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Turkish Children Learn Their Mother Tongue Earliest
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11 Aug 2008 Mon 01:47 pm |
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It is not a new article, it´s a research finding in 2005. I post it here to encourage turkish learners showing them that turkish is one of the easiest languages to learn because the grammar rules are not very difficult and once learnt there are not a lot of exceptions to the rules. Its logic is easy.
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"A research conducted worldwide has established that Turkish children are the fastest at learning their native language.
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The results were released at the International Association for the Study of Child Language’s 10th congress in Berlin, Germany, where it was indicated that Turkish children could speak their native language by the age of 2-3 years in a grammatically correct manner. Linguistics Professor Klann Delius noted that the Turkish language was easy to learn. “Suffixes in Turkish that determine person and tense are regular. Using them is like arranging Lego pieces.” According to the research, it takes 12 years for Arab speaking children, and 4-5 years for German children to acquire the grammatical mastery in their mother tongue. The congress held in Berlin is attended by about 800 linguists from around the world. "
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| ANADOLU NEWS AGENCY (AA) BERLIN |
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11 Aug 2008 Mon 06:55 pm |
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I heard about this before, it´s very interesting. However, I must say that how difficult a language is to learn to foreigners depends on more factors then just the relative complexity of grammar. For me for example, the vocabulary is very difficult, it is like nothing I know. And the grammar, although it doesn´t have that many exceptions I suppose, it also very difficult to learn because it´s very different from any of the langauges I learnt before. It is an agglutinative language which makes me very confused very quickly and the sentence order is completely upside down...  
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