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New release
Live on Amazon now. It is 25% off until Monday, April 22, 2024. You can view the contents and sample pages on the home page.
Apr 16, 20241 min read
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NEW RELEASE
You can the first 100 verbs for free from https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=qj50EAAAQBAJ
Jun 10, 20221 min read
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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...
Jun 6, 20221 min read
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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...
May 18, 20221 min read
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NEW RELEASE
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...
Mar 16, 20221 min read
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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...
Jun 23, 20211 min read
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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...
Jul 26, 20201 min read
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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...
Mar 2, 20191 min read
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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...
Mar 2, 20191 min read
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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...
Feb 26, 20191 min read
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Word formation: suffixes
How many words can you derive from 'göz'? Example: gözlük, gözlükçü
Feb 24, 20191 min read
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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.
Feb 24, 20191 min read
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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...
Feb 24, 20191 min read
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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...
Feb 24, 20191 min read
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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...
Feb 24, 20191 min read
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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.
Mar 19, 20181 min read
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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....
Mar 17, 20181 min read
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