When I first came to Turkey, I didn't realize (at first) that when people tilted their heads back a little and lifted their eyebrows it meant "no". In America, that means, "Hey baby. Let's do it." Imagine my surprise when waiters, and bus drivers, and taxi drivers were all doing that gesture at me. I thought, "Oh my God. What kind of country did I move to?" Once I understood, though, I adopted that gesture. One day I was talking to my Dad via Skype and he asked me a question to which I replied with that gesture to say no. He was shocked. I said, "I'm sorry, that means no here. No. Really." It's still a funny story that my family tells from time to time.
My husband is Turkish and after I watched this video, I realized he does so many of these gestures 😂😂 I asked him why he hasn’t taught me any of this yet!! I feel like I understand him more now haha
So i watched this and tried the "nah" gesture with my Turkish friends and they were offended, after much discussion and explanations, they said it's like giving someone the finger. They also said the "suck it" gesture is considered to be rude.
Sjsjsjsj kardeşime öğretmiştim nasıl şaaaak diye nah çekileceğini çünkü beni arkadaşlarıma çekerken gördü ve öğrenmek istedi, bende öğrettim. Gitmiş anama ablam bana küfür öğretiyor diye
When I was abroad I did the "check please" gesture in a restaurant and two of the waiters get confused and thought something wrong with our table, that time I realised how Turkish I am. 😂😂
I thought that one was pretty easy to figure out. But I can see it might confuse someone. In my experience in the USA, catch the waiter's eye and point to the ceiling will get you the check. But in the USA the waiters are anxious to move the diners out and I think any gesture would get you the check!
@@icimdengeldi3935 that's exactly how we do! we knock on wood 3 times and say "knock on wood". It's so amazing that our countries have things in common even though are so apart from each other
3:22 That is more like the middle finger than just opposition (at least the way I saw it used when I lived there). And yeah, I played "I got your nose" with little Ali (my friend Mehmet's son) before anybody had told me that it was a bad thing to do. He was mortified to come in from the kitchen to see me with his son. "Hey, Ali. I got your nose!" He said, "Brooks, put the nose down please."
4:50 bu çok yanlış anlaşılan bir haraket Devlet Bahçeli hep kullanıyor diye onun partisine özel bir şey sanıyorlar ama yanlış. Bir partiyi değil Türkleri temsil eder Bozkurt'u sembolize eder o hareket
Hello guys! I noticed that I made a mistake in the video. The gesture that I showed for the Nationalist Movement Party is actually used to represent Turks, not only MHP. Yorumlarda bilgi verdiğiniz için teşekkürler arkadaşlar 🇹🇷
yoo yanlış yapmadın ki, mhpyi daha doğrusu ülkücüleri temsil ediyor. mhpliler dışında o hareketi yapan yok. ya da türkçüler dışında. yani genel olarak türklerin yaptığı bir hareket değil.
@@papates Milliyetiyle gurur duyan her Türk bu işareti yapmaktan gurur duyar. Herhangi bir parti ile alakası yok. Bu işareti yapmaktan rahatsız olanlar Türkiye'de doğmuş fakat Türk olamamış hümanist ya da dincilerden başkası değildir
@@yigitgorkemulker1381 Rahatsız olmakla alakası yok, rahatsız olmak için bir sebep yok çünkü. Bu sembol 80 milyona neyi ifade ediyor onu tartışıyoruz, olayı başka yerlere çekiyorsun. Ben vatanını milletini seven insandan niye rahatsız olayım. Ancak bu sembolü ortaya atan, yaygınlaştıran Türkeş değil mi, hani Nihal Atsız ile yargılanan Müslüman Türkçü. Bu sembol yıllarca MHP'yi ve o partilileri temsil etti mi, evet. Ben bu işareti gördüğümde aklıma MHP geliyor mu, evet. Biz burada sembolün gerçekte halka ifade ettiği anlamını söylüyoruz, aslında ne olduğu veya olması gerektiğini değil. Kısacası milliyetin ile gurur duymak bunun siyasi bir işaret olduğunu ve bu işaretin halka mal olmadığı gerçeğini değiştirmiyor. Yanlışsam aksini ispatla.
@@papates Bozkurt işaretinin kullanımı türkeş ile yaygınlaşa da kaynağı çok eskiye dayanır, çin kaynaklarıda Bozkurt işareti yapan birçok Türk tesvirine ve Bozkurt işareti yapan Türk hükümdarlarının heykellerine rastlanmaktadır
@@yigitgorkemulker1381 Böyle diyeceğini bildiğim için işte "Biz burada sembolün gerçekte halka ifade ettiği anlamını söylüyoruz, aslında ne olduğu veya olması gerektiğini değil" demiştim ama yazdığımı okumadın herhalde.
Really appreciate for what you did in this video to explain more clearly about Turkish gestures!!! I used to see some of the common gestures in Turkish series, but I had been truly confused until I watched this video. Çok teşekkür ediyorum, Can. Keep it up!
The first time I got interested in Turkish language because of Ibrahim Tatlises songs .his songs are true romance , After his songs I got interested to learn Turkish .
it is also used when you want to express "listen to me one second" in a discussion. also commonly used when you want to explaining things while you are angry because of misunderstanding.
Lmbo..my father-in-law is Turkish and watching this video explains him all day! Omg! I always wondered what his hand gestures and mouth sounds meant. I just thought that he was/is crazy...being that I am American! Totally had no clue so I thought to watch this for a moment and so I ended up watching the whole thing! Really good video! Now I will try using these back at him...and blow him away, 😆
Thanks for the video! It's interesting how many gestures are the same in Turkey and in Italy. They used to facilitate communication in all the Mediterranean area.
The wolf sign doesn't necessarily mean you support a specific political party... Saying that would be an underrepresentation of what it actually is. As you know, the wolf is the symbolic animal of all Turkic people, and this symbol is common across all Turkic-speaking nations and will get recognized/understood in any Turkic speaking nation for what it is - a symbol for having Turkic roots. Only in Turkey we seem to associate it with being a supporter of a specific party, and that's just a shame. Also the "homosexual" gesture is the upside down version of the gesture you showed. What you did is very commonly recognized as its universal meaning - OK: Just wanted to point these out!
I agree, I wish the wolf sign wasn't associated with a political party... For the homosexual gesture, you're right, the one I showed is commonly used as "ok" gesture in the world, but I think, most Turkish people don't make a distinction between the one I showed and the upside down version. So If someone does this gesture in any way, It will be understood as a gesture for homosexuality by most Turkish people I guess. Thanks for your comment Başak!
the HS part was upside-down, u're right :))) fortunately, every single parent in Turkey, the Turkish society, have taught us that those hand gestures is inappropriate which is "ayıp" in Turkish language :)))))))
@@Turkishle You're not helping by claiming that it's the symbol of a party in your video mate. That is downright wrong. It's used by countless Turkic people too. It's only associated with MHP here because for the longest time they were the only nationalist party that existed. And today we basically don't have a nationalist party anymore. Not only is there a lot of difference between nationalist ideologies, it's also been used by literally every party leader in Turkey except the PKK's political wing HDP. it's used by countless people who have zero ties to MHP. You'll also see it being used by Christian Gagauz in Moldova, or Judaic Karaite Turks in Crimea and of course Azerbaijan, Russian Tatars, Central Asian Turkic people, Uyghurs etc. Would have been better if you just said that it represents Turkic identity and is based on Asena, a female wolf from Turkic mythology according to which Turks are part wolf. Not only is that far more interesting. It also wouldn't further spread the misconception that It's the symbol of a party.
@@noahi829 Not exactly a state. The Ottoman Empire is an empire after all. It is ruled by the Osmanoğlu dynasty. The Greeks, on the other hand, are seen as the main element of the empire. In other words, they are not much different from the Turks in terms of location. That's why Mehmet the Conqueror carries the title of Kayser-i Rum. So it's the same title as caesar. That's why Hagia Sophia is so valuable. Much more than a church. It's not a simple show of strength. The religion of Islam emerged in 610. Hagia Sophia was built in 532. Islam sees itself as a continuation of Christianity. And believes in Christian prophets and gospels. Therefore, Emperor Justinian I is an important leader in terms of Islamic religion. and Rome is holy. It sounds funny when you say it like that, but the Turks think so. The same is true for Judaism and Jerusalem. Christians also see themselves as the continuation of Judaism. I don't understand exactly what you mean, but the Turks' view of the Greeks is not like the British' view of their colonies.
I'd like to share a memory regarding the 'Nah' gesture; my husband was Turkish and when our twin son's were born the nurses brought them out for my husband to see, as he was smiling at the first born he made the 'nah' hand gesture and waved it at his father. My husband laughed and said prophetically, "He's going to be a handful!". 😆
I had to laugh while watching your clip, as many of your gestures are also used at home ( I’m Salvadoran) . Thanks for all your info. Hopefully I’ll remember all when I go to visit Turkey next year. Görüşürüz 😏
Genelde erkekler arasında ve çok kaba şekilde kullanıldığı için bilmiyor olabilirsin ama argo olarak kullanılan bir hareket. Hatta yusuf yusuf hareketi olarakta geçer. Mesela İbrahim Tatlıses bir röportaj sırasında bu hareketi yapmıştı RUclips da videosunu bulabilirsin.
Sometimes we say “tövbe tövbe” when we pull our ear (in Turkey). I don’t really know the origin of it but i think it’s super cool that we have very close gestures!
Thank you, I saw a few we also have in Chile, however I've been living in New Zealand for 20 years and here people don't do much gestures so it surprises me that your culture sometimes is very similar to Latin culture - Merhaba!
Μerhaba Can, enjoyble your video! I thought we would have many of these gestures in Greece, but unfortunately only a couple of these we really use a lot here. the No (ts) and the "a lot" (circles with the hand). Thanks, it was a great video!
when i was new in turkey and would always ask the bus drivers if they were going a certain directoin. they will always say "no" while slightly noding there head. and i'll think they mean yes and proceed by entering the bus. only to see the driver yelling that the bus doesn't go there. it was a struggle 😂😂
Merhaba!…Thank you for this video…It is very helpful… My friends and I are here in Turkey. I enjoyed learning Turkish gestures and words from your videos. I used the gesture for paying and the staff smiled and did not expect it. They also smile whenever I use the words I learn from your videos…They asked where I learned those words and gestures😊
İlk defa bugün gördüm videolarını ve çoğu güzel. Bazı hareketleri unutmuşsun ama. Usanmak ( yaka silkmek), Türk kahvesi istemek (baş ve işaret parmakları ile fincan tutarak içme hareketi), Çay söylemek ( işaret parmağını aşağıya doğru sallamak), Bir şeye işaret etmek ( gözleri o yöne çevirip kaşları kaldırmak) , Nazar değmesin hareketi ( tütütü), para gelecek hareketi ( el kaşınınca saça sürmek), Oh canıma değsin ( eli göğüsten aşağıya doğru sürmek) gibi.(aklıma daha gelirse yorumu düzenlerim) Ayrıca kısa bilgi, tahtaya vurmak Türklerin Şaman dönemlerinden gelmekte ve ağaç kovuklarındaki tanrılara dilek ve isteklerini göndermek için kullanılırmış. İngilizceye de "Knock on wood" olarak geçmiştir. Bizler Şeytan kulağına kurşun ( kulak çekmek) ve Tahtaya vurmak hareketlerini birleştirerek kullanırız.
I saw "i am broke " and "you sucks "while watching Yesilcam recently ...Semih Ates (Çağatay Ulusoy)done those gestures and now i know the meaning of them thanks to you ❤
When I was teaching, I moved from Ethiopia to Turkey. The head movement for 'no' with the tongue click means "yes" in Ethiopia. (It's a bit of a different sound but the same movement and the mouth is the same).
In Poland we also use the "money" gesture, and the "No!" gesture in Poland means "You'll get nothing from me!" to express somebody doesn't deserve receiving sth from us, used as a statement of rejection.
Excellent. In Erkency Kus I’ve seen many gestures. For example, Sanem makes a sound with her teeth when she faces Can Divit once he returns to Turkey again. She makes the same soundo when she invites him to dance. Can Yaman makes a fit and strikes his open hand. He also puts his open hand on his chest. I now understand Turlish body language. My mother used to knock on wood and said Machala machala as saying que Dios no lo quiera. I now understand. I like your channel very much. I wish to visit Turkey and sit to watch the bridge on the Bosphoros. In sha la 🙏🏻
I was married to a deaf man in America. I go into a restaurant a lot and one of the employees is deaf. Very sweet person. I know ask and he is learning asl. We do sign but sometimes its hard what we say to each other. What does sign in Turkish mean when he puts his hand near his shoulder and goes down the body a little on an annual to opposite side above waist? It seems the finger motions are easier than ASL. I found this very informative. My husband past over a year ago and I started out a little rusty using ASL again. I don't want to forget it. My husband taught me how to sign. This was a great video and you were easy to follow. Thanks for sharing!
"a lot" gesture can be used for emphasizing sth happened long ago, for example if you missed the bus and you ask people standing on the station if the bus has gone then they'll do this gesture
Selam brother I'm from London England 🇬🇧. Cypriot turkish and i understand every gesture and hand singnals head shaking also thanks i really enjoy your RUclips videos.
Whoa, that thumb gesture brought back some childhood memories. When I was a kid in Turkey I got attacked by a dog, it was so scary that I went into shock. An elderly lady from the neighborhood came to me right after the incident and she put her thumb under my teeth like the gesture you showed, and used her thumb to put sugar water in my mouth behind my top teeth. I was told that this was part of a superstition and she did that so I would remember the sweetness of the sugar instead of the trauma of the incident. Maybe this tradition is the origin of that gesture?
The 'no' Turkish sign in my language (sinhala, language of Sri Lanka🇱🇰) means that someone is stressed out/bored/had enough of something. The 'homosexual' sign means "fatta" which is neither a good word or a bad word, normally children don't use that word, what it means is - [something] is super (but not in a polite formal way). The 'clean the table' means a lot of [something]. The 'a lot' means to stand up. The 'money' and the 'I don't know' one is the same.
There are a few similar gestures we use in Italy and in Sicilia we have our own gestures. However, the one Turkish gesture I learned very soon was ‘the thumb between fingers’! There was a young child and I gestured that I was taking off her mis nose 👃🏼 and I wiggled my thumb - we were in a restaurant and ‘oh my goodness’ the faces of the little boys parents was something I will never forget! You gave the polite meaning of this gesture, I was told the more vulgar meaning of it which, I was told included the female genitalia 😲
In Brazil some of these gestures...for exemplo the head tilt for us means what's up? the hand topping the other means Ef it or screwed the gesture of a lot to us means move on or get out of the way.
0:49 wow we also use similar gesture here in Pakistan! well at least in my province but its mostly when we meet someone important or elders of the family but it usually start with a hand shake with both of the hands and yes another way of saying thanks :)
Heeello! Greetings from Greece! Ok, so I was born and raised in Greece, though my entire family lived in Russia until 1973 and my grandmother was Russian. We do have most of the gestures in Greek culture! And a couple of them in Russian! How cool is that?! Take care! I love your content!
I never laughed sooo much Can !! in my country some of your gestures are soooo funny and some are very dangerous to use as well 😂 LOL I really liked this lesson as I watch Turkish Movies and sometimes wonder what is meant especially the click of the tongue! 😂 We got a smack when we did that as children 😂 (means you annoy me)😂
İn 4:41 getting our hands on this shape, it doesn't mean we actually support the political party he is being told to. the meaning of this is based on the history of the Turks and represents the Bozkurt.
As I am addicted to Turkey Dizis I really enjoyed ur video. I really love some of the gesture like putting hand on chest to say thanks or to greet, and to say no by making some sound from mouth and some of them are used in my country India(Hindostan)like Check please, clean the table and say thankyou(it is used sometimes used to greet or thanks other) and suck it😃
Hi İ'm from Argentina and the money gesture is the same as yours! I saw many times that Turkish people do a gesture by moving their heads side to side quickly when, for example, they want to ask what's going on? Or what's wrong with he? İs that correct? I love your videos ❤️🙏 çok teşekkürler
İf they move their heads side to side quickly but in the direction of right to left or left to right, it means 'no' or 'i don't want' or maybe they use this gesture to show their disagreement. However, if they move their heads to like a nodding gesture in the direction of up to down then it probably means opposite of the first gesture I've said. İt means 'yes' or 'okay' or 'i agree'
And yes we also use that to ask if something bad happen. But we don't normally do that head gesture if the person we are talking is looking like something bad happened to him. For example, if that person is crying with a desperate face or that person looks frightened than we do this gesture. And while doing that, we don't make our head side to side so rapidly and we just make turn the head side to side fewer than when we show our disagreement.
Haha yeah you are right usually we bend our neck to the side a little while doing that so it doesn't get confused with saying no well face gestures also help ofc. There is also a second move where we bend our forearms outward like 45 degrees with our palms facing upwards. You can do one or both at the same time for maximum effect :D
When I first came to Turkey, I didn't realize (at first) that when people tilted their heads back a little and lifted their eyebrows it meant "no". In America, that means, "Hey baby. Let's do it." Imagine my surprise when waiters, and bus drivers, and taxi drivers were all doing that gesture at me. I thought, "Oh my God. What kind of country did I move to?" Once I understood, though, I adopted that gesture. One day I was talking to my Dad via Skype and he asked me a question to which I replied with that gesture to say no. He was shocked. I said, "I'm sorry, that means no here. No. Really." It's still a funny story that my family tells from time to time.
lols
😂 😂 😂 😂
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Ncnxnnxn that's funny
OH WOW LMAO THATS KINDA FUNNY MY APOLOGIES AHHAAHAHAHA
My husband is Turkish and after I watched this video, I realized he does so many of these gestures 😂😂 I asked him why he hasn’t taught me any of this yet!! I feel like I understand him more now haha
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Havada çay karıştırma hareketiyle restoranda çay söyleme hareketini göstermeliydin :D
Aynen ya.
😂
yok o öyle değil hesabı ala bilirmiyım diyo
Aynen. Yorumlarda sen yazmasan ben yazacaktım. Havada çay karıştırma hareketini ben çok yaparım
@@xmanxxmanx8069 o ne ya ben anlamadim yabanciyim
So i watched this and tried the "nah" gesture with my Turkish friends and they were offended, after much discussion and explanations, they said it's like giving someone the finger. They also said the "suck it" gesture is considered to be rude.
Thats true. Your friends are right.
True... Skfkekxkejxje
yeah they are swears :D they are sexual insults
Nah gesture is basically the Turkish middle finger.
Hahah lol it is actully common among close friends but they might be surprised and offended when you suddenly do that
Nah hareketinin daha kompleks olan versiyonlarını da göstermeliydin. Şlaaaakk diye yapacaktın onu😂😂
asdfghjkl aynen 😂
Yeminlr ben de bunu bekledim🤣🤣🤣
Sjsjsjsj kardeşime öğretmiştim nasıl şaaaak diye nah çekileceğini çünkü beni arkadaşlarıma çekerken gördü ve öğrenmek istedi, bende öğrettim. Gitmiş anama ablam bana küfür öğretiyor diye
@@adimcokuzunduyazamadm hahahaha kardesin resmen isini iyi biliyor 🤣🤣🤣
@@ardentheraven1414 Heye yaw 😂😂😂
As an italian, this was so fascinating to watch!!😁
especially the part of delicious gesture which means you talk too much hand gesture XD
Me as an Indian also😂
Mutlu means what??
@@uzmasiddiqui11 If you want the translation Mutlu means happy.
5:56 Is this move shame in Italy?
hareketleri o kadar masum yapmissin ki :D
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Aynen
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim Allah'ım yardım et
Rengoku 🥺
@@elifazras 0-0 ı just saw it whrn you say
We use some of those gestures in Romania.Probably inherited from the times of the Otoman Empire.
We learned many things from each other.
same in Serbia 😅
@Shalom Canom Men Amucanum ?
Balkans 🇷🇴❤🙏🏼🌍😁😁
You are right ,I am from Montenegro and we use some of those gesture 😀 because of Ottoman Empire
When I was abroad I did the "check please" gesture in a restaurant and two of the waiters get confused and thought something wrong with our table, that time I realised how Turkish I am. 😂😂
I live in Dubai I do that gesture all the time and all waiters, european, arabs, philipinos, indians they understand. Thought that was universal
In malaysia, we use the same gesture.
@@khorsus7403 Yes, In Bangladesh we also use that gesture.
Did you visited another planet by any chance?
I thought that one was pretty easy to figure out. But I can see it might confuse someone. In my experience in the USA, catch the waiter's eye and point to the ceiling will get you the check. But in the USA the waiters are anxious to move the diners out and I think any gesture would get you the check!
in Brazil we use:
0:21 check please
1:31 god forbid (but we only knock 3 times on anything made of wood)
2:26 suck it
5:16 money
6:08 i don't know
We also only knock 3 times on the wood in truth! We say "tahtaya vur" -"knock the wood"
actually we knock 3 times too ahah
@@icimdengeldi3935 that's exactly how we do! we knock on wood 3 times and say "knock on wood". It's so amazing that our countries have things in common even though are so apart from each other
@@euryhel so cool our countries have that in common
@@BiancaStudyCorner Yep, These kind of similarities are really nice. 🥰
3:22 That is more like the middle finger than just opposition (at least the way I saw it used when I lived there). And yeah, I played "I got your nose" with little Ali (my friend Mehmet's son) before anybody had told me that it was a bad thing to do. He was mortified to come in from the kitchen to see me with his son. "Hey, Ali. I got your nose!" He said, "Brooks, put the nose down please."
Lol. I imagined that and laughed so hard as a Turkish.
hahaha
Yes, its true. You are correct!!
I was suprised as an 8 year old turkish, seeing a video of “got your nose” game :D
Can imagine the boys confusion. “Why did he do that? Did I make a mistake?!” 😂
4:50 bu çok yanlış anlaşılan bir haraket Devlet Bahçeli hep kullanıyor diye onun partisine özel bir şey sanıyorlar ama yanlış. Bir partiyi değil Türkleri temsil eder Bozkurt'u sembolize eder o hareket
Bozkurt Türklüğün simgesidir,senin dediğin şey algı.
@@ehuehuehuehu3192 iwnxowndowjoxnskcn güldüm buna
@@hayatbahar8231 Hayır.
@@theturkish1373 hAyIr
Uhhhhh... Bozkurt benim soyadım-
Örnekleri diziler veya filmler üzerinden vermen bence daha güzel oluyo
Teşekkürler öneri için :) Birdahaki videolarda daha fazla kullanmaya çalışacağım 👍
Hello guys!
I noticed that I made a mistake in the video. The gesture that I showed for the Nationalist Movement Party is actually used to represent Turks, not only MHP.
Yorumlarda bilgi verdiğiniz için teşekkürler arkadaşlar 🇹🇷
yoo yanlış yapmadın ki, mhpyi daha doğrusu ülkücüleri temsil ediyor. mhpliler dışında o hareketi yapan yok. ya da türkçüler dışında. yani genel olarak türklerin yaptığı bir hareket değil.
@@papates Milliyetiyle gurur duyan her Türk bu işareti yapmaktan gurur duyar. Herhangi bir parti ile alakası yok. Bu işareti yapmaktan rahatsız olanlar Türkiye'de doğmuş fakat Türk olamamış hümanist ya da dincilerden başkası değildir
@@yigitgorkemulker1381 Rahatsız olmakla alakası yok, rahatsız olmak için bir sebep yok çünkü. Bu sembol 80 milyona neyi ifade ediyor onu tartışıyoruz, olayı başka yerlere çekiyorsun. Ben vatanını milletini seven insandan niye rahatsız olayım.
Ancak bu sembolü ortaya atan, yaygınlaştıran Türkeş değil mi, hani Nihal Atsız ile yargılanan Müslüman Türkçü.
Bu sembol yıllarca MHP'yi ve o partilileri temsil etti mi, evet. Ben bu işareti gördüğümde aklıma MHP geliyor mu, evet.
Biz burada sembolün gerçekte halka ifade ettiği anlamını söylüyoruz, aslında ne olduğu veya olması gerektiğini değil.
Kısacası milliyetin ile gurur duymak bunun siyasi bir işaret olduğunu ve bu işaretin halka mal olmadığı gerçeğini değiştirmiyor. Yanlışsam aksini ispatla.
@@papates Bozkurt işaretinin kullanımı türkeş ile yaygınlaşa da kaynağı çok eskiye dayanır, çin kaynaklarıda Bozkurt işareti yapan birçok Türk tesvirine ve Bozkurt işareti yapan Türk hükümdarlarının heykellerine rastlanmaktadır
@@yigitgorkemulker1381 Böyle diyeceğini bildiğim için işte "Biz burada sembolün gerçekte halka ifade ettiği anlamını söylüyoruz, aslında ne olduğu veya olması gerektiğini değil" demiştim ama yazdığımı okumadın herhalde.
I really wanna move to Turkey i been there once and want to go again I love everything
Lots of love from England
You missed the "ooh canıma değsin" sign 😁
Ayn sjsjsjjs
Onu nasıl açıklayacak ki ?
Zor olurdu galiba🤣
Belki aklına gelmiştir.
@@Efrancercinli içimin yağları eridi rahatladım gibi olabilir djwbsknöd
@@justanyperson 😂
Seen most of these gestures in turkish series . Turkish people are amazing with everything Masha Allah ❤
Really appreciate for what you did in this video to explain more clearly about Turkish gestures!!! I used to see some of the common gestures in Turkish series, but I had been truly confused until I watched this video. Çok teşekkür ediyorum, Can. Keep it up!
I love the way to talk easly and fast to understand ,like your channel, I tried to learn the Turkey language because I will go some day .
Me too
amoy kita bhe... sarap ng mga afam nila noh
yo tambien jiji eso espero
Şimdi fark ediyorum böyle şeyler yaptığımızı ben bunları diğer ülkelerde yapıyor zannediyordum...Ne safmışım😂
Hahahaj bende
Ben de la
Sjsjjjssjsj bende 🥲✨
The first time I got interested in Turkish language because of Ibrahim Tatlises songs .his songs are true romance ,
After his songs I got interested to learn Turkish .
wtf
do you know şemmame
@@fba.
İt is kurdish folk music.
But i noticed his majority of songs in Turkish.
Türksün zaten , büyük İ yazmandan belli
@@ferhatmeral8418 sherlock işine bak kardeşim
5:57 the delicious/beautiful gesture in Italy means "what the heck do you want?" Don't do it with strangers, it might start a fight.
it is also used when you want to express "listen to me one second" in a discussion. also commonly used when you want to explaining things while you are angry because of misunderstanding.
@@papates Thank you for your explanation!
@desire 2020 yes, if you do this gesture in a restaurant in Italy they will think you don't like the food at all and that you are complaining.
I thought it also meant delicious in Italian language too. Learning this really made me shock
Really 😂
I'm Bulgarian, interested to study Turkish. The most of gestures in Bulgaria are the same or similar. Thank you for the interesting lesson!
Ilove Turkia from Algeria ❤❤
Lmbo..my father-in-law is Turkish and watching this video explains him all day! Omg! I always wondered what his hand gestures and mouth sounds meant. I just thought that he was/is crazy...being that I am American! Totally had no clue so I thought to watch this for a moment and so I ended up watching the whole thing! Really good video! Now I will try using these back at him...and blow him away, 😆
haha please do that!😂
O kadar iyi yapıyorsun ki gülmemek elde değil
Thanks for the video! It's interesting how many gestures are the same in Turkey and in Italy. They used to facilitate communication in all the Mediterranean area.
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I'm Italian and in Italy we use several of these gestures!
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Greetings, my big brothers! I'm from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿❤️🇹🇷
♥︎ sizi çok kkkk seviyoruz
Greetings from Bangladesh 🇧🇩❤️🇦🇿❤️🇹🇷
@@monarchyofjackalliancesind3937 greetings back!!! ❤️
@@22nd_Place_Vasil Thank you. 😊 😉❤️
So what?
That's a great video! Compeletely true, loving your content. Wish you all the best, keep doing the good!
Thanks Berk! Glad you liked :)
I’m Turkish but I moved to England when I was 11. I didn’t know that some of these gestures were Turkish. It was rlly educational thank you
The wolf sign doesn't necessarily mean you support a specific political party... Saying that would be an underrepresentation of what it actually is. As you know, the wolf is the symbolic animal of all Turkic people, and this symbol is common across all Turkic-speaking nations and will get recognized/understood in any Turkic speaking nation for what it is - a symbol for having Turkic roots. Only in Turkey we seem to associate it with being a supporter of a specific party, and that's just a shame.
Also the "homosexual" gesture is the upside down version of the gesture you showed. What you did is very commonly recognized as its universal meaning - OK:
Just wanted to point these out!
I agree, I wish the wolf sign wasn't associated with a political party...
For the homosexual gesture, you're right, the one I showed is commonly used as "ok" gesture in the world, but I think, most Turkish people don't make a distinction between the one I showed and the upside down version. So If someone does this gesture in any way, It will be understood as a gesture for homosexuality by most Turkish people I guess.
Thanks for your comment Başak!
the HS part was upside-down, u're right :))) fortunately, every single parent in Turkey, the Turkish society, have taught us that those hand gestures is inappropriate which is "ayıp" in Turkish language :)))))))
@@Turkishle You're not helping by claiming that it's the symbol of a party in your video mate. That is downright wrong. It's used by countless Turkic people too. It's only associated with MHP here because for the longest time they were the only nationalist party that existed. And today we basically don't have a nationalist party anymore. Not only is there a lot of difference between nationalist ideologies, it's also been used by literally every party leader in Turkey except the PKK's political wing HDP. it's used by countless people who have zero ties to MHP. You'll also see it being used by Christian Gagauz in Moldova, or Judaic Karaite Turks in Crimea and of course Azerbaijan, Russian Tatars, Central Asian Turkic people, Uyghurs etc.
Would have been better if you just said that it represents Turkic identity and is based on Asena, a female wolf from Turkic mythology according to which Turks are part wolf.
Not only is that far more interesting. It also wouldn't further spread the misconception that It's the symbol of a party.
it also means that you love BABYmetal
Hello im greek and we do so many of these gestures too, that was very funny to watch! Thank you for the nice videos!
greek culture thief
Greece was an Othman province so that's why
@@noahi829 Not exactly a state. The Ottoman Empire is an empire after all. It is ruled by the Osmanoğlu dynasty. The Greeks, on the other hand, are seen as the main element of the empire. In other words, they are not much different from the Turks in terms of location. That's why Mehmet the Conqueror carries the title of Kayser-i Rum. So it's the same title as caesar. That's why Hagia Sophia is so valuable. Much more than a church. It's not a simple show of strength. The religion of Islam emerged in 610. Hagia Sophia was built in 532. Islam sees itself as a continuation of Christianity. And believes in Christian prophets and gospels. Therefore, Emperor Justinian I is an important leader in terms of Islamic religion. and Rome is holy. It sounds funny when you say it like that, but the Turks think so. The same is true for Judaism and Jerusalem. Christians also see themselves as the continuation of Judaism. I don't understand exactly what you mean, but the Turks' view of the Greeks is not like the British' view of their colonies.
@@noksyesvs ğ
Greece anD Turkey had lived together for so long and its normal that they are similar in culture!! you dont have to gatekeep literally everything.
I watched many Turkish series, I saw many gestures but did not understand before. Now I understand it. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much!!😂😂😂 some gestures are owesome!😂😂
I love your expressions and your english accent!! Congrats from México, City 💐🇲🇽🦋
Good for you my man! I just discovered your channel and having a lot of fun watching it! Ozbekistandan selamlar!
Türkiye den selamlar kardaşım 🇺🇿🇹🇷🖤
Biz kardeşiz, selamlar 👋🏻
I've always wondered about these gestures when i watched turkish series and films... thanks for explaining them to us .
I'd like to share a memory regarding the 'Nah' gesture; my husband was Turkish and when our twin son's were born the nurses brought them out for my husband to see, as he was smiling at the first born he made the 'nah' hand gesture and waved it at his father. My husband laughed and said prophetically, "He's going to be a handful!". 😆
I had to laugh while watching your clip, as many of your gestures are also used at home ( I’m Salvadoran) . Thanks for all your info. Hopefully I’ll remember all when I go to visit Turkey next year. Görüşürüz 😏
Thank you for this video, I moved to Turkey a week ago, and those gestures are really helpful!!!!
I am Turkish and I've been living in Turkey since I was born but I haven't seen "got fear" gesture before 🤔
Genelde erkekler arasında ve çok kaba şekilde kullanıldığı için bilmiyor olabilirsin ama argo olarak kullanılan bir hareket. Hatta yusuf yusuf hareketi olarakta geçer. Mesela İbrahim Tatlıses bir röportaj sırasında bu hareketi yapmıştı RUclips da videosunu bulabilirsin.
@@cihatgurel4985 Yok teşekkürler kalsın :)
Çüşş nerde yaşıyon sen ya.
probably because it is mostly used among men.
I have seen this gesture in turkish series..
Yes in pakistan we use these gestures... We pull ear and say touba touba....... I like ohooo o... I reaaly enjoyed watching this....
Same in india man..... Most of them..
Because u were under Turkic empires for centuries
Sometimes we say “tövbe tövbe” when we pull our ear (in Turkey). I don’t really know the origin of it but i think it’s super cool that we have very close gestures!
pakistanis never pull their ear. which country are u living in
@@riv4160 it means repetence, it comes from Arabic "tawba"(تَوْبَة ), it is probably an Islamic thing
Thank you, I saw a few we also have in Chile, however I've been living in New Zealand for 20 years and here people don't do much gestures so it surprises me that your culture sometimes is very similar to Latin culture - Merhaba!
Merhaba!
Thanks for sharing!
Μerhaba Can, enjoyble your video! I thought we would have many of these gestures in Greece, but unfortunately only a couple of these we really use a lot here. the No (ts) and the "a lot" (circles with the hand). Thanks, it was a great video!
This was so informative and funny ...tnks👌👌👌🙏😀
Thanks Mahoo😊
az ing bilmeme rağmen kelimeleri o kadar iyi telafuz ediyosun ki neredeyse tüm kelimeleri anladım. Çok güzel olmuş bu arada video ellerine sağlık :D
when i was new in turkey and would always ask the bus drivers if they were going a certain directoin. they will always say "no" while slightly noding there head. and i'll think they mean yes and proceed by entering the bus. only to see the driver yelling that the bus doesn't go there. it was a struggle 😂😂
"Nodding upwards only" means "no". And rest of the world uses that gesture to say yes. Gesture itself usually complimented with the 'eyebrows lifted'
@@saidcakmaker3107 i have figured that out after living here for two years 😂
🎉Thankyou, your videos are very helpful....keep up the good work🎉Australia
Lol. In slang urdu for fear we say " asshole was opening and closing out of fear". You gestured it very well.
It's the same in Turkish version but he is probably too kind to say it openly 😅🤭
Yea same
then it is rude and shouldnt be done right? @@den.kahraman
@@fueesteban Yes, you shouldn’t do that. It’s very rude and inappropriate.
thanks so much, I had a big time watching your video and learning from you.
Kendi kültürümden birsey daha örendim, tessekür ederim. 🤌
öğrendim
teşekkür ederim
şeklinde yazılır doğru yaz
@@kursat8566 yo
Merhaba!…Thank you for this video…It is very helpful… My friends and I are here in Turkey. I enjoyed learning Turkish gestures and words from your videos. I used the gesture for paying and the staff smiled and did not expect it. They also smile whenever I use the words I learn from your videos…They asked where I learned those words and gestures😊
Merhaba! Glad you found this video helpful and thanks for sharing your experience!
İlk defa bugün gördüm videolarını ve çoğu güzel. Bazı hareketleri unutmuşsun ama. Usanmak ( yaka silkmek), Türk kahvesi istemek (baş ve işaret parmakları ile fincan tutarak içme hareketi), Çay söylemek ( işaret parmağını aşağıya doğru sallamak), Bir şeye işaret etmek ( gözleri o yöne çevirip kaşları kaldırmak) , Nazar değmesin hareketi ( tütütü), para gelecek hareketi ( el kaşınınca saça sürmek), Oh canıma değsin ( eli göğüsten aşağıya doğru sürmek) gibi.(aklıma daha gelirse yorumu düzenlerim)
Ayrıca kısa bilgi, tahtaya vurmak Türklerin Şaman dönemlerinden gelmekte ve ağaç kovuklarındaki tanrılara dilek ve isteklerini göndermek için kullanılırmış. İngilizceye de "Knock on wood" olarak geçmiştir. Bizler Şeytan kulağına kurşun ( kulak çekmek) ve Tahtaya vurmak hareketlerini birleştirerek kullanırız.
I saw "i am broke " and "you sucks "while watching Yesilcam recently ...Semih Ates (Çağatay Ulusoy)done those gestures and now i know the meaning of them thanks to you ❤
When I was teaching, I moved from Ethiopia to Turkey. The head movement for 'no' with the tongue click means "yes" in Ethiopia. (It's a bit of a different sound but the same movement and the mouth is the same).
yeah I moved from Ethiopia to Turkey recently and got confused as well😅
İ've discovered this channel randomly and got my attention. Greetings from Azerbaijan🙂Wish you good luck🇦🇿🇹🇷
Thank you!
In Poland we also use the "money" gesture, and the "No!" gesture in Poland means "You'll get nothing from me!" to express somebody doesn't deserve receiving sth from us, used as a statement of rejection.
I just LOVE the gesture of the hand on the hesrt!
I came here for the last one "got scared,"
One thank you brother
There for I am your new subscriber
Keep moving👍
Excellent. In Erkency Kus I’ve seen many gestures. For example, Sanem makes a sound with her teeth when she faces Can Divit once he returns to Turkey again. She makes the same soundo when she invites him to dance. Can Yaman makes a fit and strikes his open hand. He also puts his open hand on his chest. I now understand Turlish body language. My mother used to knock on wood and said Machala machala as saying que Dios no lo quiera. I now understand. I like your channel very much. I wish to visit Turkey and sit to watch the bridge on the Bosphoros. In sha la 🙏🏻
I have seen these gestures in Turkish dramas 😊
I am from turkey and watching this videosu is so fun ben bir türküm ve bu videoları izlemek çok eğlenceli
just discovered your videos and appreciate your work. those kind of videos helped me a lot during my learning english path. keep up the good work👏
Teşekkürler Beyza 😊
I was married to a deaf man in America. I go into a restaurant a lot and one of the employees is deaf. Very sweet person. I know ask and he is learning asl. We do sign but sometimes its hard what we say to each other. What does sign in Turkish mean when he puts his hand near his shoulder and goes down the body a little on an annual to opposite side above waist? It seems the finger motions are easier than ASL. I found this very informative. My husband past over a year ago and I started out a little rusty using ASL again. I don't want to forget it. My husband taught me how to sign. This was a great video and you were easy to follow. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing this. 🤗
"a lot" gesture can be used for emphasizing sth happened long ago, for example if you missed the bus and you ask people standing on the station if the bus has gone then they'll do this gesture
Selam brother I'm from London England 🇬🇧. Cypriot turkish and i understand every gesture and hand singnals head shaking also thanks i really enjoy your RUclips videos.
Happy to know you enjoy our content and thanks for stopping by!
Whoa, that thumb gesture brought back some childhood memories. When I was a kid in Turkey I got attacked by a dog, it was so scary that I went into shock. An elderly lady from the neighborhood came to me right after the incident and she put her thumb under my teeth like the gesture you showed, and used her thumb to put sugar water in my mouth behind my top teeth. I was told that this was part of a superstition and she did that so I would remember the sweetness of the sugar instead of the trauma of the incident. Maybe this tradition is the origin of that gesture?
The gesture cok deli, turning your hand back and forth beside your head. Learned this from a turkish friend
The 'no' Turkish sign in my language (sinhala, language of Sri Lanka🇱🇰) means that someone is stressed out/bored/had enough of something. The 'homosexual' sign means "fatta" which is neither a good word or a bad word, normally children don't use that word, what it means is - [something] is super (but not in a polite formal way). The 'clean the table' means a lot of [something]. The 'a lot' means to stand up. The 'money' and the 'I don't know' one is the same.
Teşekkürler Can! It was very useful 😀
Love this! Also, congrats on reaching 1K subscribers!
Glad you liked it :) Thanks Hailey!
50k more in 4 months huh wow so nice
Tqvm for the ticks of the turkish gestures
Can's acting skills are mashallah 😍
Maşallah
I love that you used Harun for an example! I love the Behzat Ç team!!
There are a few similar gestures we use in Italy and in Sicilia we have our own gestures. However, the one Turkish gesture I learned very soon was ‘the thumb between fingers’! There was a young child and I gestured that I was taking off her mis nose 👃🏼 and I wiggled my thumb - we were in a restaurant and ‘oh my goodness’ the faces of the little boys parents was something I will never forget! You gave the polite meaning of this gesture, I was told the more vulgar meaning of it which, I was told included the female genitalia 😲
In Brazil some of these gestures...for exemplo the head tilt for us means what's up? the hand topping the other means Ef it or screwed the gesture of a lot to us means move on or get out of the way.
0:49 wow we also use similar gesture here in Pakistan! well at least in my province but its mostly when we meet someone important or elders of the family but it usually start with a hand shake with both of the hands and yes another way of saying thanks :)
Heeello!
Greetings from Greece! Ok, so I was born and raised in Greece, though my entire family lived in Russia until 1973 and my grandmother was Russian. We do have most of the gestures in Greek culture! And a couple of them in Russian! How cool is that?!
Take care! I love your content!
thank you! glad you liked it! 🤗
Very fun and useful to watch, thanks 🙏 in Portugal 🇵🇹 we also use some of those gestures 🤙🏼🤌🏼🙌🏼👏
My favorite is the pulling on the ear, knocking on something and the kiss....I love it as it makes me laugh.
Thank you for sharing this greeting gesture is common in Pakistan and turkey
It is very polite as women may not want to handshake. 😌
It will be fun to see Turkey.
This gesture 👌 is my favorite to make fun with friends which they don't know what I mean for them thinking "good or okay" 😂
Hahhhhhh in pakistn we use this gesture to say nice
actually it means "ball" and we use ball word to insult gays hahahaha
I also use it to say "perfect" but it depends on the stuation
👌 means gay
back to the dark ages
çok güzel. çok sempatik anlatım ve videolar sevgili Can..
I never laughed sooo much Can !! in my country some of your gestures are soooo funny and some are very dangerous to use as well 😂 LOL
I really liked this lesson as I watch Turkish Movies and sometimes wonder what is meant especially the click of the tongue! 😂
We got a smack when we did that as children 😂 (means you annoy me)😂
I love your videos it brings back a lot of memories of my mom or grandparents .I forgot a lot of these.
İn 4:41 getting our hands on this shape, it doesn't mean we actually support the political party he is being told to. the meaning of this is based on the history of the Turks and represents the Bozkurt.
Yes I am Iraqi and we do many of these gestures! Beautiful video! Love you Turkey
I actually watch this guy's videos because he looks like my friend😂😂🤗😁
videonun başından nedense kahkaha attım
This is hilarious to watch. I never noticed how many gestures my American husband has picked up from me.
As I am addicted to Turkey Dizis I really enjoyed ur video. I really love some of the gesture like putting hand on chest to say thanks or to greet, and to say no by making some sound from mouth and some of them are used in my country India(Hindostan)like
Check please, clean the table and say thankyou(it is used sometimes used to greet or thanks other) and suck it😃
We use most of these in lebanon too
Thank you so much this is so helpful ❤
Hi İ'm from Argentina and the money gesture is the same as yours! I saw many times that Turkish people do a gesture by moving their heads side to side quickly when, for example, they want to ask what's going on? Or what's wrong with he? İs that correct? I love your videos ❤️🙏 çok teşekkürler
İf they move their heads side to side quickly but in the direction of right to left or left to right, it means 'no' or 'i don't want' or maybe they use this gesture to show their disagreement. However, if they move their heads to like a nodding gesture in the direction of up to down then it probably means opposite of the first gesture I've said. İt means 'yes' or 'okay' or 'i agree'
And yes we also use that to ask if something bad happen. But we don't normally do that head gesture if the person we are talking is looking like something bad happened to him. For example, if that person is crying with a desperate face or that person looks frightened than we do this gesture. And while doing that, we don't make our head side to side so rapidly and we just make turn the head side to side fewer than when we show our disagreement.
Haha yeah you are right usually we bend our neck to the side a little while doing that so it doesn't get confused with saying no well face gestures also help ofc. There is also a second move where we bend our forearms outward like 45 degrees with our palms facing upwards. You can do one or both at the same time for maximum effect :D
these gestures are so cool
Amazing video sağolsun 😂 subscribed ✅
many of these we do in my country as well. love from SIZIN KARDASHIN, ARNAVUTLUK'DA
In Bahrain we use the “l got scared” gesture to describe someone stingy. 😂😂😂
I am from India. I loved all the gestures shown here. Gestures of money, clean the table, I don't know are same here also means we usually use here