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Turkish Resources (Comprehensive)

Postby Raconteur » Tue Mar 07, 2023 10:43 pm

––LAST UPDATED JAN 2024––

The purpose of this thread is to create a comprehensive list of Turkish resources, with an emphasis on English as the primary language of instruction. Additions and corrections are welcome, feel free to help out by posting below. I especially need help with improving the other languages and media sections. Please note, while a few objectively egregious resources were omitted, in general the aim was not to evaluate or rank the resources presented. Therefore, please do not take the mere presence of any resource on this list as a recommendation to use it. This goes double for paid resources! Please do your own research regarding the quality, fit, and value of any resources on this list. İyi şanlar!

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COURSES | 1980–PRESENT

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COURSES | 1980–PRESENT

  • Assimil | Le Turc (aka Le Turc sans Peine) [FR]¹
    Dominique Halbout, Gönen Güzey
  • Assimil | Türkisch ohne Mühe [DE]¹
    Dominique Halbout, Gönen Güzey, Gérard Groc
  • Colloquial | Turkish The Complete Course for Beginners (2001)
    Jeroen Aarssen and Ad Backus
  • Colloquial | Turkish (1992)
    Arın Bayraktaroğlu, Sinan Bayraktaroğlu
  • Complete Turkish: The Absolute Course for Beginners
    Ahmet Murat Taşer and Şeref Ali Taşer
  • Elementary Turkish: A Complete Course for Beginners
    Kurtuluş Öztopçu, 3rd ed. (2015), 2nd (2009), 1st (2006)
  • FONO | Easy Turkish Course
    Birsen Çankaya, Andy Hilton, Sevgi Hilton & Şükrü Meriç. (2004)
  • Hugo | Turkish in Three Months
    Bengisu Rona
  • Linguaphone | Turkish PDQ
    Michael Buckby, Çiğdem Balım-Harding
  • Modern Turkish
    B. Orhan Doğan (1999)
    (N.B. latest edition is the 11th from 2018)
  • Teach Yourself | Complete Turkish Beginner to Intermediate Course²
    Previous version title: Teach Yourself Turkish
    Asuman Çelen Pollard
  • Teach Yourself | Get Started in Turkish²
    Previous version title: Teach Yourself Beginner's Turkish
    Asuman Çelen Pollard
  • The Delights of Learning Turkish: A Self-Study Course Book +Companion Workbook
    Yasar Esendal Kuzucu
  • Turkish for Beginners: A Comprehensive Self-Study Course
    Elvin Allazov

––––AUDIO COURSES––––––––––––––––––––
Including audio-only and audio focused courses

  • Earworms | Rapid Turkish
  • Language Transfer | Turkish
  • Living Language | In-Flight Turkish: Learn Before You Land
  • Pimsleur | Turkish (30 Lessons)

––––CLASSROOM TEXTBOOKS-–––––––––––––

  • Yeni HİTİT | LVL 1-3
  • Yedi İklim | A1-C2
  • Yeni İstanbul | A1-C1
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COURSES | PRE-1980 & GOVERNMENT COURSES

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COURSES | PRE-1980

  • Colloquial | Turkish (1961)
    Yusuf Mardin
  • Spoken Language Services | Spoken Turkish
    Norman A. McQuown & Sadi Koylan
  • Teach Yourself | Turkish
    Geoffrey L. Lewis, Many Editions
    One version first published 1953 (2nd ed. 1989)

GOVERNMENT COURSES

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GRAMMAR MANUALS

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GRAMMAR MANUALS

  • A Student Grammar of Turkish
    F. Nihan Ketrez
  • Dover Language Guides | Elementary Turkish
    Lewis V. Thomas
  • Easy Turkish Grammar with Answers
    Halit Demir
  • Routledge | Turkish
    Jaklin Kornfilt
  • Routledge | Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar
    Aslı Göksel and Celia Kerslake
  • Routledge | Turkish: An Essential Grammar
    Aslı Göksel and Celia Kerslake
  • Oxford | The Oxford Turkish Grammar
    Gerjan van Schaaik
  • The Turkish Language Explained for English Speakers
    John Guise
  • Turkish Grammar
    Geoffrey L. Lewis
  • Turkish Grammar in Practice - A Self-Study Reference
    Yusuf Buz
  • Turkish Grammar [Turk dili grameri, dil, Turk dili, Turkce grameri]
    Robert Underhill
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DICTIONARIES

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DICTIONARIES

  • Langenscheidt | Standard Dictionary Turkish
    Resuhi Akdikmen
  • Collins | Turkish Dictionary: Essential Edition
  • Milet | Comprehensive Dictionary
    Birsen Çankaya and Gordon Jones
  • The Larger Redhouse | Portable Dictionary
    Serap Bezmez and Richard Blakney
  • T&P Books | English-Turkish Theme-based dictionary
    2022 | 3000, 5000, 7000 or 9000 keywords

––––ONLINE DICTIONARIES–––––––––––––––


––––TRANSLATORS-––––––––––––––––––––––

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READERS

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READERS
Graded reader and other easy texts

  • Advanced Turkish Reader
    Andreas Tietze, 1997
  • DLIFLC | Legends and Folktales³
  • Foxton’s Turkish Graded Readers | Turkish Short Stories for Beginners
    Yusuf Buz and Umit Can Umut, 2020
  • Foxton’s Turkish Graded Readers | Pre-Intermediate Turkish Short Stories
    Yusuf Buz and Umit Can Umut, 2021
  • FSI | Turkish Basic Course - Graded Reader³
    Selman Ağralı et al.
  • LingoMastery | Conversational Turkish Dialogues: Over 100 Turkish Conversations and Short Stories
    2021
    Audio available as a separate purchase
  • LingoMastery | Turkish Short Stories for Beginners
    2020
    Audio available as a separate purchase
  • Short Stories in Turkish for Beginners
    Olly Richards, 2020
    Audio available as a separate purchase
  • The Turkish Tales Of Nasrettin Hoca
    Zeki Fındıkoğlu, 2009 bilingual edition
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DIGITAL LEARNING TOOLS

Postby Raconteur » Tue Mar 07, 2023 10:46 pm

DIGITAL LEARNING TOOLS

––––APPS––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Mobile and web-based apps currently supporting Turkish

  • Anki
  • Babbel
  • Busuu
  • Drops
  • 
Duolingo
  • Glossika
  • LingQ
  • Memrise
  • Rosetta Stone
  • Tatoeba

––––TUTORING APPS–––––––––––––––––––––
Individual or group sessions with Turkish tutors

  • iTalki
  • Preply

––––WEB-BASED COURSES––––––––––––––––
URL no longer active? Try Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
––––TRADITIONAL COMPUTER SOFTWARE–––

  • Critical Languages Series | Beginning Turkish (DVD - Windows)
  • Critical Languages Series | Intermediate Turkish (DVD - Windows)
  • Critical Languages Series | Advanced Turkish (DVD - Windows)
  • Rosetta Stone | Levels 1-3 (CD & Audio Companion - Windows/Mac)

For online dictionaries and translators, see DICTIONARIES section
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MISCELLANEOUS

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MISCELLANEOUS
Other reference material, phrasebooks, word-lists, etc.

  • 101 Turkish Idiomatic Expressions
    Yıldıray Erdener
  • 201 Turkish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses
    Talat Sait Halman
  • Anadolu ders kitabı | video course (A1) (A2)
  • Ayan Academy | Turkish by the Nature Method (YouTube Playlist)
    Sadly, only one episode published as of 03.2023
  • DEM Turkish Center | worksheets, video lessons and graded readers (link)
  • Easy Turkish Video Series (YouTube Channel)
  • KAMAN | 500 Turkish Words in Context
    Halit Demir
  • KAMAN | Verbals in Turkish
    Halit Demir
  • KAMAN | Turkish Vocabulary Booster
    Halit Demir
  • Lingo Mastery | 2000 Most Common Turkish Words in Context
  • Teach Yourself | Speak Turkish with Confidence
    Sultan Erdoǧan
  • Teach Yourself | Turkish Conversation
    Sultan Erdoğan
  • Teach Yourself | Turkish Tutor: Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook
    Emine Cakir, 2019
  • Teach Yourself | One-day Turkish
  • Teach Yourself | Elisabeth Smith's Last-Minute Turkish
  • The Turkish Language Reform
    Geoffrey Lewis
  • Turkish Intonation
    Rose Nash
  • Turkish Vocabulary for English Speakers - 9000 words
    Andrey Taranov

––––PHRASEBOOKS––––––––––––––––––––––

  • Allè | Turkish Phrasebook
  • Assimil | Le turc de poche [FR]; Turecki kieszonkowy [PL]¹
  • Collins | Turkish Phrasebook and Dictionary (Collins Gem Series)
  • DK | Turkish Phrase Book
  • Lonely Planet | Turkish Phrasebook
  • Rough Guides | Turkish Phrasebook
  • Tuttle | Making out in Turkish
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PRE-20TH CENTURY

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PRE-20TH CENTURY
All materials published prior to 1900 in reverse chronological order

  • A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language
    Charles Wells, 1880
  • A Turkish Manual, Comprising a Condensed Grammar with Idiomatic Phrases, Exercises, and Dialogues, and Vocabulary
    C. F. Mackenzie, 1879
  • Elementary Grammar of the Turkish Language with a Few Easy Exercises
    Frank Lawrence Hopkins, 1877
  • The Turkish Interpreter, or a New Grammar of the Turkish Language

    Charles Boyd, 1842
  • A Grammar of the Turkish Language
    Thomas Vaughan, 1709
  • Complementum Thesaurus Linguarum Orientalium
    Franciscus à Mesgnien Meniński, c.1680-1687 [Latin]
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RESOURCES IN OTHER LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION

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RESOURCES IN OTHER LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION¹

––––FRENCH–––––––––––––––––––––––––––

  • Asiatheque | Méthode de turc - Volume 1
    Michel Bozdemir, 2013
  • Asiatheque | Méthode de turc - Volume 2
    Michel Bozdemir, 2014
  • Asiatheque | Dictionnaire français - turc
    1991
  • Editions Harmattan | Parlons turc
    Gönen Güzel, Dominique Halbout, 2002
  • Editions Harmattan | Grammaire du turc
    Bernard Golstein, 1999
  • Ellipses | Tamam - Initiation à la langue turque
    Marie-Hélène Sauner-Leroy, Celile Eren Okten, 2012
  • Ellipses | Haydi! - Les bases de la grammaire turque en 50 fiches (avec exercices corrigés)
    Cybèle Berk, Michel Bozdémir, 2020
  • Ellipses | Evet! - Premiers pas en turc - A1/A2
    Töreli Esnault Deniz, 2022
  • Ellipses | Réponse a tout - Turc
    Patrice Kirmizigul, 2008
  • Ellipses | 45 leçons pour parler turc
    Patrice Kirmizigul, Sophie Pelloux, 2017
  • Ellipses | 1001 expressions pour tout dire en turc
    Patrice Kirmizigul, Sophie Pelloux, 2014
  • Studyrama | La conversation en turc
    Jack Salom, Payam Yalçınkaya, 2021
  • Studyrama | Mini-guide de conversation - Turc
    Jack Salom, Payam Yalçınkaya, 2016
  • Studyrama | 50 règles essentielles - Turc
    Jack Salom, Payam Yalçınkaya, 2023
––––GERMAN–––––––––––––––––––––––––––

  • Buske | Grammatikübungsbuch Türkisch
    Brigitte Moser-Weithmann, 2012
    [workbook]
  • Buske | Lese- und Übungsbuch Türkisch
    Hayrettin Seyhan, 2016
    [workbook]
  • Buske | Kaçan Adam
    Marianne Wiegand, 2019
    [graded reader]
  • Circon Lernkrimi | Son Durak İstanbul
    - Mafalda Ade et al., 2020
    [graded reader]
  • dtv | Hoş geldin - Herzlich willkommen: Die Türkei in kleinen Geschichten [parallel text]
    Celal Özcan et al., 2003
  • dtv | Nasreddin Hoca'dan en iyi fıkralar - Die besten Geschichten von Nasreddin Hodscha [parallel text]
    Celal Özcan et al., 2008
  • dtv | Türkçe okuma kitabı - Erste türkische Lesestücke [parallel text]
    Celal Özcan et al., 2008
  • dtv | İstanbul anlatıyor - Istanbul erzählt [parallel text]
    Wolfgang Riemann, 2010
  • dtv | Modern Türk öyküleri - Moderne türkische Erzählungen [parallel text]
    Wolfgang Riemann, 2017
  • dtv | Hep kebap olmaz - Es muss nicht immer Kebap sein : eine kulinarische Reise durch die Türkei [parallel text]
    Celal Özcan et al., 2021
  • Harrassowitz | Türkische Grammatik ausführlich und verständlich [grammar book]
    Margarete I. Ersen-Rasch, 2012
  • Harrassowitz | Türkisch für Fortgeschrittene B1 - C1/C2 [coursebook]
    Margarete I. Ersen-Rasch, 2017
  • Hueber | Einstieg Türkisch für Kurzentschlossene [simple coursebook / phrasebook]
    2000
  • Hueber | Kurzgrammatik Türkisch [grammar book]
    Hasan Çakır, 2011
  • Hueber | Mit Türkisch unterwegs [phrasebook]
    Juliane Forßmann et al., 2011
  • Hueber | Smart Türkisch [phrasebook]
    2016
  • Hueber | Sprachkurs Türkisch [coursebook]
    Doğan Tezel, Ali Tuğutlu, 2019
  • Hueber | Wortschatz einfach praktisch - Türkisch [vocabulary / phrasebook]
    Ayşen Bayramlı, Gökalp Bayramlı 2010
  • Hueber | Türkisch alltagstauglich [vocabulary / phrasebook]
    Özlem Tekin, John Stevens, 2013
  • Hueber | Türkisch lernen mit The Grooves [audiocourse]
    Eva Brandecker et al., 2019
  • Hueber | Haydi Tatile! [coursebook A1, seems to be more aimed at group classes with a teacher]
    Hasan Çakır, Daniel Krasa, 2021
  • Hueber | Ne güzel! A1 [coursebook, seems to be aimed more at group classes with a teacher]
    Doğan Tezel, 2022
  • Hueber | Ne güzel! A2 [coursebook, seems to be aimed more at group classes with a teacher]
    Doğan Tezel, 2019
  • Hueber | Güle güle A1+A2 [coursebook, seems to be aimed more at group classes with a teacher]
    1998
  • Hueber | Güle güle Arbeitsbuch A1+A2 [workbook, seems to be aimed more at group classes with a teacher]
    1998
  • Kauderwelsch | Türkisch Wort für Wort
    Marcus Stein, 2015
    [phrasebook]
  • Kauderwelsch | Türkisch Slang - das andere Türkisch
    Al Page, 2011
    [phrasebook]
  • Klett | Kolay gelsin! A1-A2
    Zehra Entschew, Ayşe Tetik & Nicolas Labasque, 2014
  • Klett | Kolay gelsin! B1
    Zehra Entschew & Ayşe Tetik, 2014
    → See Klett's webpage for extra workbooks, answer keys, and downloadable audio
  • Langenscheidt | Universal-Wörterbuch Türkisch [dictionary 30000 keywords]
    Derya Zeyrek, 2022
  • Langenscheidt | Praktisches Wörterbuch Türkisch [dictionary 55000 keywords]
    Evelyn Glose, 2023
  • Langenscheidt | Taschenwörterbuch Türkisch [dictionary 95000 keywords]
    Heinz F. Wendt, Tevfik Turan, 2015
  • Langenscheidt | Universal-Sprachführer Türkisch [phrasebook]
    2023
  • Langenscheidt | Audio-Sprachführer Türkisch [audio, mp3-download, phrasebook]
    2020
  • Langenscheidt | Sprachführer Türkisch [phrasebook]
    2014
  • Langenscheidt | Türkisch mit System [coursebook]
    2023
  • Norea Druck | Ich lerne Türkisch mit Kreuzworträtseln
    Philippa Hell-Höflinger, 2013
    [puzzles]
  • PONS | Power-Sprachkurs Türkisch 1
    Michaela Hillmeier, Şirin Seçkin & Yasemin Yıldız. 2022
    → Rebranded version of "PONS Power-Sprachkurs Türkisch für Anfänger"
  • PONS | Power-Sprachkurs Türkisch für Fortgeschrittene
    Erkin Günesdoğdu. 2018
    → More offerings by PONS can be found on their webpage
  • PONS | Praxiswörterbuch Türkisch [dictionary, 30000 keywords]
    Gregor Vetter, 2015
  • PONS | Basiswörterbuch Türkisch [dictionary, 50000 keywords]
    Tuba Celiktas, 2020
  • PONS | Kompaktwörterbuch Türkisch [dictionary, 120000 keywords]
    Osman Nazım Kıygı, 2022
  • PONS | Pocket-Sprachkurs Türkisch [very basic course / phrasebook]
    Canan Eulenberger-Özdamar, 2015
  • PONS | Grammatik kurz und bündig Türkisch [grammar book]
    Hasan Çakır, 2015
  • PONS | Reise-Sprachführer Türkisch [phrasebook]
    Gregor Vetter, Anette Dralle, 2015
  • PONS | Pocket-Sprachführer Türkisch [phrasebook]
    Ines Balcik, 2018
  • PONS | Sprachkalender Türkisch [yearly tear-off calendar with activities]
  • Schulwerkstatt Verlag | Türkische Grammatik – Clever gelernt! [grammar book]
    Jutta Çıkar, Mustafa Çıkar, 2016
  • Sprachkurs Plus Türkisch
    Asuman Çelen-Pollard & David Pollard. 2009
    → Translation and adaptation in German of "Teach Yourself Complete Turkish"
  • Tredition GmbH | Das erste türkische Lesebuch für Anfänger [graded reader]
    Kemal Osman, 2023
  • Turkisch: Kurzgrammatik
    Angelika Landmann
  • Türkisch: Lehrbuch für Anfänger und Fortgescrhittene
    Margarete I. Ersen-Rasch, 2012
  • Türkisch: Übungsgrammatik A1-C1
    Margarete I. Ersen-Rasch, 2013
––––POLISH––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

  • Gramatyka Języka Tureckiego w Zarysie
    Marek Stachowski
  • Edgard | Turecki nie gryzie!
    Third Edition, 2023
  • Edgard | Turecki Kurs Podstawowy
    Karolina Sobocińska, 2009

––––SPANISH–––––––––––––––––––––––––––


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