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I think it is very suitable for whoever need next step to understanding Turkish language.To me, it provides intermediate level after you finish general language pocket book.- well organized contents- easy to understand- fun exercises- good realistic examples and informationHighly recommended book to whom may interested in learning new language.Good luck. I love this book.
All vocabulary seems to be introduced randomly. There is way too much English explanations, when they could have used the space for more communicative conversations and introduction to real language.
How many of us can think of grammar rules and speak at the same time. It is a good book if your interesteed in Turkish grammar, but knowing grammar does not translate into being able to communicate.
This is a very bad book. There is little or no spirling of material/vocabulary so that one do not build their skills on past lessons.
Do not buy this book. There is no communicative context to any of the lessons at all.
Not around real contextulized conversations.
The course material is interesting too: conversations in each lesson cover a wide variety of everyday situations to be encountered in contemporary Turkey. For me, the course really got easier as I worked my way through it (something that happens very rarely even in good courses). Occasionally one encounters a grammatical construction that hasn't been covered in previous lessons, but don't be put off= they aren't (unlike in many other books) real barriers to understanding, and by the end of the book anything mysterious will almost certainly have come clear. Like its companion volume, 'Teach Yourself Beginner's Turkish', this book is so organized as to target from its very beginning the difficulties an English speaker will have learning Turkish. It is, of course, the complicated system of suffixes that will keep a student up at night, but the authors have related them so neatly to English possessives and prepositions (in the case of noun suffixes) and tenses (in the case of verbs, of course)that they quickly come to seem to be parts of one of the most sensible and logical language structures a student of foreign languages will ever encounter.
Don't waste your money. No time is given to practice the pronunciation before moving on to the next word or phrase. Having taught French and Spanish prior to my retirement, I know what to look for in teaching a foreign language. This course is probably the poorest quality I have yet to see.Lesson 1 begins by giving you a few basic words in Turkish in rapid succession then goe to chapter six.which is quite advanced.All in lesson 1.
IF YOU GO ONTO YOU TUBE AND SEARCH FOR HEPSI BIR, THIS IS A TV SHOW THAT HAS 30-40 EPISODES OF A TURKISH POP GROUP WHO IS REALLY BIG OVER THERE. ONE THING THAT MAY HELP EVERYONE THAT IS MISSING THE CD'S IS TO WATCH SOME TV SHOWS. IVE BEEN LEARNING FROM WATCHING THE SHOW, YOU GET TO HEAR THE CONVERSATION AND SEE THE SITUATION SO IT MAY HELP EVERYONE. I JUST ORDERED THIS BOOK TO HELP ME RELEARN TURKISH, MY MOM IS TURKISH AND WE JUST CAME BACK FROM TRIP THIS SUMMER. I WISH I TRIED TO LEARN IT BEFORE I WENT, SINCE IT HAD BEEN YEARS SINCE I WAS THERE.
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