Learn Turkish

Here is another video about Turkish Alphabet

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:28:01 +0000

Here is the first video from our new author Ozan.

There is | There is NOT |I have | I don’t have

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:30:52 +0000

Ok todays lesson is a little different than the other grammar stuff. This one is easy but hard to understand for some people at first.

-VAR (There is | have)

-YOK (There is not | have not)

Lets try to say i have a car .

Car: araba

araba(m) var -I have a car :[You use the possesion suffix to tell that it is your car.] {Benim arabam var.}

araba(m) yok- I don’t have a car

araba(n) yok - You don’t have a car.

araba yok - There is no car.

araba(sı) yok - He/she doesnt have a car.

you can form lots of sentences like this.

Challange:

try to say : i have 2 apples in my pocket

Where is the nearest Post Office? in Turkish

admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:19:59 +0000

Where is the nearest Post Office? It is a common sentence in nearly every language I used to hate this chapter when i was learning foreign language.Anyway. I will make it really easy like right and left and asking the question.

Where is the nearest Post Office? En yakın Postane nerede?

Sağda - on the right

solda - on the left

dümdüz - straight on

ileri - forward

geri - backward

How old are you? in Turkish

admin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:30:17 +0000

Kaç yaşındasın? - How old are you?
Ben 29 yaşındayım. - I am 29 years old.
Kaç =how many

yaş = age

yaşın = your age

yaşın+da = at your age

Turkish Grammar - How to form sentences in Turkish Language

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:56:33 +0000

I have a friend from Germany and he is trying to learn Turkish like you are. And sometimes when he tries to speak He spoke like Tarzan. Why? Because he has no idea about the line of words. So here is how you form sentences in Turkish language.

Subject + Complements+VERB.

Hint : VERB is always at the end.

also there is a relation with the verb and the subject

This order is the most used, and make sense form. Lets see some examples.

Stefan işe gidiyor. //Stefan is going to work

Ben Türkçe öğretiyor+um. // I am teaching Turkish.
Sen Türkçe öğreniyor+sun // You are learning Turkish.
Stefan camı kırdı. //Stefan broke the glass.

Do you see the THE SUBJECT VERB RELATION?

Do you speak Turkish?

admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:46:01 +0000

Türkçe konuşuyor musun?

- No I don’t speak Turkish = Hayır Türkçe konuşmuyorum.

- Yes I speak Turkish = Evet Türkçe konuşuyorum.

İngilizce konuşuyor musunuz?

- Hayır Konuşmuyorum.

- Evet biraz konuşuyorum. - Yes i speak a little

biraz = bir + az
bir = one
az = less , little

Where are you FROM? in Turkish

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:27:26 +0000

Ok now we learned to salut people and ask how are they? and now we may start to talk about where we are from. Let’s start with asking where people are from.

- Nere+den+sin - Nere+den+siniz

Can you tell me the difference?

The difference in these two sentences 1st one is for 2nd singular (you-sen) and the other one is for 2nd plural person (you-siz).

Nere +den +sin
WHere+are you+from

You can respond it like

İngiltere+den+im . = I am from England.
Fransa+dan+ım = I am from France.
İstanbul+dan+ım = I am from Istanbul.

As you can see -den may change acording to wovel harmony as well.

Try to say where are you from, in the comments of this thread. So we or people who knows this thread can correct you. Don’t be shy.

Meeting new people

admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:11:05 +0000

It is common to shake hands with people whom you first met and introduced in Turkey. You shake your hand and say your first name when introduced.

M-Alper, Bu Esra, Esra bu da Alper - Alper, this is Esra . and Esra, this is Alper.
A- Tanıştığımıza Memnun oldum. - Pleased to meet you
E- Ben de. - Me too.

A-Ben Alper - I am Alper.
E-Ben de Esra. Memnun oldum. - I am Esra, Pleased to meet you
A-Ben de memnun oldum. Nasılsınız?- I am plesed to meet you too. How are you (plural)?
E- İyiyim ya siz?
A- Bende iyiyim. Teşekkürler.

Greetings in Turkish

admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:55:25 +0000

It is common to greet people when they are meet. and ask about how they are.

Merhaba : Hello // Usage of this word is limited. Most of the people use selam.
Selam : Hi
Naber? (Long form is ne haber) : something similar to “What’s up”
Nasılsın? : How are you?
İyiyim : I am fine
Kötüyüm : I am bad.

Lets practice some conversational Turkish

M- Selam Alper.
A- Selam Mehmet naber?
M- İyi ya senden? //Fine What about you?
A- İyi Teşekkür ederim. //Fine thanks

M-Selam Alper.
A-Selam
M-Nasılsın?
A- İyi. sen nasılsın?
M- Ben de iyiyim. // I am fine too.

Turkish Numbers

admin — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:26:34 +0000

Learning numbers in Turkish is one of the easiest thing. Because we don’t have exceptions like eleven,twelve. It is really logical for a math person.

0 - Sıfır
1 - Bir
2 - İki
3 - Üç
4 - Dört
5 - Beş
6 - Altı
7 - Yedi
8 - Sekiz
9 - Dokuz
10 - On
20 - Yirmi
30 - Otuz
40 - Kırk
50 - Elli
60 - Altmış
70 - Yetmiş
80 - Seksen
90 - Doksan
100 - Yüz
1000 - Bin
1000000 - Milyon
1000000000 - Milyar

All you need to do is memorize these numbers first. And dissolve the number and read the numbers in order. Let’s see some examples.

14= 10+4= On dört

18 =10+8 = On sekiz

43 = 40+3= Kırk üç

96= 90+6= Doksan altı

22 =20+2= Yirmi iki

126 =100+20+6 = yüz yirmi altı

1453=1000+4*100+50+3 = bin dörtyüz elli üç

133292=133*1000+2*100+90+2 = yüz otuz üç BİN iki YÜZ doksan iki

1987267=1000000+987*1000+2*100+60+7 =Bir milyon dokuz yüz seksen yedi BİN iki yüz altmış yedi

Try these numbers by yourself

12,46,33,343,256,1024,4097,35563,998012,1234,6738,880,881

Best exercise for this is to read signs in the walls,busses,metro stations etc.