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| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6207 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 9 of 32 06 July 2009 at 6:43am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Well, I'm now at 36.5 hours of Turkish listening, so I'm starting to get ready to actually study. I ordered two
versions of TY Turkish from my library, I think they were Turkish conversation (CD only) and Beginner's Turkish (which I think comes only with the book--not what I was hoping for). I also found out that Pimsleur Turkish is available online, but can't play on my computer :(. So I think I'll be doing the FSI or Livemocha courses, since I really need to learn aurally to be able to retain anything. Anyways, that's my update for now. Still nothing with Spanish...maybe I'll write this log in Spanish someday. Edited by anamsc on 06 July 2009 at 6:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6207 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 10 of 32 06 July 2009 at 6:45am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Cool, I think Beginner's Turkish is the one I'm getting. How long have you been learning Turkish? Is there any reason in particular you chose it? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6372 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 32 06 July 2009 at 7:44am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Anamsc, you can get TYS Turkish here.
http://rapidshare.com/files/86635845/Teach_Yourself_Turkish_ uztranslations.rar.html Good luck! I plan on learning some Turkish in the future as well, it looks pretty interesting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6207 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 12 of 32 07 July 2009 at 3:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Goosefrabbas, thank you so much! I am eternally grateful, I really think this will help me alot. Good luck with your studies! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| dizzycloud Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6602 days ago 88 posts - 109 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Turkish | Message 13 of 32 07 July 2009 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Hey sorry for the late reply! The version I have is TY Turkish, published in 2003 by Asuman çelen Pollard and David Pollard. I'm enjoying it at the moment, the first 4 chapters weren't hard but now I'm on the 5th chapter with the personal pronouns/direct objects and compound noun suffixes (as well as the other suffixes) and everything in my brain is mushing together lol. But anyway it's a good book, don't rush through it coz I've done that a bit and it won't stick! I'm planning to do the next 11 chapters by the end of July, so we'll see how that goes! Keep us updated on how things go with you and your Turkish studies. Dizzy 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6207 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 14 of 32 10 July 2009 at 5:44am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Hi Dizzy, Thanks for letting me know. I think that's the one I ordered, but I'm not sure. I'm going to pick up the books tomorrow probably. I used TY for Catalan, but I think the grammar's alot more similar to English/Spanish, so yeah, I'll probably have to go through TY alot slower. Anyways, hope your studies are going well, and if I have questions I'll probably ask you :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| pohaku Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5655 days ago 192 posts - 367 votes Speaks: English*, Persian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 15 of 32 10 July 2009 at 9:56am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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My goal is to be able to read Turkish, which I realize is not the same goal as yours or most writers here. I just thought I'd share what I'm doing. I got Nobelist Orhan Pamuk's "My Name Is Red" in Turkish and in the English translation, along with the Lewis "Turkish Grammar," a large Redhouse Turkish/English/Turkish dictionary, and some other books, including Teach Yourself (mine is the old one originally from the '50s) and some simpler Turkish/English parallel text stories that I found through Amazon. I just dug in, after reviewing the grammar, and started working out the book sentence by sentence, making sure I understood almost every grammatical point and vocabulary item as I went. It's excruciatingly slow, but I enjoy that sort of puzzle-solving. Also, I get a boost every now and then because I know Persian (which contains many Arabic words), and there are many Persian and Arabic words in Turkish. It will be a long time before I can read fluently, maybe a year or two or more. However, if I keep it up, reading fluency will come. For reference, it has taken about four years for a friend and me to become quite fluent in our reading of a fairly straightforward Medieval Persian poetic text like Vis o Ramin by Gorgani.
By contrast, I greatly increased my German reading fluency in the last five months from less than mediocre to what I'd call 2/3 fluent by reading Goethe's Roman Elegies, Hesse's Siddhartha, some stories by Hauff, and, now, Narziss und Goldmund, again by Hesse. Now I'm not even looking up words, and the meaning generally flows into my brain without much effort. I know I'm missing some words and fine points, but the feeling of comprehension is exhilarating. I take this progress to mean that, for me, modern German is far, far easier than Medieval Persian or Modern Turkish. However, the study habits I developed from the work with Persian seems to be paying off with German, Turkish, and whatever else I work on. Best of luck with your Turkish! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| OnurKara Diglot Newbie Turkey Joined 5623 days ago 25 posts - 28 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 32 10 July 2009 at 10:27am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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My native tongue is Turkish. I can help you with practicing.
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