Umut66 0 Posted February 22, 2006 Hello People, I am a 30 years old Turkish Guy living capital city of Turkiye, Ankara. I work for the Government. I love Turkish Wrestling and Sumo very much. I also interested in Japanese Culture. My favorites are Asashoryu and Kaio. I try to follow the championships as much as i can but sometimes its impossible to catch it from here (Blushing...) Anyway Hello Again...Hope to have new friends here...Cya (Sign of approval) P.S : Sorry for the False/Bad English UMUT Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aderechelsea 124 Posted February 22, 2006 hello Umut ... my greetings from your neighbour country Greece. this is a great place to learn new stuff about Sumo as well as other things ... (Blushing...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Umut66 0 Posted February 22, 2006 Hello Chelsea, Greetings back from Turkiye to Greece....nice to meet ya... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bishonohana 0 Posted February 22, 2006 :-D Hi Umut, Welcome to the Forum! Lots of knowledge about Sumo (and other things) at this Forum. I hope you will enjoy all the great info here! Don't worry about your English! I live in the state of Michigan, USA and I don't even know sometimes... (Blushing...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fay 1,677 Posted February 22, 2006 Hello from germany :-) Have fun here in the forum, exciting times are coming next month again (Blushing...) And don't worry nobody here cares about good or bad english :-D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fujisan 532 Posted February 22, 2006 Welcome on board Umut. :-) Chuck in your salt (Blushing...) and join the fray. As an Englishman the only bad English which bothers me is my own. :-D ;-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sasanishiki 57 Posted February 22, 2006 Greetings from New Zealand! I think you are our first Turkish member (correct me if i'm wrong), so thank you for adding to our global coverage. Enjoy! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Manekineko 200 Posted February 22, 2006 Welcomes from me too... You're certainly the first Turk in this forum I'm aware of (if you neglect Young Turk TM Tochiazuma (Blushing...) ). I hope you enjoy it here! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Buckton 1 Posted February 23, 2006 merhaba and welcome, spent time in Adana (93/4/5) and also out east in Diyabikir. Beautiful land, beautiful people, beautiful food. The land of no foreigners most of the time. Welcome to SF. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ilovesumo 12 Posted February 23, 2006 Hello from Germany again! :-) (An idea...) (so nobody want's to kiss me) :-P Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Manekineko 200 Posted February 23, 2006 Oh, yes, kebabs are probably the finest residue of Turkish rule over Balkans. Miam. :-) Locating kebab-shops was my favorite pass-time in Italy, lessening some of the home-sickness. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Umut66 0 Posted February 23, 2006 Wow! What a warm Welcome...Thank you all friends :-) LOL Manekineko you are right...Kebabs are great :-) ilovesumo how come vegetarian doner ??? Unfortunately we made Doner with meat :-P Hello there Adachinoryu. I was surprised that you were in Adana and Diyarbakır. My girlfriend (we engaged 2 weeks ago) is from Adana too (An idea...) Nishinoshima I hope to see you in Turkiye one day...Please be my guest. Thank You Manekineko. I hope it will be very enjoying here to be with you...Glad to be the 1st Turk here. Thank You Sasanishiki. Greetings back to New Zealand. Thank You Fujisan. Greetings back to England. Hello there Fay and Bishonohana. Greetings to Germany and USA. Thanks for all...Pls add me to your MSN list. I would like to chat in real time. Take care and have fun all... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sakana 46 Posted February 23, 2006 A bit late, but welcome from France :-) You'll be addict of this forum soon, for sure (An idea...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kotoseiya Yuichi 3 Posted February 24, 2006 :-) Ah, a Turk! Do you still think Finns are distant relatives of yours? (Most likely that is not a fact although Turkish is said to be easy for a Finn to learn because of the structural similarities believed to stem from common, Altaic origin.) That is sometimes mentioned when Turkey enters discussion here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Umut66 0 Posted February 24, 2006 (I am not worthy...) Ah, a Turk! Do you still think Finns are distant relatives of yours? (Most likely that is not a fact although Turkish is said to be easy for a Finn to learn because of the structural similarities believed to stem from common, Altaic origin.) That is sometimes mentioned when Turkey enters discussion here. Greetings back to France Sakana nice to meet you. Kotoseiya Yuichi i dont have any idea about being distant relatives with Finns. Turkish is a hard language is it really easy for a Finn to learn Turkish? What about Finn language? Is it easy for a Turk to learn it??? Great people here. Thank you all :-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Umut66 0 Posted February 24, 2006 Hello Kenzo. Turkish People almost has no idea about Sumo. Last Year Japan Embassy here in Turkiye introduce Sumo to Turkish people. We have Turkish Greased Oil Wrestling for over 640 years. I mean Turkish people live with Wrestling and believe me They love Sumo too :) I guess the embassy should do more about its culture and rules. Turkish people likes Sumo and Japan Culture. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kotoseiya Yuichi 3 Posted February 24, 2006 Kotoseiya Yuichi i dont have any idea about being distant relatives with Finns. Turkish is a hard language is it really easy for a Finn to learn Turkish? What about Finn language? Is it easy for a Turk to learn it??? If my memory serves some Turkish institution (army?) once (early 1900s?) used a book in their education where there was a story about Turks' and Finns' ancient relations. I have absolutely no idea about the details but I remember hearing few times how Finns who visited Turkey told that Turks felt some kind of special connection to them based on some kind of an old story. I doubt Turkish is an easy language for anyone to learn but it should be far easier for a Finn than for, say, an Indo-European as there are details that are very alien to them but familiar to Finns; things like vowel harmony and agglutination. Finnish is demons' language even if I say so myself. (I am not worthy...) But people do learn it passably (or downright well!) even if they're not native speakers. Azumaryu, the Frenchman, here on the forum is a good example. :-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Umut66 0 Posted February 24, 2006 Well...i have no special information and idea about it. Sorry... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jejima 1,363 Posted February 25, 2006 Hi from Hong Kong. I had a nice time hitch-hiking around Turkey about 14 years back with an ex-girlfriend. I stayed one night in Ankara. I really enjoyed Turkey. Originally my ex and I had planned to only stay a weekend there, but ended up staying for closer to a month :) My favourite place was Gorem (sp?) in Cappadochia (sp?). My favourite food was the bread. Mmmm, Turkish bread (No, no, no...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Umut66 0 Posted February 25, 2006 Hello there Jejima, Glad to hear that you like Turkiye. Your Favorite places are GOREME and CAPPADOCHIA the spellings are correct my friend... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kaikitsune Makoto 206 Posted February 26, 2006 Every night before falling asleep I think for 6 minutes whether Turkish high school students ALL know what the bird that Americans eat at thanksgiving is called in English. All Finnish people who study Japanese and learn the word "akka" or "akka suru", never forget it after the initial contact because "akka" means "old woman" or can be oldish woman or even young woman in slang. It is a bit derogatory or rough word for woman. "suru" means "grief" or "mourning". "akka suru" is "old woman grief" in principle but in Japanese "akka" is "worsening". Such is life in northern Europe. Turkey is a stupid bird. Turkey is a country. Too bad Turkey isn't Turkey in Turkish. Turkeys were killed in France lately due to virus which is popular now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fujisan 532 Posted February 26, 2006 (edited) (Applauding...) All I wanna know is....... Is the Finnish for the people of Finland? Is it really that cold in Chile? And what happens when people dont eat in Hungary? Edited February 26, 2006 by Fujisan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kintamayama 44,886 Posted February 27, 2006 (Applauding...) All I wanna know is.......Is the Finnish for the people of Finland? Is it really that cold in Chile? And what happens when people dont eat in Hungary? They eat a Danish. (Oops.. political..) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Umut66 0 Posted February 27, 2006 Thats why i hate writing TURKEY (Annoyed...) If you look at the Topic i wrote TURKIYE (Sign of approval) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coo-cook 0 Posted February 27, 2006 (edited) I heard Finnish and Turk languages (including Mongolian, Korean and Japanese) belong to Altai-Uralic languages (Really?). It's hard to imagine...but, linguistics should know better. The fact is that we have lots of ancient Turkic monuments throughout Mongolia (most famous ones in Orkhon Valley) Also, I heard rumors that Ataturk monument will be erected in Mongolia soon. By the way, I'm from Mongolia and welcome to the forum Umut66. Edited February 27, 2006 by Coo-cook Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
