The Natural Way to Learn Turkish Phrases
Posted by: nick on 
Jul 26th, 2009 | 
Filed under: Inspiration, Learning Tools
When my parents visited us in Turkey last April I couldn’t believe my ears. My dear 67 year old mother was speaking Turkish phrases amazingly well. She was speaking some even more accurately than me! I couldn’t believe it.
There is a simple reason for her language learning success: before their visit I recommended the resource posted on the right side of this page. My Mom ordered a copy of the Pimsleur Conversational Turkish program and listened to the CD in her car.
The really cool thing about Pimsleur is that it will teach you basic Turkish phrases without telling you what they mean in English. I know that whole concept makes some people want to pull out their hair and run screaming away. They would much rather write sentence diagrams, memorize verb conjugation charts and all the time know exactly what the translation is in their native language. My lovely wife is one of those people so I’m not saying the left-brain approach is all bad. I am telling you the approach Pimsleur takes is just the most effective way to actually learn how to understand and speak basic Turkish. It is the way children learn. It is the natural way to learn.
OK, this is starting to sound like an ad, so I’ll stop now. Let me just say, you will learn basic Turkish phrases if you buy Pimsleur. And if you buy it through this site you will help me keep writing!
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September 24th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Hello/Merhaba!
I’m learning Turkish with the PImsleur CDs at the moment and am going to Turkey in a month’s time. Is there a more advanced version I can try after I’ve finished these lessons?
Great site - I’m going through learning as many phrases as I can!
Thanks,
Martin
September 26th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Merhaba Martin!
Yes, there is a Pimsleur Comprehensive Turkish course available from various sources for around $300.
-Nick
December 26th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
I know a place where you can get the best course to learn turkish. Visit http://www.langocity.com.
January 1st, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Martin and others: I used Pimsleur and Teach Yourself Turkish as well. Then I went to Turkey for 2 months and came back. Now to build vocab I use Visual Turkish at http://www.learnturkishnow.com because it’s free and easy: they show a turkish word then you have to find the image out of a group of photographs.
May 26th, 2010 at 10:13 am
I have found a very good website for learning turkish:
http://turkish.pgeorgalas.gr/indexEn.htm
It has phrases with audio and video, songs, theory and tons of exercises. It’s cok yararli.
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