Turkish is a difficult language for foreigners and it is only used in Turkey, N.Cyprus so the Turkish people do not think that the foreigners should know their language, instead they learn English and German.We generally have good educations for English in colleges at least 7 years with English and American teachers since we always use it in our business lives.
The uneducated people are learning English when contacting to their foreign customers in pubs, restaurants and this should be a success to learn it without a teacher, grammer lesson!
As soon as you -English or American people- try to talk slowly with basic sentences, they can understand your requirements and try to give you the best!
I don't think communication is hard in Turkey but just to minimize it, developers/local agents work with foreign agents from UK beliving that a person can feel and communicate better with the same nationality.
I can understand what Sunnyshores meant.This is according to the personality who you contacted also.If you find a professional and honest company/person, then it does not matter if they are local or foreigner.
By the way the Turkish people appreciate of foreigners' learning Turkish, this is a respect to them which also makes foreigners' lives easier fitting into the culture.
Learning that country's language and trying to say only ''Merhaba'' makes our world colorful with everyone, doesn't it??
One of my best friend from UK wanted me to teach him some useful sentences in Turkish like ''Are you single, married?'' ''Do you have any children?''
Cagla
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Originally Posted by Sunnyshores
Just my personal opinion, which you will note I didnt ram down peoples throats by advertising Company's names for all to see.
Anyway, I dont see why people shouldnt seek out Agents who speak the same language, buying abroad is fraught with enough problems as it is.
The Turkish agents I contacted from UK didnt understand my requirements as well and when I did view with several of them their English wasnt that great and unfortunatly my Turkish non-existent. It meant I had to view many apartments that, had I been given enough (understandable) information, I wouldnt have wanted to see at all - a waste of everyones time.
By the way, the American lady has lived in Turkey with her Turkish husband for 30 years and the American franchise owner is also married to a Turk and has been there many years. As far as I know they arent spending their money in US or sending all their profits back to US, so therefore I have supported local business.
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