Fun For english speakers...

?can you say: Tanıştığımza Memnun Oldum

Tannish Tim's uh

Ma'am Noon

Old dumb


Pleased to Meet You!

Here's another turkish to english pronunciation. I do these tricks to help with pronouncing the turkish phrases quickly without tripping over my tongue!

Yakinda gorusmek uzere (See you soon!)

Ya couldnt I goo do shmeck use odd uh

For english speakers...if you say these words quickly, they are in tempo to the turkish phrase (as spoken by a flash card program speaker) Notice the d or soft t pronunciation for the turkish 'r' in the phrase. Because there is a roll of the tongue which we dont usually do with our r's. I hope this 'trick' helps others.

Teresa,you are learning too quickly for my liking slow down,well done!good tip!

Ey Teresa, when I read your post I was so glad my mother tongue is not english! It must be really difficult for you to learn to read Turkish and to produce the sounds. I just realized this with your post. For me as a german native speaker it is quite easy to speak turkish, I think. The only difficulty is ı, the other sounds we have them all quite the same. I just had to learn to read ş(sch), ç(tsch), c(dsch), nothing more!
The only thing that İ am struggling with now is the stressing of syllables... İ know it is not done as strongly as in other languages. But if anybody could give me some explanation...?

Thank you, vineyards, for your explanations. I will have to study it more.
Elisa, the link worked fine for me...

This word is nearly impossible for me to say:

başardılı ... from the tc dictionary it sounds like:

ba shardle uh

...that's as close as I can to pronouncing it

but then...how would I pronounce başardıliydı ?