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- Jun 6, 2022
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Behind Personal Names
What do your first and last names mean? My first name Halit means eternity and my last name Demir means iron. I don't know much about the...
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- May 18, 2022
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Allah bir yastıkta kocatsın
This is said to newly married couples. Literally it means, 'May God let you age on the same pillow.' In the days of our grandfathers and...
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- Mar 16, 2022
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Until the weekend, you can buy it for $14.99 instead of $34.99 on Amazon Marketplaces. Don't miss it if you want to take your Turkish to...
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- Jun 23, 2021
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NEW BOOK RELEASE
Hello, all. My new book 500 TURKISH WORDS IN CONTEXT is now out in both paperback and e-book formats. You can get the e-book for free at...
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- Jul 26, 2020
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Common mistakes made by learners of Turkish
1 Use of the plural suffix How would you tranlate 'several books' into Turkish? 'Birkaç kitap', or 'Birkaç kitaplar'? We do not add the...
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- Mar 2, 2019
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Homonyms
Homonyms in Turkish might be confusing for learners of English and Turkish, and may lead to such translations in the pictures. You can...
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- Mar 2, 2019
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m-doublets
You may often hear Turkish speakers using m-doublets, such as 'çocuk mocuk, para mara, kitap mitap, sebze mebze, adam madam, iyilik...
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- Feb 26, 2019
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Word formation: blending
Besides suffixes, we make new words through blending, in the same way as in English. Such words are usually made joining the beginning of...
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- Feb 24, 2019
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Word formation: suffixes
How many words can you derive from 'göz'? Example: gözlük, gözlükçü
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- Feb 24, 2019
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Turkish Reading
Reading film scripts can be a good practice in improving your Turkish. Here are the scripts of Cem Yılmaz films.
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- Feb 24, 2019
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English-Turkish Cognates
A friend of a friend of mine goes to a hardware store to buy a screw plug while studying at university in Austria. But he doesn’t know...
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- Feb 24, 2019
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Turkish Pronunciation Tip
Like in English, words are connected when a word ends in a consonant sound and the next word starts with a vowel sound. This is called...
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- Feb 24, 2019
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Turkish alphabet and pronunciation
For new learners it is a very good video to learn the alphabet. Note that: Turkish script is almost like a phonetic transcription. In the...
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- Mar 19, 2018
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Turkish plural nouns
Almost all nouns in Turkish are singular ‘tekil’ in nature and form the plural ‘çoğul’ by adding -ler.
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- Mar 17, 2018
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Vowel harmony
Vowel harmony applies to vowels in suffixes. When a suffix is added to a word, its vowel changes depending on the last vowel in the word....
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