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The Turkish LanguageTurkish (Türkçe) is a language spoken by over 50 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey, with smaller ranges in Cyprus, Bulgaria, and other parts of Eastern Europe. Turkish is also spoken by several million immigrants in Western Europe, particularly in Germany. The roots of the language can be traced to Central Asia, with the first written records dating back nearly 1,200 years. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the immediate precursor of today's Turkish—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman script was replaced with a phonetic variant of the Latin alphabet. Concurrently, the newly-founded Turkish Language Association initiated a drive to reform the language by removing Persian and Arabic loanwords in favor of native variants and coinages from Turkic roots. The distinctive characteristics of Turkish are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. The basic word order of Turkish is Subject Object Verb. Turkish has a T-V distinction: second-person plural forms can be used for individuals as a sign of respect. Turkish also has no noun classes or grammatical gender. Source: WikipediaKeywords for this page: turkish, learn turkish, pimsleur turkish, pimsleur mp3, pimsleur turkish audio, pimsleur turkish download, pimsleur language, pimsleur download mp3, turkish language, |
What customers say about the Pimsleur TURKISH audios:
I've wanted to learn Turkish
for a long time now. My wife is Turkish, and I can't
communicate with her family (yes, I know, to some that would be
a problem not worth fixing).
This is an excellent audio course,
and it has no fluff in it whatsoever. You start playing the
audio, and GO! I use it during my 1 hour commute each way in
the car. As others have said, I sometimes need to rewind
because I can't always think as fast as they want me to, but I
transferred it to my mp3 player, and it's easy to go back a few
seconds and try it again.
I've tried Rosetta stone, but
basically it just sat there because I had to dedicate the time
to sit in front of a computer and do it. For me, this is much
better.
Be forewarned, however, that you
need to repeat things out loud constantly, and if you are not
in a private place, it's not going to work out.
In the very first lesson, they
start by saying, "Listen to this conversation in Turkish." Only
30 minutes later, you listen to the exact same conversation and
you understand it! -- Simon Cohn, Rutherford, NJ,
USA
I admit that I was skeptical
about whether or not I would truly be able to absorb and learn
to speak and understand Turkish with 30 minutes a day for 16
days but -- Wow! I have had this product for 4 days and I'm not
only impressing myself but the native Turks that I work with.
At the beginning of the first 2 lessons, I was a little
overwhelmed because I didn't think I was retaining any of it
and I was struggling to recall the words. I'm not sure how but,
at some point, it became almost second nature and I relaxed and
the words came out. It helps that I have native Turks to
converse with and I get extra practice.
I don't really see any negatives in this program except the
price of the full set. I'm not sure why it is so much more but,
since I'm hooked and want to know more, I'm considering buying
it anyway. I guess that explains the price! I've tried to learn
Spanish and French before with traditional methods and I can't
speak either of them. I think the biggest thing that I noticed
is my ability to understand the native speakers. They certainly
do not speak it as perfectly as the people on the CDs and there
are some slight variations in pronunciation but I still
understand it. -- B. Gardner, Southeastern PA,
USA