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NSLI-Y and AFS | Sam Learns to Speak
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Sam Learns to Speak. USA - Turkey 2010-2011. I have received a scholarship through the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y), but my a large part of my exchange experience is being handled by American Field Service (AFS). This page is home to important information about both these programs. National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y). To learn more about this program, follow these links:. American Field Service (AFS). For more information on AFS:. My name is Sam and this b...
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Smiles | Sam Learns to Speak
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Sam Learns to Speak. USA - Turkey 2010-2011. May 17, 2011. Everyone smiles in the same language. Author Unknown. There is something really cool about smiles. Yes, a smile can say a lot. Sometimes, it is all that is needed. Words can t explain what needs to be said, but a smile does the trick. And, as the quote states, there really is no difference between the smiles in America and the smiles in Turkey. I can t say this a lot (there is no difference). A smile can be contagious…so can a laugh. Enter your e...
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Home Again (Explained) | Sam Learns to Speak
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Sam Learns to Speak. USA - Turkey 2010-2011. July 30, 2011. I am home. Not quite as easy as it may seem. Eating pork. Yeah, that just doesn’t really exist in Turkey. Listen to English on the radio or TV. Finding a random American show in Turkey that wasn’t dubbed doesn’t exactly count. Rediscover and use all the clothes I didn’t bring to Turkey. I forgot how many clothes I have. Talk to my family without the use of Skype. From → General Exchange. Larr; Why I Came. Leave one →. August 13, 2011 10:50 pm.
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FAQ | Sam Learns to Speak
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Sam Learns to Speak. USA - Turkey 2010-2011. Here is a collection of questions I get asked when I tell someone I am going to Turkey as an exchange student with a NSLI-Y scholarship. Some are more frequent than others. What is NSLI-Y and/or AFS? These programs are such a big part of my exchange, that a whole page was dedicated to them. Check it out here. What language do people speak in Turkey? Where is Turkey anyway? Turkey is east of Greece. Google it. Everyone is going to wear a burqa! Join 12 other fo...
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Sinop | Sam Learns to Speak
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Sam Learns to Speak. USA - Turkey 2010-2011. May 12, 2011. Last Sunday I had the opportunity to visit Sinop for the day. Sinop is a couple hour drive from Samsun and is the most northern point Turkey. In other words, I made it as close as I ever will (this year anyway) to Russia that I could be. Yeah, the entire Black Sea was there, but that is past the point. Counting my host mom. Overlooking the sea, it seemed to stretch forever and I had never seen such a blue color before. We went to eat mantı. You a...
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TÖMER Picnic | Sam Learns to Speak
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Sam Learns to Speak. USA - Turkey 2010-2011. May 4, 2011. Last week, all the Turkish language students at TÖMER (a.k.a. foreigners) had the chance to go on a picnic together for a day. TÖMER organizes about one or two cultural activities a month for the students learning Turkish. There are activities for the Turks too, but language activities, not picnics or skiing. Card playing. Not much to say about it. The big game in Turkey is batak. It is similar to ‘hearts’ in a way. I h...Hookah is a very common s...
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Nicknames | Sam Learns to Speak
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Sam Learns to Speak. USA - Turkey 2010-2011. May 13, 2011. I have a confession. I don t know a lot of names. I know a lot. Of faces. But I don t know the name that goes with the face. This is partially due to the fact that I learned most of the names my first few weeks here. At that time Turkish names were still very foreign to my ears and were incredibly hard to remember. Sometimes it is still hard to remember a name, but nothing like the first few weeks. Aunt/Uncle) Used ALL the time for people who are...
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July | 2011 | Sam Learns to Speak
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Sam Learns to Speak. USA - Turkey 2010-2011. Archive for July, 2011. July 30, 2011. My name is Sam and this blog chronicles my adventures in Turkey as an exchange student. I am staying in Samsun, Turkey for ten months. I am a NSLI-Y scholarship recipient and am traveling with AFS. Thanks for reading! Subscribe to my Blog. Enter your email address below to receive nifty email updates whenever I publish a new post. Join 12 other followers. Blog at WordPress.com. Sam Learns to Speak.
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Sam Learns to Speak | USA -> Turkey 2010-2011 | Page 2
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Sam Learns to Speak. USA - Turkey 2010-2011. April 29, 2011. Exactly one year and one day ago, I received. E-mail from NSLI. It didn say congratulations. It just said something like, ‘I am pleased to inform you that the NSLI-Y scholarship committee has recommended you to receive a 2010-2011 scholarship to study Turkish in Turkey for one academic year.’ I don t quite remember the wording. I remember telling my family that I got. I had to tell them I was going to Turkey, or b). It was the last time I was g...
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June | 2011 | Sam Learns to Speak
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Sam Learns to Speak. USA - Turkey 2010-2011. Archive for June, 2011. June 8, 2011. My name is Sam and this blog chronicles my adventures in Turkey as an exchange student. I am staying in Samsun, Turkey for ten months. I am a NSLI-Y scholarship recipient and am traveling with AFS. Thanks for reading! Subscribe to my Blog. Enter your email address below to receive nifty email updates whenever I publish a new post. Join 12 other followers. Blog at WordPress.com. Sam Learns to Speak.
