Last updated on 07 Aug 2008. Hello, Here is a list of online sources on Turkish language. If you feel like contributing to the list please post your links in this topic and they might be added if the website is not too commercial. Regards Erdinç
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Online Turkish Language Sources:
1. TurkishClass Grammar Pages
2. verbix.com A Turkish Verb Conjugation Tool.
3. Some Online Lessons. http://users.pandora.be/orientaal/classroom.html
4. All you need to learn about Turkish Grammar. Navigate through the menu the left. http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/
5. A List Of Most Popular Websites on Turkish Language On the Internet http://www.alexa.com/browse/general/?&CategoryID=559196&mode=general&Start=1&SortBy=Popularity
6. Explains grammar, gives examples and then tests you. http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~guvenir/CATT/GrammarTutor/
7. Scroll down to see the contents. This website is unfortunately not very well organized. http://www.practicalturkish.com/learning-practical-turkish--table-of-contents.html
8. Some Language Related Games http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/babur/home201_2002.htm
9. Turkish lessons at the University of Arizona. You can listen to some simple conversations. http://cali.arizona.edu/maxnet/tur/
10. The website explains some basic topics with many examples. The navigation isn´t the best but you can listen to the sentences and see the translations underneath. http://www.princeton.edu/~turkish/practice/tlepss.html
11. These are fragments of some Turkish films. Click on lessons on top and choose first lesson. Very useful listening material. http://www.international.ucla.edu/turkishtutor/pages/home/blackborder-fs.html
12. Basics of Turkish grammar, explained clearly. Look for the list of all suffixes. http://www.cromwell-intl.com/turkish/Index.html
13. List of Suffixes, formulas and functions with examples. You can click on a a suffix on the alphabetic list on the left and it will explain what it is and will also show some examples. http://www.dnathan.com/language/turkish/tsd/
14. This is a small, nice and clean website that offers lessons for intermediate and advanced learners. You need to navigate from the menu on the right panel. You listen to a text and than answer a few questions about what you have listened. http://babel.uoregon.edu/ylc/selfstudy/turkish/lessons/
15. This website has some puzzle games with audio. http://cassandra.sprex.com/teachionary/Turkish.html
16. English-Turkish Vocabulary Quizzes http://iteslj.org/v/tr/
17. WinMekMak: The Magic of Conjugating Turkish Verbs http://www.ipb.nu/winmekmak/
Scroll down and click on the link for the latest version. There is no installation. Simply put the exe file somewhere on your computer and double click to run it. For instance, save the program on your desktop and leave it there. This program is for free. I strongly recommend it. I have contributed to the last version myself. I think it works great. It recognises the verb while you type. Type an infinitive and it will give you full conjugations. You can also type a conjugation and it will tell you the infinitive. To do this, run the program and press F3 on your keyboard. A new window will appear where you can type the conjugation. Here is a screenshot:
18. There are many test on this website to test your Turkish level. The interface is not the best. http://www.dilmer.com/practice/
19. This online tool replaces Turkish characters with with English letters. For instance, it will replace ç with c, ş with s and so on. It works perfectly. Simply paste your text and press ´submit text´ button. http://www.hlst.sabanciuniv.edu/TL/ascii.html
20. This is the opposite of the previous tool. This will recover Turkish characters where they are missing. It works with average precision. http://www.hlst.sabanciuniv.edu/TL/deascii.html
21. "Sevgili Murat" is an instructional film for Turkish learners. There is a sample movie on this page. You´ll need to order the DVD to watch it. This is movie is for advanced learners only. http://www.nmelrc.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=16&MMN_position=38:34
22. Here are audio recordings of some stories. http://korler.bilkent.edu.tr/archive/SesliKitap/ The stories were selected from the book, ´99 stories from 99 authors. Selim İleri, a Turkish novelist pick famous stories from our literature. These are defianetly for advanced learners. This is the book: http://www.tulumba.com/storeItem.asp?ic=zBK982739QA392 http://www.ideefixe.com/kitap/tanim.asp?sid=KC50FQ0P4M5RNE6LF4BQ
23. List of Turkish words that English speakers are able to understand. Thanks to our members who helped me on this mission: http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_6_1710
24. A new, small website. http://www.learnturkish.bravehost.com/
25. Tenses in Turkish:
http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_2565
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Dictionaries
1. Our dictionary. You can also access to this dictionary by double clicking on words in this website. Try double clicking on any word you see, right here in this topic. http://www.turkishdictionary.net/
2. A Turkish dictionary with sound. You need to click "dinle" (listen) to listen the sounds.
http://www.seslisozluk.com/ The sounds are very correspondant to the actual sounds.
3. An interesting multifunctional dictionary by Sabanci Üniversity
http://www.hlst.sabanciuniv.edu/TL/ It has an Morphological Analyzer of words.
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About Turkia:
1. Many articles and news about Turkia http://www.mymerhaba.com/en/main/index.asp
2. http://www.turkeytravelplanner.com/
3. e-book about Turkia in English. I have downloaded this e-book myself. It has lots of good articles accompanied with pictures. I think it gives a good picture about the country. http://www.globaled.org/announcement050227.php
4. There are many articles in English on this page from an official website. http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/kitaplar/turkiye2003/content/english/index.htm -----------------------------------------------------------
In French
1. http://malenki.mon-asso.org/turk/
2. http://coursdeturc.free.fr/index.php
3. http://pagesperso.laposte.net/hbayard/apprentissage/cartes/fabric/liens.php -----------------------------------------------------------
In Russian
1. http://www.franklang.ru/tr.html On this wensite you can find books in Turkish, links to online libraries, Turkish dictionaries, Turkish grammar, pronounciation, Turkish short stories, Turkish poetry (translated to Russian and English), Turkish songs translated to Russian. This link was mentioned by Slavica.
2. http://www.turkce.ru/ This link was mentioned by renatka.
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In German
1. http://www.berin.de/turk.htm
2. http://www.tuerkisch-lernen-online.de/
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