Teach Yourself Turkish - Lessons
APOLOGIES: You will notice that none of the lessons below are populated. This page was originally made so that users could see which lessons I would be creating. The links were originally to remain inactive until I actually completed the lessons. Unfortunately, in the time after I made this page, I haven't actually had time to update it. I don't know when or if I will be able to - so apologize for the inconvenience!
I talk a lot about strategy and framework on this site, because I think it is so important for learning Turkish or any other language. Likewise, I want to make sure that anyone who uses this site to learn basic Turkish grammar can see the overall framework that it fits into. That's why below, you will see an outline of all of the materials that I plan to complete - before all of the things are even written. You can follow along, and know where things fit in. If the text is not linked, it means that the material is still to come.
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I talk a lot about strategy and framework on this site, because I think it is so important for learning Turkish or any other language. Likewise, I want to make sure that anyone who uses this site to learn basic Turkish grammar can see the overall framework that it fits into. That's why below, you will see an outline of all of the materials that I plan to complete - before all of the things are even written. You can follow along, and know where things fit in. If the text is not linked, it means that the material is still to come.
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ELEMENTARY TURKISH
The Basic of Basics
While I spend a lot of time bashing on books that give you a whole bunch of fragments without a framework to put it all in, there are some things that you just gotta know before you can get started. If you already have a good understanding of most of these items, may be a better use of your time to skip directly to the next section.
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While I spend a lot of time bashing on books that give you a whole bunch of fragments without a framework to put it all in, there are some things that you just gotta know before you can get started. If you already have a good understanding of most of these items, may be a better use of your time to skip directly to the next section.
- The Turkish Alphabet and Pronunciation
- Vowel Harmony and Consonant Transformation
- Numbers and Counting Words
- Other Important Words
- Everyday Turkish Language - a.k.a. the "phrase-book" lessons
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Overall Turkish Grammar
You've seen in The Anchor Method for Learning Turkish the overall strategy that you should be using to learn Turkish (or any other language). This series of articles will give you your first glimpse of the overall strategy you will be using to learn the grammar aspect, specifically.
You've seen in The Anchor Method for Learning Turkish the overall strategy that you should be using to learn Turkish (or any other language). This series of articles will give you your first glimpse of the overall strategy you will be using to learn the grammar aspect, specifically.
- The Structure of the Turkish language
- Grammar Terminology List - it's important that we're all speaking the same language when we're talking about grammar (ha ha ha...).
Basic Suffixes for Nouns and Adjectives
A crash course on all of the things that you can add to nouns and adjectives.
A crash course on all of the things that you can add to nouns and adjectives.
- Basic Suffixes
- Suffix Order
Noun Cases
How Turkish uses suffixes to change the function of nouns.
How Turkish uses suffixes to change the function of nouns.
- Accusative Case - how to make a noun the direct object of a verb
- Locative Case - how to say "at" or "in" a place
- Dative Case - how to say "to" a place
- Ablative Case - how to say "from" a place
- Genitive Case and Possessive Constructions
Connectors
How Turkish connects different parts of the sentence together.
How Turkish connects different parts of the sentence together.
- Connecting words
- Connecting constructions
Verbs as Verbs
This is the easiest form of verbs - when they're actually verbs! Never mind all of the other things that they can be in this language...
This is the easiest form of verbs - when they're actually verbs! Never mind all of the other things that they can be in this language...
- Verbs Without Verbs
- General Verb Rules
- Past Definite
- Interrogatives and the Question Particle
- Present Progressive
- Commands
- Future
- Aorist
- Story Past
- Opative Subjunctive
- Conditional
- Other Forms of Implied olmak
ADVANCED TURKISH
Verbs as Nouns
This is where it starts to get confusing... who knew that verbs could be nouns?
This is where it starts to get confusing... who knew that verbs could be nouns?
- Common Infinitive
- -DIk and indirect discourse
- Light Infinitive
- Verbs of manner
Verbs as Adjectives
...and they can be adjectives too?
...and they can be adjectives too?
- Relative constructions With the Gerundive
Other Verb Modifications
There are things you can do to verbs with additional words - like forming can/cannot statements. These can be applied to verbs that appear as verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
There are things you can do to verbs with additional words - like forming can/cannot statements. These can be applied to verbs that appear as verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
- Can/cannot
- Necessity
- Verb Stem Changes
- Abbreviating Forms
- Attendant circumstances
- Other Verb Forms
SUPER ADVANCED TURKISH
Loose ends that I hardly ever see covered anywhere else in any satisfactory way, especially in free resources. I only learned most of these things when I was on the ground in Turkey, or from looking at the tiniest details in my readings of literature.
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Special Constructions
Little-known ways to express certain concepts in Turkish.
Little-known ways to express certain concepts in Turkish.
- Sayesinde/yüzünden
Rarely Seen Verb Forms
- -(y)Ip / -mA+tense: whether or not
- -VrsA / command: whenever/however/whatever/no matter how
- -(y)A / -(y)A
- -mAktA
- -mAyAbIlIR
- True and untrue conditions
Other Suffixes
- -dIR
- Other rarely appearing suffixes
Colloquial/slang constructions
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- Differences in pronunciation
- -sAnA command form
- Slang writing
