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STORYGLOT ORIGINALSafranbolu'daki küçük kafe
A good place to beginThe Little Café in Safranbolu

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STORYGLOT ORIGINALSafranbolu'daki küçük kafe
A1About 2 min preview

Safranbolu'daki küçük kafe

The Little Café in Safranbolu

Elif arrives in Safranbolu with one suitcase and a plan to sell, unlocks her late grandmother's tiny café beside the Eski Çarşı, and wakes the next morning to find a…

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A0Under 1 min preview

Yemek

Food

He is eating pizza. It is tasty.

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Ailem

My family

This is my family.

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Birçok Şey Yapabilirim

I can do many things

I can cook.

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Ne Yapıyorlar?

What are they doing?

I am talking.

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İlaç Almak

Getting medicine

Tom has a toothache. His tooth hurts very much.

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Hangi Tür Müzik Dinlemeyi Seversin?

What sort of music do you like?

Tulima loves music. She listens to it every day.

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A2Under 1 min preview

Kıyafet Almak

Buying clothes

Ali’s shirt is old. He needs a new one.

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B1Under 1 min preview

Bir İş Bulmak

Finding a job

Alisha needs to find a job because her family needs money for food and clothes.

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B1Under 1 min preview

Malik’in Hikayesi

Malik’s story

My name is Malik and I am 39 years old. I was born in Afghanistan. My religion is different from the main religion in Afghanistan.

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B2Under 1 min preview

Agostino’nun Hikayesi

Agostino’s story

My name is Agostino and I am 51 years old. My job is delivering food by bicycle. I have two daughters, but we hardly ever speak. Their mother and I no longer live…

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Doğum Yapmak

Giving birth

Selamawit is 29 years old. She gave birth to her first child in Eritrea. She and her family had a hard time there, so they decided to go to Italy.

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Hava Durumu

The weather

It is sunny.

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Aile Hakkında Konuşmak

Talking about family

“Do you have any family?”

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Hava Durumu Hakkında Konuşmak

Talking about the weather

“The days are starting to get cold. What is the temperature?”

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Doğru Neden İçin Direnmek

Standing out for the right reason

Edson was born in Angola, just after the country became independent. He was a very tall boy. Because of his height he stood out. The people who were giving weapons to…

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B2Under 1 min preview

Sabah Kuş Sesleri

The sound of birds in the morning

Yulia, her husband, and their little daughter lived in a small, quiet village in Ukraine. Yulia loved being woken every morning by the sound of birds. She never…

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Norveç’e Gelmek

Coming to Norway

My two brothers and I came to Norway in December 2016. We wore summer clothes because we thought it would be as warm in Norway as it was in Somalia. However, when we…

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B2Under 1 min preview

Yaşlı Bir Eş

An old man as a husband

I thought Norwegian men were the best men in the world, but that is not true! Before I met the man who became my husband, I worked in a factory in Bangkok, and he…

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Bir küçük tohum: Wangari Maathai’nin hikayesi

A Tiny Seed: The Story of Wangari Maathai

In a village on the slopes of Mount Kenya in East Africa, a little girl worked in the fields with her mother. Her name was Wangari.

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Büyükanne ile Tatil

Holidays with grandmother

Odongo and Apiyo lived in the city with their father. They looked forward to the holidays. Not just because school was closed, but because they went to visit their…

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A2Under 1 min preview

Eşek çocuk

Donkey Child

It was a little girl who first saw the mysterious shape in the distance.

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Evden ayrılıp şehre gittiğim gün

The day I left home for the city

The small bus stop in my village was busy with people and overloaded buses. On the ground were even more things to load. Touts were shouting the names where their…

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Karar

Decision

My village had many problems. We made a long line to fetch water from one tap.

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Khalai bitkilerle konuşuyor

Khalai talks to plants

This is Khalai. She is seven years old. Her name means ‘the good one’ in her language, Lubukusu.

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Magozwe

In the busy city of Nairobi, far away from a caring life at home, lived a group of homeless boys. They welcomed each day just as it came. On one morning, the boys…

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Muz satıcısı Tom

Tom the banana seller

Tom carries a tray of ripe bananas.

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Sakima’nın şarkısı

Sakima’s song

Sakima lived with his parents and his four year old sister. They lived on a rich man’s land. Their grass-thatched hut was at the end of a row of trees.

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