well you wrotte the same thing before me

Man.. you are right. Its impossible to learn if you dont have Turkish people around you and are without materials. Dont leave like that. If you are offended I wont speak anymore sorry.

well you should be happy if you have turkish books,in my country you cannot buy even dictionary all i have is internet

The best you can do is to watch videos and listen to songs at youtube,also i watching turkish movies every day and reading turkish news milyet

hope it helps you to stay

same here i dont have any books, there isnt any good here, only like a dictionary book but i dont need that i need grammar books!! thank god for internet though!!

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_41388

do you know this..if you dont you have try it, it realy helps

and this

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_54567

Here are the differences between bu, şu, o :

(two persons looking at the same picture in the same distance)

A- Bu kim tanıyor musun? (Do you know who is this?)

B- Hayır, onu tanımıyorum (No, I do not know him/her)

(Now let´s take the picture from the table and put on a distant wall.. )

A- Şu kim tanıyor musun? (Do you know who is that?)

B- Hayır, onu tanımıyorum ( No, I do not know him/her)

There is no distance difference between A and B yet A says bu/şu and B says o.. why?

Answer: o is for person or thing previously referred to.

We use bu for close persons/things and şu for distant persons/things. o is for both but only used for persons/things previously referred to.

bu = this

şu = that

o = s/he, it

You can say, " şu arabaya bak!" but never say, "o arabaya bak!" for a car you see for the first time (distance is not the matter between bu/şu and o)

let´s see it in an example:

A - Vayyy, şu kıza bak! (Woww, look at that girl!)

B- O benim kız kardeşim  ( She is my sister 

B - 

Let´s go back to the picture:

A- Bu kim tanıyor musun? (Do you know who is this?)

B- Hayır, onu tanımıyorum (No, I do not know him/her)

A- Peki, şunu tanıyor musun? (well, do you know who is that?)

B- Hayır, onu da tanımıyorum (no, I do not know him/her either)

Here in the example şu is used for the other/second one (supposing that it is a bit away)

nota bene

This is an alternative lesson for those who are confused because of the explanations carelessly done by the native speakers of the language.

Finally.

I was trying to compare scalpel´s examples with what Kuntay and Özyürek write here based on their observations on a large material of Turkish conversations. They are talking about visual attention while scalpel mentioned things that are previously referred to. No matter how we want to describe it it seems that şu is generally used for drawing someone´s attention to an object (ok I admit which is not exactly at hand) and o comes to the scene as soon as the speaker and the addressee agree about what the talk is about.

For example, imagine a dinner with two people, where one of them needs to refer to a glass away from her on the table. In English the speaker could say ‘could you pass me that glass? ’ since the glass is away from where she is sitting. However, in Turkish, depending on the addressee’s visual attention on the referent, the speaker would use “şu” if the addressee’s visual attention is away from the glass (e.g. when she is concentrated on the food), but use “o”, that is the distal form, if the addressee’s attention is directed towards or presumed to be on the referent. (Küntay& Özyürek 2003, http://home.ku.edu.tr/~akuntay/KuntayOzyurek.pdf)

This is taking one more step closer to reality..

"the addressee´s visual attention on the referent" is pretty enough for the speaker to treat the referent something like previously referred to. In this case we can talk about an implied agreement between the speaker and the addressee.