Turkish & Portuguese

I am so close.

I have worked so hard to learn this language, and I feel that I am right at the cusp of really, really learning it. I truly feel that if I had one more year in Turkey, and could spend it living off of the Base, I would have it down pat. It is all starting to come together for me. The pronouns. Endings. Harmony. It's all making sense.

And now it is almost time to go. Now, when I can go into a restaurant and talk to people and even, sometimes, share something humorous in their language.

I have decided that I will have to stop learning and practicing Turkish when we move to the Azores. While I could keep learning it, there won't be anywhere to practice it, and that practice is what truly aids in the learning. And, as I already knew, Turkish is not a very useful language outside of Turkey. It isn't like Spanish. French. German. It's much more obscure than that.

So, in response to the question everyone has been asking me: "Do you plan to learn Portuguese?" the answer, is, "Yes, I do." I'm going to quit studying and practicing Turkish and make a clean switch. I have to. My brain cannot learn two language at the same time. I get way too confused.

And, even better, is that we are hopeful our boys may be able to acquire a second language at one of the most perfect times in their life. There is a free Portuguese preschool available to the boys, and we think we are going to put them in -- three mornings a week. This will hopefully give them a second languagebetweent the ages of three and six, some of the best years to do so.

And me. There's no free preschool for me. So back to the computer and audio recordings I go. Out with the old, and in with the new.