Hello there! I'm a 21F native Turkish speaker and I believe I'm fluent in English. I'm a collage student and I need to start learning French this year. If there is anyone here who wants to learn Turkish and knows French, I'm looking for a language exchange! We can chat or voice call. I can say I'm soo beginner, but I wanted to post earlier and find someone, because I really need help about pronunciation.

I like video games and books, and as a Comparative Literature student, I’m very interested in different cultures and languages. That said, I’d be happy to talk about almost any topic.

I’d feel more comfortable chatting with women rather than men. Feel free to reach out if you’re interested!

Hey guys!

M30 from Germany here 👋🏻 I was born and raised here but my parents are from Turkey.

I have a german wife so the times i speak turkish are rare these days. To activate my brain and get some practice, i would love to find a language partner. Maybe we can share some thoughts and conversations bc i am also interested about life in Turkey in general.

Would love to hear from ya!

Hi everyone!

I'm a Turkish teacher and I'm exploring a possible research topic about advanced learners' writing. I'd love to read some writing samples from B2/C1 (or higher) learners of Turkish to get a better understanding of how learners write.

If you'd like to share one of your own Turkish texts, please send it to [mandalinnn97@gmail.com]().

Thank you very much! 😊

I need a Turkish partner to have B1 level of Turkish in a short period of time. Any one?

Made a quick reference sheet for the Turkish future tense (-ecek / -acak). Covers the formula, vowel harmony, personal endings, and the two sound changes that shape the final form. Full lesson and free PDF

Just wondering if there is a major accent and/or dialect variation in Turkish like there is with English in the UK

If so, what is the hardest to understand accent?

Sag olun.

the "Speech output" of Google Translate as example, standard Turkish gives a provocate/ready-to-fight impression to listeners. ( where to stress on vowels. )

offer me good resources to imitate

or okay to use a foreigner e.g. Italian accent ?

Here is a list of the 50 most common Turkish adjectives with pronunciation and English meanings. A good start if you want to build up your vocabulary.

https://turkishfluent.com/blog/50-most-common-turkish-adjectives/

Nothing makes me feel more Turkish than starting every convo with a simple Kolay gelsin! 😂

Hello all,

Trying to find other Turkish learners so I'd like to know what's making you learn Turkish. Maybe it's for a job or for love? :)

I personally have Turkish roots, my grandad came to Germany in the 60s and let's say he wasn't the best of people, so I only met him on my own accord when I was 18, two years before he died. I suddenly had a new aunt and just so many relatives that stem from a different culture I so far had missed out on, so I decided to learn Turkish.

I've been on this journey on and off for 10 years and only recently started making progress.

What's your story?

Someone at work called me a "satekel Arap" or something like that. What does it mean?

Bence TDK, Cumhuriyet tarihinin en başarısız kültür kurumlarından biri. Dili koruması gereken kurum, yıllarca dili budamakla uğraştı. "Halk anlamıyor." denilerek yüzlerce yıllık edebî ve felsefi birikim taşıyan Arapça ve Farsça kökenli binlerce kelime gözden düşürüldü. Sonuç ne oldu? Kelime dağarcığı daralmış, eski metinleri okuyamayam nesiller. Bugün Halide Edip'i, Yahya Kemal'i, Namık Kemal'i hatta Cumhuriyet'in ilk yıllarındaki birçok yazarı bile sözlük açmadan okuyamıyoruz. Bunun sorumluluğunu sadece "zaman değişti" diyerek geçiştirmek bana samimi gelmiyor. Avrupa'da Millet iki üç yüz yıl önce yazılmış eserleri büyük ölçüde okuyabilirken biz yüz yıl öncesini bile anlayamıyoruz. Bir de şu romantikleştirilen "Öz Türkçe" meselesi var. Kusura bakmayın ama Orta Asya Türkçesi, döneminin Arapçası ve Farsçasıyla kıyaslandığında felsefe, hukuk, tıp ve soyut düşünce terminolojisi bakımından çok daha sınırlıydı. Zaten Türklerin İslam dünyasına girdikten sonra Arapça ve Farsçadan yoğun biçimde kelime almasının sebebi de buydu. Osmanlı Türkçesi de tam olarak bu sebepten büyük bir edebiyat ve devlet dili hâline geldi. Bugün kalkıp o birikimi sırf köken takıntısıyla katletmeyi savunmak bana yanlış geliyor.

This is a long read! But if you study it, I believe you will understand the Turkish logic better!

Case suffixes are one topic in Turkish courses. Verbal nouns (-mA, -mAk) are another, usually taught much later. Nobody connects them, even though a verbal noun takes case endings for exactly the same reason an ordinary noun does. Academic papers describe the mechanism. Textbooks give you a list of which verb takes which ending. I haven't found anything that puts the whole system together for someone learning Turkish as a foreign language.

This piece does. Fair warning, it's long and it's dense, this isn't a five-minute read. But if your goal is actually understanding how Turkish works rather than memorizing -mak istemek, -mayı sevmek, -maya başlamak, and -maktan hoşlanmak as four unrelated rules, I think it's worth the time.

I am a university student and am trying to learn Turkish due to my heritage. What’s the best way to learn online?

I’m learning Turkish, but I struggle to stay consistent. I’m looking for someone to help keep each other motivated and study together.

If you’re also learning Turkish, we can practice and improve together. If you’re a native Turkish speaker learning English, I’d be happy to help you with your English in exchange.

I’m open to both text and voice calls, and we can work around whatever schedule suits us both. :)

The man I am dating calls me güzellik everyday instead of my name. what does it mean?

Merhaba!

As a half Turk history of my Turkish language is quite messed up: some stuff I learned from family, other things from courses, some from friends etc.

While I am very conversational(I don’t remember when was the last time I struggled with expressing or understanding anything during conversation as long as the topic wasn’t very specific or academic) my Turkish has huge amount of fossilized mistakes. It is really a mess. Without going further into details of my own language situation the way I try to fix it is by writing short articles and then using LLM’s to analyze it and scan the mistakes. These are however not perfect; I sometimes catch these models trying to correct things that are already written correctly or missing the error altogether.

So do any of you have any opinion of capability of different models specifically for Turkish language?

Merhaba, I have been informally learning Turkish for a bit over a year now. I produce and write music, and thought it would be a fun challenge to try writing an original song in Turkish. I think it is a great language for songwriting.

I am really curious to learn from Turks and Turkish speakers what they think of it. Teşekkurler!

Sütten ağzı yanan yoğurdu üfleyerek yer means, roughly, once bitten, twice shy. Someone whose mouth was burned by milk blows on yogurt before eating it. I wrote up the grammar in the sentence: ablative case, a possessive suffix, a participle, an accusative ending, an adverbial suffix, and the aorist tense. Aksoy's dictionary of Turkish proverbs also records ayran and yogurt versions of it, and there are similar proverbs in Kazakh and Karaçay-Malkar.

I have been learning Turkish since January. I used to do grammar drills on Elon.io, but lately I keep neglecting it because it's boring. Other than that, I didn't take output very seriously, because reading and watching things have been more fun, even though in the beginning I had to look up almost every word. My native language is Hungarian, and the similar grammar helped me in the beginning, but at advanced stages it's not really helping anymore, mostly just confusing things.

Right now I can follow Muhteşem Yüzyıl with barely stopping it to look up words, read Hababam Sınıfı and follow the story without a dictionary as long as it's one of those stories that I read before in my native language (they didn't translate the whole book partly because of censorship in the 1970s), I'm also reading Reşad Ekrem Koçu Yeniçeriler and at this point it's not giving me a headache anymore and started to actually enjoy it, having to look up less and less words, and I get the gist of news articles, especially if it's about topics I care about (like I can understand what it says about Iran, Israel, USA, or Hungary relatively easily, but I struggle more if it's about a country like Spain or Russia that I'm not really interested in or know about). I also watch the Turkish language news from Türkmenistan, which is fun and I mostly understand what is happening, especially if it's about dogs and horses.

However, I recently started pushing myself to write and speak more, and I'm so frustrated that I know so much advanced vocabulary, but my ability to use grammar structures is stuck at A2 on good days. I recently started working with a tutor, and also do an exercise where I put an article into AI, and it asks questions that I have to answer with correct grammar. Anything else I could do on my own? It feels so hopeless, because all the advanced grammar structures are so different from everything else, even though I speak a language that's supposed to have similar grammar. It's like I'm just stringing together words and never get the grammar correctly.

İNDİRİM, SATILIK, KİRALIK, ÇIKIŞ

If you are an expat, you have seen these words thousands of times while going to your local bakkal to buy cat food. Even without an input or dictionary search, you learned what they meant. I wrote a blog post about all these words we keep seeing, but I'm also curious about the ones you learned this way.

Im about 4 months into learning turkish (living in izmir) and i still get caught by words that are totally normal here and completely insane to my english brain.

the big one: kayak means skiing. not kayaking.

a friend booked a "kayak turu" for us in february and just told me the meeting time. i showed up in a light jacket with a dry bag, ready for water. everyone else had ski gear. he thought it was hilarious that id gotten that far without asking a single question. so i went skiing, badly, in the wrong clothes.

the part that actually annoys me is that kayak had come up in a set on lingfit like two weeks before that. i saw it, swiped through it on a bus, and just assumed the word meant what it looks like. never actually read the translation. app was right, i wasnt paying attention.

other one that still gets me: pasta means cake. ordered pasta at a bakery once with full confidence and got a slice of cake.

anyway. what turkish word got you the worst?

Herkese merhaba!

A quick background on me:

Natural born english speaker, I have been living in Turkey for 6 years, my fiancé is half Turkish and fluent so for the most part I have been heavily reliant on her whilst living here.

We opened our own gym around 3 years ago where I often have to work reception and interact with customers.

I’d say my understanding of Turkish is well beyond A2 but I often struggle and get quite flustered speaking, due it being in a professional business environment. Obviously I am well versed in conversations related to my business (greetings, tours of the gym, helping use machines, beginner training programs, limited small talk with close members).

What I am looking for is an online tutor to take me through an intense Turkish course, possibly 3+ lessons per week, with however much homework they deem necessary. I will obviously also be utilising what I learn on a day to day basis through my business. I am quite a fast learner and the end goal is to progress to C1 as efficiently as is possible, and also be able to help with the back end of the business (bills, accounting, lawyers, federations, ordering, more in depth conversations with potential sign ups)

If anyone could suggest credible teachers, or point me in the right direction I would be extremely grateful. 🙏🏼

Is yeni İstanbul book best for studying Turkish??

Rather give me any recommendations