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Beginning Turkish How can a 'pure' beginner get started learning Turkish language? Start Learning Turkish Now! Here's what new language learner Shirley says about our Turkish learning website... "I'm a real aficionado of this most quirky learning site on the Internet...I love it. It took me a while to get used to your methods, but one thing is sure, I'm never bored!! It's great." Welcome Turkish language beginners! And come on in... You've come to the right place to start learning Turkish now. Related Pages: Profiles of the Turkish People The Turkish Kinsey Report The Lying Eyes Club of Turkey Turkish Culture -- Two Turkish traditions we especially like Turkish Culture -- 4 things you shouldn't do in Turkey Turkish Culture -- 5 things you should do in Turkey Turkish Superstitions Turkish Circumcision Ceremonies A Boy's (and a Father's) Worst Nightmare About Circumcision Also: Turkish Movies - Best-Looking Bad Girl of the 1970s, Sevda Ferdağ Bad Girls of the 1970s Turkish Cinema, Aliye Rona Whole Earth Catalog of Turkish Movies Turkish National Election, 2007 Movie Superhero Tarkan, historic and erotik Mature Dutch Bride in Turkey Mature British Bride in Turkey Mature Swedish Bride in Turkey The 10 Basic Varieties of Unfaithful Turkish Lovers Name that dog! Divorce Turkish-style American Girls Beginning Turkish for English-speakers... Start your Turkish studies here! One of the most 'Frequently Asked Questions' we receive from website visitors is... How can a 'basic' beginner get started learning Turkish at Learning Practical Turkish? The reply that we've developed (and kept updated) during more than a decade now -- which seems to have met most site visitor needs -- is as follows: Oftentimes, it's better to think of our learning Turkish website as a Turkish Grammar Study Guide -- where you dive in as the spirit moves you! Visitors in such a diving mood may prefer browsing through the comprehensive index of all our website pages. But if you are just beginning Turkish, we'd recommend that you get started by taking the links to... How To Learn Basic Turkish -- A Practical Philosophy for beginners (Found in the 'Introduction to The Catalog of Turkish Movies'.) The Story of the Modern Turkish Language Turkish folktales as building blocks for Turkish language learning -- 'The Plucked Goose' The Phonetic Turkish Pronunciation Guide The Spoken Turkish Pronunciation Guide The Free Turkish Downloads Page -- see our Cyprus Times articles for 'Turkish Beginners' After that, we suggest the following step-by-step Turkish study approach... As we mention in our Learn-Turkish Home-Page 'opening statement', we see certain 'obstacles' that English speakers face when they first begin to study Turkish -- obstacles that have to be overcome. What are they? 1) Difficult Turkish vocabulary 2) Odd structure of Turkish sentences 3) So many suffixes (Turkish agglutination) 4) Unusual ways of expressing thought in Turkish Beginning Turkish Topic: Turkish Words (Vocabulary) For overcoming the first Turkish Study obstacle (difficult Turkish vocabulary), we recommend: The Really Quick and Basic Turkish Language Phrasebook 'The Merciless Turkish Vocabulary' page... Essential Turkish Headwords Turkish Verb Tenses - examples with Gelmek (Come) [Turkish verb conjugations, you will find, are very consistent, unlike our 'English' verbs.] The Turkish Verb 'To Be Turkish Numbers Revealed -- all the ways there are to use numbers in Turkish... Sounds of Specialty Turkish (where you may wish to take the link to Accent on Turkish, in preference to some of the others)... Turkish Tongue Twisters -- to help you get the rhythm of the language and...to make you smile. Turkish idioms -- starting with A, B, C, Ç, D, E, F, G, H, etc... Intimate Turkish -- which is not for everyone, we know... But if you are unaware of it, you may be left in the dark at very *crucial* points of certain Turkish 'conversations'. Turkish First Names -- the Plain English meanings An Online Turkish-English English-Turkish Dictionary (See the Turkish Downloads page for an offline-dictionary...) Mini-Tips for speaking, reading, writing better Turkish [While we're on the subject of vocabulary... An as-big-as-you-can-afford bilingual Turkish dictionary is essential to your language learning success. We recommend the Redhouse Turkish-English Dictionaries (they have 4 or 5 different sizes), but they are not easily found in the states (although Amazon.com may have some in stock). If you can't find a Redhouse Turkish-English dictionary, the large Turkish-English Langenscheidt is acceptable (though curiously weak in places). The one to avoid is the Concise Oxford Turkish English Dictionary -- it's very misleading and out of date. Do not buy this one if the original publication date is between 1953 and 1985. It's terrible!] Beginning Turkish Topic: Turkish Phrase and Sentence Structure -- and Turkish Language Ambiguity For overcoming the second Turkish study obstacle (odd sentence structure, which can lead to Turkish ambiguity), we recommend: Turkish is reverse English! The 'Regular and Consistent' Turkish Language Turkish Ambiguities Off-color Turkish Ambiguities (Beware the written warning!) Turkish Pronouns -- Keeping yourself... straight Turkish Adjective Heaven (or Hell) - Part 1 Turkish Adverbs ad nauseam Beginning Turkish Topic: Turkish Suffixes, Prefixes, Particles and Buffers For overcoming the third Turkish study obstacle (Turkish agglutination, Turkish Suffixes, etc.), we recommend: Too many Turkish suffixes -- agglutination The amazing -den Turkish suffix A Turkish Conjunction Celebration, where many of the entries are Turkish suffixes Turkish Prefixes and suffixes -- Turkish Adjective Heaven (or Hell) - Part 1 and Part 2 Turkish Buffer Letters Turkish Language Personal-Endings, which are Turkish suffixes too... Index to Essential Suffixes (and Prefixes) of Turkish for English speakers The other various pages devoted to 'Turkish suffixes' found under 'S' in our Turkish Table of Contents Beginning Turkish Topic: Ways to Express Yourself Turkish Language For overcoming the fourth Turkish study obstacle (unusual ways of Turkish expression), we recommend: 'Expressing Yourself in Turkish' Turkish idioms -- starting with A, B, C, etc... Lost Turkish Articles Doubles Troubles in Turkish How to Translate Turkish, Part I and Part II Practical Turkish Translation Example, Hansel and Gretel folktale, 7 pages Practical Turkish Translation Example, Courtroom Comedy, 4 pages That's a pretty ambitious program we've laid out, we know -- and you ought not concentrate all your effort in one area. Skip in and out of each of the areas -- so you can get an overall 'appreciation'. And don't let yourself be discouraged. Whatever you have time to learn, will pay big dividends. And lastly, make sure you *enjoy* the Turkish language -- recognizing that it's got a very high *cool* quotient... :^) P.S. For Turkish study 'self-drilling' -- don't forget: 1) The *free* 'Talking Turkish' program, the Interactive Turkish Dictionary, the Learning Turkish Verb Conjugator, etc. that you'll find on our 'Downloads' page... 2) Our very own product, the Enhanced 'Learning Practical Turkish Website on CD'. Among other things, it's got 1,000s more voice recordings than we provide online. Is there a good website like this one, for us... to study Turkish too? Ummm. I'm not sure... Related Pages: Profiles of the Turkish People The Turkish Kinsey Report Gossipy Turkish Who's Who The Lying Eyes Club of Turkey Turkish Culture -- Two Turkish traditions we especially like Turkish Culture -- 4 things you shouldn't do in Turkey Turkish Culture -- 5 things you should do in Turkey Turkish Superstitions A Boy's (and a Father's) Worst Nightmare About Circumcision Also: Turkish Movies - Best-Looking Bad Girl of the 1970s, Sevda Ferdağ Bad Girls of the 1970s Turkish Cinema, Aliye Rona Whole Earth Catalog of Turkish Movies Turkish National Election, 2007 Newsreaders Encyclopedic Dictionary, Index Movie Superhero Tarkan, historic and erotik Mature Dutch Bride in Turkey Mature British Bride in Turkey Mature Swedish Bride in Turkey The 10 Basic Varieties of Unfaithful Turkish Lovers Divorce Turkish-style American Girls TIME laid low by True Believers Freedom of Speech gets a fiendish French Twist The God-Awful State of Turkish-American Relations Unrelated fun: Name that dog! Frequently asked questions about Turkey and the Turkish language llustrated Nargile Users Guide -- and Encyclopedia Our Honda Generator -- A Member of the Family Habibullah and the Great Cannon Caper A simple Turkish 'thing'... Turkish Belly Dancers Sneeeezing in Turkish Turkish Terms Of Endearment Turkish Personal Names Politically Incorrect Turkish Humor Why Off-Color Turkish is important too Turkish Movies -- Conventional and 'Erotik', Index The World's Worst Sport Novelty Turkish Wedding Invitations