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| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 6939 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes  Studies: Uzbek | Message 1 of 3 02 September 2013 at 3:19pm | IP Logged |
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Materials for Turkmen have been fairly limited, but the Peace Corps has produced some materials that may be useful. They are:
a 373-page textbook entitled "Colloquial Turkmen" http://photos.state.gov/libraries/turkmenistan/868986/pdf/Co lloquialTurkmen2011.pdf an 86-page "Turkmen Language Grammar Guide" http://photos.state.gov/libraries/turkmenistan/868986/pdf/Tu rkmenLanguageLearningGuide.pdf a 119-page "501 Turkmen Verbs" http://photos.state.gov/libraries/turkmenistan/868986/pdf/50 1TurkmenVerbs.pdf a 305-page "Turkmen-English, English-Turkmen Dictionary" http://photos.state.gov/libraries/turkmenistan/868986/pdf/En glishTurkmenEnglishDictionary.pdf None of these materials have audio, unfortunately. All of them are in the new and official Turkmen Latin alphabet. Also, the Peace Corps has shut down its operations in Turkmenistan, and so it's not necessarily certain that these materials will be available long-term. An earlier Peace Corps manual for Turkmen, produced a couple of decades earlier and in the old Cyrillic script, is available at the ERIC site: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED358743.pdf Note that I've been trying to update the resources cited in the "Turkic languages" profile in the "Collaborative Writing" section of the forum when I become aware of new materials. But you have to look in my own entry in that thread, and not the original version of my listing of resources that Chung included at the beginning of the thread. (I can't update Chung's contribution, and so can only add new items in my own entry.) ADDENDUM: I ran across a fairly extensive online Turkmen-English/English-Turkmen dictionary in Latin script which may also be useful: http://edebi-dil.com/en/dictionary Edited by daristani on 06 September 2013 at 12:50pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6951 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 3 02 September 2013 at 5:11pm | IP Logged |
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Don't worry, I'll just incorporate whatever additional comments of yours into the first post.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6951 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 3 of 3 15 July 2014 at 1:04am | IP Logged |
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Lately I've been thinking quite a bit about the Oghuz languages and after browsing what's available for Turkmen, I think that someone who knows only English and with a goodly amount of motivation could attain at least A2 (maybe B1?) capability in Turkmen just with the free material available. It's not enough to become "fluent" but still certainly useful for travelling to Turkmenistan (?), dealing with that one-in-a-million Turkmen exchange student or just for someone interested in Turkology and already fluent in at least a couple of the other Turkic languages.
Regardless of what one thinks of the Peace Corps, DLI and the government that backs them, the PCV's guides combined with DLI GLOSS and Headstart along with the unaffiliated Five College Center's archive of short interviews on cultural topics with native speakers are a boon and should be enough to get someone going before taking on authentic material. In a way I'm a little disappointed that the armed forces or foreign ministries of other countries aren't as generous in releasing their language-learning materials as the American ones. For example I'd be most curious about language learning materials (if they exist) used by the Russian military or government to train their servicepeople/employees when dealing with the other ethnic groups in the former USSR (assuming that they don't cop out and assume that such people have plenty of speakers of Russian in their midst) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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