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TLL HCA Podcast Episode 9: Balikkayalar Canyon

10/12/2010

Welcome to the Handcrafted Audio Podcast - the podcast for Turkish language learners. This weeks podcast is a journal entry written just prior to a family trip out to Balikkayalar Canyon. We were very excited about the trip and even about trying to get there without a car - as we were told we could. The canyon is beautiful as the many pictures on the internet show and is indeed a true canyon, complete with cliffs that the local rock climbing community frequent on weekends. Listen now to find out more about this great Istanbul treasure. Find the podcast at our Podbean site or search for "turkishlisteninglibrary" at the itunes store. Where ever you visit, consider subscribing to the podcast and be sure and leave a comment and a rating. The show did get its first comment and rating at itunes this week. Huge thanks for that.

As always, visit the Handcrafted Audio Podcast page to download just the Turkish of the show.

Well, thats it for this week. I hope you enjoy the show. Consider submitting your own handcrafted audio for the show. You can email the text to me and I can get it recorded or you can send me an mp3 file. Either way would be great.

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TLL HCA Podcast Episode 008: Soccer Lessons

10/05/2010

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Today's podcast goes back to the 2008 European Cup in which Turkey did great and gave us amazing excitement when they scored three goals in the last fifteen minutes of their match against the Chech Republic. In the podcast I talk about my son’s growing excitement, his favorite player (Petr Chech, the goalie for the Chech Republic who wears a black scrum cap) and of our going down to Carrefore to purchase a new soccer ball. Upon returning home, we flipped over the love seat in our living room to serve as a makeshift goal. How many goals did Malachi score? How bad was I in goal? Listen and find out! Find it at itunes by searching for "turkishlisteninglibrary" or at the p

Anyway that is the summary for today’s podcast. As always, visit the Handcrafted Audio Page to download just the Turkish and I hope this will be another piece to your Turkish learning journey. It has been for mine.

If you are enjoying the podcast, please leave a comment and a rating at the itunes page.

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TLL HCA Podcast Episode 007: Early Morning Drumming

09/28/2010

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Well to continue with our culture lessons of Ramazon, today's episode shares about our first early morning encounter with "the drummer." We heard him at about 4:30 am. Our son woke up crying. Did our son go back to sleep? Did Aaron succeed in catching the drummer on video the next morning? Did he hide in a dumpster to video it? Listen now to find out!
Also, jump over to the Handcrafted Audio page after listening to the show and download just the Turkish. This can be a great source of comprehensible input which is extremely important to language learning.
If you like the show, find it useful, hate it, find it boring and a drag - let me know. Comment here or leave a comment at itunes where you can find the show by searching for "turkishlisteninglibrary" at the itunes store. Be the first to leave a comment or a rating!

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TLL HCA Podcast Episode 6: Ramazon Excitement

09/21/2010

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Today's podcast is probably being posted a few months later than it should have been. It is about Ramazon after all. But it comes as a post Ramazon memoir of our first Ramazon in Turkey. What was I excited about? You will just have to listen to find out. Find it at itunes or at Podbean.

After that though, you will want to return to the website to download the Turkish only audio from the Handcrafted Audio Podcast page.

Happy listening and I hope your language learning journey is going great. Kolay G

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Some Changes to the Site

09/17/2010

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A few changes have been made to the site. The Narrow Listening page has been incorporated into the new Listen Now! page where you can find a growing corpus of listening opportunities. It could grow faster too. Just point me to places on the internet where you have found online speeches, sermons or sources of literature. I am constantly on the prowl for new sources of listening material, but you may already know of some. As well, if you have any mp3 recordings of speeches or sermons, send them my way with a brief summary of the contents and I will get them posted. Also, the number of Handcrafted Audio podcasts is growing by the week. Find the podcast at itunes or the Podbean page and be sure and download the Turkish Only audio from the Handcrafted Audio page. As always, spread the word with other Turkish language learners about the site.
Kolay Gelsin!

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TLL HCA Podcast Episode 005 - The Tree Cutter (a story)

09/15/2010

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If you are new to the Turkish Listening Library, welcome. Today another podcast has been posted at both our Podbean site as well as on itunes. Your comments are welcome at both sites and of course you can subscribe to the podcast at either location. Why a podcast? The ability to download and carry audio with you is an amazing tool for language learners. Long gone are the days when language learners used cassette recorders to make their own recordings. Today is the time of the MP3 file, that wonderful format that makes hundreds of hours of listening material a reality for us all. After listening to the complete show on the podcast, you may want to download just the Turkish audio at the Handcrafted Audio page.

Today's show is a bit different. Rather than recording a journal entry, today's show is a retelling of a common story about a man who comes across a woodcutter working tirelessly, but rather inefficiently to cut down a tree. In the end, there is a great lesson that we all need to learn. Listen today to find out that lesson and what Abraham Lincoln had to say about the subject.

I hope you enjoy the show. Kolay Gelsin

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TLL HCA Podcast Episode 004: Rocky Mountain High

09/08/2010

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A new episode of the Turkish Listening Library's Handcrafted Audio Podcast has been posted. Check it out at itunes or at Podbean site. You can subscribe to the podcast at both places and be sure and leave a comment and a rating at itunes.

In today's show, I tell of our time in Colorado at some training we took part in before coming to Turkey. The episode is not about our time in class though but rather our time in the fresh air of the great outdoors after class each day with our kids. Did Malachi make it to the top of the mountain? Listen to find out.

Also remember to visit the Handcrafted Audio page to download just the Turkish Audio from the show.

I hope the show is enjoyable and can be a great part of your Turkish language adventure.

Kolay Gelsin

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TLL HCA Podcast Episode 3 - The Great Fish Disaster

09/05/2010

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In today's installment, The Great Fish Disaster, the story of our cleaner fish's demise at the nipping lips of our very carnivorous Zebra fish is shared. My son, whose fish they were, was a bit worried when he found his cleaner fish, still alive, but missing eyes, tail and fins, floating at the top of the aquarium. I quickly removed it to the toilet - all drains lead to the ocean right? and then removed his terrified brother fish to another small fish bowl. We have never had much luck with fish - or pets in general for that matter. We do love animals, we just are not very good at caring for them.

My apologies if you were waiting for this episode to come out sooner. We transitioned back to Turkey two weeks ago and all has gone well - except our internet connection.

As always, you can find the Turkish only audio at the HCA Podcast page without the nice music and my summarizing voice.

Hey if you are enjoying the shows and using them as part of your Turkish learning, tell others by clicking on the 'share' button above. Better yet, leave a comment on itunes and let us and the world know what you think.

Kolay Gelsin

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TLL HCA Podcast Episode 002

08/14/2010

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In today’s show, the strangeness of being a full time language learner is the topic. How often it was that I would have my lesson and then come home to watch the kids while my wife had her lesson. More than once I found myself at the local park with the kids, a lot of other young kids and . . . their nannies. They were kind to me, but it was strange none the less. One of the weird ways of my language learning journey.

Be sure to stop by the website to download the shorter, Turkish only version of the show. Put it on your ipod and listen to it while on the bus, in the bathroom or while out for a walk. The repetition is a great way to improve your over all fluency.

Consider subscribing to the show and if you like it, I encourage you to leave your comments and rate the show at itunes. (You can tell me you don't like it there too).

I hope you enjoy the show. Kolay Gelsin!

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The Turkish Listening Library Handcrafted Audio Podcast - is live!

08/06/2010

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It is official! The TLL Handcrafted Audio Podcast has gone live. You can find it at itunes or at Podbean, the host of the show. It is pretty simple, but should be a great resource. The way to use it is to subscribe to the show, either at itunes or Podbean and then you will receive the show each week. I hope to post each weeks show on Thursdays! As well, I will also put the Turkish on this site at the Handcrafted Audio page so that you can download just the Turkish if you would like. As you listen to the show, I would love to hear feedback so that I can improve the show and know if it is helpful. Tell your friends!

You can find the podcast at itunes and podbean by searching for "turkishlisteninglibrary"

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