In this course, you will expand your grammar knowledge further and you’ll begin to expand your vocabulary in order to discuss more abstract concepts: you will learn how to talk about wishes, regrets, complaints and emotions. You’ll practice expressing your opinions and ideas, explore cultural themes and superstitions, and learn plenty of Turkish expressions and idioms.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
• Rant about things that already happened and can’t be changed (Bunları daha önce anlatmalıydın)
• Explain the reasoning behind your actions in different ways (İşe gitmek üzere evden çıktım)
• Express preferences between options (Sinemaya gitmektense tiyatroya gidelim)
• Daydream in Turkish (Keşke şimdi Antalya’da olsam)

The grammar topics that are covered in this course are:
• Present and past forms of dilek kipi (wish clauses)
• The adverbial suffixes such as ‘-mAk için’ and ‘mAk üzere’ to express the purpose of actions.
• The suffix -mAktAnsA for expressing choices between actions, and -A rağmen for describing actions done despite something.
• The wish clause suffix ‘-sA’.

This course covers  unit 4 and the first two sub-chapters of unit 5 of ‘Yeni Istanbul B1’.