Hi,

I have been trying to learn turkish for a couple of months now but i´m not sure the best way to  learn. I take a night class at uni once a week but this is mostly converational turkish to use on holidays. I will continue with this at least I can now walk into a resturant or shop and order and buy things in turkish if needed.

My uni teacher gave me the colloquial Turkish book and Cd but looking at the lessons here I thought maybe i should start with vowel harmony,  suffixes etc

Can anyone give me some advice please.

Many thanks

Hi,

First i dont know, where  are you from ? Are you living in Turkey or not ? but my opinion is if you are living in here;  if i were you, i would prefer  Language  Course. Because it would be faster to learn for grammer and speech.

If you are not from Turkey and thinking learn by yourself at home, first “get an english grammer book first” (by the way, i dont know, what is your main language ? either.) cause, you will need it. To understand foreign language grammer, you must to know your language’s grammer first. After than you can pass to Turkish.

As i wrote on the top; this is my way and you dont have to follow it. Im sure, you can find many ways for it. J Take care please. Ý hope i could help you a little bit...

Thanks Sercan,

My native language is English. I am from the uk and yes I am embarrassed to say and agree I should take more care with my spelling and grammar in english 

Hi, you know Rossetta Stone. there is a program you can learn basics and hear the pronunciation of words. It is fun way of learning language, you hear, see pictures, write, record own voice and so ever...

 You would not be brilliant in turkish, but I think it is helpful..

But i think the best way of learning languages is to go the country where the language is spoken for a year or little more.

Good Luck to you and all learners!!!

Hi Paula,I highly recommend ´Teach Yourself Turkish´. It´s simple,starts with the basics and easily explains the grammar construction of the main tenses.I refer to mine often.

Don´t even bother with ´Colloquial Turkish´ it will just confuse you.

Good luck.

Hi Stella,

I have done a few chapters of the colloquial turkish but found myself referring to this site for more detailed explanations of the grammar so it seemed pointless. It did help me learn new words,  a few more phrases and some pronunciations but it didn´t pull it all together for me. I will have a look at teach yourself turkish thank you.

Hi! I have just ordered Teach Yourself Turkish from an online store. I saw your comments about it, so I wanted to add something. Although my copy of Teach Yourself Turkish has not arrived in my mailbox yet, I have used the Teach Yourself series for Swedish and German and I am quite impressed with it.

Good luck

I completely agree - my copy of TYT is held together with string now!  I refer to it constantly.  I bought ´Colloquial Turkish´ too but really didn´t like it much.

  I bought a new one when my first one fell apart through overuse.

 I hope you´re not implying I´m tight!  .  Actually I did buy another copy but the newer edition was really badly bound (a fact that was mentioned somewhere on TC) and it fell to pieces even quicker so I decided to stick with the first one in which I´d made loads of notes