1.50. Age 7: Carried a business card that said, ‘21st Century CEO!’ [Bravo, kiddo!] Age 14: Made his first million dollar by his food company! Age 16: Started Inner-City Magazine. This guy was raised ‘from poverty to plenty, penniless to prosperous’. He believes, ‘Everything we want is on the other side of fear! Sieze every opportunity! Most people say they have to be in the right place at the right time to be rich, I say, they have to be everywhere anytime to be rich.’ [CLAP!] NBC News: He wasn’t born with a silver spoon but now he can afford one...’ 

CBS News: ‘America’s Reallionaire!’

Are these two guys exceptions? No! There are hundreds of these successful teens. You’ll be surprised if you check this website and see 16-to-19-year-old managers: juniorbiz.com/top-25-young-entrepreneur [I told ya! Some of them ‘sit in the couch and make millions of dollars!]

Where did ‘One Direction’ come from? Where did ‘Zendaya & Bella Thorne’ come from? YOU can too.

WHO SAID YOU CAN’T SPEAK ENGLISH, WHO SAID? JUST SHHHHHUT THAT VOICE!!

This is a famous American quote: ‘Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to love in the world they’ve been given rather than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion.’

Psalm 118:1 Oh, give thanks to the Lord for He is good.

Let’s travel and move to a very impressive, changing, touching, progressing, hurrying, actioning, new virtaul world! What do you say? (Haydi çok etkili, değişik, dokunaklı, gelişmiş, hızlandırıcı, aksiyon, sanal bir dünyaya yolculuk yapıp taşınalım!

Ne dersanız?) 

 WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD!  I OWE my AMERICAN LANGUAGE life to TRULY MADLY DEEPLY THANK HOLLYWOOD. Who could I be without it?

Only Hollywood could MOVE me! Hope this book’s been moving enough for you too! In the beginning of the book, I told you if you loved someone, don’t set them free, tell them about Movenglish! Did you… oh, what? You already told them? HaHa! Way to go!  You like puzzle? Got one for you. Fill in the blank: MOVE. HaHa. Oh, did you fill ‘I’? What a powerful LETTER!! Correct. This ‘I’ is also a powerful WORD that can change your WORLD. But remember: If you choose the ‘I’, BE the ‘I’ because this ‘I’ is the most VALUABLE person in the world! Steve Jobs was the iCEO. You become the iMOVE of your life. Our life is the ‘production’ of our ‘moments’. Produce your next moments FANTASTICALLY and WN. MOVEnglish, first of all, represents the idea of watching ‘MOVIE’ as the best of the best ways to learn to speak English. Then it has multiple fascinating meanings: Move as to CHANGE your ‘position’ (durumunu hareket ettirmek). Move as to CHANGE your ‘opinion’ about how to learn English. Move as to GO TO A DIFFERENT PLACE TO LIVE, but IN MOVIES! Move as to make you PROGRESS. Move as to CAUSE (sebep olmak) you to do something different. Move as to HURRY, the time is running fast!

Move as to MOVE ON, as to START A NEW ACTIVITY, a NEW LIFE, watching MOVIEs and learning English. Move as to TAKE AN ACTION to enjoy your life! Move as to STRONGLY IMPRESS(çok etkilenmek) yourself. The words TOUCHING and MOVING mean ‘VERY IMPRESSIVE: çok etkileyici’. Hope I’ve done all these! So MOVE your life, MOVIE your life, and MOVENGLISH your life! Say YES to movie, say YES to move, say YES to your dreams, say YES to action, say YES to change, say YES to progress, say YES to growth, say YES to ability, say YES to learning, say YES to daring, say YES to earning, say YES to money, say YES to honey, say YES to a new taste, say YES to joy, say YES to fun, say YES to English speaking, say YES to world traveling, say YES to a new world... all ’cause of a new YOU. 

Important: We become like friends we are associated with (Biz birlikte olduğumuz arkadaşlar gibi olacağiz).

Movies are like friends. Wise people pick GOOD ones!

1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived. Bad company ruins good morals.

Great moments are born from great opportunity. This is your time. Now go out there and take it! (Büyük anlar büyük fırsattan doğmuştur. Bu sizin zamandır / fırsattır. Şimdi sahaya gidip onu alın. – Coach Brooks, off ‘Miracle’  AND... THIS IS A GUY IN TURKEY

From time to time I receive text messages, phone calls, and Emails from my adorable students specifically in Turkey, but this one REALLY stands at the top, REALLY made me happy. Here’s the story. On 27.11.2011 someone called on my cellphone, so I looked at the screen but the number wasn’t registered in my phone directory. I answered anyway. The guy on the phone started speaking English. Here’s our conversation and I’m sure you get the MESSAGE: - Hello, hocam! This is Yasin. I was your student in X Language Center with my friends X & X. Remember?

- Oh my gosh! Yasin!!! How are youuuu???

- Good. Thanks! And you?

- I’m cool, man! Thaaanks. [I asked about his friends too and he said they’re fine, and I continued:] What are you doing these days? Are you studying somewhere?

- No but hocam I’m calling to thank you. And I’m so excited right now. Before meeting you, I took a lot of English courses but I couldn’t speak. Only ‘you’ solved this problem (‘Sen’ sadece bu sorunu çözdün)!! [Yasin was my student just for a couple of sessions in a language school but I changed that school and he left there too, so I hadn’t heard anything from him in ONE YEAR AND A HALF. At that time, he could hardly speak even some WORDS!! It’s the honest truth. ‘But who’s this NEW GUY now???

Is he reeeeally Yasin???’ I asked myself. He was one of those guys who liked to talk to me after each class and I could see that he was really impressed. He used to say, ‘Yeah, you’re right! Movie is everything!’ But after that course, he wasn’t my student anymore! How does he speak such good English now???

- What? I didn’t do anything, man!

- Hocam, in that course you motivated me and after that I’ve watched movies almost EVERY DAY!!!! And I speak today because of you!! Thanks!!

- Oh my gosh!! Yasin! THANK ‘YOU’! You’ve made my day (Günümü aydınlattı), man! It’s a very good news! You don’t know how happy I am!! Thanks, man!! Oh my gosh! I can’t believe this is ‘Yasin’!! I thought you didn’t take my words seriously (Ben sandım dediklerimi ciddi almadı), I mean I thought you forgot what I said (Sandım dediklerimi unuttun)!!

- No, I didn’t forget. I even watch every movie 3, 5, 7 times!!!!!!!! It’s AMAZING! My boss asked me where I learned English and I told him, ‘Michael hoca çözdü!!!’ [HaHa!] And I talked about you and your method with my boss. He wants to meet you.

- Oh, I’d love to (çok isterim)!

- [Yasin continued] You know the best part? We have some American and European customers. Some of them asked me, ‘You speak very good English! Have you gone abroad? (İngilizceyi iyi konuşuyorsun! Acaba hiç yurt dışında gittiğiniz mi?)’ And I answered them, ‘No! I ONLY went to Ulus!! (Hayır! Ben SADECE Ulus’a doğru gittim)!!’ [HaHa. And we both laughed!!] [‘Ulus’ is a historical place in Ankara.]

- WOW. Yasin!! I don’t know what to say, you were NOT my student for a long time, but you’re my BEST student so far. Thank you thank you thaaaaank you! I’m soooo happy now! Can I write about you in my book???

- Sure! And tell ‘everyone’ that I had a lot of fun and I learned to speak English!!!  WOW. Bravo Yasin for being this determined! I’m really proud of you. Now how many people like Yasin do we really have in Turkey? Who are brave enough to go to the end of Movenglish?

WHO ARE IN(KİMLER VAR)?

THE TURKS ARE A GREAT NATION. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BE PART OF IT. Special thanks to two very special people who’ve helped me through rocky times. Seydi Bey. ‘Thank you.’ Tevfik Dayıcım.

‘Rabbim razı olsun.’  Gençliğin yetişmesine hizmet bir insanlık ve vatan borcudur. (The service to develope the youth is a debt we have to humanity and homeland.) –Vehbi Koç Matthew 25:40 The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’ The start is what stops most people(İnsanların çoğunu durduran şey başlamaktır). –Don Shula [Mr. Shula! MY students ARE different. They’ve started long ago. They are BRAVO PEOPLE.]  WORDS TO GET US GO. Psalm 145:18-19 The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.

J. G. Rolland: God gives every bird its food. But He does not throw it into its nest!’[We need to MOVE!] Rudyard Kipling: Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade (Bahçeler gölgede oturarak yapılmaz). [But YOU still sit in the shade and learn to SPEAK English!!]

Dale Carnegie: You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. [You would LOVE movies.]

Albert Einstein: I have no special talents. I’m only passionately curious. [I’d be a HUNTER of speaking English!]

Abraham Lincoln: Things may come to those who wait but only what’s left by those who hussle. [I’D BE THE BEST HUNTER!] Ralph Waldo Emerson: We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.

Anonymous: When the world says, ‘Give up,’ hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time!’ [Bravo!]

Charles Darwin: A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

St. Augustine: Bad times, hard times –this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times will be good. WE ARE THE TIMES: Such as WE are, such are the times!! [WOW] Paulo Coelho: As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were. [Especially when they keep praying too.]

Henry Ford: Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal. [Have your eyes JUST (sadece) on the GOAL (hedef) and you see NO obstacles.]

Michael Jordan: Some people want it to happen... some people wish it to happen... but others make it happen (gerçekleştiriyorlar).

[MY students MAKE IT HAPPEN. They are BRAVO PEOPLE.] Anonymous: The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief. [WOW] Mark Twain: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw out the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. [You don’t learn English to sit home. You learn it to travel, to ‘Explore. Dream. Discover.’ And when you travel, you’ll REMEMBER this picture! ] Mahatma Gandhi: Man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

John Wooden: Ability is a poor man’s wealth. [WOW] Roy Goodman: Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. [WAY is happiness.]

Richard B. Sheridan: The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Richard Bach: Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Vince Lombardi: Winners never quit; quitters never win. [Yessssssss! My students ARE the winners.]

Peter Drucker: Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Alan Kay: The best way to predict the future is to invent it. [WOW] Brian Tracy: Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. [SEE yourself a PERFECT English speaker from NOW.] Dr. Wayne Dyer: Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Jim Rohn: You don’t hire people to do you push-ups! [HaHa. Amazing!! There are certain things that we should do them by ourselves! To learn English speaking, expect everything from YOURSELF.] Marcus Aurelius: How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks! [Use those times to watch movies and learn to speak English, a new joy, a new world!]

H. Jackson Brown Jr. from Life’s Little Instruction Book: Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. [Double WOW] [Note: I earlier said: ‘We don’t have time to WASTE for unnecessary stuffs.’]

Zig Ziglar: Lack of direction (>way<), not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days! [WOW. No doubt he’s among top five motivational speakers in the world. He’s DIFFERENT!] Price Pritchett: The world behaves differently when you actually take action to go after what you want. What you wish ‘could be’ starts ‘becoming’. The dream moves in your direction, begins to come to you, even as you reach for it.

Tony Robbins: You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough!

You must take ACTION! [Mr. Robbins! My students ARE DOING it.]

Bruce Lee: I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times!

[WOW] Earl Nightingale: We become what we think about. All of us are self-made, but only the successful ones will admit it. In order to be successful, you must be willing to do today what others won’t do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have. [English speaking is for YOU. Keep moving.]

Walt Disney: The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. [Walt Disney won 32 Oscars. Win your English SPEAKing Oscars!]  Every story has an end, but in life every ending is just a new begining. (Her hikaye bir sonu var fakat hayatta her son ancak yeni bir başlangıçtır.) –Uptown Girls Deuteronomy 31:8 It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not leave you or forsake you.

Do not fear or be dismayed.

Daniel Webster: Education is useless without the BIBLE.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing(Hayat cesur bir macera ya da hiçbir şeydir).–Helen Keller How can someone without high school diploma get the TEFL, teach, and even write ‘a’ book???

Nobody forced me to write this section. I do it with my own choice JUST because of a MESSAGE. How could a non-English, having no diploma, get the TEFL Certificate from Cavendish College of London and how does he even know four languages? How are these POSSIBLE? (Bir İngiliz olmayan, lise diploma sahip olmayan, nasıl Londra’dan Uluslar Arası Öğretmenlik Sertifikasını aldı ve nasıl dört dil de biliyor? Bunlar nasıl MÜMKÜN?) [I’m just a message of YOU CAN!] 

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

We notice a page when something is written. We write something in a page to be a part of history.

We read history to learn WITH GOD, EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE IF YOU LOVE IT AND FIND FUN IN IT, AND life. And we learn life is THEN JUST KEEP ON KEEPING ON, KEEP MOVING ON AND MOVING FORWARD. about a rebirth. I was born in a small town to a lovely family. We were neither rich nor poor. At age 6, I showed promises of being talented at English. I have loved it ever since. In the summers and weekends of elementary and middle school, my dad took me to work. It was a blessing in disguise. Sometimes the business didn’t go well. I realized I didn’t have to expect everything from my family. Someone said, ‘The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything they have.’ In those days, someone offerred me a job to collect radiology films. They said they got silver from them. Going to orthopedic doctors’ offices, I noticed only ONE of them had a lot of ‘thank letters’ framed on the walls. I met the doctor; a man of great character. In response to why he was different, the secretary said, ‘When everybone was playing, he was studying!’ This impressed me. He also said a moving story: ‘One day a guy had an accident and was injured. The skin of his left leg was gone. They took him to other doctors but they all suggested unlogical ways to cure him or said it was impossible to cure him... ‘IMPOSSIBLE’!! So they brought him to THIS doctor. He thought a bit and put the patient’s right leg over the no-skin left leg and bandaged it. The skin cells of the right leg improved the skin of the left leg. He was cured after a while.’

WOW. This story really moved me!! SURE he was enjoying his job because he successfully helped many. I realized and said to myself, ‘I MUST DO something DIFFERENT.’ There was also a shepherd in our neighborhood who had three sons. Three of them were successful doctors. The sons said, ‘When helping our dad, in one hand we were feeding the sheep and in the other hand we had a book... studying!’ This also impressed me, making me realize that most successful people learned the hard way. On the other hand, I guess I was 15, 16, or 17 that I first sensed God’s presence in my life. I don’t know what had happened to me that I felt I needed God. [This is the BIGGEST need of all.] Maybe I said something bad or hurt someone, I really don’t know. That day I clearly remember that I was in the yard of our house, all alone, and asked the Real Creator, ‘Dear Creator. Many things I do that I don’t want. Many things I say that I don’t want. Please take control of everything in my life, because my mind is weak. Please. I don’t want to be ashamed in Your presence. I surrender myself to You. Please take control of everything so that it’d be YOU who does everything for me, not me.’ Then I really sensed something surrounded me. It was one of the most beautiful moments in my life. [First spark!] In 1990, everyday on my way to high school, I used to see a translation office. I said to myself, ‘I must work there.’ So I went there and showed some of my poems, writings, and some translation I had done of some magazine articles. The manager was amazed! Since I was a student, he gave me a part-time job as a translator. No one I knew worked in a translation office as a translator at age 16! So when other students were playing, I was gaining experience. I learned a lot. During high school, I used to carry a big dictionary with me. I was in LOVE with English! In 1991, one of my English tutors with overseas experience strongly advised me to become an English teacher. He thought I could really be successful. But there was a BIG problem. With ALL the books I had read, ALL the words I had known, and ALL the grammar I had learned, I COULD NOT speak English well! What was the problem? Nobody knew! On the other hand, I was so in love with ENGLISH LANGUAGE and LITERATURE that I lost my interest to other lessons! LOVE IS THE GREATEST THING OF ALL TIMES, but like roses, it has

thorns too, and a true lover takes it with NO fear. I loved English, it was a GIFT of GOD. But I had sins against God too. As of the last year of high school, I failed most of my lessons! And finally, I couldn’t get my high school diploma! THE FAULT IS ALL MINE. Oprah Winfrey says, ‘We are each responsible for our life. No other person is or will ever be.’ True. They say, ‘The unexpected is upon us.’ This is also true because the very next year, the educational system and all the books changed; so if I wanted to continue to get my high school diploma, they said I had to study all the lessons of 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade with the NEW books! I was shocked! I STOPPED myself. With the talent and passion that I had, I must have been a professor of English language, but no university inside the country or out, would have accepted my application since I had no high school diploma! What could I do? What would have YOU done in my situation? The law was the law. There was nothing they could do. There was nothing I could do either. I was STUCK! I love my country and my people, just that the Hands of the Mighty Power brought me here, since He has had a GREATER plan for me –as He has a GREATER plan for everybody. Tough this event was horrible, it made me stronger in confirming to end some of my sins I did against God. [Every sin is against God.] Although I didn’t waste time to constantly blame myself, I thought it was useless to continue learning English, my love! From 19 to 25, I lost my motivation on learning love. 6 years of not taking learning seriously. 6 years of being away from love! And funny is the more I wanted to quit learning it, the more it came to me!! Years passed but the passion didn’t pass. I HAD to DO something. I had to WAKE myself! I could NOT sit there doing nothing. I could NOT pretend that I didn’t care about English while all the GRANTED love and talent and passion of my life was English. I could NOT accept the fact that I was trying to do different jobs to forget my fear of moving on and moving forward. Fear. The biggest barrier and discourager of all. Napoleon Hill says, ‘Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. (Edison, elektrik ışığı keşfetmeden önce 10.000, kez başarısız oldu. Birkaç kez başarısız olduğun ise, cesaretini kırmayın.)’ It’s incredible how some WORDS can touch the soul and tingle minds! I didn’t know the quotes of Napoleon Hill, Les Brown, Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Michael Jordan, and many people of faith in the world, up until I wrote this filebook. I knew I had to pray to help me get what I wanted but I didn’t know that I had to be PREPARED for what I wanted, up until I wrote this filebook! [According to Tony Robbins, most of the people who won lottery didn’t know what to do with that money and they ended up a more miserable life –because they were not PREPARED for that kind of money.] I was unaware of even the notion that some WORDS could change my mind and my life. WORDS. The biggest stopper or mover of all times, the engin to the SOUL. So God had a better PLAN for me.

The Power of the Tongue – By Pastor Ittai Chadoka [God bless you, brother.] You can have whatever you want to have, become whoever you want to become and go wherever you want to go as soon as you understand the power that God has put in your mouth. In Proverbs 18 :21 God says that Life and death are in the power or the tongue and those who love it, shall eat its fruit. This lets us know that the person who decides to live or die, is *you*, the power is in *your* tongue! Such a thought is too big for the religious mind to swallow, but like I say, Christianity is NOT a religion, it is a relationship. In a week, God created [Hebrew: Bara= brought forth into being] the world through THE POWER OF THE TONGUE. This He did to give us an example of what we ought to do in our lives. Whatever trouble you find yourself in, you can talk your way out; you can talk your way out of sickness and into health, out of poverty, depression, barrenness, and death into the glorious life. When most Christians find themselves hemmed in, in a seemingly impossible predicament, they make it worse by talking wrong. When others try to stop them, you can hear them saying, "I'm just saying it like it is, I call it like I see it!" In Genesis 1:2, when God saw that the earth was without form and void, and darkness covered the face of the deep, He did not say, "Oh, what a disaster! The earth is shapeless and empty, the deep is covered with darkness. We are doomed!" NO! That is not what God did. He did not 'Call it like He saw it,' He called it like what He wanted it to be! Learn to talk God's Word over your life, LEARN IT! Jesus said, "If you say to this mountain…" that means you can talk to your business, to your body, to your academics in Jesus' name and these things will listen to you just as the Master said. Hallelujah.

As simple as it sounds, Oprah Winfrey says something deep: ‘Don’t ask why it happened to me.

Ask what it is there to teach me.’ The lesson? 1. REPENT YOUR SINS. 2. I am the only one responsible for my life. Being in that hotel I talked about, with the opportunity to work in a gold company, I took courses and became an accountant. I felt positive as I discovered more gifts God had granted me. I told you in Shania Twain’s story that sometimes God doesn’t tell you what to do, He shows you what to do. In 2005, by the grace of God, someone offered me to co-translate a book. It made me revive my passion of English. [Second spark!] I also had a movie-loving colleague so that I was encouraged to watch movies again... EVERY DAY! [Third spark!] The two of these pushed me forward. Praise be to the LORD of all mankind who provided me these opportunities.

Praise be to Him and only Him. Trust me the whole diploma thing happened so I could find a better WAY. I lost a good thing to find a better thing, a better joy, a better show, and a better way of love. I was born to love English and I had a hard time being away from it, but as Napoleon Hill says, ‘In every adversity, there is OPPORTUNITY.’ And it was the great opportunity of conjuring up this filebook’s method, the same advantageous (avantajli) method I showed you, the same joyful way... Movenglish.

Education is not received, it is achieved(Eğitimi almayacaksın, onu ulaşacaksın/kavuşacaksın).–Anonymous Sydney J. Harris says, ‘The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. (Eğitimin bütün amacı aynaları pencerelara çevirmektır.)’ Mirrors are WHAT to think because they only show us what someone wants us to learn. Windows are HOW to think because when we open them, everybody can see the view in their own PERSPECTIVEs. I learned from Mehdi, the orthopedic doctor, the shepherd’s sons, the hotel manager HOW to think. These people, some others around the world, and of course, adversity, have been some of my best professors in the university of life. I worked hard on this method of mine for years, day and night, city to city, country to country, anytime, anyhow, anywhere, in any possible way, be it video cassettes, VCDs, DVDs, or files, with the realization of a joy,

a fact, and a proof in my mind. It was hard but WORTH it because it was FUN! I drank coffee, had snacks, had fun, rejoiced, laughed, lingered, and learned, and really learned with all the fist pumps like ‘YES!! This is IT!!’ After some overseas travels and tutorings for fun, in 2005 I traveled to Thailand where Ket, one of my students, said my English lessons were a LIFE LESSON to her! Great feedback.

Never underestimate the power of your wish in the way of your granted talent to glory God. Never let the fear take a hold on you. Fear is the biggest liar.

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Psalm 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life of whom shall I be afraid? [I love You, LORD JESUS.] With God, anything is possible. In the end of 2005, I got familiar with the Holy Bible. I touched this Holy Book for the first time. I loved it right away, but couldn’t believe some parts of it. Some things I remember is in those days, my mom’s leg was hurt. I asked, ‘Mom! Let me put my hand on your leg and pray in Jesus’ name.’ The day after, my mom said she had slept so well the night before! [Fourth spark!] I didn’t take it seriously, maybe because I was afraid as I hadn’t believed that Jesus is the Son of God. [The fact is for years, I hadn’t understood that The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit are ONE. They are NOT three gods, but ONE in three characters.] In January 2006, I saw an ad that said, ‘Cavendish College of London Teacher Training Course.’ I knew I had no high school diploma but I knew I got the love and the talent to push me forward. For some nights, I tossed and turned in bed, for some days, this idea, this constant thought didn’t leave me alone: ‘GIVE IT A TRY; GIVE IT A TRY; GIVE IT A TRY!’ I prayed to the Lord so hard to make it come true because English is something I crave for, I desire for, I’m passionate about. Finally, I was given the courage to get there. [Do NOT ever underestimate the power of prayer to JESUS, the MOST HIGH, the MOST POWERFUL Name.]

2 Corinthians 1:20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ. And so through him the ‘Amen’ is spoken by us to the glory of God.

Proverbs 16:3 Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

That day, I wasn’t me!! I was a new me!! My positivity, my energy, and my passion-filled enthusiasm astonished the first interviewer. As if I wasn’t talking, a new soul was talking for me!! There was no written questions, but SPOKEN ones; and they were really hard, but thanks to the movies I’d watched, I answered them easily. The questions were objective and systematic. I wish all universities, inside and out, could follow that system –like the University of Saint Mary in London. The second interviewer asked, ‘Why do you want to be an English teacher?’ I fast answered, ‘Because I want to go back to Thailand and teach since I already tutored there.’ He liked my determined answer and confessed that no one had given him such quick answer! Maybe it’s because I had collected radiology films! [Smile] [I learned to deal with ‘why’ from American movies! What could be better than that?] They asked for no educational background because there was something HARDER than a-piece-of-paper background: The TOEFL mock-exam. The paper didn’t matter to them; the REAL knowledge did. So I got accepted. [Fifth spark!] I took the classes; observed in another teacher’s class, and thanks to this GIFT I’m granted, the students asked if I taught anywhere else to come to my class! I passed ALL the exams, taught in my own class, and they saw a difference. Like Pablo Picaso’s story, the course took 6 months but it took me 312 months to get there! Waiting for a couple of months, in December 2006, I received my TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Certificate from Cavendish College of London, signed by Professor J. Sanders. To me, seriously, it’s just a piece of paper, deep down, a proof to SELF. Not knowing of Lord’s plan, it was the beginning of a hard, yet fair journey!!

John 16:33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.

Beginning of 2007. Back to Thailand. Ket and other students were out of reach. Everything changed! One night. In a crowded street. A group of people passing by, asked, ‘Do you like to travel?’ I said, ‘Yes! Where is it?’ Thought they’re tour guides. They handed me a brochure. THERE it were: This picture, some comments, and John 14:6-7. The turning point of my life. John 14:6-7 Jesus said to him, ‘‘I’ am the

way, the truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through ‘me.’’ Was so excited. Told them that I loved Jesus and their brochure was like an ‘invitation of God!’ Joined their church. By the favor of the Lord, I got a part-time, well-paying job in a school where seemed impossible! [Sixth spark!]

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor; holds us upside down, and shakes all the nonsense out!

Proverbs 16:9 The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Love of English language, movies, America, or love of God? In 2007, when the Lord allowed me to have the honor of accepting Jesus as my Lord and my Savior, I wasn’t much aware of Christianity, I wasn’t completely honest with myself, I had sins I didn’t know, I had sins I didn’t want to know, I was proud and selfish but I thought I was a good person, but in God’s standards, it was the other way around. God in the Holy Bible declares: 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. The Word of God says, ‘Love is patient.’ Didn’t I answer anyone impatiently? Of course I did. If so, then I did the opposite. Then what could be the opposite of love? ‘Hate’? See? In MY standards, I was such a good person, in GOD’s standards, I was a ‘hater’!! The Word of God says, ‘Love is kind.’ Wasn’t I unkind to anyone before? Didn’t I do the opposite of God’s Word? The Word of God says, ‘Love does not envy.’ Didn’t I envy anyone else’s life? How many opposites did I do? Was I a person of God? The Word of God says, ‘Love does not boast.’ Didn’t I ever think that I knew better than the other guy?

Didn’t I ever say that I knew more than the other person? Didn’t I ever blame or belittle someone even in my mind? Didn’t I do the opposite of God’s words? The Word of God says, ‘Love is not arrogant or rude.’ Didn’t I, despite what I wanted, break someone’s heart by an arrogant action, a careless response, or nonsense WORDS? What then? Did I ever swallow my pride to appologize to them? How many times did I do it? How many careless WORDS? Lord Jesus in Matthew 12:36 says: ‘But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.’ I usually say: ÖBÜR DÜNYA, DAMLA DAMLA HİSABİNİZ VAR!

So who said I was a ‘good’ person? NO. I was a ‘hell’ person, I was ‘empty word’ person. The Word of God says, ‘Love does not insist on its own way.’ Wasn’t I ever selfish, preferring my way to others’? Didn’t I ever want to block a driver’s way for I thought ‘I’ had to pass first? Who did I think I was? The Word of God says, ‘Love is not irritable or resentful.’ Didn’t I ever become angry, responding a sibling, a neighbor, or a friend harshly? Didn’t I, even for a second, at the point of anger, think in my mind to revenge someone who destroyed my chances? How many times I wished bad things happen to my enemies to rejoice at their losses or accidents? How could I bear or believe or hope all things? The Word of God in James 4:17 says: ‘So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.’ How many times did I have the chance to do the right things and didn’t?

How many times did I have the chance to say the right thing and didn’t? The untold words could change someone’s life! Some discouraging words could kill someone’s soul so although I haven’t killed someone, I would be a murderer! Why did I think I was a GOOD person? 1 John 3:15 clearly mentions, ‘Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in Him.’ Holy LORD! My accounts were too big to burden! In fact, Satan came to the world to increase HATE and destroy LOVE. I wanted to LOVE but how could I LOVE people while I was still addicted to all these sins?

Romans 7:14-20 ‘For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand, for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh,for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.’ [Praise be to LORD JESUS who gave His believers the gift of Holy Spirit to take contol of their mind, their heart, their body, their desires, their words, their way, and their life:

Romans 8:1-4 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh [never sinned in His flesh] and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.’ With all my sins, I was so undeserving of this gift but He LOVES us. Thank You, Lord Jesus.] James 5:16 says, ‘Confess your sins to one another…’ Confessions lightens heavy loads and unmasks the real self. How many masks did I have without I knew? Was I addicted to the masks? A person needs to be HUMBLE to confess, was I too PROUD without I knew? Why not? The flesh was ruling me! How many times did I do against God’s will and way? How many times? My accounts were just too many!! HOW could I save myself? ‘O LORD, please SAVE me from myself!’ What a horrible person I was! What a miserable person I was! I hated some teachers, some people who hurt me, but didn’t even think that ‘I’ hurt others too! I was a sinner too but didn’t even want to admit it! I’d come up and say, ‘WHO?? ME??

NO WAY!!’ WHO could SAVE me from ‘my very own SELF’? I did a little bit of good and a lot of bad. And the worst of all was the FEELING of GUILT because I failed to do the musts and the mustn’ts. Could I ever be saved with all that? NO. NEVER! How about YOU, my friends? Have YOU ever given it a thought?  Philippians 2:21 For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

I was like a real immature kid. A bad kid. Soon, I asked to be baptized even though I didn’t know much of the Bible. This was not my fault that I love English more than any other language, this was not my fault that I love this God-given gift, but it was my fault to had wanted to get to the Bible Study, or to actually get to the United States, to be closer to English! My love for Jesus was REAL, but I was on MY WAY rather than GOD’S WAY, because God knows the temptations of the heart! In the midst of us, there was a lady with demonic powers. She had tried to take control of everyone and everything there –unaware of the FACT that GOD IS ALWAYS IN CHARGE. In our group, there was a guy with a 3-year-old child named Melika. This witch lady used to take Melika on her hip and say, ‘Kids are the devils!!’ which was the opposite of what Jesus taught as He LOVED children. Melika couldn’t speak any language properly to which her father was unhappy –in fact no one around that lady was happy or accomplished! She hated that kid and sometimes punished her in front of her dad’s eyes!! But why did she say that? Why did she do it? Because she didn’t have a kid and she was almost old. I saw her a couple of times crying out to the Lord as she longed for a kid, but God hadn’t given her a kid. [If she believed kids were the devils, why on earth would she want one?] I told her somehow that if she wanted to have a kid, she needed to get rid of her addiction to the black stuffs, but she went onguard and said, ‘God promised me to give me a son! His name is David!’ 6.5 years passed and she doesn’t have a child yet. It wasn’t that she didn’t know the Bible, which she and her husband knew it absolutely well, but it was that according to the Holy Bible, no one can serve two masters: She had to only worship God to get rid of demons. We either serve God or demons, we got NO THIRD CHOICE. Melika’s father had an on-going, off-going relationship with his wife, living in two different countries. So this witch lady, to make Melika’s father angry, went grinding her husband, went kissing her husband, in front of Melika’s father’s eyes!! This is so unlike Christian life. On the day of Sabbath, she would break a piece of bread and would give it to a black dog!! [Because of these sins, the wrath of God occurs.] Her scheme was she’d hear what people wished and sometime later, she would close her eyes and would SAY: ‘Oh I see a tree, I see a river, I see bla bla, and I see a vision that *your* wish is going to come true so soon!!!’ And the *person* would happily and instantly believe and sometimes would even faint!!! [How did the serpent deceive Eve to eat the fruit in that garden? By SAYING nice WORDS to her. You can read 2 Samuel chapter 15 about Absalom’s conspiracy!] And since she and her husband were missionaries, every now and then, she took pictures and sent to their ministery to show that they were doing a great job! [Doesn’t God know? Doesn’ t the One who created eyes, see, ears, hear? It seems these missionaries need to be watched over.] She loved it when people listened to her and walked with her like slaves –while Jesus set us free. I gave a person a brochure of Jesus and she rebuked me! Whoever didn’t listen to her, she would rebuke –while God only rebukes! [Satan wanted to take the place of God, no?]

She would take a piece of a person’s clothes, their pictures, add something to their food which I saw a couple of times, and did black magic stuffs like these –which people around had no idea, but I was aware of them in my past, deadly world. She got one of my earphone’s cotton covers and gave it back to me sometime later!! One of her ‘right hand’ people gave me a piece of a peanut butter sandwich while she was having some pieces too but I only threw up that same day!! [Some people are afraid of talking about black stuff but the Light of the world is in front of them, the Word of God, to which they can be protected: Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.] She told me I was not supposed to wear the Cross of Jesus Christ, that it was a sign of weakness!!! ‘Weakness???’ It was the sign of salvation, the ultimate proof of passionate LOVE. Couldn’t Jesus with ALL the powers of Heaven and earth refuse to be crucified? Of course He could. But didn’t He willingly do that to fulfill the Scriptures, for your sins and my sins? Of course He did. Why? Because of LOVE. So I disagreed with her and she turned into the enemy –which she already was. The day I was supposed to be baptized, I enetered that worship place and saw her standing by the pool, saying stuffs to the water!!! She brought a so-called pastor, a demon-possessed, to discourage me, to weaken me, and to instill the idea that I was one in a million –while according to the Holy Bible, I was one with Christ. I must decrease, He must increase.

While being baptized, I gave my camera to someone to take pictures but he said the camera didn’t work!!! Out the water, I checked the camera and realized that she, this witch, was the last person who had touched my camera!! I told some people around, even the pastor who baptized me, that she possessed demonic powers but they would rather go tell her than listen to me –since their spirit was under her control! [In 2013, I contacted that same pastor and he told me that that same church no longer existed and people had gone different ways! It is sad to see a church no longer exists but it is also true that in all the Holy Bible, you can see that God has always used bad people to get something good out of it –out of His PLANS. This is the AWESOME GOD I know. As one example, Acts 8:1&4 reads: ‘1 And on that day, a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria... 4 Therefore, those who had been scattered went about preaching the Word.’ See? God used persecution by bad people to scatter the good news and save more people. Can we have the wisdom of God?] After the baptism, the devil got into me in a supernatural way. I got super-drunk and broke one time what I had repented in 17 and hated myself after –though I never ever did it again. Hate, fear, and greed for money were dwelling in me. I kept reading these verses ‘‘Matthew 7:7-8 Ask and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; the one who searches, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.’’ and kept asking God to make me rich!! ‘BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. YOU MIGHT JUST GET IT.’ I was like a mean, hasty, stupid kid, wanting to pursue my own ‘hell’ world. God can make all things everything with His Words but ‘Heaven is not fast food! We do not order it! We get it God’s way or not at all.’ It’s a great great thing. I needed to be prepared for what I asked, I needed a conversion of the HEART. I became a bad version of Job (Eyüp) of the Bible. I thought I was a good person but I hadn’t seen myself from a different, harder situation! See? God did me millions of favors, but I did millions of evil and expected the best! How horrible of me! How human of me! How unaware of me! When a glass is dirty (inside of me is not pure), there is no use in whatever water poured in. It was easy for God to make me rich, to make this glass full of water, but what would I do with that money (dirty water)? I’d sin, I’d sin and sin and sin, I’d buy hellfire for myself. Hellfire. Worms would eat my flesh off, deamons would plunge me spears, and the hellfire would come down on me like rain unstoppably. [Hell is so very REAL but many people, even some believers, take it as a joke.] I was like a child who wanted to join the bad group to destroy myself but God of mercy and grace, didn’t want that to happen because He loves me and us –as a father loves his child, even billion times more. Besides, I was already rich, up until that witch lady laid her hand on my throat and I supernaturally became sick. Then I turned away from God for I thought I didn’t deserve it –while I deserved even worse! Deuteronomy 32:39 ‘See now that I Myself am He. There is no god besides Me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of My hand.’ I’d come up and say, ‘God! I was in Your way!! Why did You make me sick?’ [Well I ‘thought’ I was on God’s way.] Like a wild child, I rebelled against God, then I ran away from myself!! This is the result of preffering MY way to GOD’S way: self-destruction.

Luke 19:26 [Jesus said] I tell you, to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have, shall be taken away.’ This disease took me to three countries and many hospitals, yet there was no diagnosis, no cure, and no hope!! As of Job of the Bible, when God gives someone a hard time, He shows them how GUILTY they are and that they need to repent of their wicked ways. God crushed my false pride and showed me that I was NOBODY WITHOUT HIM, that I needed to LEARN to be HUMBLE, that I needed to LEARN to be OBEDIENT and PREPARED. ‘Are you prepared yet, My child?’ Ralph Waldo Emerson says: People only see what they are ‘prepared’ to see. In tough times, God shows a person’s REAL SELF... that they are SINNERS, that I was a SINNNER, and that I needed to know myself more. God SHOWed me that I was a sinner, and I needed to repent, the holy Father’s will to SAVE His child. [I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, LORD.] Job 36:8-10 But if people are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction, He tells them what they have done, that they have sinned arrogantly. He makes them listen to correction and commands them to repent of their evil.

But even in that situation, God never left me alone! When He promises, He keeps His PROMISES. When YOU turn to Jesus, no matter what happens to YOU, HOLD ON TO HIS PROMISES, HOLD ON FIRMLY and BE SURE that THIS is the REAL GOD who ANSWERS PRAYERS. Even when I was sick, He fed me, He clothed me, He took care of me, and He LOVEd me! I could feel Him saying: ‘DON’T BE AFRAID. I AM WITH YOU, MY CHILD.’ What a LOVELY FATHER! ‘Thank You, Lord, for everything You have done for me. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.’ Matthew 28:20 [Jesus said] I am with you, even to the end of the age. [God’s plan was sending His holy Son, Jesus, to be crucified for our sins and taking Him up to sit in His throne, and then sending the Holy Spirit to be with His believers for ever.] However, at that time I was confused why I got sick since I ‘thought’ I was in His way. Strangely enough, in every step of the way, God put people of God in my way!!

Alex. An Afghani guy who couldn’t even read and write. Full of Holy Spirit. When I asked him how he believed that Jesus is the Son of God and is God since I had doubt, he defended and answered with so much POWER that crushed my knowledge of four languages!! [God bless you, brother.] And a guy named Ebrahim. His ONE SENTENCE became THIS FILEBOOK, because he gave me a new perspective that TOUCHED my mind. He said, ‘Don’t you understand? God is TESTing your FAITH!’ [Some people have a gift of changing minds.] I was pushed, starting to teach again. I hardly see dreams, but if I see one, it has meaning, the dream of my life’s important events ahead of me. Numbers 12:6 [The LORD says]... I speak to them in dreams. This is another GIFT of God. Praise be to the LORD of Mercy and Grace. He is my Adonai, my Rejoice, and my Strength. Praise be to Lord Jesus for He took my and His believers’ sins to the cross and nailed them to His hands and washed them and faded them with His precious precious precious blood. He is the PROOF of LOVE, the One I won’t be ashamed by believeing that He saves me.

How blessed I am that I have a SAVIOR who promised to SAVE me. How blessed I am to hold on to His promises.

Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

I thought Jesus was not the Son of God and God Himself. I thought another god was angry at me!!! So with the Afghani brother, Alex, I went to the church in Ankara. The bad spirit was still dwelling in me. I kept questioning, some of which offensive. There were so many confusions in my relationships with others. The voice remained unheard, the questions remained unanswered: ‘Why did God do this to me?’ [Doesn’t this question sound familiar to YOU?] I had really hard times. I thought I was helpless. I stayed away from the church. I stayed away from everything.

Sometimes if you hit the rock bottom, don’t surprise. That Rock is Jesus. He loves you and simply wants you. As of King David’s Psalm, ‘The LORD is my Rock and my Salvation.’

God’s way is so very different from our ways. When someone hurts us, we hate them, but even though we hurt God everyday, He loves us and even loves the worst person on planet earth!! [God loves people, as when He sends rain, He doesn’t send it only to good people, but all people. He hates sins.] His wisdom is beyond compare as my puny mind can’t take, His love is beyond doubt as my little heart massively believes. He created the whole universe with massive ability while I can’t even create a grain of sand without what He has given me. HE is GREATER than great and MORE AWESOME than every awesome thing. So as I ‘thought’ I was ‘badly’ sick, some good Iranian and Turkish friends would say, ‘No! You are cool, man! You are good and healthy!’ I knew they were being kind and I was sick but these small words had a big impact on me to love a nation, as love always comes from God. So as I was teaching, I bought that laptop and this filebook gradually started.

Accepting to read the HOLY BIBLE is preferring to know ‘GOD’S WAY’ to ‘my way’.

God’s way of answering questions is different and AWESOME. We just need to TRUST HIM and let HIM do the WORK, let HIM take control of EVERYTHING in our life. If I didn’t have this disease, I’d never find the answers to all my questions and even more, because I only found them WHILE WRITING THIS FILEBOOK! God wanted me to find the answers and at the same time HELP A NATION TOO! WOW. If I didn’t write this filebook, I’d never realize that I had been a sinner, I’d never live in Turkey, I’d never search on the Internet to learn success stories of famous people of the world to get encouraged, I’d never learn to open my eyes, I’d never learn to be humble, I’d never fear of God to keep me away from sins, I’d never be a Christian, I’d never ask everything of mine through the Holy Spirit who dwells in me, I’d never write this filebook, and more than all, I’d never know how AMAZING LORD’s plans are! HALLELUJAH! While I was searching and researching for this filebook, my understanding of life increased and I also realized that most successful people of the world were somehow associated with the Holy Bible, because the words they use COME from the Holy Bible, words like ‘Have Faith!’ ‘Keep Going!’ ‘Keep Moving Forward!’ ‘Fear Is A Liar!’ or ‘Never Give Up!’ I needed to read ‘how hard’ successful people became successful, their success stories, and their mind-provoking quotes to understand the Holy Bible better, to understand GOD’S PLANS better. So to avoid hurting anyone again in the church, I used to read the Holy Bible at home, EVERY DAY and EVERY NIGHT, missing the church so badly (=very much). I longed for it but something like respecting others’ rights kept me from going there. It took me more than three years since I started writing the filebook, and it took me more than three years since I read the Holy Bible to become a strong believer in Jesus Christ.

Jeremiah 29:11 For ‘I’ know the plans I have for you, declares the ‘Lord’, plans to prosper you, and not to harm you, plans to give you hope, and a future.

[Used in ‘Soul Surfer’.]

[A Walk In My Shoes] Life isn’t so much a puzzle as it is a plan. (Hayat o kadar ki plandir, yap-boz ya da kafa karıştırıcı değildir.)

After 3 years of dealing with this filebook, with some hints of the LORD, I got to the church. Most of the people I knew had gone to different countries to serve in their churches. Hallelujah. The church was more crowded in three services, American service, Turkish service, and Iranian service. Most people were new to me but it didn’t even matter because we were brothers and sisters in Christ.

John 10:11-18 [Jesus said] I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand, and not a shapherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep, which are not of this fold, I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice, and they become one flock with one shepherd.

For this reason, the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I receive from My Father.

It was only after three years of reading the Bible that I was PREPARED to get to the church. Only now I could say, ‘LORD! I have a JOY in YOU by just being able to GET to the CHURCH!’ That same day, a pastor brother prayed for me and it was so very effective. Acts 19:6 And when Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them... As the time passed and I attended there more, more pastors prayed for me and I got more recovered. James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. God bless all of them. God bless all my brothers and sisters in Christ. When God starts to heal someone, demons are certainly not happy about it!

I have a great hunger to help, to be useful, to make a difference while I’m in the way of the LORD. It doesn’t matter where, I’d love to serve the LORD where HE wants me to, I’d love to passionately go to every hospital in the world and lay hands on people whose doctors cannot heal and pray for them in holy, lovely, precious JESUS’ NAME. The world is done with the words, it needs some more action. But how did this idea speak to me? Well, you can only understand patients if only you were one.

[Though None Go With Me] Chris, while sick in the hospital: Do you believe in God? –I made a commitment to follow God unconditionally. And then something happened in my life and it made me question my faith. –What about now? –Now I just have to trust that He has a plan for me, whether I always understand it or not. –You think He has a plan for me? –I know He does.

[Though None Go With Me] (The same Chris, 20 years later, was never the same) I’m Chris. I had a motorcycle accident about 20 years ago. Now, that was a real low point in my life. I wanted to give up. But you put me on the right track. You didn’t have to. You didn’t even know me. Thanks to you, I have a wonderful family, and I’m still here, and my Claire.

Thank you.

[Though None Go With Me] I have been a civil rights attorney for, oh gosh, nearly 40 years now. And it all started in your Sunday school class. Uh, you taught me the importance of always, always standing for what I believe in. I can’t tell you how valuable that’s been for me all these years.

What we do in life echoes in eternity(Hayatta yaptıklarımız ebediyette yankılanıyor).–Gladiator I learned that life beats everyone hard, but I also learned that ‘I’ create ‘my’ life, ‘I’ am the only one responsible for ‘my’ life. I learned that there is a purpose to every plan and I agree with what Jack Canfield says in one of his videos, ‘Everything that happens to you is pushing you to the right direction. (Hayatınızda olduğun her olay size doğru yolda itiyor.)’ It’s a VALUABLE quote I find VERY TRUE when I read the biography of successful people. THIS filebook is the RIGHT direction with ALL the proofs I showed you –including ME, MYSELF! I came to Turkey to pass and go MY way, but God had a better plan for me on GOD’s way... to serve a beautiful nation. Cherish your freedom and leaders. And remember that YOUR effect ‘echoes in eternity.’ When negativity inside pushes you back, when all the world is constantly telling you that you can’t, you need a NEW SPIRIT to go forward, move forward, and push forward, you need a NEW SPIRIT to show and shine God’s glory.

This lifetime will end one day. When ended, you’ll stand in front of the throne of Jesus Christ. He will judge all humans.

What will you say to Him? Bu omur bir gun bitecek. Bittigince, Isa’nin onunde olacaksiniz. O butun insanlari yargiliyor.

Onu ne diyeceksiniz?

I was afraid of dogs and cats to death! My mom and siblings did kiddings with me about it! Jesus took this fear away. I was afraid to talk in meetings... so many good ideas came to my mind but I was too afraid to state them.

Jesus turned this fear into bravery. I could never ever do that by myself. No scientific method or earthy solution could ever do that either! Jesus grants everyone gifts. He, to some extent, granted me the gift of healing – although I’m not completely healed. I just pray, but HE does EVERYTHING. No one can ever grant anyone the gift of healing except my LORD and my SAVIOR Jesus Christ. The gifts He granted me are beyond what I deserve. ‘May He guide me to use them in His glory. May He use me in His service. Amen.’ ‘Lord, please have Mercy on me, I need You, Lord. Your look is enough because I believe there is MERCY in Your Eyes, LORD JESUS, please, LORD, always BE WITH me and keep me in a HUMBLE status. I am NEVER better than anyone but everything I become is because of Your GRACE and Your MERCY. How can I thank You, LORD? On a half-full bus, the man got on the bus and sat right next to me. He had a computer case in his hand which had a handle. The bus was on the move so the case was about to slip off his hand. He said to me while he showed, ‘If you keep the handle FIRM, it will never slip away or fall off.’ It was motivating but something kept me from asking who he was. Maybe I’d never know! Off the low days of my life, he SHOWED me to be FIRM and STAND STRONG in problems. He looked like an angel. ‘Thanks.’

Romans 11:22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in His kindness.

Matthew West – More lyrics: Take a look at the mountains – Stretching a mile high – Take a look at the ocean – Far as your eye can see – And think of Me – Take a look at the desert – Do you feel like a grain of sand? – I am with you wherever – Where you go is where I am – And I'm always thinking of you – Take a look around you – I'm spelling it out one by one – I love you more than the sun – And the stars that I taught how to shine – You are mine, and you shine for me too – I love you yesterday and today – And tomorrow, I'll say it again and again – I love you more – Just a face in the city – Just a tear on a crowded street – But you are one in a million – And you belong to Me – And I want you to know – That I'm not letting go – Even when you come undone – I love you more than the sun – And the stars that I taught how to shine – You are mine, and you shine for me too – I love you yesterday and today – And tomorrow, I'll say it again and again – I love you more – I love you more – Shine for Me – Shine for Me – Shine on, shine on – Shine for Me – I love you more than the sun – And the stars that I taught how to shine – You are mine, and you shine for me too – I love you yesterday and today – And tomorrow, I'll say it again and again – I love you more – Than the sun – And the stars that I taught how to shine – You are mine, and you shine for me too – I love you, yesterday and today – Through the joy and the pain – I'll say it again and again – I love you more – I love you more – And I see you – And I made you – And I love you more than you can imagine – More than you can fathom – I love you more than the sun – And you shine for me

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1 Corinthians 1:3-4 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. Why am I sharing these? Because of YOU. It takes hard work, and persistence to get here. Many people sooooo much more better than me had quit. Many people had lost hopes. Too many had slept. Too many closed their eyes. Too many surrendered easily. Jim Rohn says it best, ‘Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. (Resmi eğitim size para kazanacak. Kendi eğitim size zenginleştirecek/şans getirecek.)’ Napoleon Hill says, ‘Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. (Eğitim içtenden geliyor; onu çabalama ve gayret ve düşünceyla alıyorsun.)’ A wise person says, ‘Education is not received. It is achieved. (Eğitimi almayacaksın, onu ulaşacaksın/ kavuşacaksın.)’ Albert Einstein says, ‘Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. (Eğitim okulda her şeyi öğretıldığını onutmaktan sonra, o kalan şeydir.)’ Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and many more didn’t even complete their university education. Les Brown has no college education. Walt Disney was a high school drop-out. I can list here MANY more! Jack Canfield says, ‘20% of America’s millionaires never set foot in college, and 21 of the 222 Americans listed as billionaires in 2003 never got their college diplomas; 2 never even finished high school.’ I believe they’re self-educated. You don’t have to get education to be educated but don’t get me wrong. Nothing on this planet is like real education, real feedback. Trust me, while you go to a university or a school and take it as granted, millions of others WISH to have your chance to get education. Nothing in the world is like having the opportunity to BE in a school or university but feel the JOY that you are REALLY growing and BECOMING a better person. (Dünyada üniversitede ya da okulda olmak, ancak daha iyi insan olduğunu ve gerçekten yetiştiğin tadını hissetmek fırsatı gibi hiçbir şey değil.) [Formal education (100%) + Self-education and Self-education and Self-education (100,000,000,000%). And I always miss the smell of schools!]

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. –Robert Louis Stevenson To be nobody but yourself in the world that is doing its best to make you just like everybody else means to fight the greatest battle there is to fight and to never stop fighting. –E.E. Cummings You know, the American Bald Eagle is the national symbol of the U.S. It’s BOLD (cesur). But do you know the nature of it? Well, someone said, ‘When it rains, most birds head(=go) for shelters; the Eagle is the only bird that, in order to avoid the rain, starts flying ABOVE THE CLOUD!’ Wooh! I don’t know about you, buddy, but with the SPIRIT of Kindness and Truth, I’m trying to fly ABOVE THE CLOUDS to hussle opportunities day and night. This filebook is a big opportunity, I would turn it into speaking.

Isaiah 40:31 But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

If you want to take the island, burn the boat. (Adayı sahip olmak istersen, gemiyi yak.) –Tony Robbins [This quote BLEW my mind!! Because when you burn the boat, you don’t think of going back. You’ll STAY in the island, and it’ll be YOURS!! WOW. If you want English SPEAKING, that island’s name is ‘Movenglish!’ Burn the old way, burn it!!]

Epictetus says, ‘First say to yourself what you want to be and then do what you have to do.’ Gandhi says, ‘Be the change you want to see.’ People also say, ‘We don’t believe in someone unless we SEE he or she ACTed his words; WALKed his talk, KEPT his words, DID the talk.’ Praise the Lord that He let me act my words and walk my talk! This book is the proof! I’m fighting to make a difference in lives! Show me one non-English person in the whole world who has no high school diploma, and I’ll show you he got the TEFL and even wrote this filebook.

Wooh! This doesn’t come from me, this is the power of the LORD. Maybe it’s not my ideal book after all, because despite doing my best, I KNOW God granted me a potential MUCH more than this. But I have faith that it’ll move minds. [It’s a strange, yet purposeful GAME nature plays with us that people who were stopped, have moved many, people who couldn’t walk like FDR made many walk, people who were defeated many times like Abraham Lincoln, made others win many times, people who couldn’t see like Helen Keller gave vision to many, people who couldn’t hear like Ludwig van Beethoven made the most beautiful sounds in the world, people who had been sick were the cure to something, and people who couldn’t talk made many people talk! I wish I were half the half of half of what they are. GO and search in history... and you’ll find MANY examples like these.] I may not be a professor of English language but I don’t stay home doing nothing either. The positive have VERY GOOD EYES to realize it! I feel GREAT because I don’t have that degree and could do this filebook! Ralph Parlette says, ‘All outside greatness is merely an incidental reflection of the inside.’ Wooh! INSIDE matters. YOU got what you want INSIDE you... in your heart and in your mind and in your soul. Don’t sit there say you can’t! Ugh! Look at 30 Rock’s Tina Fey. She made, haha, ‘cat sound’ and became famous! [HaHa. Kidding.] Can’t YOU learn English speaking? Of course you can. Put your BEST talent out there and DO WATCH MOVIES EVERY DAY and DO WATCH MOVIES EVERY DAY! I’m not asking anyone to climb the Cleveland but just to WATCH English movies with English subtitles EVERY DAY, and to HAVE FUN, and to ENJOY EVERY DAY! Man! And here’s the FINAL PROOF: After all these years of enjoying and learning English speaking with English-subtitled movies, for a long time, I haven’t needed English subtitles. The ONLY time I watch English movies WITH English subs is WHEN I’M HAVING CHIPS ’cause its cracking SOUND doesn’t let me HEAR the movies well! HaHa! But, seriously, I just wanted to DO a great job, BE useful, SERVE, leave LOVE footprints, LEAVE a message of ‘YOU CAN’, and LEAVE, to embrace the hardship ahead of me. I LOVE YOU LORD JESUS FOR YOU GRANTED ME THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE. THANKS!  Psalm 119:91 O Lord ...for all things are Your servants.

Dan: Hey, Socrates. If you know so much how come you’re working at a gas station? Socrates: This is a service station. We offer service. There’s no higher purpose. –Peaceful Warrior Colossians 3:23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

Daniel 4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything He does is right and all His ways are just. And those who walk in pride, He is able to humble.

One day, a certain, non-English gentleman who had lived in some English-speaking countries for over 20 years and was too proud of his English knowledge, was encountered by a young non-English boy. The little boy asked him if he knew English and the man, proudly answered, ‘Oh, YES!’ Then the boy asked what the meaning of ‘Nar’ in English was, and the guy just freezed, blushed, and awkwardly answered, ‘Uhh, they don’t use ‘Nar’ in English speaking countries!!’ I put this picture of ‘Pomegranate’ to SERIOUSLY remind myself not to be proud. I am not better than this gentleman.

Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. [Note to self] The sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ That is LOVE. It lights the whole sky. If I happened to write this filebook in, say, Switzerland, they’d probably give me some facilities, a research center, or something. I expected none of these. The only thing I expect is to see YOUR golden feedback of speaking English. That’s the best ‘thanks’ EVER. George Washington, the first President of the United States says, ‘Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.’ I wanted to say... I HAVE FELT TURKEY IS ‘MY’ OWN COUNTRY.  Nothing I have to be proud of but GOD (Tanrı’mdan başka gurur duyacağim bir şey yoktur). I’m only proud of my LOVELY LORD, my Strength, my Redeemer, who shows the way and goes the way and wants us to love the way, who reads the mind and leads the heart and pours out on His believers His HOLY SPIRIT of peace and truth. The hands I have

my parents didn’t invent. The eyes, the ears, the tongue, the brain, and the heart are the means of a language but no factory made them. I haven’t bought any of these. The soul is the engine of this factory, if it goes, I go. WHO creates the SOUL? Who gave us mind and hand to create technology? They say they made that lamb, but could they create that lamb WITHOUT whatever the Lord has given them? Who do we think we are with our puny minds? What do we have that we have made without the initial having? Can we, the nothingnesses, make somethingness? What are we proud of? Even the words are Lord’s. The space between the words is Lord’s. The atom is Lord’s. Mind is LORD’s. Let us think! Everything I have, I was granted. Everything we have, we are granted. To see things unseen, the eyes are not enough, the heart must see, and the heart must be clean to see the unseen, like the LOVE of the HOLY LORD. PRAISE BE TO HIM FOR EVER AND EVER AND ALL ETERNITY. He created everything, gave us food to eat, place to stay, clothes to wear, job to do, health to work, mind to earn, love to live, soul to worship Him, all to obey and please Him. Like that hummingbird, ‘I’m just doing what I can’ with whatever I’m GRANTED for free!

PRAISE BE TO THE LORD OF ALL JESUS CHRIST WHO IS HOLY AND WONDERFUL. And all I have is all from You – And all I want is all of You – It’s grace, Your grace – I’m nothing without You – Your grace, Your grace – Shines on me –Michael W Smith AND IF YOU HAVE FAITH, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, ANYTHING AT ALL. –Bethany Hamilton, Soul Surfer What is the best book if not read, the best movie if not watched, the best light if not used, the best talent if not touched? Who is watching movie when I’m sleeping? Who is my next teacher when I’m dreaming?

Some people say, ‘Michael! You are talented (yetenekli) at English. That’s why you learned to speak it!’ The answer to these beautiful people is: ‘Talent is helpful, but guts (cesaret) and faith are absolutely vital to learn to speak English. Talent is the potential. Action is VITAL.’ [And I say this to motivate my siblings: For a little over four years, I had no vacation. For one year straight, before mobil modem, I had no Internet so everyday I went to a cafe, stayed there for two hours with one big cup of coffee to use their Internet! We need to work HARD to succeed.]

Michael Jordan: Maybe it’s my fault to make you think that it’s just a God-given talent. It’s not. I worked really hard, everyday, to become Michael Jordan.

Michelle Obama (Harvard & Princeton graduated First Lady): And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same value, like you work hard for what you want in life.

Oprah Winfrey says, ‘I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint. And that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.’

After a little over 4 years of hard work, this filebook, with love, is my personal calling to you. I believe and believe that EVERYBODY is born with a talent, a gift. What’s yours? What could YOU do with YOUR talent, what is your personal calling? Seneca says, ‘Great men rejoice in adversity.’

My purpose in life is to be a force of love and to share it with everyone.

[It’s Supernatural] To Jennifer Toledo, on why on earth did she do in Africa alone, God spoke: Do you believe that God can use simple people to do great things? God had a plan for her –as He has for you.

Salvation Mountain, Leonard Knight’s personal calling. He attracted many tourists to remind them of Jesus Christ.

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life. (Eğer sen bilerek olabileceğınden az planlaştırırsen, o zaman uyareceğım seni, hayatın kalanı kadar mutsuz olacaksın.) –Abraham Maslow

Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish director says, ‘Old age is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become much more extensive. (Yaşlanmak, bir dağı tırmanmak gibidir. Daha yüksek tırmandıkça, yorgunluğunuz artar ve nefesiniz daralır, ama görüş açınız çok genişir.)

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. (Hayatınız biteceğınden korkmayın; onu hiç başlamadığınden korkun.)[It’s also a note to myself.]–Grace Hansen The time is always right to do what is right. (Doğru işi yapmak için her zaman doğru zamandır.) –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Have any degree, any job, be anything; but MOVE and BE MOVED. DO learn English to MOVE others and BE YOU because you are a BE-YOU-tiful nation. [Smile] Don’t think who this guy is, he is a simple servant of the LORD, who is trying to move forward to serve education and leave LOVE FOOTPRINTS. DON’T stop; there’s no joy in it. Life in ACTion is life LIVED (Harekette yaşam, gerçek yaşadığın yaşamdır)!

Great thoughts speak only to thoughtful minds, but geat actions speak to all mankind. (Büyük düşünceler ancak düşünceli fikirlerla konuşur, fakat büyük eylemler bütün insanlarla konuşur.) –Emily B. Bissell Those who know how to think need no teachers. (Düşünme yolunu bilen insanlara öğretmen gerekmıyor.) –Gandhi A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. (Özgür eğitimli kişi yeni fikirlera merak ve çok ilgiyila, özgürsüz eğitimli kişi onlara korkuyla buluşuyor.) –James B. Stockdale Bill Gates is the living legend of modern history. If I could say how much he considers education important (Eğer o eğitimi ne kadar önem verdiğini söylebilseydim), you’d realize how much he has funded (para yatırdı/toplandı) in there and how many people he has, working for him on education in his organization. So in a 2011 conference in TED, America, he brings the audience’s attention to an ‘absolutely unbelievable variation’ among top-quartile and bottom-quartile TEACHERS as he says, ‘‘A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class –based on test score- by over 10 percent in a single year. [incredible] That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away. So we should reward those people. We should retain those people. We should find out what they are doing and transfer that skill to other people.’’ [What does GENIUS mean?] He shows a stats that says teachers with master’s degree have the lowest effect in education –some of the audience laughs! ‘‘So it’s not the education that makes great teachers; it’s past performance.’’ He also says, ‘‘You might say, well, the good teachers stay and the bad teachers leave the system. The answer is, on average, the slightly better teachers leave the system.’’ [He just said EVERYTHING about education. Think why they leave!] It’s incredible how people who dropped out of college CARE about education this much! That’s a great LESSON for me.

May Bill Gates and Lady Gaga accept Jesus in their heart and be saved! Amen.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. (Dünyada hiçbir şey zor olduğun rağmen ‘kalıcılık/sebat/ısrar’ yerine alamaz. Yetenek almayacak; hiçbir şey başarısız yetenekliler kadar genel değil. Dahilik almayacak; ödülsüz dahiler nerdeyse masal gibidir. Eğitim almayacak; dünya ilgisiz eğitimlilere doludur. Tek ‘azım ve kalıcılık’ her şeyin gücünü yeter.) –John Calvin Coolidge, the 30th. U.S. President

First Lady Michelle Obama: You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. [I bow to this powerful quote.]

[Fact to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. But nothing is like ‘motivation to the soul’.]

Dick Hoyt has a disabled son, Rick. It’s VERY hard for Rick to move his hands but he TRIES HARD. Many parents have such children but get sad whole of their life or put them in special institutions. Rick’s doctor also said to his father, ‘Put him in an institution. He is not gonna be anything but a vegetable!’ He and his wife cried a bit but he said, ‘NO. He’s MY son.’ [When you LOVE English like you LOVE your son, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, you never leave English alone. You FIGHT for it.] There was a charity run. They went. Rick’s dad says, ‘‘When we got home from that race that night, Rick wrote on the computer, ‘Dad, when I run, it feels like my disability disappears.’ So, that was a very powerful message for me. ‘HE’ motivates me; I just run!!

The feeling of coming to finish line is an awesome experience. The crowds are so excited by seeing us.’’ He’s been behind Rick for more than 65 marathons! They are ‘Team Hoyt’. Rick is graduated from college (üniversite). He lives in the country of freedom and freedom is the greatest value of all. Is disability ‘bad’? Sometimes a ‘disabled’ is used to motivate many people who are ‘capable’! This’s Rick’s message he hardly wrote for all of us: ‘CAN|’ I think his ONE word is the hidden message of ALL the words of this filebook. He’s MY motivation too, MY teacher. If Rick is disabled and ‘CAN|’, don’t you think you are more capable and ‘CAN|’ learn English speaking? Rick and I believe you ‘CAN|’. [I am sending a copy of the filebook to all the people who inspired me, especially to Team Hoyt. I want to THANK them from the bottom of my heart. ‘WAY TO GO, GUYS! YOUR TRY IS ECHOING FROM THE U.S. TO ALL OF US.’] Learn English speaking. You never know how far you effect. 

[Gifted Hands: A Ben Carson Story] We are capable of doing even better things than we believe we are, if we challenge each other to do it.

Dan: I know more than you think. Socrates: And you think more than you know. But knowledge is not the same as wisdom. Dan: Yeah?

What's the difference? Socrates: You know how to clean a windshield, right? Dan: Yeah. Socrates: Wisdom is doing it. –Peaceful Warrior Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear (Aşk, her tür korku yada tsunamidan daha büyüktür). –Bethany Hamilton, Soul Surfer James 1:12 Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him. We should not pray so much for the removal of affliction, as for wisdom to make a right use of it. –Matthew Henry If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up. (Eğer bir uçaktan okyanusa düşseydim ve bana en yakın kara binlerce mil uzak olduğunu söyleseydeler, yinede yüzürdüm. Ve bıraktığın kişiyi yok sayseydim.) –Abraham Maslow From Fantasy To Fantastic – From Deathful Fear To Lifeful Faith – From $1... To $2.8 Billion!!!

James Cameron. Born in a small town near Niagara Falls in Canada. 2000 people lived there. There was water all around. He loved scuba diving. Affected by his disciplined engineer father, he was always the head of a group of playmates to build scale models (maketler) of boats and rockets. His artist/housewife mother encouraged him to paint and exhibited his works in a local gallery. His grandma always told him stories and he read tons of science fiction books. He watched the movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. It impressed him. He experienced shooting a short film of his ‘space ship’ scale model. When he was 17, the Cameron’s moved to California. He went to college but wasn’t sure if he wanted to study art or science. He was uncertain. [Napoleon Hill was right!] He dropped out of college, married a waitress, and became a truck driver.

[I did different jobs to realize English was my only passion!!] Sometime later, George Lucas’ Star Wars was on screen. He watched it. It impressed him and AWAKENED his PASSION of filmmaking again!

He followed his course of study in the library of University of Southern California on special effects technology. With a little saving, he bought a camera. It wasn’t enough. He borrowed money from his friends to make a short film. His wife and friends thought he was crazy!!!

[HaHa. Yeah, when you LOVE something, you LOVE something, you RISK it, you PAY THE PRICE, you GO FOR IT even further than craziness!] He showed the short film to his father’s director friend, Roger Corman. Corman gave him a job as production designer. He hired people there. They hated him for his ‘perfectionism’! [haha] He got his first job as a director but according to the producer(the one that pays all the money), it wasn’t good at all, so he fired Cameron!! [ATTENTION! Everything is HARD at first. He could give up RIGHT HERE! But when someone is PASSIONATE, he is PASSIONATE, and he MOVES FORWARD (=never stops, never gives up).] He followed the producer from Jamaica to Rome but couldn’t find him. In Rome, he became sick and broke (parasız/ meteleksız). As he says, he didn’t have the money to even pay for the lunch in two weeks!! [Again, ATTENTION! He could GIVE UP here too... FOR EVER!] He didn’t know Italian, didn’t know anybody, couldn’t get help, was hungry, and was an alien. [Wasn’t it a GAME to TEST his character?] As he was in bed, he imagined an alien –like himself- coming out of the fire! Then this imagination gave him motivation and inspiration. WOW. He got up, off the bed, grabbed a pencil and some paper, and started writing The Terminator. The script was received by major studios. But he INSISTED that HE wanted to DIRECT it. They didn’t accept because of his first bad experience but he BELIEVEd in himself so much that he sold the rights to the movie for $1... oh my gosh... ONE DOLLAR!! Who could have done that??? In that situation, only a BRAVE person with a GREAT character could do that, a person who wanted to PROVE his abilities. His enthusiasm won everyone’s heart!! The Terminator achieved international success. [This is the gift of NOT GIVING UP and SELF-BELIEF! This is a fist pump!! YEAH, baby!! This is the REWARD of NOT FEARING and TRUSTing self.] He went on with four more movies before the massive project of ‘Titanic’. The filmmaking process of ‘Titanic’ took about two years – many months more than scheduled. Two years of fear and uncertainly. Two years of heat and cold. More millions of dollars had to be spent. Everyone’s reaction was about to make him believe that he couldn’t finish it. [A BIGGER test, a bigger GAME!] They were waiting for a BIG LOSS and predicted a BIG DISASTER!! But... oh my gosh... in the first three weeks, Titanic sold about $1 BILLION!!! WOW. [Just look at his fist pump!] And at the end, it broke the record of box office(gişe) till that time with a little over $2.2 BILLION worldwide and won 11 Oscars!! Wooh! The OSCARS of CHARACTER! He says, ‘A director’s job is to make something HAPPEN and it doesn’t happen by itself.’ [Excellent determination! An English learner’s job is to make English speaking HAPPEN. And it doesn’t happen by itself.] He uses different ways, different techniques to bring out the best passion in his actors. He believes the magic of a movie isn’t in the mind of its director but in the heart of its actors. [YOUR magic of SPEAKing English is NOT in teachers’ mind, but it IS in YOUR heart.]

In all his life, he pictured himself as a filmmaker and read lots of film-making books (like driving manuals) but says, ‘JUST do it. JUST pick up a camera and start shooting something and put your name on it as a director.

Everything will be fine after. If you wait for the right time, you’ll die and the right time will never come.’ [SO TRUE. SO TRUE. SO TRUE.] ‘DON’T wait. Start NOW and you’ll BELIEVE in yourself.’ This is the same thing Napoleon Hill, Tony Robbins, and all successes say.]

Then he made the movie Avatar, the HIGHEST-GROSSING MOVIE(gişede en satan film) of all times that sold a

little over $2.8 BILLION. He says, ‘There are many talented people who haven’t fulfilled their dreams because they over-thought it (onu fazla düşündeler), or they were too cautious (korkmaktan fazla dikkatliydilar), and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.’

[HAVE faith that at the end of the Movenglish tunnel, there is LIGHT. Have FAITH.] Promise me... that you won’t give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise. (Ne olursa olsun, ne kadar mutsuz olursa olsun, bırakmayacağını bana söz ver. Rose, şimdi bana söz ver ve asla sözünü bırakma.) –Titanic NOMINATED 98 TIMES! WON DIFFERENT GOLDEN AWARDS 126 TIMES! WHO IS HE? Steven Spielberg; James Cameron’s, my photography teacher’s, and many others’ inspiration, a living legend, the one whose movies are so heartgrabbing that make you want to sit down even if you have to go! Impressed by Disney movies, at age 8, his father gave him an 8mm camera as his birthday present. He went around and started shooting, using ketchup as blood, toy train as real train, and at the end, was pretty amazed by his creative ability to make stories! He and people around realized his talent at that young age.

According to wikipedia, ‘he charged people for 25 cents (a quarter of a dollar) to show them his short films while his sister sold them popcorn.’ [Cute, huh?] Everyday on his way to school, he imagined how to make a movie!

[HaHa. I can imagine the little Spielberg!] When other children were playing in the park, he was making short films!! [What does ‘Be Different’ mean?] His teachers noticed his intelligence but he paid all his attention to making short films rather than attending the classes, so he got constant ‘C’ grades. [He reminds me of me!! I had all my attention only to English and literature.] From 8 to 17, he made a lot of short films including a 140-minute one, and became very good at directing. [I became very good at translating.]

His high school teachers also realized his intelligence but he was always into movies and cameras!

When he was 17, he worked the whole summer as an unpaid intern in the Universal Studios. [I took ‘acting and photography courses’ and played in the school theater when I was 15 and used those techniques in the class. At that time, my photography teacher said while Spielberg was in the Universal Studios, he found an abandoned cabin, collected the trashed rolls of other directors and made a movie out of them (başka yöneticilerin attığın rulolerden film yapıyordu)!! Wow.] In the last year of high school, he twice applied to University of Southern California (USC) Film School but because of his poor grades, he was rejected. Unwilling to give up, he finally managed to study in California State University in Long Beach (CSULB) because at least he could get into TV. But the university wasn’t suited for him.

According to one of the instructors, ‘Spielberg knew more about camera than anyone else in the department. He could TEACH there!’ So he dropped out. He tried again to different film programs but they were unsuccessful. He could be disappointed and give up for ever because he had no connections in Hollywood, even no film school ‘certificate’! But he was passionate and determined and relentless (duramıyordu/bırakmıyordu). He was prepared and KNEW he wanted to be the director of his own fortune. He had worked as an intern in the Universal Studios before so he had nothing to do there(orada işin yoktu). But he made the most crucial decision of his life: To look like a prestigious person, he wore his father’s suit and tie and took his father’s briefcase. [He put a sandwich and two candy bars in it! HaHa.] So he got to the Universal Studios, and like a scene in Indiana Jones, waved (el salladı) at the guards, and passed them into the Universal Studios. [HaHa. Bravo to this bravery! When you LOVE something, you RISK it.]

Some people watch movies and think to themselves that those things only happen in movies, but the fact is if they read REAL life stories, they come to believe that those things can ACTUALLY happen in REAL LIFE. In that summer, for 3 months in row, he made the Universal Studios’ people assume that he was working for someone! HaHa. He ‘visited every set, got to know people, observed techniques, and absorbed the atmosphere.’ Sometimes when he got to the film shooting area, they told him to leave. But he was back again –silently. HaHa. He tried to convince some of the Studios’ executives to watch his 8mm films but they told him they’re only interested in 16mm films. He got himself a job in the university cafeteria to save enough money to rent a 16mm camera. [GREAT PEOPLE have GREAT CHARACTERS.] After he saved enough, he made the 16mm film in a week. WOW. EXPERIENCE TALKS!!!!! He showed the film to his Universal Studios’ ex-mentor Chuck Silvers, but he told him not to get back there until he made a 35mm. [How many obstacles are enough to give up????? HOW MANY???] Months passed and Spielberg finally made his first 35mm, a 26-minute film named Amblin’. [Later it became the name of his own studio. Bravo, man!] When Chuck Silvers watched it, he said to his colleagues, ‘What I saw was a PERFECT movie!!’ [Oh... my... gosh!! FINALLY.] Chuck showed the film to the Studio managers and all of them agreed with him. They signed a contract with Spielberg for 7 years!! WOW. This is the REWARD itself!

Steven Spielberg’s success is known to EVERYONE. WHO can forget E.T. or Jurasic Park or many more??? He has numorous high-grossing movies. A lot of great directors are inspired by him. He and George Lucas are the most financially successful directors of all times. [He says George Lucas is the most talented director of all times.] Forbes reports his net wealth is $3 BILLION. If you asked me, ‘Who can make 25 cents to $3 billion?’ I’d answer, ‘The one who’s determined enough to pursue his passion RELENTLESSLY... wow RELENTLESSLY(sürekli durmadan acımasizca)!’ Now if you really LOVE to speak English, Steven Spielberg already taught the lesson. I learned, I did, I do, and I’ll do RELENTLESSLY...

RELENTLESSLY! He’s telling YOU too: Action!  Cecil B. DeMille: After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the BIBLE, I never fail to find it always new and marvellously in tune with the changing needs of every day.

Mark 12:28-30 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

They say life is like a movie and we are directors of it. That’s a great idea, but where can you find the Rewind botton (geri düğmesi) to repeat THIS moment in THIS life?

TIME will never stand still. It moves. We need to move too. This is a ONE-CLICK age and all we need to do to learn English speaking is to ACCEPT the NEVERENDING-HAPPINESS to JUST PRESS ‘PLAY’!! Woohoo!  Jeremiah 17:7-8 But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him. He will be like a tree planted by the water and sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. (En küçük yaptığın en büyük niyetinizden iyidir.) –John Burrough  REFERENCES? They write PAGES of references at the end of books but HONESTLY, no one ever cares or checks even ONE page of it! So I decided to write my references next to its SENTENCE –if necessary!  John 6:68 But Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Everything will be OK in the end. If it’s not OK, it’s not the end. (Sonunda her şey iyi olacak. İyi değilse sonu de değil.)– Anonymous For true success, ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? (Gerçek başarı için bu dört soruları kendinden sorun: ‘Niye? Niye olmazsın ki? Niye ben yapmazsam ki? Niye şu anda yapmazsam ki?) –James Allen Psalm 136:26 Give thanks to the God of heaven, for His steadfast love endures forever.  LAST WORDS OF THE BOOK The ideas of SPEAKING ENGLISH work when you DO them! DO THEM, DO THEM RIGHT, DO THEM RIGHT NOW! Because you are the only one who can use your tongue... and... the only way to speak is to SPEAK.

One day you’ll discover that ‘you’ are the only one you’ve been waiting for!

IF I WANTED TO SAY ALL THE WORDS IN MY HEAD, IT’D BE ‘10 BOOKS’. IF I WANT TO SAY ALL THE WORDS IN MY HEART, IT’LL BE ONLY ‘2 WORDS’: THANK YOU!! ********************************************************

Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit, you may abound in hope.

MercyMe – No More No Less lyrics: I'm not trying to hide anything - I wear it on my sleeve - I wear it on my sleeve - I'm not trying to be something I'm not - This is all I've got - This is all I've got - I'm not trying to re-invent the Wheel - Just trying to be real Trying to be real - I'm not trying to say follow me - I'm not the one who leads - I'm not the one who leads - Let me introduce myself to you - This is who I am - No more, no less - I am just a man who understands - Because of You I'm blessed - No more, no less - I'm not trying to prove anything - It's all about the change - It's all about the change - I hope you stare just long enough to see - The heart that's beating here inside of me - Beyond all the things you may think you know - I'm just a kid trying to make it home, that's it - No more, no less - Lord, I want to go home - Nothing more, nothing less [I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIST.]

As surely as the sun will rise – (Jesus Christ) You’ll come to us –Hillsong United

Revelation 4:8 HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS, AND IS, AND IS TO COME.

THE LAST PAGE OF THE FIRST FILEBOOK IN TURKEY THANK YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST FOR YOUR MERCY AND GRACE. [Aw! You’re looking! See? It’s because you have a sense of WONDER! ] [Aa! Son sayfaya bakiyorsun! Sebebi MERAK hissi sahip olduğundur! ] 2 Coronthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Technology and the Internet have changed everything in our lives but shouldn’t our way of English teaching-learning change? Let’s ask lady Liberty!  With fun facilities like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and video games, students♥ need a Torch to learn English!

We read newspapers, follow TV programs, check our Facebook, ask questions; WHY? When we’re sitting in a cafe and suddenly someone laughs loud, everyone turns their head to see what’s happening; WHY? When a lot of people gather in front of a store, we stop to check what’s happening; WHY? Because... a ‘natural sense of wonder’ has been born with us. When parents make some sound with a toy, the baby turns its head to see what it is because it wonders. You put a man alone in an island, he’ll wonder what’s happening around him and how he can be safe. But does man just wonder for nothing? NO. He searches and he looks until he FINDs. Now my question is: ‘‘Why do many people wonder about English, take a lot of courses, but can’t FIND what they want or can’t WIN what they wonder, ‘speaking English?’’ What do they need to DO to WIN English speaking? I had the same questions years ago, I wondered, I saw DIFFERENT, I did DIFFERENT, and I FOUND the answer. FIND my answers in this book, DO what I did, ENJOY every moment of it, and WIN!! This is the book of a foreign, motivational-speaker-like English ‘teacher’ who has lived in Turkey for about 5 years (Bu yaklaşık 5 yıldır Türkiye’de yaşayan yabancı bir hayat-koç-gibi İngilizce hocasının kitabıdır). The language of this book is incredibly simple and effective. So I think every educated person can understand it (Bu kitabın dili inanilmaz derecede basit ve etkilidir.

Bu nedenle bence her eğitimli kişi bunu anlayabilir). This book is for people who want to learn English SPEAKING in a right way (Bu kitap İngilizce konuşmayı doğru bir yönetmle öğrenmeye isteyenler içindir). Trust me, it’s FUN and nothing like you know (Güvenin bana, bu kitap eğlencelidir ve hiç bildiğiniz gibi değildir)! In your sweet language: Açıkcası daha önce bunun gibi İngilizce konuşma kitabı görmediniz çünkü Türkiye’de yaşayıp güzel Türklere göre kitap yazmak, üzak duymaktan ÇOK FARKLI. ♥ T ür ki y e ♥ d e y a ş a y a n hi ç b i r y a b a nc ı ho c a s i ze g ö r e ço k motive edici İng ilizce konuş mayı öğret me kitabı yazdı mı?

Read this book to motivate yourself everyday for 6 months; you’ll see your life will never be the same. It’s exactly like advertisements that you read, hear, and see many times until you finally believe or learn.

Movenglish is for those who KNOW, and those who DON’T KNOW, those who THINK they know, and those who ‘THINK’ they don’t know English (Movenglish, İngilizce bilenler ve bilmeyenler için, bildiğini zannedenler ve ‘zannetmeyenler’ içindir!

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