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10.       nifrtity
1807 posts
 18 Nov 2009 Wed 02:14 am

 

Quoting dilsever

Learn to speak Turkish naturally, easily and fast through MP3 conversation lessons based on short stories.

Visit www.turkishturkish.net to learn more. All the content on the site is free.

 

 

 i am logg on this site and i find sooooo vry good and useful many thannnnnnnnnnks

11.       Turkish-Teacher
257 posts
 18 Nov 2009 Wed 12:09 pm

 

Quoting nifrtity

 

 

 i am logg on this site and i find sooooo vry good and useful many thannnnnnnnnnks

 

Thank you very much Serdar. I like your website as well. It´s worth paying 5 bucks a week to

 

benefit from this system. Congratulations! (however, there are some spelling mistakes on the website, if you like , send me a message and I´ll tell you where those errors are

12.       dilsever
12 posts
 18 Nov 2009 Wed 12:15 pm

 Thank you for taking the time to look at one of my lessons and thank you for your comments. But as you said, Güneş ve Rüzgar is not an easy lesson. It is for those who have learned Turkish to a certain level. But one who has studied the previous lessons shouldn´t have much difficulty working it out. I´m sorry that you were able to open only this page. I wonder what may have caused that. There are easier short story lessons before Güneş ve Rüzgar. Anyway, I´ll take your comments into consideration to improve the site.

As long as people let me know that they are interested in my lessons and ask me questions where they have trouble understanding something, I can make revisions on my pages and prepare better lessons.  Even I´ve got a special page where I´m answering learners´ questions. http://www.turkishturkish.net/your-questions.html

And there is also "your page" where you can ask me to make a special lesson for you. http://www.turkishturkish.net/your-page.html 

And all that is free, off course.

 

Quoting Deli_kizin

 

 

 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.

 

 

13.       dilsever
12 posts
 18 Nov 2009 Wed 12:17 pm

 I´m happy that you find it useful.

Quoting nifrtity

 

 

 i am logg on this site and i find sooooo vry good and useful many thannnnnnnnnnks

 

 

14.       Deli_kizin
6376 posts
 18 Nov 2009 Wed 04:08 pm

Good luck with your website, Serdar I hope many people will benefit from it!

15.       Bea Blanchi
213 posts
 18 Nov 2009 Wed 05:54 pm

I just had a look at the website, and it looks fine, fun and engaging. Well done!

 

I also think that the interactive process is a great incentive to bring people to actually take lessons.

 

Inovative way to promote learning Turkish.

 

I liked it, thanks, I think it will help me and I´ll benefit from it.

 

 

16.       dilsever
12 posts
 18 Nov 2009 Wed 06:20 pm

 

Thank your for your comment, Bea Blanchi. I’m happy you liked the site. In these short story lessons, I’m directly talking to you and you are talking to me. I’m telling you a mini story but after every sentence I’m asking you many many questions. All you need to do is to pause the audio when you hear a question and give me a short answer without thinking about grammar rules. When you play the audio again, you will hear my answer. If you study a lesson again and again, you’ll see that you can answer the questions fast and easily. You’ll learn both grammar rules and vocabulary naturally.

Visitors can contact me on my site and they do not have to submit their emails to do that. Just tell me you want to see more short story and grammar lessons for free.

Enjoy learning Turkish.    

  

 

Quoting Bea Blanchi

I just had a look at the website, and it looks fine, fun and engaging. Well done!

 

I also think that the interactive process is a great incentive to bring people to actually take lessons.

 

Inovative way to promote learning Turkish.

 

I liked it, thanks, I think it will help me and I´ll benefit from it.

 

 

 

 

17.       dilsever
12 posts
 29 Nov 2009 Sun 01:39 am

From now on, Serdar´s website is completely free and no subscription is needed.

18.       alameda
3499 posts
 29 Nov 2009 Sun 03:01 am

 

Quoting dilsever

From now on, Serdar´s website is completely free and no subscription is needed.

 

This is the first time I´ve had a chance to visit your site. I found your pronunciation very clear and easy to "hear".  IOW it´s easy to distinguish the start and finish of the words.  Too many times when one gets sound files, they are difficult to actually distinguish the start and end of words. 

All languages have unique ways of word fusion.

 

Keep it up, it looks very good, and thank you for all your work.

19.       lady in red
6947 posts
 30 Nov 2009 Mon 12:32 am

 

Quoting dilsever

Learn to speak Turkish naturally, easily and fast through MP3 conversation lessons based on short stories.

Visit www.turkishturkish.net to learn more. All the content on the site is free.

  

 

This is an excellent site Serdar - çok teşekkur ederim.  

20.       Turkish-Teacher
257 posts
 01 Dec 2009 Tue 05:34 pm

 

Quoting lady in red

 

 

This is an excellent site Serdar - çok teşekkur ederim.  

 

It´s an amazing website, Serdar. Thank you very much really. I´m proud of you. (i also think its much better than this website)

 

Joking apart, you´re doing a great job, Serdar

 

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