Learn top 10 phrases tourists should never use
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| Hello everyone, how are you? |
| I am Selin from TurkishClass101.com and I am here with another Turkish class. |
| Today, we are going to talk about Top 10 Phrases Tourists Should Never Use. |
| It’s a very delicate topic. I will be careful. |
| 1. Bu iğrenç. |
| “That's disgusting!” |
| The first one is, Bu iğrenç. |
| “That's disgusting!” |
| Yeah, maybe you can say this for a food probably but it’s understand – I can understand you if you don’t like the food. So it’s okay. |
| 2. Benim ülkem daha iyi. |
| “My country is better.” |
| The next one is, |
| Benim ülkem daha iyi. |
| “My country is better.” |
| Okay. Well, it depends on how you are saying this I think. |
| I mean, of course in some fields, some countries are better and if you are like talking about – |
| If you are making a comparison and if you are saying this, |
| “oh my country is I think better on that”, then it’s fine. |
| But if you are saying in an offensive way, then it’s not good I think. |
| 3. Kendi memleketimde olmayı tercih ederdim. |
| “I'd rather be back home.” |
| Oh, I am sorry. Why? Then, why did you come? |
| 4. Kapa çeneni! |
| “Shut up!” |
| Actually now like friends or family, sometimes we are using this and it’s not very offensive. |
| But again it depends on the situation and it depends on some circumstances, right. |
| So, if you are just you know joking, you can use it. It’s not bad. |
| 5. Kültürünüz pek ilgimi çekmiyor. |
| “I'm not very interested in your culture.” |
| That’s offensive. You don’t have to be interested but I don’t know. |
| I mean, if you are visiting that person’s country, then I think it’s better to be a bit more careful about what you are saying. |
| 6. Yeni insanlarla tanışmaktan hoşlanmıyorum. |
| “I don't like meeting new people.” |
| Hey, welcome. We’re welcome to antisocial cop. It’s fine. It’s also understandable I mean. |
| I am also not very good at meeting new people too. |
| But what you mean is, I don’t like meeting local people, then it might be offensive because like we think you are here so you can explore our culture or our people more. |
| But if you are saying I don’t like meeting them, then, why you are here kind of, right. |
| I think you should be more open-minded about it. |
| 7. Hadi McDonalds'da yiyiverelim. |
| “Let's just eat at McDonald's.” |
| Its ok. You know, I cannot say anything about it because my mom, she really hates tasting new food. |
| And anywhere we go together, she is just like, oh let’s go McDonalds. Let’s go McDonalds. |
| I am like, no mom, we should try it. You should try but she is like no way, no way. |
| So sometimes some people are not very, how should I say, not very okay with tasting new food. |
| But for example, if you are coming to Japan, maybe some people don’t like raw fish, right? |
| Like Turkey, usually we eat fish like well cooked. |
| So, maybe they wouldn’t like to try Sushi for example like I think it’s kind of very big loss for them. |
| But it’s also kind of yeah, understandable. |
| 8. Sıkıcı! |
| “Boring!” |
| Ah! What is boring. Maybe let’s see. In Turkey, what is boring? |
| I don’t know. Historical artefacts, natural wonders, I don’t think they are boring. |
| I don’t think so. Maybe the person you meet talks about some boring stuff. |
| Then, you can say it’s boring. Don’t say no. Just be nice. |
| 9. Bunun tadı berbat. |
| “This tastes awful.” |
| That might be offensive. Not offensive but like some local foods you know like Turkish Delight, Baklava or Kebab or whatever and of course, everyone cannot like it, right? |
| Of course, there will be some people I mean who don’t like it. |
| But sometimes when they say, oh, it’s like awful. I really don’t like it, I am kind of, oh really? |
| Okay, “I don’t like that.” Kind of sad. |
| 10. Sizler medeniyetsizsiniz. |
| “You people are uncivilized.” |
| Yeah, the good one is the last one I think. |
| Sizler medeniyetsizsiniz. |
| “You people are uncivilized.” |
| This is the top – top word in this list I think. It’s really not good. It’s really not good for any country I think, right? |
| Nowhere. It doesn’t matter where you go. And one thing I mostly hear is also kind of offensive word. |
| “It’s barbaric” or like “you are so barbaric” like this. |
| Sometimes I hear and I think this is the most offensive word like, |
| “You are so barbaric” or “this is such a barbaric culture” like this. |
| It is really sad and disappointing. |
| We are finally over. Uh, I am glad we are over. |
| Today’s topic was a bit, like, hard to tell you. So because you usually don’t see these kind of things in the textbooks, right? |
| Well, but I hope it’s helpful for you. See you guys in the next video. Bye bye! |
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