Merhaba !

Merhaba (=hello in Turkish),

I've been interested in Japanese people and culture for years. I think this has somehow a relation with me being a Turk whose ancestors are originally Middle Asian (though we have finally settled in Turkiye, Turks emigrated from Middle Asia after a serious drought, to all over the world. There are still Turkish states in Middle Asia such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzistan.).

Anyway I'm not here to bore you out with a pro-Turkish manifest. I think I failed at making a good introduction

I am 23 and have graduated from Business Administration last year, however currently reaaaally into graphics designing -quite unrelated to what my academic profession is. But I believe one fulfils what he expects from "the meaning of life" (if there ever is something like that) when he/she acts dedicated to and on his own will. What they call this is freedom, which my name means in Turkish (independent), hence my nickname being Jiyuu (that means "free, independent" in Japanese, right?)

After so much boredom I made you suffer at first sight, I hope I'm welcome. I'm really looking into having good Japanese friends -as I'm sure to happen- and have a fun time around here.

Arigato.

P.S. In my next post, I'll talk about how Turkish and Japanese languages are similar to each other. Heh heh

Welcome enjoy!

Welcome here! Yorishiku!

welcome

Jiyuu said:

P.S. In my next post, I'll talk about how Turkish and Japanese languages are similar to each other. Heh heh

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do you plan to open new thread about it? i heard from my previous Japanese teacher who knew Turkish also, there are a lot of similarities, like word order in sentence... looking forward to hear more.

Alma,

Well I'm not sure if it would be appropriate or worth opening a new thread about the similarities between Japanese and Turkish. Actually I was being a bit funny there. However I was talking about something exactly true.
Your Japanese teacher was right. Turkish has an ordinary sentence order Subject + Complement + Verb which is just as the same as Japanese grammatical structure. Therefore I was able to figure out some word's meaning from animes I watch such as Naruto and Bleach. 'Cause I know which word is being spoken of when the sentence flows. We also read as we write by the way, like the Japanese do.

There is a worldwide known Turkish chemistry professor (been a professor at the age of 26) named Oktay Sinanoglu. The highly regarded man is a keen admirer of Turkish language and has books about it. In one of his books "Bye Bye Turkce" (ironically titled "Bye Bye Turkish") -which I currently don't have unfortunatley- he had spared a chapter only for the similarities between Japanese and Turkish. Above his grammatical examinations between two languages, he also had listed words which were either identical or almost the same in both languages.

Kuro - Kara
Ani - Abi
Ane - Abla
Oji - Amca
Ocha- Cay
Ii - İyi

Notes: Turkish "c" is pronounced the same as Japanese "J". Also we have a "c" with a tail to pronounce "ch". So that it is "Chay", actually, that we use for tea.

These may sound unsimilar to you -I really don't mind. It may be my confusion. Also I noticed that when calling the days of the week in Japanese, -bi is added at the end of every day's name which is said to mean "sun" or "day. It is the same in Turkish, "gun", is what we add at the end of the days when we call them such as "Cumartesi gunu" -thus meaning "day". It also means "sun" as well.

I'm sure Oktay Sinanoglu has more linguistically-solid proof of the similarities between the two languages.

Above this I took a review of Japanese history. And I saw that twice -one from a Mongol invasion and one from a Korean invasion, please correct me if I'm wrong- they were "saved". I believe in specialty of some societies. Please don't take this as if I have a mind that confirms the inequality of humans according to their genetic heritage which they were unable to choose from birth. Let's say I'm stupid and since I love Japan and their people, I want to find it special. I think this has been more of a reasonable explanation since it touches psychological aspects of human being, isn't it? Heh

Sharing such similar histories as well, provided the traditional structure of the Japanese society that I highly regard as a distinctive aspect of a culture, that's why I'm here.

Um I've come across withsome more sounding familiar.

Kyuuri - Hiyar
Kabocha - Kabak
(suffix) -nichi - -inci

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