A Mediterranean Food

Hello everyone, Today I want to share a recipe with you. It is a Turkish recipe. It is called as’ tantuni’ in Turkish. It is a traditional southern street food. It originates from my hometown, Mersin. I wanted to share this food because it is one of my favorite food. It can be called as beef wrap in English. So let’s look at the ingredients.
 -(Must) 4 tortilla flat breads
 -(Must) 1/2 kg or equivalently 1 Ibs beef, very thinly cubic diced
 -(Must) 3 tbsp vegetable, canola or sunflower oil
 -(Must) Ground red pepper
 -(Optional) 1 medium onion, finely chopped
 -(Optional) 3/4 cup parsley, finely chopped
 -(Optional) 1 medium tomato, finely chopped
 -(Optional) Salt, pepper, cumin, thyme, powdered sumac
 And how can we create a ‘tantuni’ from them? First of all you should boil beef in medium heat until it is drained. Then mix vegetables gently in a bowl and add some sumac. Heat up the oil and add beef keep sauteing in high heat . Add ground red pepper. When the oil gets too hot, it’ll splash around and will burn the meat. To prevent that, add some water in the pan. Some of it will vaporize instantly and will take out the extra heat from the pan and the meat. This will keep the meat tender. This is one of the most important points. When the remaining water in the pan is about to vaporize, add vegetable mix, spices. After they warm up a little and the flavors become integrated, cover the pan and the meat with tortilla breads. Let it warm up and then turn off the heat. Take out the breads, put one on a plate. Add some of the meat and spread along the bread. And lastly roll the bread tightly. Serve with lemon and hot pickled peppers. I hope you enjoy your meal!

An Unforgettable Memory

I will always remember the day that ı went to the concentration camp in Krakow. I always wondered there and wanted to go but I couldn’t imagine that it would be so dramatic. It is the largest camp in Europe and more than one million Jews were killed there. It is impossible not to be influenced by that scene. I spent a whole day there. First we visited some kind of exhibitions in the buildings where Jews used to stay and officials worked. There were objects that Jewish people used in their daily life. There were baby clothes, shoes, eyeglasses and a lot of suitcases which they used while they were coming to the camps. But their all stuff was taken from them when they came to the camps. What affects me most is cans and the hairs of people. There were cans which are used to poison people in gas rooms. And there were half a room of people’s hairs. We visited gas rooms where thousands of people were poisoned. Then we went to another campsite five kilometers away from the main one. We saw the bunk bed where the Jewish people slept. I don't know if it is the right word because even an animal can't sleep a place like that. It was so tragic and unbelievable. It was just a piece of wood. It really affected me deeply. I can't believe that how can a human do this to another mankind.

Lyrics Work

Def Leppard Love Bites

 When you make love, do you look in the mirror?
Who do you think of, does he look like me? Do you tell lies? And say that it's forever
  Do you think twice, or just touch and see Ooh, babe Oh, yea
 When you're alone, do you let go?
Are you wild and willing or is it just for show?
 Ooh, C'mon I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
 I know you think that love is the way you make it
So I don't wanna be there when you decide to break it
No Love bites, love bleeds
It's bringing me to my knees
 Love lives, love dies It's no surprise Love begs, love pleads
It's what I need When with you, are you somewhere else?
 Am I getting through or do you please yourself?
 When you wake up, will you walk out?
 It can't be love if you throw it about
 Ooh, babe I don't wanna touch you too much baby
 'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
 Oh Love bites, love bleeds
It's bringing me to my knees
 Love lives, love dies It's no surprise
Love begs, love pleads It's what I need
 Oh yea I don't wanna touch you too much baby
 'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
 I know you think that love is the way you make it
So I don't wanna be there when you decide to break it
 No Love bites, love bleeds
 It's bringing me to my knees
 Love lives, love dies Love bites, love bleeds
It's bringing me to my knees
 Love lives, love dies It's no surprise
Love begs, love pleads It's what I need
 {If you've got love in your sights Watch out Love bites

 I chose Love Bites from Def Leppard. I found a lot of connected speech examples in the lyrics of this song. For example touch and see part is pronounced as touch n see. The same thing happens in this part ‘’ wild and willing’’ and ‘’and’’ is pronounced as /n/. The last sound of ‘’willing’’ is a little bit different to pronounce. We should be careful about not to pronounce ‘’g’’ letter. /ŋ/ sound is a completely different sound in English. There are also examples of weak words. ‘’Cause ‘’ is a very weak word. We can barely hear these words in the song. Generally function words are weak words in a speech. We can practice the
word stress on ‘’alone’’ and the pronunciation of the word ‘’through’’. 

Nickleback How You Remind Me
 Never made it as a wise man I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing
Tired of living like a blind man I'm sick of sight without a sense of feeling
And this is how you remind me This is how you remind me Of what I really am
This is how you remind me Of what I really am
It's not like you to say sorry I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken For handing you a heart worth breaking
 And I've been wrong, I've been down Been to the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head Scream, "Are we having fun yet?"
 Yet, yet, yet No, no Yet, yet, yet No, no
 It's not like you didn't know that I said I love you and I swear I still do
 And it must have been so bad Cause living with me must have damn near killed you
 And this is how you remind me Of what I really am
This is how you remind me Of what I really am
It's not like you to say sorry I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken For handing you a heart worth breaking
And I've been wrong, I've been down Been to the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head Scream, "Are we having fun yet?"
 Yet, yet, yet No, no Yet, yet, yet No, no Yet, yet, yet No, no Yet, yet, yet No, no
 Never made it as a wise man I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing
And this is how you remind me This is how you remind me
This is how you remind me Of what I really am
This is how you remind me Of what I really am
 It's not like you to say sorry I was waiting on a different story
 This time I'm mistaken For handing you a heart worth breaking
And I've been wrong, I've been down Been to the bottom of every bottle
 These five words in my head Scream, "Are we having fun yet?"
Yet, yet, yet No, no Are we having fun yes?
Yet, yet, yet Are we having fun yes? Yet, yet, yet Are we having fun yes

 There are also weak words in this song. Most of them are function words like it, of, etc. And ‘’the bottom of every bottle’’ is an example of connected speech because they form a continuous sequence. I had a chance to practice the stress on the word ‘’remind’’. There is a word stress on the second syllable. And it is kind of hard to pronounce /θ/ sound fast in a connected speech. Maybe it is a good song to practice saying heart worth breaking fast.