If you ever looked at Japanese websites (when watching online series or films you are often redirected to Chines or Japanese sites), you´d definitely notice the difference between smilies. The jap/chinese ones are much more shaped with rectangular and squar lines. Maybe it has something to do with the stilistic forms of western an asian alphabets.

Actually, when I first started dreaming in Turkish, I didn´t speak much Turkish yet because I was too shy. However, the Turkish I spoke in my dreams was much more fluent than in real life since there were no inhibitions holding me back from speaking freely what I knew in the back of my mind.

Why do you believe one cannot dream in any language but its native one?

 Clothing, shoes and dressing accessories (such as belt, hat etc)

Good luck with your website, Serdar I hope many people will benefit from it!

The newest posts are shown on the bar on the right ´New in Forums´. As for saving, right now the only way is to save the thread in your favourites, but it is a nice suggestion, I will discuss it with the other admins and see if that would be possible.

 You would if you had worked where I did

Not really sensitive for what foreign people matters, my point of view on that topic is rather valid for any child (also turkish, actually, mainly turkish) that is taught in this way in contests or educational centres. Neşeli, çocuk dünyasına ve çocuk diline yakışan az şiir ya da şarkı gördüm o yarışmalarda, şenliklerde vs.

 Well I think the idea is really good, pronounciation is a big problem to tackle for new learners and by hearing you learn the way sentences are structured, intonation and pronounciation rather fast. I can say I learnt more from watching tv and listening music and the people around me than I did from grammar rules, however for those who arent as lucky as I was to spend a long time in Turkey, learning from audio files with explanatory grammar seems a good alternative abroad.

But I took a look at one of the available free audio files (Güneş ve Rüzgâr) and I think the level is way too high for a beginner. There are way too many different grammar things, future tense, -duğu suffix, present continuous, -a, -e noun cases (as well as related to verbs), -tikçe, etc etc. For example, it took me a long time to understand the difference between ´ben olduğumu´ and ´kimin olduğunu´, I was wondering why there was no genitivus in ´ben´ but there was in ´kimin´, and I had covered the basics by the time I got there! Yani, someone who hasn´t learned how to say ´nasılsın´ let alone how it is constructed, how can they understand ´nasıl olduğunu merak ettim´, how can someone who doesnt know how to say that the wind blows, use ´the more the wind blowed´? For example, one question needs to be answered with ´Esmeye başlıyor´, but where is the explanation that present continuous is ´iyor´, where does it say that the a gets dropped and then the i changes into ı because of vowel harmony, where does it say the verb stem is es- and başla-, and how does a learner know that ´başlamak´ goes with ´-e´?

I think the idea is really useful, but my suggestion is you focus your audio files on 1 part of grammar each, for example first a text where the present continuous is used a lot, then one with di´li geçmiş zamanı and so on. There is too much information for the beginner in one piece, and though someone who is excited to learn will puzzle out all the different things in the first lessons, will realize it is so much and I am afraid will get tired after a while. Its better to put a lot of pieces with little information than a big piece with a lot of information.

I know I basedmy opinion just on this audio file but that is because it is the only one I was able to open, and frankly it is too complicated. I understand that before starting the weekly lessons you start with studying the basic grammar you provided (which seems good), however, it is the basics that a new learner wants to have covered quickly and thAt in my opinion, is done faster by audio, so maybe it would be nice to provide audio files for them as well. The idea of learning Turkish ´the audio way´ may be conveyed more if you provide small texts and audio files using the grammar provided in the quick start menu.

 Free? You mean free after you pay 5$ a week? Or do you mean all the content on the entry page is free?

Looks like a nice idea though.

1) If the main problem is pronounciation I suggest you listen music and watch turkish tv series (the new one Ezel is said to be really good. Only watched the first episode and seemed promising, if in the meantime you want to learn something about politics watch Bu kalp seni unutur mu, if you like drama and ´dress-to-impress´ kind of soap operas, Aşk-ı Memnu might be it for you ). Trying short translations here in the translation forum is also a good way to practice the rules you learnt and get fluency in writing and thinking in Turkish. Pronounciation is best learnt in an environment with turkish people around you, but if you cannot stay in turkey that long, watching tv and listening music is the best you can do from abroad I suppose!

2) Through the font control of your computer.

3) Read the older threads here (as said before, you can find virtually anything, try the search button on any specific topic if you like), or if you have any questions about a certain tradition, festivity, religious aspect, just open a new thread and ask.

That´s generally a trouble-making sentence in religion or so it seems..

Youre welcome btw.