A lot of confusion in Turkish comes from expecting English structure.

But the base order is actually consistent.

Subject → Object → Verb.

For example:

“Ben kitabı okudum” = I the book read.

The meaning doesn’t come from word order the way it does in English.

It comes from the suffixes attached to the words.

Once you start reading sentences as structure + endings instead of fixed English order, things become much clearer.

For online Turkish lessons, just DM me

Thanks in advance!

Okay, this is not totally related to turkish language but still, do you know what a kumpir is?

Kumpir is a typical food from Turkey. Basically, it's a giant potato baked, cut down the middle which inside its mixed with a generous lathering of butter and a pile of cheese. It's served with an endless amount of options for topping, including yogurt, ketchup, corn, sausage slices, olives.

Even if it's still morning, my mouth is watering!

If you would like to have some fun with other Turkish learners, we welcome you to play a virtual card game with our Turkish learning group! It does not cost any money. It does not matter what your current level with Turkish is. And it does not matter where you live in the world. In short, anybody can join! All you need is a good internet connection. What's even more exciting: a native Turkish teacher will be the host and teach all the players during the game!

How To Join

Please leave a comment under this post and I'll DM you to follow up. Or, you can DM me directly. After that, we can exchange some more information about the event.

Core Details

Start Time: Saturday, August 9th @ 9am (New York City time)
Duration: 1 hour
Venue: Online Zoom call + virtual card game tabletop

Additional Details

Our gaming groups regularly play in other languages on every Saturday of every month, in the order of: Japanese, Turkish, Spanish, and Mandarin. Sometimes we hold events for other languages, too. This is a great way to build some regular enrichment activities into your pre-existing language learning routines. Turkish, for example, is on the third Saturday of every month at the same time. The Turkish group has been meeting for over one year now and has experienced an incredible boost in motivation and progress.

Hi, I decided to start learning turkish to surprise someone and to have a challenge for myself. Do you have any tips on how to start learning? Like what to use to understand faster?

Hello everyone! Have you been struggling to improve your Turkish for a long time? I’m here to make your progress faster and more enjoyable!

I'm Zehra, a Turkish teacher with 10 years of experience.

I've taught hundreds of students from all around the world. My English is good, so communication won’t be a problem.

Services I offer:Private Lessons: Customized lesson plans for all levels

Speaking Practice: Interactive sessions to help you speak Turkish fluently and accurately

Grammar and Writing: Comprehensive lessons to improve your grammar and writing skills

If you want to learn Turkish effectively and enjoyably, feel free to DM or comment me.

I have website to teach Turkish language for Arabic speakers , if you have any question please let me know and i will make new lesson about it Website: www.turkish-learn.com

Hi all, I am a 27-year-old male of English and Turkish background who has always lived in England and never received instruction as a child. I have long wished to learn Turkish and have tried several times, but I always fail; I recognise this stems from my lack of discipline, and my efforts were limited to Duolingo. I did join a class, but it was cancelled with no other local options available.

Can anyone help me? Whether it’s pointing me to good materials or if somebody is trying to learn English, we can help each other?

My friends and I regularly hold online card game events for language learners all over the world! This Saturday, the 14th of September, @ 9am EDT (which is New York City time), we will have an event specifically for Turkish learners! A friend of mine, who is a native Turkish speaker, will be hosting. He's a very patient and encouraging teacher who is eager to explain his mother tongue to others.

Would you like to join us to play?! And put your knowledge of Turkish to the test?!

We welcome all people. And we welcome all Turkish levels. Our learning environment is a very inclusive and supportive one.

So if you'd like to try something new, which can inject some excitement into your language learning, just leave me a comment on this post or DM me! : )

My friends and I regularly hold online card game events for language learners all over the world! This Saturday, the 20th of July, @ 9am EDT (which is New York City time), we will have an event specifically for Turkish learners. What's more, a friend of mine, who is a native Turkish speaker, will be hosting. He's a very patient and encouraging teacher who is eager to explain his mother tongue to others.

Would you like to join us to play?! And put your knowledge of Turkish to the test?!

We welcome all people. And we welcome all Turkish levels. Our learning environment is a very inclusive and supportive one.

So if you'd like to try something new, which can inject some excitement into your language learning this summer, just leave me a comment on this post or DM me! : )

Fun and educational small games to improve Turkish vocabulary.

https://kelimera.com/kelime-tahmin

https://kelimera.com/coklu-kelime-tahmin

https://kelimera.com/bilgi-yarismasi

Hi there! I am a native speaking Turkish teacher from Istanbul who teaches online via zoom. I use the Yeni Istanbul books - levels absolute beginner (A1) to advanced (C1) are available.

If anyone is interested, please let me know! Teşekkürler :)

Let's learn Turkish together. I have created a classroom on Duolingo and those who are interested in learning the Turkish language can join so we can help out each other learn more efficiently and quicker.

www.duolingo.com/classroom/tmxgpg

So I'm having trouble understanding how letters transfer in to words. Do you sound out all the letters or are there special rules for that?

Heyy! I’m 25, from Indonesia 🇮🇩 and currently learning Turkish. Looking for a Turkish-speaking buddy to chat with and practice everyday Turkish. Just wanna get better at the language and make some cool friends along the way! 🇹🇷✨

Merhaba!

I'm a solo dev (and a native Turkish speaker) and I built BookTap, an iPhone app for learning Turkish by reading short graded stories.

How it works:

**•**	Tap any word to see its meaning, or tap a sentence for the full translation  
**•**	Listen to a single sentence or have the story read aloud from any point  
**•**	Save words as you read and review them later as flashcards

It's a subscription with a 7-day free trial, just to be upfront.

Since you're the ones actually learning Turkish, I'd really value your input: do the stories feel natural and right for your level, and is there anything you'd want added?

Teşekkürler

Im an international student doing their masters in netherlands, I live near the turkish mosque and the Imam( leader) does his sermons in turkish so yeah I would love to learn it.

pleasee help me learn turkish for my boyfriend I wanna surprise him f14 btw

We will have an online card game event for Turkish speaking practice! The event is free and open to all levels. A native Turkish teacher will teach/lead the event, so it's a fantastic opportunity!

If you're interested to join us, just leave me a comment here and I'll DM you later to exchange details. Or you can DM me directly.

TIME: Saturday, June 14th @ 9am New York City time
DURATION: 1 hour

*We also welcome native speakers of Turkish to play with us because we think English-Turkish exchange is very entertaining and effective.

**We plan to play at the same time on the second Saturday of every month. So if you're not free this time, but you'd like to play in the future, just DM and I'll get you added to our invite list.

Having bought the Instant Immersion software series of learning languages own Turkish release, as expected so far Turkish from the few lessons I took definitely is worthy of its classicfication in the American FSI's language difficulty rankings of Category 3, the second hardest level of difficulty in their criteria and requiring over 1100 hours of study to be proficiency. It pretty much feels like the same hardness of level of difficulty I had when I learned Russian and with Vietnamese and Thai which I'm also learning right now simultaneously......

Oh before I go on, here's an article explaining how the FSI rankings work so you can get context........ I'd recommend to read it since I'll reference the FSI's system across this post.

https://blog.rosettastone.com/the-complete-list-of-language-difficulty-rankings/

With that said...... I was so surprised that the pronunciation is pretty easy so far, I feel like its at the border between a Category 1 and 2.

Some background on me. English is my primary and first language though as you can guess from my first paargraph I learned the barebones of other languages. Beyond the mentioned Russian, Thai, and Vietnamese, I learned a lot of Italian, French, Tagalog (to the point I can literally understand this language as good as a native speaker, sometimes even faster than my brain registering English), and bits of Polish and dabbling in Mandarin years ago. So far German is the prime language I been investing in its whole (with me using Tagalog far longer and understanding that more at least in understanding it spoken and speaking basic conversation). More hours spent everyday in German than any other language. And this tidbit with German is very important with my question because.......

At first I had difficulty with Turkish pronunciation in the Instant Immersion's software. Took me three days to get past the first three vocal tests. How I finally was able to get past 3 and move smoothly so far enough to finish Disc 1 by this weekend? Well I began to notice as I continued taking the first 3 lessons similar sounds to German. Well basically I remembered German pronunciation especially the R and other guttural speech and.... Well from there on after passing lesson 3 its been a relative breeze so far compared to how hard the language is in every other element. Definitely easier than the Russian software I took and a complete cakewalk compared to Thai, Vietnamese, and other tonal languages. Basically on the first disc I think of German phonology and modify it to the specific sounds of Turkish and its general pronunciation.

But as I said I only finished Disc 1 today and the Turkish course package has 3 discs total. So I haven't gone to advanced stuff yet since disc 1 was about learning basic greetings, colors, and other stuff most specifically useful for tourists and from my past experience with Instant Immersion the later discs gets harder into stuff meant for people staying in the country where the language is spoken for a while and in turn are far more difficult. So I'm still not yet exposed to the Turkish language as a whole.

That said is my assumption based on the Level 1 CD of German helping with Turkish a lot in pronunciation correct? Or does it heave far away as you learn Turkish more and more? Turkish people who also know German here what do you say on this? In particular I ask for the input of you folks who lived in Germany at a time in your lives, particularly those of you who were born there and learned German as the primary, if not the first language and only learned Turkish to a useful degree later in life. Did knowing German as children of immigrants as the main tongue in your lives even at home if not even the only language you knew in your childhood and college years help smoothen out learning Turkish later on at least as far as learning pronounciation goes?