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And yes, I´d like to hear your comments - good or bad. Please visit the site and tell me your opinion. I´m Serdar and the only person behind Learn to Speak Turkish Fast, both the webmaster and the author.
Well I think the idea is really good, pronounciation is a big problem to tackle for new learners and by hearing you learn the way sentences are structured, intonation and pronounciation rather fast. I can say I learnt more from watching tv and listening music and the people around me than I did from grammar rules, however for those who arent as lucky as I was to spend a long time in Turkey, learning from audio files with explanatory grammar seems a good alternative abroad.
But I took a look at one of the available free audio files (Güneş ve Rüzgâr) and I think the level is way too high for a beginner. There are way too many different grammar things, future tense, -duğu suffix, present continuous, -a, -e noun cases (as well as related to verbs), -tikçe, etc etc. For example, it took me a long time to understand the difference between ´ben olduğumu´ and ´kimin olduğunu´, I was wondering why there was no genitivus in ´ben´ but there was in ´kimin´, and I had covered the basics by the time I got there! Yani, someone who hasn´t learned how to say ´nasılsın´ let alone how it is constructed, how can they understand ´nasıl olduğunu merak ettim´, how can someone who doesnt know how to say that the wind blows, use ´the more the wind blowed´? For example, one question needs to be answered with ´Esmeye başlıyor´, but where is the explanation that present continuous is ´iyor´, where does it say that the a gets dropped and then the i changes into ı because of vowel harmony, where does it say the verb stem is es- and başla-, and how does a learner know that ´başlamak´ goes with ´-e´?
I think the idea is really useful, but my suggestion is you focus your audio files on 1 part of grammar each, for example first a text where the present continuous is used a lot, then one with di´li geçmiş zamanı and so on. There is too much information for the beginner in one piece, and though someone who is excited to learn will puzzle out all the different things in the first lessons, will realize it is so much and I am afraid will get tired after a while. Its better to put a lot of pieces with little information than a big piece with a lot of information.
I know I basedmy opinion just on this audio file but that is because it is the only one I was able to open, and frankly it is too complicated. I understand that before starting the weekly lessons you start with studying the basic grammar you provided (which seems good), however, it is the basics that a new learner wants to have covered quickly and thAt in my opinion, is done faster by audio, so maybe it would be nice to provide audio files for them as well. The idea of learning Turkish ´the audio way´ may be conveyed more if you provide small texts and audio files using the grammar provided in the quick start menu.
Edited (11/18/2009) by Deli_kizin
Edited (11/18/2009) by Deli_kizin
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