I was recently made aware of the great quantity of Turkish cartoons (with Subtitles in Turkish for following along) on YouTube.  Over the course of the next few weeks I would like to create another page on this site dedicated to making a space to collect these. At this point, they seem pretty scattered around.  We will see what I can do, but tell your Turkish learning friends and check back often.  Better yet, subscribe by RSS or email to the right and the news will come to you!  Anyway.  I have created the page and will shortly begin adding videos as I find them.  A new addition to the library.  And if you have seen any good videos for language learning on YouTube, let me know.   Kolay Gelsin!
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Several TLL readers have asked for the Turkish transcript of the Turkish of the HCA Podcast.  Well.  Easy enough.  Check the TLL HCA Podcast page where you can now download just the Turkish of each episode, but also the Turkish text of each of the first fourteen episodes.  Hoping it will make your learning experience even better.  

I will also be working to get a new episode of the podcast out this week, but will slow things down a bit.  In 2011, I have a goal to get the total number of podcast s up to around 50 meaning I will be producing a new show every two weeks - more or less.  I would love to get some of your journals, stories or other hand crafted material to record for the show.  I am hoping to mix things up with a female voice reading some of my wife's journals in the near future, but it would be great to get a little input from outside of the Myers family as well.  Send it in!
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Welcome to the new look of the Turkish Listening LIbrary.  If you are a follower of the blog and the website, you will have noticed that I have made a few changes.  In an effort to make the site more focused on Turkish Listening material, I have created a new blog where I will continue to write more about language learning.  I have been wanting to grow my language coaching business, but having it attached to the Turkish Listening LIbrary seemed to be narrowing the audience down quite a bit and I am wanting to serve a broader audience.  So, I have created the TLL Language Coach blog where I will will continue to write about language learning, share ideas, give tips, discuss articles, etc.  This blog will continue, but will now focus just on Turkish listening materials and updates to this site.  I hope it will be of better use to those of you wanting to just focus on Turkish.  As always, I do want to hear from you.  How can I make this site better for you, the Turkish language learner.  


Blessings on the Journey!


--Aaron
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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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I am back in the states for the summer and enjoying time with family and friends and seeing the kids enjoy life on the farm. (right now they are taking care of a baby lamb)  The time has allowed me to do some thinking and a little research and so soon I will be making one change to the website that I think will be a better fit for all of you learning Turkish.  I have discoverd the ease of which making podcasts is and so will be creating a weekly podcast that will feature a handcrafted audio recording.  Each episode will be short, around 2-3 minutes, will give a brief summary of the week's audio and then you will be able to listen to the Turkish.  Hopefully it will be a more efficient way for you to keep up with your listening.  All you will need to do is to subscribe to the podcast in itunes and then each time a new episode comes out, it will automatically download into your itunes account.  I will as well, post each podcast on this website.  I am excited for the advantages of the podcast and look forward to hearing what you think.  Let me know if you have any ideas for the format of the podcast.  I will try and get the podcast up and running in the next two weeks so check back soon. Happy listening!
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Our move is complete.  We've a new address now, and as of yesterday we also have the internet.  We've been promised hot water by Monday.  By then, I hope as well to write a little about the many language lessons this move has offered.  Have a great Sunday and get some rest.
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The University of Texas at Austin and Brigham Young University have teemed up to produce a fantastic site called Cultural Interviews with Turkish-Speaking Professionals.  There are literally hundreds of short video interviews with Turkish professionals and executives talking about: professional activities, negotiation practices, courtesy, and stereotypes.  The Turkish is very clear, they speak quite slowly and really well.  As a source of narrow listening it can’t be beat.  Everybody is talking about the same topics!  Check it out today!  And a huge thanks to this website for our first real narrow listening files.  We are slowly getting recordings together here, but don’t yet have enough to put a narrow listening file together.  It is coming though!  For now, check out this great site.  Just click on the tabs at the top and then click on the person you want to listen to.  Each video is accompanied by the transcript of what they are saying as well.  Happy Listening!

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RSS stands fro Really Simple Syndication.  Really simple?  Well if you are like me, RSS is new to you.  It basically allows you to create a subscription to a particular site and the new content or articles of the site.  You can "subscribe" to this blog by clicking on the RSS Feed symbol in the top right corner of this page.  Then, when something new is added to the site and announced on the blog, when a tip of the bi-week is added or when other ideas are discussed, it will come to you.  So, if the stuff you find here is useful and if you're not one to remember to get back and check out The Turkish Listening Library's we
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A new feature has been added to the contribute page allowing you to upload your files from this site.  Just head over to the page and scroll down to the contact form.   Fill in the form, upload your file and send it over.  Easy as 1, 2, 3.  Except that you need to record something first.  Get started.  Together we can make this a better site. 

Also, a pole has been placed on the side bar.  Please let us know what you think.  Handcrafted Journals have had the Turkish text removed. Handcrafted Stories still has them.  Compare the two and vote today! (the pol

Finally, a new story has been added to Handcrafted Stories called "The Parable of the Tenant."  It is a basic retelling of an old parable.
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Well, we have done a bit of work on the site in order to make it more user friendly.  Mostly it is a change in how the audio files are organized.  Most of the changes can be seen in the Handcrafted Audio page.  I have also stopped putting the Turkish under each English summary, but will shortly have all the Turkish transcripts together in one word document.  It was getting too busy with all the text.  Hopefully this will help.  Let me know what you think.
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