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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5848 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 33 of 56 24 March 2010 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | ||
Some years ago I used to have TRT television (in Turkish) on the cable, but I could only understand some words of it. Now I don't have this TV program anymore. I have just (thanks to Ilhan) checked some "dizis" (Turkish TV-series). They are full of spoken dialogues and the Turkish actors have a standard pronounciaton. I also have the possiblity to watch films in Turkish (with German subtitles) in our local cinema but there often a summary of the content is missing, so I won't take the expensive risk to choose and pay for a film which afterwards has not a suitable topic. So to summarize this for listening to authentic dialogues on a native level such dizis can be useful. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 24 March 2010 at 4:22pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| oguzhan8565 Newbie TurkeyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5316 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes | Message 34 of 56 07 May 2010 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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hi, everybody.I am from istanbul Turkey. Turkish and Azerbaijani people can understand each other 70 percent maybe more maybe less.in the university i had a Azerbaijani teacher and we could understand each other well.But i cannot say it for the other Turkic languages.turkish and Azerbaijani has a similar pronunciation.But i don't think I can understand the others.If you want to learn a Turkic language you have to chose one of them.I recomend Turkish or Azaerbaijani because if you know one of them you can understand the other.
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| altay Pentaglot Newbie Turkey Joined 5118 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Persian, Azerbaijani, English, Turkish*, Greek Studies: Armenian | Message 35 of 56 25 December 2010 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am a native Azerbaijani but i understand turkish,turkmen,uygur,uzbek,tatar and kazak ofcourse with the help of turkmen.turkmen is the best choice for understanding turkic languages. Edited by altay on 25 December 2010 at 1:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Polyglot_gr Super Polyglot Newbie Greece Joined 5096 days ago 29 posts - 64 votes Speaks: Greek*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, GermanC2, Italian, SpanishC2, DutchC1, Swedish, PortugueseC1, Romanian, Polish, Catalan, Russian, Hungarian | Message 36 of 56 25 December 2010 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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How about Tuvan?
A couple of years ago one of their “ventriloquist” songs became an international hit. It was impossible for me to pinpoint where this music came from, so I searched on the Internet. I was surprised to learn that their language is a Turkic language! It seems that it is very distant from Turkish, both geographically and linguistically. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5346 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 37 of 56 28 December 2010 at 12:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I've developed an interest in Uzbek language and literature, but sadly there is little I've been able to glimpse. Anyone here familiar with Uzbek literature? I've searched for Uzbek-language bookstores on the internet with no luck.
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| za20 Newbie Germany Joined 4198 days ago 35 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English | Message 38 of 56 29 May 2013 at 10:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Turkish and Turkic Languages are very similar to each other. If you can speak one of them, you can easily understand and communicate with speakers of other languages, at least, at everyday-life basic level.
If you want to learn a Turkic Languge, I would recommend that should be Turkish. Because Turkish speakers comprise about 43 % of the total Turkic Speakers. Plus Azeri which is mutually intelligible with Turkish, the number of the total speakers of Turkish and Azeri account for about 60 % of all Turkic speakers. After learning Turkish, you can easily learn Azeri and Turkmen maybe in one week, you can learn Uzbek and Uyghur with little effort, maybe in 2 weeks and you can learn Kazakh and Kyrgyz with some more effort, maybe in 3 weeks. The grammars of Turkic Languages are almost the same but the differences are found mainly in pronounciation and some vocabularies in use. Recently many more people in Turkic Republics in Central Asia have been learning Turkish and so they can understand and speak Turkish. Edited by za20 on 29 May 2013 at 11:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 39 of 56 29 May 2013 at 11:01pm | IP Logged | ||
I don't know about that. Depends on where a Turk is from within Turkey. Someone from Istanbul would have a much harder time with Azeri than someone from, say, Erzurum. And Azeri has some Russian influence that you won't find in the western part of the country. Granted, they're vocabulary differences, but there are some minor grammar differences, too. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| za20 Newbie Germany Joined 4198 days ago 35 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English | Message 40 of 56 29 May 2013 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
It is not a problem for a native Turkish speaker to understand Azeri, whether he/she is from western or eastern Turkey or not. A native Turkish speaker can always understand Azeri easily. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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