Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Turkey Related Subjects => Learn Turkish => Topic started by: Elsa Padfield on November 09, 2007, 10:53:14 AM
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Just found this site giving away language software. It's downloadable, not tried it yet but Turkish is on the list. I've entered my email address as it says and had a message stating that my file link had been sent to my email address. :)
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and the site is ?:D
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www.imnotgoingtotellyou.con
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www.justhackedyourpc.con
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OOPS! I'll just find it and post it right away!!!!!
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http://www.byki.com/free_lang_software.pl
It does work, I tried it. You get flash cards which show the word written and the software 'says' the word. It's spoken quite quickly but someone may fins it useful and it's free!
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thanks elsa, i'll try it tomorrow when i i'm off and have more time
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:D Elsa just clicked on that, dont know what i've done but there was a globe lashing papers at a pc, does this mean anything, I know I really need pc lessons. ;)
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Excellent site.
One very small drawback. You have to have Turkish letters set up somewhere on your computer to enable you to answer some of the questions correctly.
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I've just clicked on the link to see if it worked and it did on my pc. I haven't been through all the exercises because I've only just found it myself. Just thought someone out there may be interested. The only draw back I found on 1st inspection was the fact that the speaker spoke really quickly so it was difficult to copy. Praps it'll allow me to recognise some of the words when spoken to me. There's not just Turkish though, there's other languages you may want to learn.
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I was just going to tell all about this free language course as I found it listed as being really good in the Fethiye Times. But noticed that it has already been posted on here. Anyway I'm finding it really good and actually enjoying learning! Determined to speak some Turkish for my next visit in March. If you have problems with the course there are lots of tips including how to convert your keyboard (most are american style) so you can type the Turkish letters. You just press the arrow key after the letter and it converts the letter to Turkish letter. I will let you know how I get on! But really the words are becoming imprinted on my brain which takes some doing beleive me. Speaking is one thing but the spelling can be a bit tricky!
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You can actually slow the speech down slightly.....just click on the little Turtle in the bottom left hand corner :)
It is not going to teach you to speak Turkish but is an excellent practice/pronunciation tool and hey it is free!
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Thanks i have just downloaded this link too, i only know a few words, i can get by, so this will be a even better start to a new start in Turkey,,tesekkur. Caroline i.e cas
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I downloaded this about 4 days ago after Googling "Learn Turkish Free". Since then I have had two e mails from "Transparent Language" entitled Byki Guide 1 and Byki Guide 2. I've not studied them yet but it does look pretty good 8)
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KKOB it is easy to change your exsisting key board to a Turkish keyboard, on your langauge bar add turkish langauge, then when you swithch to turkish the key board will include all extra turkish letters, the layout is explained on the site http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk/ which is another excellent langauge site. :)
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Hi, we have this on our PC , and its really good, for just the basics for me and the kids, if you press the TURTLE, it actually slows the speach down, have not quite mastered how to say BROWN yet, nor AIR PORT, but the other stuff seems to be ok, not easy, but its going into mine and the kids brains, and thats the main thing,,plans are to move to Fethiye within the next 15/18 months..Also, the more we learn the more we will be using when out there in March, all happy days...
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That can't be right, brown is an easy word to say (http://www.calisvilla.co.uk/laughing.gif)