When traveling in a foreign country, speaking a few words of its language goes a long way. This is because locals feel appreciated knowing you made an effort to study their native language. I saw this happening when I asked the bus driver to stop and let us off. (Turkish: Otobüsü durdurun Lütfen). Otherwise, we would have to walk a long way back. In another occasion the Turkish-only speaking hostess of a bed & breakfast had already cleaned up when I asked them to reopen the breakfast buffet. (Turkish: Biz kahvaltı alabilir miyim lütfen). So here are a few but important Turkish word:
hello Merhabā (more common) or İyi günler (formal) or Selâm (informal)
good evening İyi akşamlar
http://www.tutorz.com/blog/2014/03/turkeys-culture-and-ancient-history/
Kato Lomb was a Hungarian interpreter, translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world. Originally she graduated in physics and chemistry, but her interest soon led her to languages. A native Hungarian, she was able to interpret fluently nine or ten languages (Bulgarian,Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian), in four of them even without any preparation, and she translated technical literature and read belles-letters in six languages. And it was in her time, no audio CD with the voices of the carrier or Skype or language schools … How?
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