Hi Guys,

To try and improve my own Turkish vocabulary I have written a test which should aid learning. It only tests nouns, adjectives and verbs (all in the infinitive). If it is helpful to you also please feel free to make use of this tool.

It randomly selects a word from a list and displays either the Turkisk or English word. It then presents the user with a choice of 12 possible words of the same type (noun, verb or adjective) to choose from.

Try out the Vocabulary Test!!!

In more detail, the 'level' option controls the number of words available when you start. Level 1 is 50 words, 2 is 75 words, 3 is 100 words, etc. There are currently only 80 words available so two levels but I hope to add more words later today.

As you get more and more words right, so the number of words available increases. I've tried to start off with common words - the sort of words that you can easily put into everyday conversation. As the word count increases they will get more and more obscure so that anyone new to the language learns words that they can use immediately right at the begining.

Let me know what you think and if you can suggest any improvements......

Plus there is the Vowel Group Test that I wrote a while ago.

UPDATE: There are now 160 words included

Bod this is very kind of you isn't it! I'm sure it will be very useful for everyone!

creative dude bod...

cheers bod i have had a go on this and its good as it helps to reinforce what i know eagely waitng more words cheers bod bud

Thanks Bod - this is really healpful

Bod, thank you!
I like your test very much(especially when it says the right answer, in case you choose the wrong one)!!!

Thank you for your help.

VOCABULARY TEST Bod - this is absolutley fantastic. I am sure it will be of great help to me. I have added it to my favourites and i will use it constantly (well its more use than playing 'Bejewelled' at every dull moment! heheh)
Thanks so much - I'm just off to try the other link you gave us. i think its is extremely generous of you to share this great work with us. Thanks a million

I've also added an automatic display that tells you how many words there are when you first go to the site It is just above where you select the starting level!

I am sitting here, just wordless....

Thank you, bod!

this is brilliant thank you so very much
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Erdinc has a project, looking for the 1000 most used turkish words. You have a way to go bod! 840 to be precise heheheh Keep up the good work, we certainly all appreciate this great idea of yours and again thanks and again it is very generous of you to share this.

That looks useful

Did you get the idea from that word game somewhere else?

I loved it Bod!!! I'm sure you can find somebody here to help you with more advanced vocabulary. I've been talking about the need to set up thematic units but never thought it could be done by means of such a great test.Keep up the good work! Thanks a bunch

[Yeah - I keep meaning to contact erdinc to see if we can come up with something useful.......his language skills and my computational skills might make a great combination}

This is a great idea and really very helpful and I am sure you and Erdinc would made a great combination.Thanks a lot.

Hi bod,
I checeked the tool it works well but two words caught my eye. These are "kind" and "difficult".

The main trandlation for difficult would be "zor" like in the sentence "this lesson is too difficult", "bu ders çok zor".

The other word "kind" when used like in the sentence "he is a kind person means "içten" or "iyi kalpli".

Very usefull.

Thank you so much.
I wonder sometimes, what people do if they have time for making such stuff, open for others to benefit from.
With white jealousy, very greatfull!

I already spent about 2 hours on the test. Got through all the words.

LOOKING FORWARD FOR UPDATES ON THE VOCABULRY.

Thank you again!

As a complete beginner this test has proven invaluable Bod. It must have taken you a long time to imput to computer, many thanks

wow its perfect.

Hi bod,
for this tool if you would like you could post a text with the translations you are using so if there is something unusual most of the native speakers can tell you that. I think afterwards it would be best to leave this tool as it as and maybe to condsider other tools.

I.
Another tool can be made for the case suffixes. For instance like this:
1. Choose the correct word:
Ben (okul) .............. gidiyorum.
These below are buttons:
okula
okulda
okuldan
okulu

2. Choose the correct word:
Kitap (masa) .............. duruyor.
These below are buttons:
masaya
masada
masadan
masayı

II.
Another tool could be considered for the possesive suffixes. For instance like this:
1. Choose the correct word:
Bu benim (bisiklet) ...............
These below are buttons:
bisiklet
bisikletim
bisikletin
bisikleti
bisikletimiz

2. Choose the correct word:
-Senin (araba) .............. var mı?
-Evet var.
These below are buttons:
araba
arabam
araban
arabası
arabamız

III. You could make another too for the syllabling issue but I'm not sure how to make it. Currently admin and me are thinking of a program that can devide and Turkish word to syllables. Since the sounds are almost always the same we can record the sound of all existing syllables and the program using these sounds would be able to read any Turkish text.
Smillar to microsoft reader but English isnt as suitable as Turkish so a computer program when reading Turkish texts would produce almost identical sounds to normal speech.

IV.
Smillar things can be made for verbs. Almost any issue in Turkish grammer can be formulised. I can help on this if needed.
For new ideas you could start by checking these pages:
http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_6_1448
This page is a good example:
http://users.pandora.be/orientaal/Tu04a.html

In any grammar issue if you need the rules to be mathematically expressed thats no problem. For instance in the syllabling issue we had a smillar issue. A programmar would be able to make a small program that shows the syllables for any word you enter.

It would be great if somebody with programming skills could help me on some projects I'm currently working on about Turkish.

The program has now been modified........

From the Main Page there is now a link that displays all the words in both Turkish and English along with the type of word that it is!

Hopefully this will help native speakers ensure that the words that are included are suitable and acceptable

You guys are doing such a great job on this together.
Very exciting.
Thank you!

Now I'm sure you knew I would have questions about these
So as not to disappoint

This is great, thanks.

Ship is still gime instead of gemi.