r/turkishlearning

I moved to Turkey 2 months ago and sadly I do not know how to speak Turkish what so ever. I do find the language very beautiful and I want to learn it. But learning alone is very hard. Is there anyone here who can help me? I will appreciate it a lot.

I also play video games. So if you also play games, maybe we can hangout and also talk in Turkish (I will try to learn as much as I can to keep up) and gaming will also keep things interesting and not boring.

Thank you for reading my post.

Hi, I'm a guy from South America who wants to move to Turkey. I had a list of many countries and decided on Turkey for my own reasons. I'm interested in a peaceful life. I'm not too concerned about financial factors, but they are important. What has your experience been like there? If anyone from South America has lived in Turkey, it would be great to hear your opinion. I'm learning Turkish and I also know a little English, but I'm focusing more on Turkish. I'll be reading your replies.

For background, I'm a Turkish teacher and I have more than 13 years of teaching experience in all sorts of settings, not only in Turkish but also in English and a little in Japanese but Turkish has been my primary focus for many years and I speak it natively for the record.

I honestly and genuinely think these videos should be helpful in many ways, especially for beginner learners because it is extremely difficult to find authentic-sounding content that is graded. So I focus on making these natural sounding while being level appropriate. I'm on camera in some of these videos talking, and some of them are voice overs like this one. I realise that these aren't always the most excitingly dopaminergic videos that can keep up with the swiping culture of our era but they can't be, because that would make them unsuitable for beginner levels. They have to be slow and repetitive. That's what language learners need, especially at beginner levels. But I want to do a reality-check to see if I'm getting too sucked into my own ways of thinking, because I feel very passionate about these and want to make them better.

I want to know what your thoughts are. But not in the sense that I want to get comments on this post to hype it up, but in the sense that I REALLY want to know what you think. What did you find beneficial about it? What did you find bad about it? What made you want to stop watching it? What made you think that this wasn't helpful for you? I want to hear your harshest criticism, so I can get an outside view.

Thank you!

Hello, I am an Arab girl looking for a Turkish friend so we can help each other learn languages. She can teach me Turkish, and I can teach her Arabic. I understand Turkish quite well and I can read it, but I am not good at writing or speaking yet, and I want to improve them.

What's the difference between these words? and how to use them in a sentence?

Böyle

Şöyle

Öyle

Could anyone here explain it? thank you so much!

A lot of confusion in Turkish comes from expecting English structure.

But the base order is actually consistent.

Subject → Object → Verb.

For example:

“Ben kitabı okudum” = I the book read.

The meaning doesn’t come from word order the way it does in English.

It comes from the suffixes attached to the words.

Once you start reading sentences as structure + endings instead of fixed English order, things become much clearer.

Hey everyone! So I just got accepted into an AI master's program in Ankara and I'm lowkey panicking about the language barrier lol. I speak English, Arabic and French so picking up new languages isn't usually too bad for me, but Turkish looks... different.

I'm not trying to become fluent overnight, realistically I just want to be able to read signs, survive daily life, and not look completely lost when talking to professors or admin staff.

Anyone have recommendations for where to start? Apps, YouTube channels, specific courses, anything really. Free stuff preferred but I'm open to paid if it's actually worth it.

Also curious on how long did it take you to get conversational from zero? And is Turkish as hard as people say or is that just drama ?

Thanks in advance!

I'm going to move there, and i'd like to learn a bit of turkish beforehand.

Anyone here who can help me with speaking in Turkish? We can talk on call or voice notes

ENG: Hello, I hope someone here can help me. I come from a turkish migrant family living in Germany. My parents spoke Turkish with me but i never formally took turkish lessons. I sort of had to teach myself how to read/write in Turkish. But I notice that in certain areas, my vocabulary is lacking. For example, I struggle when I have to translate in hospitals (words for diseases, organs, procedures...) or I can't really partake in philosophical / political discussions.

Despite having a large turkish community in Germany, I couldn't find any advanced Turkish language books or useful apps :/ Can anyone recommend anything, a vocab trainer maybe?

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TÜR: Merhabalar, umarım burdaki biri bana yardım edebilir. Ben Almanya'da oturan bir türk aileden geliyorum. Evde türkçe konuşuyoruz ama hayatımda hiç türk okula gitmedim, resmi türkçe dersi almadım. Türkçe okumayı biraz kendi kendime öğrendim. Ama kelime hazinem bazı konularda yeterli olmadığını fark ediyorum. Hastanede tercüme ederken zorlanıyorum (tedavilerin, organların, hastalıkların adlarını bilemiyorum), felsefi veya siyasal konularda fikirlerimi formüle edemiyorum... öyle şeyler.

Almanya'da çok türk yaşıyor, ona rağmen (ilerlemişler için) türkçe dil kitapları bulamıyorum, iyi bir App var mı bilmiyorum :/ Türkçemi geliştirmek için birşey tavsiye edebilirmisiniz acaba?

I have been using GROK the past couple of days to learn turkish and its been useful! I ask it to give me a sentence to translate with vocab that I might need to know. Has anyone else used any other AI to try speaking practice? Any PROS and CONS to gemini, chatgpt, grok etc?

Hi everyone! I’ve been learning English for about 4 months, but I haven’t reached the level I want yet. I’m looking for more practice. I’m a native Turkish speaker and I’d be happy to help anyone who wants to learn Turkish. 😊

Merhaba!

I post something similar in the past, and it was the pilot study. Currently I am collecting data for my real master’s thesis study. Pleaseeeeee help me 😭😭

I need people who are;
-B1 level in Turkish. (Late A2 and early B2 are also okay)
-Visited Turkey or is living in Turkey

I have a Google Forms survey, the questions are in Turkish but you can use the dictionary if you are unsure about the grammar or vocabulary.

I will send the Google Forms via DM to people who want fill in (due to privacy concerns)

We can say "arabam" for my car, but also "benim arabam"

I guess I am confused because isn't benim the genitive form of ben?

The genitive case is "vowel+N" correct?

Arabanın?

But this would mean "the car's"

Arabanın rengi "the car's color"

But how would you say "my car's color"

I'm very confused unfortunately