Listening music by following its lyrics text is very useful for a learner. In Turkish, because of words can take different places in sentences, you may hear very different sounds. Listening Turkish music will help you to see this difference. As first step, listen the song without looking at lyrics and then listen it by following the lyrics, this will help your brain to detect the words easier.

For a while, I have been considering to write the speech texts of some parts of some famous movie series that you can watch by Internet. (TV Series) I believe that watching movie series and following the speech text are going to be very useful together but becuase of lackness of time, I still couldn´t start to do it. But as soon as possible, I´m going to start to do it for a better help to learners.

Watch and read the news in www.trt.net.tr which is the official channel of Türkiye. They generally put the texts and videos of news at same time, so you can both watch and follow the text. This website´s Turkish is also pretty simple and easy to understand.

thx

turkishcobra //

This has got two main reasons actually:

1) Syntax: Although Turkish language has got a current syntax, we change the places of words for more stress.

Niye eve gittin?

Eve niye gittin?

Niye gittin eve?

2) Because of every word has got a meaning alone itself, it is very important to understand what does each word want to say and what they are going to mean when they come together.

Gelmeyeceğini bildiğim için bir şey demedim.

Gelmeyeceğini: That you aren´t going to come.

Bildiğim: That I know

İçin: For

Bildiğim için: Because of I know.

Bir şey: Something

Demedim: I didn´t say.

As you see, by only one word, we can express what a sentence want to say.

thx

turkishcobra //

Can someone explain R sound detailed in Turkish? (locations of tongue and lip positions 

 Thanks

Here is some geographical ranking information based on TC visitor count in 2009:

Top Continents

1. Europe  

2. Americas

3. Asia

4. Africa  

5. Oceania

Note that Turkey and Russia are counted in Europe in these statistics

Top Countries

1. Turkey (19.39% of all visitors)

2. United States (17.25%)

3. United Kingdom (14.11%)

4. Egypt (2.51%)

5. Romania (2.16%)

6. Poland (2.13%)

7. Germany (1.96%)

8. Canada (1.94%)

9. Netherlands (1.86%)

10. Australia (1.73)

Top Cities

1. Istanbul (8.09% of all visitors, almost 40% of visitors from Turkey)

2. London (5.25%)

3. Ankara (2.27%)

4. Izmir (1.67%)

5. Cairo (1.65%)

6. Mugla (1.29%)

7. New York (1.20%)

8. Bucharest (1.06%)

9. Manchester (1.01%)

10. Riyadh (0.90%)

11. Antalya  

12. Adana  

13. Sydney  

14. Bursa  

15. Athens  

16. Bangkok  

17. San Pedro

18. Amman  

19. Budapest 

20. Sofia

Some interesting pieces of information about 2009 TC visitor profile:

- We had visitors from all countries in the world except for 6 African countries (Western Sahara, Guinea, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Congo)

- In terms of the average time visitors spent on the site country rankings are completely different. Starting from top it goes like this: Lesotho, Burundi, Singapore, Gibraltar, Afghanistan... In average time spent on the site Turkey is #21, US is #82, UK is #32, Egypt is #50, Romania is #22 and Poland is #27. 

- Statistics show visitors from 11,714 different cities

Can someone explain R sound detailed in Turkish? (locations of tongue and lip positions 

 Thanks

http://www.kenanimirzalioglu.com.tr/ (still under construction)

but you can find some info here:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1090070/

Alameda has written a link above:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2536419/mustafa_ceceli_karanfil/

You can listen by this address.

thx

turkishcobra //

 Hava weather