QarQing
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I honestly don't understand why many people outright keep claiming that "it's the easiest language to learn". It's not easy. I mean, firstly, for an English speaker, Turkish is likely to be a lot harder than languages such as German or Spanish because:
1. Turkish isn't even related to German or Spanish. It's grammar spelling and pronounciation bears nothing at all.
2. It's really hard to distinguish vowels such as ö and o, and ü and u
And some people say that it's phonetic and underestimate how irregular grammar is. In Turkish, there are 13 irregular verbs which although is a relatively small number, the 13 irregular verbs are among the most common words in the Turkish language. It isn't 100% phonetic either. In Turkish, we have a palatalized K (broad and slender K), palatalized G (makes all the voiced counterparts of K) and L (both dark and light L). We even have that weird letter "ğ" which is silent and causes the other vowels after it to be silent aswell (ex: In Ağaç, the ğa digraph is silent so it's pronounced ach). Anyway that's my rant.
1. Turkish isn't even related to German or Spanish. It's grammar spelling and pronounciation bears nothing at all.
2. It's really hard to distinguish vowels such as ö and o, and ü and u
And some people say that it's phonetic and underestimate how irregular grammar is. In Turkish, there are 13 irregular verbs which although is a relatively small number, the 13 irregular verbs are among the most common words in the Turkish language. It isn't 100% phonetic either. In Turkish, we have a palatalized K (broad and slender K), palatalized G (makes all the voiced counterparts of K) and L (both dark and light L). We even have that weird letter "ğ" which is silent and causes the other vowels after it to be silent aswell (ex: In Ağaç, the ğa digraph is silent so it's pronounced ach). Anyway that's my rant.