As I am preparing a list of sites that provide lessons in the Turkish language I thought I might as well share it with all who are interested in various ways of learning. I shall be adding to the list later and if you know other sites which provide a lot of lessons you may post it as well.

1-THE BEST TURKISH LANGUAGE & GRAMMAR REFERENCE ON THE INTERNET
http://www.turkishclass.com/grammarMain.php

2-THE BEST TURKISH DICTIONARY ON THE INTERNET
http://www.turkishdictionary.net/


3-List of online lessons with selectable answers.
http://users.pandora.be/orientaal/classroom.html

4-All you need to learn about Turkish grammar.
http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/

5-Audio Files for teaching Turkish but no text to refer to
http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/Turkish.html

6-Explains grammar, gives examples and then tests you.
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~guvenir/CATT/GrammarTutor/

7-Learn practical Turkish, scroll down to see the contents
http://www.practicalturkish.com/learning-practical-turkish--table-of-contents.html

8-Language games and Turkish resources
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/babur/home201_2002.htm

9-Turkish lessons with some audio and translation
http://cali.arizona.edu/maxnet/tur/

10-A wealth of Language lessons stories and others, but you have to look properly for them and to be patient. Very nice
http://www.princeton.edu/~turkish/

11-TV lessons (Very nice)
http://www.international.ucla.edu/turkishtutor/

12-Not much here, with audio
http://www.onlineturkish.com

13-Baisics of Turkish grammar, explained clearly. Look for the list of all suffixes (link 5)
http://www.cromwell-intl.com/turkish/Index.html

14-List of Suffixes, formulas and functions with examples:
http://www.dnathan.com/language/turkish/tsd/

15- Dictionary Turkish/English/Turkish
http://www.dictionaries.travlang.com/TurkishEnglish/dict.cgi?query=laborer&max=50

16- Advanced lessons Learning turkish online - Menu on the right then you need to press Sonraki > on the bottom right.
http://babel.uoregon.edu/ylc/selfstudy/turkish/lessons/

17- Questions & answers Turkish and English with audio
http://clio.dlib.indiana.edu/~ncagilta/tlepss.html

18- game sort of learning words with audio
http://cassandra.sprex.com/teachionary/Turkish.html

19- English-Turkish Vocabulary Quizzes
http://iteslj.org/v/tr/

20- A selection of photos about different subjects, point at the object to see its name
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~guvenir/CATT/TalkingPictures/

21- Learn the time
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~guvenir/CATT/saat/

22- Dictionary English/ Turkish / English (and other languages)
http://www.langtolang.com/
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23- Very nice and good for learning - Articles and stories written in a simple way in both Turkish and English
http://home.unilang.org/main/resources.php?section=stories&lng=tr

This is a phrasebook that consists out of nearly 200 phrases using various grammar constructions and a lot of basic vocabulary.
http://home.unilang.org/main/phrasebook.php?book=chattalk&sourcelang=tr&targetlang=en

This is a medium-sized phrasebook containing useful common phrases. Either press on the required link or scroll down to view all. You need to wait a little while for the page to load (but it is worth it.
http://home.unilang.org/main/phrasebook.php?book=unilang&sourcelang=tr&targetlang=en#politics

Turkish Grammar - The Basics (clearly explained with examples & Exercises
http://static.unilang.org/resources/courses/learnturkish_en.php

Quizzes - you select the number of questions and the category-wait for the page to load.
http://home.unilang.org/interactive/drill/drill.php?lng1=en&lng2=tr&actions=options
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wowww... thank you so much!! this is absolutely great!! i really appreciate you making this for us.. im even gonna save the page seperately in my favs!

Thanks so much. These links are great. Especially the TV lessons and the Indiana university. that is absolutely fantastic! BRAVO BAB

Fantastic links thank you so much!

im currently on the "turkishlanguage.co.uk" one... and i have realised that there is much in turkish which i dont know!! i cant belive some of the stuff i have been saying, thinking that it was right... the shame... and i have also realised just how big a language really is.. i cant even believe that i know that much english... how do people speak about 6 languages?? thats just amazing ha?
anyway.. i also want to check out that one with the tv lessons or something.. thats probably good thanks... i think that this is going to be a very popular thread...
well done for starting it...

anyway.. i recommend the site forementioned.. it goes through things very well and i think everything is on there... and i can even feel myself learning things.. and i love it hihi i must start studying turkish more often.. imagine how much i could have known by now!!

The TV one is great and so is the Indiana university one with the sound files.

I have a lot of problems with finding a 'Turkish voice' - do you know what I mean? i have a great french accent for example. i actually sound like a french person. But when i speak turkish well....
let's just say Atilla says my Turkish sounds like 'Orcish' and he is right.

I have noticed that girls in Turkey talk like they are crying. They kind of whine and whinge when they talk. I'm far too old to talk like that, my friend's mum speaks too fast for me to get the 'tune' of her voice.

I just sort of grunt and groan in a highly unattractive way when I speak turkish hence, the 'orchish' comment from Attila.
Well the Indiana site given by Babs, has girls speaking 'normally' and it gives me a much better idea of how to speak, not just the language/words, but the cadences of the voice too. Its really very useful.
Thanks again BAB xxx

Bab's links are by far the best. However, for those whose native language is not English - you may prefer sites in another language. The following sites are in French. Granted this will not be very useful for most learners here, but some people may find this easier. Or for those who can speak French also and want to practice 2 languages at the same time - parfait!

The following 2 sites cover the basics:

http://malenki.mon-asso.org/turk/

http://coursdeturc.free.fr/index.php


This link has some nice lessons and ways to test your knowledge.

http://pagesperso.laposte.net/hbayard/apprentissage/apprentissage.html

Enjoy!

arent you all just such lovely people eh..?

bless you all

WOW this is great ! Thanks Bab!! AMAZIN!!!

I really feel sorry for myself!! Being in my examyear doesn't give me much time to study Turkish. Tho that is what i wanna do like every minute!

A language is indeed very big, but therefore even more attractive. I feel like i wanna 'conquer' this language. Some of my friends make fun of me, they think i'll never learn it because to them it sounds abracadabra.. But oh yeah One day I'll kick ass and talk turkish to all of you

Yes Lyndie, i suffer from the same problem as you do! According to my french teacher i sound like a Française too It's the language I've been wanting to study for many years, but now I switched to Turkish. I wanna learn this fascinating language and its literature inside out. But i can't find my 'Turkish tongue'!!

Ohh can someone help me?! Because my sweetheart once taught me a turkish proverb, meaning you learn a language the best from a native speaker.. somethign with 'dil' in it twice.. once meaning 'tongue' and once meaning 'language'.

I can't wait to see Kadir again so that he can kiss me and teach me this wonderful language

Links mentioned here are added t our list. If you have any other links you could mention them here:

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_6_1448

This is a unique list of links that serves a certain propose, you are more than welcome to copy all the links to your list, but I like to keep building up this list, with respect to, a certain criteria. Having viewed more than 50 sites that offer Turkish lessons, I would like to keep this list not affected by other links that might proof suitable for some but not for all.
If there are any site rules against carrying on building it, please tell me before you decide to delete this thread including the list and waste my efforts again.

bab,
why should we delete your list? We are not prejudiced people, are we? Keep building it. You are more than welcome to do so.
The message above was meant to be to others who might read your great list and might have one or two other websites in mind.
Some of these links were mentioned in our links page already. But I just would like to have the most covering list on that subject. BTW, I have my criteria as well. So I dont add any website to the list.
http://www.turkishclass.com/resources_5

Something I found today...

Learning PhraseBook English-Turkish

It is an online phrasebook with audio of all the phrases included... I have looked through a few of the sections, and it looks very helpful. There is the option of using either English or Turkish as the source language and you can choose to hide the translation if you want to test yourself.
Maybe it will be useful to others as well
--- there are also other languages besides Turkish

teşekkür ederım - I think I shall find this invaluable

I agree that:

www.turkishdictionary.net

over all the best online dictionary because it provides a Turkish character generator and has some wildcard capability.

However

http://www.zargan.com/sozluk.asp

will provide some lists of whole "expressions" that can be very useful, especially when replying on this forum.

Add this one:

FSI Turkish

I've posted about this before. It is in the public domain, so it is FREE. It is a two-volume course, accompanied by hours upon hours of audio, and it was used to train U.S. Foreign Service personnel. Granted, it was written in the 1960s, so it feels a little dated. But once you get past the first few lessons it's invaluable for automating language structures with endless drilling.