Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Turkey Related Subjects => Learn Turkish => Topic started by: seegeekay on January 07, 2007, 14:18:24 PM
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sue and i have always made a,point of learning some words of the language of whichever country visited, so in 2005 having signed on the dotted line,knew we must learn much more turkish, found a brilliant website for beginners--linkwordlanguages.com and for the princely sum of £8.99 were able to download 311 pages .It really has worked well,sue and i learnt our first 10 words in half an hour then when we got to turkey and tried out our newly learnt words we were able to fine tune pronunciations.its worth having a look with a few examples on the first page to show how you do it. :)
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I agree, you should learn a few words at least. So I went to our local Library and borrowed a book plus CD's for beginners Turkish and although basic it has proved a good start. Has anyone used Rosetta Stone? It is fairly expensive but is it good?
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Just noticed the link to Transparent Language at top of page. I clicked on it but they don't apear to do Turkish unless I missed something.
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Yeah, you missed it ;)
http://www.transparent.com/languagepages/turkish/turkish.htm
From what I've been told, the Rosetta Stone package is a bit overpriced for what you actually get. The main complaint seems to be that it doesn't take you very far for what is quite a lot of money.
Incidentally, having seen the Linguaphone PDQ package myself, I would say it suffers from the same problem, although at a fifth of the price of Rosetta Stone, I suppose it's not bad value for what it is.
JF
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I also have the pdq set, but found going to the local college more beneficial.
Tinx ;)
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It definitely is. The biggest problem is that so few colleges and uni's have Turkish on the curriculum.
I learnt a lot more from one thirteen week course at Dundee Uni than from any books or CD's. A lot of that may have been down to the teacher, but you can't beat having someone there, face to face, to answer questions and help with pronunciation.
The core textbook we used was "Colloquial Turkish" by Aarssen & Backus ISBN 0415157463 which you can buy with an accompanying set of CD's or Tapes. Even on its own its a pretty good starting point.
JF
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Also worth dipping into for some interactive lessons are;-
http://www.onlineturkish.com
http://www.turkish-center.com
http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/alphabet.htm
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www.turkishclass.com is good too. Rosetta is good, got ours on ebay, its a homemade copy but a fraction of the usual price and does the same. Cd's in the car work well too, its amazing how much goes into the subconscious while you're driving.
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http://www.turkishclass.com/ Is very good, but don`t forget the online dictionary that you can download from the site for free.
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I have just had a three month subscription with Rosetta the first few times I used I thought it was quite good but after that I found it tedious...and how useful is "the boy is under the aeroplane" or "the boy is on the aeroplane"? Needless to say I have cancelled subscription!
I am in my third year of Turkish at a local college and still finding it really difficult and struggle beyond the basic greetings and phrases-its certainly not easy I still find it hard to recognise the verbs with all the different endings on them!!
Good luck seegeekay.
Jo.
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I moved to Calis 2 years ago and didnt know any turkish at all. I used a turkish language dvd at first to learn the basics(hello,how are you)etc but then being in the company of turkish people all the time helped me to learn and speak it with more confidence.I found that u av to try and speak the language even though u might not really know how to pronounce it, u will find that the turkish people will know wot ur trying to say and will probably tell u the correct way to say it. Im still not fantastic at it but im getting there.