An Easy Start Learning Turkish for Beginners   (page 1)

 

Letters, Numbers, Dictionary Links, Turkish Songs

Learning Turkish Language is easy. It has many advantages over other languages:

1) Turkish has no genders but Italian, French, German etc have. In Turkish you don’t have to remember the gender of nouns because there are no genders.

2) Pronunciation of Turkish is easy. In Turkish you don’t have to learn the pronunciation of each word. You learn the pronunciations of letters of the alphabet at first and then you just combine them while reading words but in English you have learn the pronunciation of almost each word. For example the pronunciation of o in God and Toy is totally different and one cannot predict it without listening the word before. On the other hand in Turkish all letters always have the same pronunciation.

3) Turkish has Latin alphabet like English but Bulgarian, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese etc have their own alphabets so you have to learn their alphabets at first.

4) Turkish has no irregular verbs but English etc have. In Turkish you just learn the conjugation rule and then you can easily make the conjugation of all verbs.

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Turkish Alphabet Pronunciation: video, video, video

 

A a	a as in father	I ı	e as in open	R r	r as in car
B b	b as in bird	İ i	i as in machine	S s	s as in smile
C c	j as in jacket	J j	s as in pleasure	Ş ş	sh as in she
Ç ç	ch as in chair	K k	k as in kilo	T t	t as in turtle
D d	d as in day	L l	l as in lemon	U u	u as in ultimate
E e	e as in pen	M m	m as in master	Ü ü	u as in cube
F f	f as in far	N n	n as in nice	V v	v as in victory
G g	g as in game	O o	o as in ocean	Y y	y as in yes
Ğ ğ	Similar to gh (*)	Ö ö	u as in turn	Z z	z as in zebra
H h	h as in hair	P p	p as in spin

 

(*) You may listen to the pronunciation of 'ğ' in words: dağ (mountain) (website), ağaç (tree). (Note: Click to Turkish flag to hear its pronunciation).

 

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Numbers: 0-20 and bigger numbers video, 0-10 video, video,10-19 video, 20-29 video, 30-39 video, 40-49 video, 50-59 video, 60-69 video, 70-79 video, big numbers video, ordinal numbers video

 

1	Bir	16	On altı	101	Yüz bir
2	İki	17	On yedi	155	Yüz elli beş
3	Üç	18	On sekiz	200	İki yüz
4	Dört	19	On dokuz	267	İki yüz altmış yedi
5	Beş	20	Yirmi	1000	Bin
6	Altı	21	Yirmi bir	1995	Bin dokuz yüz doksan beş
7	Yedi	30	Otuz	2011	İki bin on bir
8	Sekiz	36	Otuz altı
9	Dokuz	40	Kırk
10	On	50	Elli
11	On bir	60	Altmış
12	On iki	70	Yetmiş
13	On üç	80	Seksen
14	On dört	90	Doksan
15	On beş	100	Yüz

 

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Nouns: Some basic nouns video, nouns with letter “I, ı” video, nouns with letter “E, e” video, nouns with letter “A, a” video, kitchen staff video, beverages video, fruits & plural forms video, some plural forms video, some plural forms video, Turkish cuisine video, parts of the body video, jobs video, colours video, directions video, days video, months video, miscellaneous nouns video.

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Dictionaries: (English - Turkish) (Turkish - English) Sesli Sözlük, Tureng.

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Suggestions for learning a language:

1. Study the sentences and their translations (not the words, not the grammar rules).

2. Study by listening when it is possible (not always only by reading).

3. Study slowly (not pass another sentence before learning one).

4. Study real language (study daily speech, not textbook language).

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Some Turkish Songs with English and Turkish Lyrics:

Hüp (2001, s: Tarkan, m&lyr: Nazan Öncel)

İntizar (1982, s: Nilüfer, m: Suat Sayın, lyr: Faruk Nafız Çamlıbel)

Yağmurun Elleri (s: Yeni Türkü)

Kalbim Seninle (s: Gökhan Özen)

Bize Aşk Lazım (s: Gökhan Özen)

Sevgi Dolu Şu Gönlüm (unknown singer)

Seni Özledim (s: Gökhan Özen)

Öp (2010, s: Tarkan, m: Tarkan & Ozan Çolakoğlu, lyr: Tarkan & Sezen Aksu)

Kal (s: Atiye & Teoman)

Sensiz İstanbul’a Düşmanım (s: Gripin & Emre Aydın)

Yak Gel (s: Funda Arar)

Gittiğinden Beri (s: Badem)

Sensiz Kalacak Bu Şehir (s: Badem)

Kalpsiz (s: Badem)

Some Turkish Songs with English Lyrics:

Oynama Şıkıdım (Hepsi senin mi?) (1994, s: Tarkan, m&lyr: Sezen Aksu)

Adımı Kalbine Yaz (2010, s&m&lyr: Tarkan)

Sorma Kalbim (2003, s: Tarkan, m: Ozan Çolakoğlu, lyr: Tarkan)

İnci Tanem (1997, s&m&lyr: Tarkan)

Gitti Gideli (2001, s&m&lyr: Tarkan)

Kış Güneşi (1994, s: Tarkan, m: Nurhat Şensoy, lyr: Yıldız Tilbe)

Gülümse Kaderine (2003, s: Tarkan, m: Tarkan & Ozan Çolakoğlu, lyr: Tarkan)

İkimizin Yerine (1997, s: Tarkan, m&lyr: Tarkan & Sezen Aksu)

Kuzu Kuzu (2001, s&m&lyr: Tarkan)

Dudu (2003, s: Tarkan, m: Jeff Koplan & Tarkan, lyr: Nazan Öncel)

Ölürüm Sana (1997, s&m&lyr: Tarkan)

Kayıp (2010, s&m: Tarkan, lyr: Günay Çoban)

Kır Zincirlerini (Bu Gece) (1997, s&m&lyr: Tarkan)

s: = singer

lyr: = lyrics by

m: = music by

p: = performed by

ft. = featuring

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