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Turkish language resources?

Postby Dylan95 » Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:05 pm

While I am not certain, I'm thinking about studying Turkish from scratch. It's a language that I have wanted to learn for a long time, and I have two friends where I moved who are native Turkish speakers, so I think now would be a good time to begin.

Does anyone have any advice for resources I could use?
FSI and wikibooks have programs, but aside from that I'm not sure where else I should look.

Also, if I were to study Turkish for an hour a day until the middle of July. What would be a reasonable goal? Would basic conversational skills, and the ability to read newspapers in Turkish be achievable given such a timeline?
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Re: Turkish language resources?

Postby Speakeasy » Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:31 pm

While I have not studied the Turkish language and have no intention of doing so, it seems that I bookmarked a number of discussion threads with which you may wish to familiarize yourself. In addition, from my not-so-reliable memory, I believe that the resident experts on the language are Daristani and Chung.

Turkish resources - A language learners’ forum, October, 2016
https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4844

Turkish Language Profile -- HTLAL
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/languages/turkish/index.html

Turkic Profile - HTLAL
http://www.how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=30243&PN=1

Why is Turkish difficult to learn - Quora
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Turkish-difficult-to-learn

Difficulty of Turkish -- HTLAL, December 2009
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=18340&PN=17

Best resource for learning Turkish? -- HTLAL, September 2010
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=23082&PN=66

Learning Turkish -- HTLAL, July 2010
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21830&PN=59

Resources to learn Turkish? -- HTLAL, May 2011
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=26794&PN=50

Lesser-known Turkish courses -- HTLAL, November 2012
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=34373&PN=27

FSI Turkish -- HTLAL, June 2007
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6253&PN=31

How outdated is FSI Turkish? -- HTLAL, November 2009
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=18037&PN=77

FSI Turkish. Any good? -- HTLAL, September 2013
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=36773&PN=18

How to crack Turkish - A language learners’ forum, , July 2015
https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=800

Turkish or Iranian TV Shows - A language learners’ forum, February 2016
https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&p=33607#p33607

Turkish Assimil - A language learners’ forum, August 2016
https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3317

EDITED:
Inclusion of the link to the Turkish Assimil discussion thread.
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