I think today (the 10.th), the first day is better. Cheers.

Greetings,
welcome to Turkish Class. I hope you will enjoy your stay. You might want to have a look on here:
http://www.turkishclass.com/turkey_article_1_2

The most common and easiest greeting would be as follows:

"Kurban bayramınız kutlu olsun."

I have added your on number one. Cheers.

On this page there are some sound files you might want to listen.
http://www.turkishclass.com/pronounciation.php

Also try this website's speaking dictionary after you have become a member.
http://www.seslisozluk.com/

Type, iki, iyi, isim, etc. and press dinle for pronounciation.

Turkish is a phonetic language. Sounds of any letter are always the same.
i (like any other other letter in Turkish) has always the same sound. Its sound is the same as in easy, keep, meet, key.

I edited my post above and have added the translations.
You can also double click on any Turkish or English word in our website. Cheers.

We will work more than one year on this project and we have just started. There are a few of us and others are welcome to join as long as they can simplify a given Turkish text. Of coures we will ask our foreign members for feedback when something comes up. Our members will be the first ones to know.
You could maybe help checking if a text is easy enough or not.
By the way I like your idea on a text being limited with certain grammer issues. We are already working on this idea.

Excellent point!

There is a possibility that two dirrefent verbs might have the same present continuous tense conjugation. Why? Because when following the link about you see from my explanation that there are two ways to go with the present continuous tense. One for verbs which have a verb stem ending with a vowel and one for verbs which have a verb stem ending with a consonant. It turns out they can lead to the same result.
Example:

denmek > den > den + iyor > deniyor (denmek: to be said, deniyor: is being said)
Çok çalışan öğrencilere inek deniyor.

denemek > dene > deni > deni + yor > deniyor (denemek : to try, deniyor: is trying)
Bush, bozulan imajını düzeltmeyi deniyor.

kapmak > kap > kap + ıyor > kapıyor ( to catch, is catching)
Kuşlar atılan balıkları havada kapıyor.

kapamak > kapa > kapı > kapı +yor > kapıyor
Adam kapıyı kapıyor.

I have send you a story of Ömer Seyfettin. This is the story others are working on and we will compare the works afterwards and discuss. I havent yet simplified this story but I hope I will as well.

maybe bod can put it somewhere so others can benefit as well. By the way we are working on the subject this year (2006) and not next year.

Mine are very short and very simple. We are working on a project of much moe complicated books starting from 200 words and ending with 1500 words. But lets see this with time.