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Difficulties in Learning Turkish
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50.       Elizabeth
18 posts
 09 Jun 2005 Thu 06:02 am

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...

51.       Blub
19 posts
 09 Jun 2005 Thu 10:56 pm

I think the main difficulty in learning for every language is the vocabulary..because once you know the grammar (and yes those can be hard) you wont have to study it again. But you're never finished study on the vocabulary of a language.

52.       dalou
7 posts
 03 Apr 2009 Fri 04:54 pm

words order in sentences is still a big mystery for me, i wish there was a kind of formula that helps , something like subject+VERB +complement , in such away we can practise forming meaningful sebtences it would really be great

Head bang thanks for this best site ever

53.       acabali
34 posts
 06 Apr 2009 Mon 10:11 am

The best book I have ever found for serious study is called "Turkish Grammar" by G.L.Lewis , emeritus professor of Turkish at the University of Oxford, England.  The ISBN number is  0-19 815838-6   (Pbk).  Do not be terrified of this book, once you get used to it and the index it can help you greatly to solve almost any problem you have.  This book is far better that the junky book-in-progress that they gave us in the beginning Turkish class at a world famous university which I will not name. 

54.       just_you
4 posts
 25 May 2009 Mon 12:32 am

it is first time when i write here.i had problems too in learning turkish but you are lucky because some of you are from england.i am from romania but i have luck because i know english.not perfectly but enough to understand a lot.hardly i buy a little dictionary(turkish-romanian and romanian-turkish),because i didnt find in my city.i learnt grammar(not all).i am still learning.but i must learn words.and verbs.turkish it is very difficult from romanian.in our language doesnt exist present continous or present perfect or past perfect or other tenses.at us is present(like aorist tense),past simple and future.this site is very good for those who want to learn turkish.thank you.have a nice night or have a nice day.see you.byeFlowersFlowers

55.       just_you
4 posts
 25 May 2009 Mon 12:48 am

 

Quoting dalou

words order in sentences is still a big mystery for me, i wish there was a kind of formula that helps , something like subject+VERB +complement , in such away we can practise forming meaningful sebtences it would really be great

Head bang thanks for this best site ever

 

 i undestand you because i have the same problem.but i found something which helps me.ex:the man with the fishing rods in his hand will be at you friend´s 50th birthday party tomorrow night.when you translate in turkish the order is:hands his in which are fishing rods the with man tomorrow night friend your of 50th birthday party will be at.so the order into sentence is :1.the adjectival description of the subject 2.the subject 3.time clauses 4.the description of the adjective for the object 5.the object 6.the verb(at the right tense).i hope this will be helpful for you.see you.bye

56.       jawad
10 posts
 25 May 2009 Mon 08:22 am



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Add quoted text here i dont know why i learn turkish very fast . Çok yaþa turkiye

57.       etesa
12 posts
 06 Jun 2009 Sat 06:57 am

 

Quoting jawad

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Add quoted text here i dont know why i learn turkish very fast . Çok yaþa turkiye

 

 Confused what did you want to mean?

58.       Manning
22 posts
 11 Jun 2009 Thu 04:33 am

I´m sure I will repeat a lot of what has already been said, but here is my personal list of challenges:

 

1 - Suffixes. There are suffixes in English so the concept is not totally foreign. Howeverthere is nothing to compare to Turkish suffixes.  Turkish sometimes feels like a "Linguistic Lego set" where you just keep adding things on at the end. There IS a clear logic to it all, but it is still daunting to try and master. As an example, someone once constructed this word (probably as a joke):
"Çekoslovakyalýlaþtýramadýklarýmýzdanmýþsýnýz"

 

Suffixes control most aspects of possession, tense, plurality and many other things. Sometimes suffixes eliminate the need for auxilary verbs... and sometimes they don´t (I don´t fully understand this yet).

 

2 - Vowel harmony. I´m not even going to try and explain this because I don´t yet fully understand it myself. But it is very important.

 

3 - No gender. There is limited gender in English so it is not that unusual. But it still throws me at times.

 

4 - Lack of cognates (words with a similar origin). When learning a western European language (eg. French, German,etc) you have the advantage of a shared historical origin for many words. Compare "Night" (English) - "Nuit" (French) and "Nacht" (German). Turkish has almost no shared words with English (the exceptions being modern loan words like tren - train and otobüs- bus). So you basically have to learn the entire vocabularly from nothing.

 

What´s worse is that it is so easy to automatically see cognates where they don´t exist. I still have trouble remembering that Gün means "day" and not "good", because when I see "Gün aydýn" I mentally associate it with "good day" and not "day-good".

59.       nifrtity
1807 posts
 20 Jun 2009 Sat 11:50 am

the clock in turkish it is diffcult

60.       Bea Blanchi
213 posts
 20 Jun 2009 Sat 01:21 pm

In learning Turkish, what I do find difficult is indeed the way suffixes work and how they are added to the root of the word.

 

From French, Ensligh or Italian, we have to construct the sentences on the reverse order

 

However, the construction is fairly straightforward in Turksih, which I enjoy andit fits with my mind.

 

No problem with vowel harmony, it even comes naturally, probably the musical ears are helping.

 

In any case, I love learning Turkish, and will keep up!

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