Hi All,

I am very new here - and nearly as new to the Turkish language. I visited Turkey for the first time less than a month ago and have already booked another longer holiday for next year. We are going back to Turunç next summer.

Although I have a good command of the English language, I have never learned any other language. However, I was so impressed by Turkey and it's people that I am determined to learn the language before I return next year. Ideally I would like to be sufficiently proficient that I use no English at all except to my girlfriend and non-Turkish speaking guests who share our hotel.

I've only been trying to learn Turkish for about 10 days. I started with a CD-ROM and then found this site which seems fabulous.

But the part I am struggling to get to grips with is the vowel harmony rules and suffix modifications. Therefore I have decided to write a web-based application to help me learn these rules (I'm a web programmer). If anyone is interested I will post a link here once it is finished as it might be helpful to other beginners.

Kind Regards

Bod

Hi, bod!

I am also new here. And also trying to get used to vowel and consonant rules.

It will be very kind of You if you share this link with us, beginners.

Thank you in advance,
Mella

I haven't even got as far as consonant harmony yet.......I have that pleasure ahead of me!!! But I will gladly post the links to the tools I am writing to help me learn the rules just as soon as they are available.

i went to turkey last year for the first time and like you wanted to speak Turkish. I started to learn when i came back and managed to learn the basics.They loved to hear me speak when i went back this year and even helpt me.It does start to fall into place after a while. If you go to www.dnathan.com/language/turkish Ther is a grid their you may find helpful and i would welcome any help at all thanks.j

Try going to google and putting the Turkish suffix dictionary. i found it by accident like i do everything. please let me know how you go on.

Also check out this thread from this website:

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_6_1212

Here Bab kindly listed lots of useful sites for beginners. They may be of use to you.