Ok, after being asked twice I reckon it is time to introduce myself:
My name is siduri and I moved to Istanbul from the Netherlands last summer. I teach at one of the private schools here and so far I really enjoy living here.
Decided to sign up here since the site was recommended to me by one of the users and hope to meet some of you in real life, too.

btw, I'd be particularly interested to meet some Dutch speakers, since I hardly speak Dutch anymore and my Dutch language skills are rapidly in decline.
Also I'd love to meet SwissGerman speakers, my native language that I just miss speaking!

Hi siduri

welcome to the site and I hope you will enjoy it.

Why don't you make yourself look a bit more interesting in your intro, so that our German, Swiss and dutch speaking conzingencies want tio meet you, too!

See for example "Latinlovers" intro.

Salü Siduri,

so you moved from Netherlands but you would like to talk Dutch and actually you miss the SwissGerman language , did I get that right?
Welcome to Istanbul, I guess you can find everything here.

Cu
Nadja

Are you calling her boring Jonathan?!!
Noone can match Latin's intro - apart from a Mills and Boon novel.

So whereabouts do you live? How are you finding it here so far? Killed anyone yet?

PS Googled your nick name - interesting choice!

welcome
like the name too! see ya around

Charly,

how do you know it's a she?

And I wouldn't say she is boring, but the intro is. We could try to raise the quality of the intros, can we not?

Siduri,

everybody here knows that I am a typical German: no humour, always critisizing and depressed, mostly arrogant with a nasty accent. So, I hope you don't mind my earlier post. But you could try to improve (I mean your intro, not as a person in general), I think.

Hope to see you around.

LOL, you guys sound funny!
Sorry, but I am not too good at introducing myself, but feel free to ask questions.
I live near Taksim, so far I love it here and I haven't killed anyone yet :-)
The only thing I miss here is a nice music venue where my favorite bands play regularly. But luckily the Beastie Boys are coming!

Oh, and I am not only looking for Dutchies and Swiss! Started to learn Turkish and can have decent conversations in English, too ;-)

*siduri is off to read the other intros now to learn how to write an interesting intro*

Ok, let's try again....

I'm a good mix of Prussian, Alemanic and Dutch with a far away touch of Polish who grew up in the South of Germany. And no, that wasn't Bavaria but the Black Forest area along the Swiss border. Although I love German beer I love Riesling even better (hence my name) and I do not wear dirndl nor lederhosen and due to my Alemanic heritage I do have a sense of humor, too.
In a previous life I was a mechanic, lived in the Netherlands and when I became bored of the engeneering industry decided to retrain and entered teacher training college.
At a certain point I was bored living in the Lowlands and fed up with 12 months of pouring rain each year and decided that it was time to move on. Applied for jobs around the globe and then took one here in Istanbul.

Ok, I hope that's better
:lol:

Not enough details...........Shoe size?

Hey Siduri,

So we come from the same Part of Germany
I am a South German too and since my times at the University I hang around in Freiburg

Where do u come from if you miss the accent, than I guess you might come from Lörrach or so

and Jonathan, btw Siduri is from the Gilgamesh, the Lady that watches the vine, correct me if I am mistaken

hope to see u soon
Nadja

Hi Siduri

I think a 2- is appropriate for this intro. Welcome again.

Nice area you're from. Unfortunately I cannot match you dialect. Where I come from people used to speak rather like the Dutch. But that was the generation of my grandma.

And, please go on watching the vine. From your intro I think you love drinking wine. A good Risling on a warm summer night beats beer and red wine (and certainly Raki).

Siduri is an ancient Sumerian goodess of wine and merry making.

Nadja, I come from a tiny village next to the Rheinfall, near Schaffhausen. It's almost in the middle of Lörrach and the Lake of Constance. Since we are closer to Switzerland than Germany our dialect is very close to SwissGerman.

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I'm german and like writing in Rhyme, don't trust people who come from the Tyne, you have strange humour and accent like mine.

Come on Sunday to an island its fine, we'll talk laugh, play games and and mime, and if bore you you can give me a sign.

If you like me you can drop me a line, I'm helpful and kind all the time, I'll talk Dutch or German or whine.