Djouks Bilingual Pentaglot Newbie France Joined 5004 days ago 23 posts - 32 votes Speaks: French*, Breton*, Serbo-Croatian, English, Spanish Studies: Turkish, Kurdish
| Message 1 of 5 31 December 2013 at 2:36pm | IP Logged |
Hi everyone.
I've got a friend who leaves in Turkey. He wants to ımprove his English but I don't know which method to advice him as I'm not from Turkey. İn French we've got assimil method which is very efficient (I learn turkish this way) but I can't advice it to him as he doesn't speak french. If there is someone who knows a good English method for turkish speakers out there it would be great. Thanks in advance.
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Mareike Senior Member Germany Joined 6236 days ago 267 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German* Studies: English, Swedish
| Message 2 of 5 31 December 2013 at 3:00pm | IP Logged |
There are Turkish Assimil books.
Assimil offers a turkish based textbook for German, English and French.
http://en.assimil.com/methodes/kolay-ingilizce
On the other side Assimil isn't cheap.
I like Assimil, but I also need much more grammar explanations. An additional grammar book might be helpful, but that depends on the learner.
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Djouks Bilingual Pentaglot Newbie France Joined 5004 days ago 23 posts - 32 votes Speaks: French*, Breton*, Serbo-Croatian, English, Spanish Studies: Turkish, Kurdish
| Message 3 of 5 31 December 2013 at 5:02pm | IP Logged |
Thank you very much for your answer. İf it isn't cheap I can offer it that is not a problem. For grammar explanations I think he has other sources like English normal lessons.
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fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4536 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German
| Message 4 of 5 31 December 2013 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
I understand from your message that English will be his first foreign language. Although
I like and use Assimil a lot, I cant recommend a Turkish based assimil for English.
His mother tongue, say, his primary mental decoder isn't a European language, not even
from Indo-European gross family. He should first learn English grammar with Turkish
explanations, get convinced about English syntax, and then can continue with worldwide
methods like Oxford Headway etc.
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Djouks Bilingual Pentaglot Newbie France Joined 5004 days ago 23 posts - 32 votes Speaks: French*, Breton*, Serbo-Croatian, English, Spanish Studies: Turkish, Kurdish
| Message 5 of 5 31 December 2013 at 8:18pm | IP Logged |
Actually, he already has some basis of English, and his primary language is kurdish which is a indo-european language, so I don't think it will be a problem for him to use assimil.
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