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| Talib Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6663 days ago 171 posts - 205 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (classical) Studies: Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 1 of 11 01 July 2011 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi,
I'm (tentatively) planning to move to Turkey soon, and am thinking of a plan to learn Turkish. Please comment on it and make suggestions. 1.) Pimsleur Conversation Turkish (16 lessons) *I can't see paying all the money for just 14 more lessons. (Would anyone recommend Linguaphone PDQ over this Pimsleur course?) 2.) Teach Yourself: Beginner's Turkish 3.) Teach Yourself: Turkish 4.) & 5.) FSI Turkish and Elementary Turkish by Thomas (done together) My thinking in making this plan is that I have a limited budget, and I already have the materials for 2, 4, and 5. best 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5132 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 2 of 11 01 July 2011 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm familiar with all these courses. If you go with Pimsleur, you really should get the full 30 lesson course. You won't get to past or future tense until after lesson 16. Linguaphone PDQ sucks in my opinion. It's very limited and in the end you won't learn all that much from it. The Teach Yourself Turkish course is really a pretty good course, but it's dense. There's a lot of information in the course that might overwhelm you if you don't take the time to digest it. I found I was getting bogged down in the course, so I initially just focused on the dialogs, then went back and went through the grammar. I absolutely recommend this course though. FSI is also a good course. I didn't do anything with it until after I'd finished the above-mentioned courses. I got a lot out of the drills, personally. I loaded them all onto my MP3 player and set them to random playback. There are a couple other courses too you might wish to consider: There's an Assimil Turkish course with French as the teaching language, if you're French is up to snuff. I chose not to go that route, but it gets good reviews here on HTLAL. There are also a couple good Turkish-only courses - Türkçe Öğreniyoruz and Adım adım, but they may be hard to find and/or expensive. I was lucky to find a good used copy of T.Ö. complete with cassette tapes in a used bookstore. That's another course I can highly recommend, but not until you've completed a course or two before. I had already completed Pimsleur Turkish and Teach Yourself Turkish before I got to this course. Kolay gelsin. R. == Edited by hrhenry on 01 July 2011 at 6:31pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Patchy Newbie Joined 5130 days ago 25 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 11 01 July 2011 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Tenerife, Spain.
Will you be anywhere near Kuskoy?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQf38Ybo1IY Maybe you'll want to pick up a few phrases of their whistled language there. It's a motivation for me to learn Turkish, as I am a whistler of Spanish (can communicate with other whistlers over a distance of up to two miles by whistling alone) and am informed that the Turkish system is very similar. I'd like to open a thread here on the subject to see if there is any interest, but I don't know how. Anyway, best of look with the Turkish. I'll be following this thread and may decide on going for one of the methods recommended to get me in reasonable shape for when I go to visit Kuskoy next year. Best wishes, Patchy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Talib Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6663 days ago 171 posts - 205 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (classical) Studies: Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 4 of 11 01 July 2011 at 10:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks hrhenry. I'll cross out the PDQ course, and perhaps I can find the full Pimsleur in a library. By the way, I did order the Hugo in 3 Months today, so I am considering putting that into the plan. Would it make more sense to use it after TYS?
"There's an Assimil Turkish course with French as the teaching language, if you're French is up to snuff." I have practically no French, so that is not an option right now. Maybe the Assimil Turkish would work later on in my studies once I am able to translate the material myself and ignore the French parts. Then it wouldn't be much different than an all Turkish book. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5132 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 5 of 11 02 July 2011 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | ||
I don't have any experience with Hugo in 3 Months. Sorry I can't offer an opinion on it. There will probably be quite a bit of overlap in content as far as what grammar is taught, but you can never have too much content - you can make use of vocabulary differences, etc. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Talib Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6663 days ago 171 posts - 205 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (classical) Studies: Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 6 of 11 02 July 2011 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have another question. I have the Colloquial Turkish course with cds, but I haven't really been considering using it because it had a couple bad reviews on amazon. I wondering if those opinions are aberrant or it's just not that great of a course. Has anyone tried it?
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| KCor Groupie United States Joined 5010 days ago 50 posts - 72 votes | Message 7 of 11 02 July 2011 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can't speak for the Turkish course. However, I've completed both the Teach Yourself and
Colloquial series for German and if someone was asking me which of the two I would prefer then I'd tell them Colloquial. I liked that book very much. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zuneybunny Diglot Newbie United States turkishtrip.wordpres Joined 4939 days ago 32 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English, Mandarin* Studies: Spanish, Turkish | Message 8 of 11 06 July 2011 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm also studying Turkish from Teach Yourself. IMO, they load you with a LOT of new vocab
each chapter, and the trick is try not to look every single one of them up, or you'll get frustrated. Other than that, I think the grammar is pretty understandable and built on nicely. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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