Totally Turkish - Tips For Learning Turkish - Learn Turkish Online

Learning Turkish can be a long and difficult journey, and you might get frustrated when you think you've learnt a lot yet don't understand when someone is speaking or writing Turkish to you! So here are some tips to try and speed up the learning process;

1) Try to learn at least 10 words a day, and split these up into catagories such as colours or food items.

2) Talk Turkish as much as you can, even to yourself or your pets! This will give you more confidence when speaking to Turkish People.

3) Watch Turkish TV online or listen to Turkish radio stations, even if you don't understand it you will still learn how to pronounce words.

4) Practice writing your own sentences or stories in Turkish, there are many forums that will check and correct it for you and you will learn where you are making mistakes and how to correct them in the future.

5) There are many language exchange sites on the Internet, such as 'My language exchange' or 'My language buddy'. Here you can be matched with someone who wants to learn English and teach Turkish, meaning you can help each other learn the languages.

6) Place stickers with Turkish words written on them around your house, such as putting 'bilgisayar' (computer) on your computer etc, this will help you to remember words.

7) Click on 'Childrens Stories' in the links on the right and try to translate them yourself before looking at the English versions. Write down all the words you don't understand and learn them. To download more childrens books in Turkish from the internet and try to translate them into English, go to www.google.com.tr and search for 'cocuk hikayeleri' ('childrens stories').

Remember; Practice makes Perfect!

If you have any tips for learning Turkish that you want to share with other learners, e-mail me at learn-turkish@hotmail.com with the subject 'tips' and I will put them on this page.