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CetteFilleErica
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 Message 1 of 9
04 March 2013 at 8:46pm | IP Logged 
Can anybody recommend any good textbooks good for teaching myself Turkish?

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hrhenry
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 Message 2 of 9
04 March 2013 at 9:17pm | IP Logged 
When you say textbooks, do you mean actual, classroom textbooks? Or do you mean courses?

There are quite a few resources out there for self-learners. There's Teach Yourself,
Colloquial, Assimil, Pimsleur, and of course there's also FSI, which is old vocabulary-
wise, but gives a good grammar base to go on to other materials.

There's also a bunch of Turkish-only class-oriented materials out there, but you
wouldn't make it very far in these courses without completing at least one, preferably
two of the above-mentioned self-teach courses.

R.
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renaissancemedi
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 Message 3 of 9
06 March 2013 at 3:09pm | IP Logged 
You can look for Michel Thomas and/or Pimsleur for audio only, to learn how to speak with some confidence.

Combine those with any of the methods you'll read about all over this forum. Assimil, Linguaphone, teach yourself, colloquial turkish, etc. There is a lot of material available, if you look to the right place.

My own favourite lately is the FSI course, but I am not sure where you can find it online these days. Look around the forum for "FSI" and see what other members have to say for finding the turkish course.



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alang
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06 March 2013 at 3:20pm | IP Logged 
renaissancemedi wrote:
You can look for Michel Thomas and/or Pimsleur for audio only,
to learn how to speak with some confidence.


The quoted sentence suggests there is a Michel Thomas Turkish course. Can you provide
more information, as the thread is specified in learning Turkish.
I am aware of a Pimsleur Turkish, but where did you hear of a Michel Thomas one?
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renaissancemedi
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06 March 2013 at 4:13pm | IP Logged 
I don't know if there is, I assumed there was. Wishful thinking on my part...
I have the Pimsleur myself.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Edited by renaissancemedi on 06 March 2013 at 4:17pm

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alang
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06 March 2013 at 5:13pm | IP Logged 
renaissancemedi wrote:
I don't know if there is, I assumed there was. Wishful thinking on my part...
I have the Pimsleur myself.

Thanks for pointing this out.


I was wishing, that you were right and there was a Turkish MT course. I like using all audio courses first. Maybe in time there will be one.
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hrhenry
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 Message 7 of 9
06 March 2013 at 7:43pm | IP Logged 
alang wrote:

I was wishing, that you were right and there was a Turkish MT course. I like using all
audio courses first. Maybe in time there will be one.

A couple years ago when MT was setting up its presence on Facebook and revamping their
current courses, I asked them if they were planning on introducing any new languages. I
got a very candid "No" as a response.

Unless they've changed their stance - and I don't see that they have - I doubt a
Turkish course will ever become available.

In any case, if they were to change their mind and release a Turkish course, the OP
would have far surpassed the need for such a course by the time it was released.

R.
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LatinoBoy84
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 Message 8 of 9
07 March 2013 at 2:18am | IP Logged 
Assimil, Colloquial, Teach Yourself, FSI, Elementary Turkish, the University of Arizona
DVDs. There are a few more that are worth looking at.


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