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| aliebe Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 5834 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 14 07 January 2010 at 5:07am | IP Logged |
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What would you recommend for learning some basic Turkish? Are there any courses out there that are particularly good? Any that are particularly bad and that should be avoided? and why?
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| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6367 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 14 07 January 2010 at 6:58am | IP Logged |
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In English, I've heard good things from TY Turkish, and I've seen a book by Dover on Turkish grammar somewhere. You may also want to check out Assimil's Türkisch ohne Mühe. This is just from what I've heard and from reading reviews; I haven't actually used any of these products.
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| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5574 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 3 of 14 08 January 2010 at 4:47am | IP Logged |
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http://clp.arizona.edu/cls/tur.htm
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| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6918 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 14 08 January 2010 at 5:28am | IP Logged |
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Turkish Tutor Edited by translator2 on 08 January 2010 at 5:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6602 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 14 08 January 2010 at 5:44pm | IP Logged |
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I liked Elementary Turkish by Kurtuluş Öztopçu, although the accompanying audio CDs are of low quality. Perhaps they've been cleaned up in the newly-released second edition.
I can also highly recommend Hugo's Turkish in Three Months, in spite of the ridiculous title. I see you know German. Don't neglect Turkish materials published in German, especially Lehrbuch der Türkischen Sprache, Herbert Jansky, 9th ed., 1980. Forum member Fasulye was happy with the Güle Güle course, but I've never seen it. A few other links: Türkisch Kurs SesliSözlük Turkish Handbook (NMELRC) Working with all of the above more or less simultaneously, in addition to many hours trying to read Turkish websites and blogs, had given me a thorough grounding in basic Turkish. Good luck! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| zhiguli Senior Member Canada Joined 6440 days ago 176 posts - 221 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Mandarin | Message 6 of 14 08 January 2010 at 9:07pm | IP Logged |
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As for TY Turkish, if you're grammatically minded like I am, I'd suggest looking at the older edition by Lewis. The newer one by Pollard is fine for conversation, but rather light on grammar.
Lewis' reference grammar is also highly recommended. There's also Elementary Turkish by Thomas/Itzkowitz, which, though a bit dated, is still very useful (and a lot cheaper than Lewis' grammar). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5574 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 7 of 14 09 January 2010 at 6:10am | IP Logged |
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There is also a two volume Free FSI course.
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Turkish Edited by LatinoBoy84 on 09 January 2010 at 6:12am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6271 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 8 of 14 09 January 2010 at 2:54pm | IP Logged |
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Langenscheidt's New Standard Turkish Dictionary, by Resuhi Akdimen, is the best Turkish-English, English-Turkish dictionary I know of.
If you know German, use those materials too, as overall German speakers wanting to learn Turkish are rather better served by textbooks and materials than Anglophones are. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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