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12 Sep 2006 Tue 04:17 pm |
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Quoting gezbelle: i bought the book "colloquial turkish: a complete guide for beginners" which came with cds.
there r 15 lessons in the book, so far i have done 6  |
What do you think to this book???
It is sort of on my shopping list but I don't know how useful it would be!
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12 Sep 2006 Tue 08:39 pm |
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Quoting bod: Over in
I have been learning Turkish since November 2005. When I first started learning, I bought a CD-ROM of beginners Turkish (TalkNow) and I discovered this website! I started by trying to learn some voccabulary from the CD-ROM and by trying to learn the vowel harmony rules from TC. I then studied the four main Turkish tenses (past, present continuous, aorist and future) and tried to get used to constructing very simple sentences.
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It is very difficult to find cd rom with ptonunciacion or something like that in italian,i also look on e-mule, but i found just japanese,or basque...or arabic...any suggestion?
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12 Sep 2006 Tue 09:34 pm |
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I started to try and learn some Turkish when we first went to Turkey about 12 years ago. We went regularly unitl 2000 and I gradually picked up more. The we had a gap until last year - and I had to pick it up again. We have now bought an apartment and will be spending a lot of time over there so obviously I am really trying to get back into it. I too use Teach Yourself Turkish - which I find excellent and easy to understand. Like Bod, I try to think in Turkish with simple everyday phrases and I do find the site very helpful - even the chat room as long as the 'chat' isn't too complicated. Obviously exposure to the language is the most important thing and - hopefully - as we go more often to Turkey my Turkish will improve. I can't understand how someone who makes their home in another country does not attempt to speak the language - however badly (quoting Gezbelle). I thinks its just rude!
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13 Sep 2006 Wed 12:59 am |
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Hi again, I think this is great because we are all sharing and we are all beginners, so we can learn and laugh at our mistakes.
I hope everyone understands this, especally Bod. The stuff I have learned by rote, I find to just accept it than wrangle with it.
My Turkish experience is only of short requests. Where I think I benefitted is with my pronunciation. I know it is correct when they understand me.
Shame my grammar is so poor. But it will come in time.
Jo-Anne 
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13 Sep 2006 Wed 02:49 am |
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Quoting bod: Quoting gezbelle: i bought the book "colloquial turkish: a complete guide for beginners" which came with cds.
there r 15 lessons in the book, so far i have done 6 |
What do you think to this book???
It is sort of on my shopping list but I don't know how useful it would be! |
hi bod,
it's not a bad book at all.
i find that the grammar points are well-explained and the examples given are pretty clear.
the book re-iterates some grammar points throughout the chapters which i find pretty good. there are also ready-references at the back of the book.
there's also passages at the end of each chapter explaining turkish culture, history, foods, etc. which i find useful.
i bought it in a foreign language bookshop here in australia. the guy that sold it to me said this book is aimed at people who have had previous experience in language learning (which i have had), i dunno if that's true or not though.
it says on the back of the book that it is a step by step approach to turkce as it is written and spoken today  a few colloquial terms are used in the book...i have to stop saying "bomba gibiyim"
i don't know how it would compare to other turkish language books out there, like the other ones that have been mentioned, coz i haven't used those ones. but i like this one, it serves my purpose.
i should actually study the remaining chapters in the book coz all the stuff i'm learning now is through tc and the forum and i haven't even gotten up to those grammar points in my book yet!
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13 Sep 2006 Wed 05:46 am |
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Quoting aslan2:
On the other hand I know one person living in Turkey more than 10 years maybe but he cannot make a simple Turkish sentence at all. He can only utter some Turkish words from time to time and that's it. He can use English during his daily life here so apperantly he didn't bother himself understanding the language of the country in which he lives for more than 10 years, what a pity.
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I've met many people like this, all English teachers. We're a little hampered by the fact that so many of the people we meet would rather practice their English than help us practice our Turkish. To make a lot of Turkish progress, we need determination and/or connections to the non-English-studying community.
Most of my Turkish practice that goes beyond shop and restaurant transactions came from people I met through efforts to learn how to play the bağlama (and then later while I was travelling around the east). If I hadn't been doing that, I wouldn't have made anything near the progress I did.
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13 Sep 2006 Wed 02:04 pm |
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Well.. I have found that all the books available to buy in shops are either phrase books or dictionaries.... no good at all...... so..... I have printed off all lessons from this website... and this is proving to be the best possible way for me to learn.... online help is always available when I get stuck....WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR...TRY IT!!! 
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13 Sep 2006 Wed 02:57 pm |
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Quoting Lalecan: Quoting bod: I have been learning Turkish since November 2005. When I first started learning, I bought a CD-ROM of beginners Turkish (TalkNow) and I discovered this website! |
It is very difficult to find cd rom with ptonunciacion or something like that in italian,i also look on e-mule, but i found just japanese,or basque...or arabic...any suggestion? |
I wouldn't bother - I don't think the TalkNow CD-ROM is very good!
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13 Sep 2006 Wed 02:57 pm |
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i'm trying to learn turkish since january 2006, because of my tr bf (we're no more together...  ) and my job (i work in a tr company).
my first source was this site and it is mainly because of it that i am still making efforts to learn. it really keeps my strong interest. thanx a lot to everybody!!!
then, at the end of june, my bf sent me tr language book (tomer, ankara univ.). so now i am doing it, almost every day. i listen to the tapes (they are soooo helpful!). i do exercises (first my bf checked them, now nobody does, so it goes its own way... most probably with lots of mistakes).
when another tr friend of mine is back from his vacation, i'm gonna practice chatting to him.
but mostly i'm trying to pick up words from the conversations in the office (each time a word is pronounced clearly, i look it up and of course try to memorise; also i can recognise the words i've already learnt). but i don't speak in tr in the office (tho i think i could as of now...) that's the matter of politics let's say i don't wanna them know i can understand  (tho a bit at the moment, but i'm gonna improve, am i not? )
so, my only chance is to talk to my tr friend...
haaa, and i've also bought an online package of lessons (also tomer's) but - that's upsetting - there are very minutes in the office when i can listen to the dialogues (no internet at home  ) and it could be really great to practice listening comprehension skills
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13 Sep 2006 Wed 04:59 pm |
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Quoting vonnyz: I was also searching high and low for some books/media on learning Turkish language. So far what I have found in the major bookstores here in Singapore is the book called "Teach Yourself Turkish". Any of you have used this before?  |
If you read the thread above you will see many comments about this book - mostly positive. Personally I think it is excellent although it move move forwards at a fast pace which I like but others may not.
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In the end, I ended up buying a bundle pack (Insight Guides - Turkey by Discovery Channel + Berlitz Turkish Phrase Book). 
Of course I enjoyed reading up on the places, culture, cuisine in the Insight Guides. 