There are more than 70 million people who speak Turkish, primarily living in Turkey, Northern Cyprus, and Cyprus. There are other Turkish speakers throughout Europe and Central Asia.
They say that Turkish is easy to learn because it is so logical.
The grammar is logical and there are very few exceptions to any of its syntax rules.
There is no gender, no masculine, feminine and neuter forms to master, so it must be easy.
And so they say thus: the Professors, the Teachers, and especially native Turks themselves. What is your opinion?
Helpful expressions in Turkish This page contains a table including the following: Turkish phrases, expressions and words in Turkish, conversation and idioms, Turkish greetings, and survival phrases.
Totally Turkish.com Merhaba! Looking to learn Turkish online? Then you've come to the right place! This website was set up to teach learners of Turkish the basics of the Turkish language.
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Hagia Sophia is the former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral, later an Ottoman imperial mosque and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Built in 537 AD at the beginning of the Middle Ages, it was famous in particular for its massive dome.
The Archaeological site of Ani Ani is a ruined medieval Armenian city situated in the Turkish province of Kars near the closed ..... The archaeological site of Ani was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on July 15, 2016.
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What is Turkish language similar to?
Turkish, being an Altaic language, has grammar and vocabulary that is very different from Indo-European languages. Learning Dutch for a Brit or learning Italian for a Romanian is much easier than them learning Turkish. On the other hand, there are similar languages to Turkish such as Mongolian or Kazakh.
Though it's one of the world's most famous tourist destinations, there are
still a lot of lesser-known cities which are so fabulous and certainly worth your time.
If you do not want to miss any of these nice spots in Turkey like most of the travelers out there, go through this top 10 list that is excellent.
1. Istanbul - Visit Topkapi Palace along with Aya Sofya.
2. Cappadocia - Float over Cappadocia and admire the extraordinary fairy
chimneys, then delve deep to explore the unique underground cities
3. Antalya -the fastest growing city, hub to an array of beach resorts
4. Ephesus - Marvel at the most extensive remains of a Roman city
complete with a 25,000-seat theatre
5. Ankara - the capital of Turkey and its second largest city
6. Bodrum - nice and trendy Aegean resort in Mugla for a romantic escape
7. Kusadasi - "bird island" set in a superb gulf in the Aegean region of Turkey and is known for its turquoise sparkling water and broad sandy beaches
8. Marmaris - a little touristy, but nice resort in Mugla
9. Gallipoli - Wander the Anzac battlefields and ponder the follies of war
10. Goreme - Everyone talks about goreme cave hotels in this land famous for the natural rock formations that can be found around this area called "fairy chimneys".
My Languages Dozens of great Turkish vocabulary builders and many with sound. This is one great NEW FIND. A great aid for all students of Turkish.
Turkish Scenery Hundreds of beautiful photos. You can even choose the region of the country you wish to visit.
Turkish Vocabulary Builder Practice Turkish vocabulary. Within each category, place your cursor over an image to hear it pronounced aloud. This is a great new find. Enjoy surfing here.
360 Cities A really cool site that takes you all over the world to view close up and with 360 degree views with just your Mouse. Just move it L or R for a 360 scan.
Learn Turkish Online Turkish Grammar Lessons. Several innovative online educational methods have been implemented throughout the website. You can practise your Turkish language skills, watching videos, listening to songs, reading rss feeds and news from carefully selected sources.
Language Guide for Turkish This is one great site for building both vocabulary and grammar skills. Within each category, place your cursor over an image to hear it pronounced aloud.
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Learn Turkish Online for Free Select the phrases that you want to learn from the list on the right. These cover a wide variety of Turkish topics, including the numbers in Turkish, Turkish days, Turkish greetings and the months in Turkish. All the phrases have audio recorded by a native speaker. This is one great new "find" and the sound enhances the resource. Be sure to give it a try.
Turkish Worksheets You may already be aware of this neat site. If not, it has been "buried" below, and I wanted you to be able to access it more easily. So I put it up here. It is loaded and very helpful for drilling hundreds of Turkish verbs, vocabulary and helpful everyday expressions.
Lonely Planet introduces Turkey
The landscape in Turkey is dotted with battlegrounds, ruined castles and the palaces of great empires. This is the land where Alexander the Great slashed the Gordion Knot, where Achilles battled the Trojans in Homer's Iliad, and where the Ottoman Empire fought battles that would shape the world. History buffs can immerse themselves in marvels and mementos stretching back to the dawn of civilisation.
The Origins of Turkish
The Turkish Language originated in The Altai Mountain Range in Northern Siberia centuries ago. For this reason it is called an Altaic Language. Turkish is spoken from the borders of Greece into the hinterland of Western China. While the Ottoman Empire flourished Turkish was spoken from Vienna to Arabia, Egypt and Northern Africa. As nomads expanded further into Asia Minor they brought their language to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Turkic countries. Many of these languages are mutually intelligible although vocabulary usage, spelling and alphabet may differ. They all exhibit the same grammatical structure of agglutination and vowel harmony. The Turkish vocabulary contains many words from Arabic, Persian and European languages.
The Culture of Turkey
Identification:
Location and Geography. Turkey occupies Asia Minor and a small portion of Europe. Its area is 301,382 square miles (814,578 square kilometers). It is bounded on the west by the Aegean Sea; on the northwest by the Sea of Marmara, Greece, and Bulgaria; on the north by the Turkish Sea; on the east by Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran; and on the south by Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean. Although Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) is the major city and was the capital of the Ottoman Empire, the first president - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - chose Ankara, an interior Anatolian city, as the capital in 1923. Militarily Ankara was less exposed and more easily defended than Istanbul. The choice also symbolized Ataturk's policy of nationalism, because Ankara was more Turkish and less cosmopolitan than the old capital.
Turkey has 4,454 miles of coastline. The interior consists of mountains, hills, valleys, and a high central plateau. The western coastal plains are generally more densely populated and industrial than are the central and eastern regions, except for Ankara on the central Anatolian plateau. Because Asia Minor had been home to Lydians, Hittites, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Seljuks, and Ottomans over the centuries, it is dotted with historic monuments.
Physiographically, the country may be divided into five regions. The Turkish Sea region has a moderate climate and higher than average rainfall. It is dominated by the Pontic mountain range. The west is noted for agriculture, including grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and tobacco. In the more
humid east, the mountains leave a narrow coastal plain rarely exceeding twenty miles wide. The #053C42 Sea peoples settled and farmed the valleys and narrow alluvial fans of the area's rivers, developing a form of steep slope agriculture to grow vegetables and fruits. Tea, the major cash crop, did not
become popular until the 1960s. Some villagers combined gardening with transhumant pastoralism, which involves grazing small herds of sheep, goats, and cattle on the lowlands in the winter and in the high Pontic pastures in the summer.
Turkish Teacher hints, advice and tips
I know from my own experience that being on a continual path of self-improvement is an absolute necessity toward be a good teacher. Hang out with other educators that you admire. Watch them closely and learn from them. Imitation is the greatest compliment! Join your Turkish language association (AATT - http://aatturkic.org) plus two foreign language teacher associations (state and national: ACTFL-I (http://www.actfl.org) and attend their annual meetings on a regular basis. Get involved anyway you can with each. Rub noses with people at the TOP. Get to know the officers personally. Keep in contact with them. Use these association offerings, suggestions and resources.
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF TURKIC LANGUAGES, founded in 1985 as the American Association of Teachers of Turkish, is a private, non-profit, non-political organization of individuals interested in the languages of the Turks. The objective of the Association is to advance and improve the teaching of the languages of the Turks; to promote study, criticism, and research in the field of the languages and literatures of the Turks; and to further the common interests of teachers of these subjects.
Whenever you can in your own environment, ask to observe colleagues in action in their classroom. Pick up ideas that work for them and adopt and adapt them to you own classroom. Always be on the "lookout" for new ideas, new means of teaching, new ways to incorporate things that work for others into your own methodology. Don't hesitate to ask questions of teachers who have had much success as to how and why that happened. I used to observe elementary teachers and how they interacted with their young students. Always something to learn. "Learn from the mistakes of others. You'll never live long enough to make all of them yourself." Another that I always loved is "If you think you're green, you'll grow - if you think you're ripe, you'll rot." All true. Don't rot! That's an axiom that will never grow old. You may think that you are the best, but you're not. There is always someone better than you. (I learned this playing basketball) Learn from them. Know what the best practices are and be aware of the current online resources that can be of great help to you and your Turkish language students.
Keep your classroom presentations FRESH. Keep up with innovation and the changing needs of your students by incorporating technology such as computer use, iPhones, iPads, e-mail and a host of other innovations into your routine classroom activities to communicate with others in the target language and to access authentic resources. Stay current with options and trends in the field such as the National Standards and know how to incorporate them into your daily plans. Hopefully these few ideas will aid in your growth and success. Stay with it. Don't throw in the towel like many have, but again as I point out above, whatever new ideas you discover, you must first adopt and then adapt. Not everything you see elsewhere will work for you as I have personally learned. You must adapt those ideas to your own classroom. There are a host of great ideas available on all these sites, but they are only as successful as you will make them. And perhaps most important of all, do ask your students often how they feel about what they are doing and learning and what they enjoy the most and the least in your classroom. Most of all, do enjoy your students and share yourself with them. [They don't care how much you know until they know how much you CARE] I hope that you picked up some ideas here that will aid in your total success. Have fun in your classroom. (ps I picked up these ideas in a recent dream and wanted to share with each of you) I'm 80 years old now, but never too old to learn and never too old to share ideas. Best yet, why not be learning another language yourself? Check out one of the sites above. It is a great means to experience first-hand what your students are feeling. Now you are "walking in their shoes." Don't forget to have FUN doing it. (See Below)
Jim Becker - BA, Cornell College (Iowa), MA, La Sorbonne (Paris), PhD-ABD, The Ohio State University (Foreign Language Education). 143 Learning Games and Fun Activities for the Turkish Classroom A wide array of proven fun games and learning activities for teachers to use in the classroom.
35 years of classroom experience for students and their teachers to enjoy.