Hello Ali,
I ordered the books already.One of them is "Turkish for foreigners" vol.1.by Hekmet Sebuktekin.
Thank you again for your help.

Everyone learning Turkish... don't give up!!

I'm doing it at uni, joint honours in Turkish and French, and there have been times I've considered dropping Turkish and doing Portuguese (which would be cheating as I'm fluent in Portuguese)
But seriously, its a great language, I chose it for linguistic reasons as well as cultural interest etc and it's beautiful and intriguing.
The books I have are:
Teach Yourself Turkish (Pollard)
Langenscheidt English-Turkish Turkish-English dictionary
Turkish Grammar (Underhill)
They're all pretty good. Also if you have a uni nearby, see if you can check out their kutuphane, you may be surprised.
Also if you can go to Turkey, go! And speak as much as you can. Best go to non-tourist places where you'll be forced to speak Turkish. I haven't had chance to do that myself since starting the degree but I thats how I got to be fluent in Portguese, by going to Brazil and I was fluent in less than a year.

I know how hard it is, especially memorizing vocabulary, but it is worth it!

Turkish can be a hell's work to an Indo european speaker,coz in indo european languages,you dont have to order the words,but just the sentence...

But in Turkish,you both have to order the words and the whole sentence

Like:

I went there-it is so simple
I + past of go + location

ben oraya gittim-it is complex I think

I + ora(there - location) y(suffix to protect the hard-saying of two vowels coming together that is used for location indication) a(the addition of location) + git (go) tim (and the first person indicator of past tense)

Finding a language tutor isn't hard -- just contact your local university, and offer to befriend a Turkish student. The social high point of my week is my visit to the place where I need to wear clean socks. A charming young couple ply me with tea and turkish delight, then exchange help with English for help with Turkish.

I imagine, if you are in Turkey, being a native English speaker would make it easy to exchange tutorial services with college students.

not everywhere there are turkish teachers in universities...

Turkish STUDENTS should not be too hard to find. I mean students FROM Turkey, native speakers of that language, who can cheerfully help you with your pronunciation, if you are making a good-faith effort to teach yourself using other resources.

that's what I'm talking about: not everywhere there are Turks, especially student, willing to help. I study in Krakow, in Poland and this is one of three cities where there is turkish language tought. But unfortunately there are only ONE Turkish teacher who is Turk and NO turkish students at all.

i agree with Seticio that finding a native in poland is hard. however, u may get lucky if u try very hard. i found one who works for a local company in a city much smaller than krakow. now he's teaching me turkish in exchange for polish. so, perhaps it's an idea to ask friends if they've heard about a turkish person, not necessarily a student, living in ur area. then all u have to do is find a way to contact them. good luck to all

My only problem is my lack of vocabulary, I am picking it up very quickly, but I just need some words toi makes sentancces with......

Other than that, a piece of cake, i'll be fluent in a few months (well, maybe not fluent...lol)

Liz
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Hello All,

Just wanted to share my experience. I am just deputed to Turkey for a period of 2 yrs. Looking around, I realised there's no way I can manage without learning this language.

One of the best ways to learn is to enroll for classes. Works best. Quite expensive in Turkey though. In addition, the following helped:
- Turkishclass.com website
- participating in conversations at office & lunch
- reading newspaper (not for grammar but vocabulary and general terms like weather, food, shopping etc.)
- reading emails
- talking to taxi drivers
- talking to waiters at hotels

Ibrahim

Hey, just in case anyone's interested. Ani from Istanbul is offering private lessons. Check out the thread in this website.

For me, the hardest part of the language is the sentence structure and suffixes. Takes time for one to reprogramme the brain...