Learn to count to 10,000
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Ece: Merhaba! Ben Ece. |
| Gina: Hello, and this is Gina. Welcome to Basic Bootcamp Lesson 5 - Counting from One Hundred to One Million in Turkish. |
| Ece: In this last lesson of our Bootcamp Series, we are continuing with more Turkish numbers up to one million. |
| Gina: These go beyond the numbers you need in your daily life, and include some you’ll see mostly in scientific contexts. You’ll be listening to Turkish teacher Ayla as she teaches non-Turkish students how to count from one hundred to one million in Turkish. |
| Ece: The context of the speech is informal. |
| Gina: Okay, let’s listen to the conversation. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Gina: Since we are going to learn about numbers, let’s talk a bit about the Turkish monetary system. You have many zeros on your money right? |
| Ece: Not anymore. Six zeros were dropped from the old Turkish lira in 2005. |
| Gina: Wow that’s a big number! Listeners, Turkish currency has undergone some major changes in the last ten years. So you have lira in banknotes and kuruş in coins right? |
| Ece: That’s correct Gina. We have bir kuruş meaning one kurush, beş kuruş meaning five kurush, on kuruş meaning ten kurush, yirmi beş kuruş meaning twenty five kurush and elli kuruş meaning fifty kuruş. |
| Gina: And can you pay everything in kurush? |
| Ece: Well sure you can! Actually the jitney drivers, local grocery shops and buffets are happy to receive kuruş. They don’t like to receive large banknotes because it is hard to find change. |
| Gina: How about banknotes? |
| Ece: The new banknotes printed in 2009 are bir meaning one, beş meaning five, on meaning ten, yirmi meaning twenty, elli meaning fifty and finally in yüz Türk lirası meaning a hundred Turkish liras. |
| Gina: Great! Keep in mind listeners that you can find exchange offices in almost every neighborhood, but their office hours are 9 am to 5 pm. |
| Ece: Okay! Let’s move on to the vocab. |
| VOCAB |
| Gina: Let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. The first word we shall see is |
| Ece: yüz, |
| Gina: 100, |
| Ece: yüz, yüz, |
| Gina: next, |
| Ece: iki yüz, |
| Gina: 200, |
| Ece: iki yüz, iki yüz, |
| Gina: next, |
| Ece: üç yüz, |
| Gina: 300, |
| Ece: üç yüz, üç yüz, |
| Gina: next, |
| Ece: dört yüz, |
| Gina: 400, |
| Ece: dört yüz, dört yüz, |
| Gina: next, |
| Ece: bin, |
| Gina: 1000, |
| Ece: bin, |
| Gina: next, |
| Ece: beş bin, |
| Gina: 5000, |
| Ece: beş bin, beş bin, |
| Gina: next, |
| Ece: on bin, |
| Gina: 10,000, |
| Ece: on bin, on bin, |
| Gina: next, |
| Ece: elli bin, |
| Gina: 50,000, |
| Ece: elli bin, ellibin, |
| Gina: next, |
| Ece: yüz bin, |
| Gina: 100,000, |
| Ece: yüz bin, yüz bin, |
| Gina: and last, |
| Ece: bir milyon, |
| Gina: 1 million, |
| Ece: bir milyon, bir milyon. |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Gina: Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson. |
| Ece: The first word is Haydi! |
| Gina: You will hear this motivational word a lot in daily conversations listeners. Ece, what does it mean? |
| Ece: It means “Come on!” “Go ahead!” or “Go on!” |
| Gina: I notice that you always say it very enthusiastically. Why is that? |
| Ece: It’s because you say this phrase when you’re encouraging someone to do something. |
| Gina: Can our listeners use it in formal conversations as well? |
| Ece: Not really. “Haydi” suits informal situations most. |
| Gina: But you can say it to your friends like “Haydi! Let’s go see a movie!” right? |
| Ece: Totally. That would be an appropriate context to use it in. |
| Gina: What’s our second word Ece? |
| Ece: Tamam |
| Gina: This one also applies to different contexts right? |
| Ece: That’s correct. You say “tamam” whenever you want to confirm something. |
| Gina: So it means “alright”, “yeah”, “ok” right? |
| Ece: That’s right. And also “yes”, and “done” or “complete”. |
| Gina: In what other contexts can we use this word? |
| Ece: If you want to emphasize your impatience, for instance, “Tamam tamam anladım. Tekrar etmene gerek yok” |
| Gina: Meaning, “Okay, okay I got it. You don’t have to repeat.” |
| Ece: Or with another expression that can be considered as slang, “Tamam ya!” |
| Gina: “Ok, enough already! |
| Ece: (jokingly) Oh, what did I say?! |
| Gina: (laughs) Don’t worry Ece, I was just translating it. |
| Ece: (laughs) I know, just kidding! |
| Gina: Okay listeners, now let’s move on to the grammar. |
Lesson focus |
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| Gina: In this lesson you’ll learn how to count from 100 to one million in Turkish. I’m guessing that our listeners have already noticed the pattern for multiples of hundred and thousand. |
| Ece: Yeah, it’s nothing complicated! Simply put the multiplier in front of hundred or thousand, just like in English. In other words, “yüz”meaning “a hundred” is put after the numbers between 2 to 9 to make any number between two hundred to nine hundred. The same system applies to counting the thousands; this time with “bin”, which means “thousand”. |
| Gina: One small thing to point out is yet… |
| Ece: Never say “one” in front of hundred and thousand. “One” is only used for million and upper digits. |
| Gina: That’s clear enough. Combining digits is similar to English as well. |
| Ece: Start saying the biggest digit first, and move on to the second largest one until you reach the units digit. |
| Gina: Let’s give some examples. How do you say 1453? |
| Ece: Think it as thousand plus four hundred plus fifty plus three. Straightforward. So it makes bin dört yüz elli üç in Turkish. |
| Gina: That’s nice! How about “seven thousand six hundred eighty nine”? |
| Ece: Yedi bin altı yüz seksen dokuz. |
| Gina: As always dear listeners, there are more examples in the lesson notes. |
| Ece: And you can also check out how bigger numbers are written there. |
Outro |
| Ece: That’s it for this lesson, and for this series. We hope you enjoyed it and found it useful, listeners. |
| Gina: Thank you for listening, everyone. We’ll see you again in another series. Bye! |
| Ece: Hoşça kalın! |
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