The Story of the Book
WHAT IS IT?
Turkish Hands: Gesturing Your Way Home
Book 1: A Hand Guide for Tourists, is a delightful and fascinating book. In addition to photographs of the gestures that you will see wherever you look while in Turkey, author Tara Alisbah includes the Turkish expressions that usually accompany the gesture, an English translation, and brief explanations about where and when you are most likely to encounter each gesture. Although not an exhaustive list (there is a book two in the works), this light and very packable 80 page text includes many of the most useful and common gestures so that you will know, for example, when someone is trying to warn you to beware of pick-pockets, or offering you something to drink, or letting you know it’s time for you be on your way rather quickly. Allow yourself to ease into the grace of the moment, be touched by Turkish hands.
WHO NEEDS IT?
Tourists; Students and Teachers of Turkish Language and Culture; Business People with a Turkey-focus; Ex-pats; Anyone about to marry into a Turkish family or who has ever had Turkish friends; a whole host of academics: Linguists, Sociologists, Anthropologists; any Turk with a sense of humor, which is all of them, and then the category which includes people who like to laugh.
WHAT CAN IT DO FOR YOU?
Turkish Hands, Gesturing Your Way Home; Book One: A Hand Guide for Tourists is funny and provocative and light-hearted and deeply perceptive and will make you both laugh and think. Body language in Turkey has very specific meanings, which are essential to understanding the Turkish character and culture. Using physical gestures to express oneself in a new language is also the quickest way to removing imagined barriers to communication, both internally and externally. And frankly, this is a huge shortcut to learning about the Turkish language and culture in a fun and interactive way.
Turkish Hands: Gesturing Your Way Home
Book 1: A Hand Guide for Tourists, is a delightful and fascinating book. In addition to photographs of the gestures that you will see wherever you look while in Turkey, author Tara Alisbah includes the Turkish expressions that usually accompany the gesture, an English translation, and brief explanations about where and when you are most likely to encounter each gesture. Although not an exhaustive list (there is a book two in the works), this light and very packable 80 page text includes many of the most useful and common gestures so that you will know, for example, when someone is trying to warn you to beware of pick-pockets, or offering you something to drink, or letting you know it’s time for you be on your way rather quickly. Allow yourself to ease into the grace of the moment, be touched by Turkish hands.
WHO NEEDS IT?
Tourists; Students and Teachers of Turkish Language and Culture; Business People with a Turkey-focus; Ex-pats; Anyone about to marry into a Turkish family or who has ever had Turkish friends; a whole host of academics: Linguists, Sociologists, Anthropologists; any Turk with a sense of humor, which is all of them, and then the category which includes people who like to laugh.
WHAT CAN IT DO FOR YOU?
Turkish Hands, Gesturing Your Way Home; Book One: A Hand Guide for Tourists is funny and provocative and light-hearted and deeply perceptive and will make you both laugh and think. Body language in Turkey has very specific meanings, which are essential to understanding the Turkish character and culture. Using physical gestures to express oneself in a new language is also the quickest way to removing imagined barriers to communication, both internally and externally. And frankly, this is a huge shortcut to learning about the Turkish language and culture in a fun and interactive way.
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