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Category: Language VideosLearn to speak Turkish -- Lesson One // Meeting People with SimpleLearning Channel.
I’ll upload a new lesson every week and you’ll be able to write and speak Turkish.
Now, our first lesson is the alphabet.
In Turkish, we’ve 8 wovels and 21 consonants.
Turkish is a phonetic language so you can write and read easily if you learn the alphabet well.
First you’ll learn the vowels. 3 of them don’t exist in English. After every vowel, I’ll give an example from Turkish.
A ana
e el
I ılık
i ilim
o kol
ö ön
u uzun
ü ünlü
I’ve said there are 21 consonants inTurkish. For spelling, we’ll add the “e” vowel at the end of the consonant.
b bel
c cam
ç çam
d dil
f fil
g göz
ğ eğer -- There’s a difference with this consonant. You should make the vowel longer then itself if ther’s a “ğ”.
h haç
j jale
k küt
l lüle
m masa
n nal
p pas
r ruj
s ses
ş şan
t tan
v ver
y yaz
z zam
Our first lesson has done. See you in another lesson. If you have any questions, mail me at frozsgy @ gmail . com 
This is just a little lesson I threw together to answer some questions for sarajanebryans16. She asked me about sentence structure in Turkish and how to say a few things, so this is my limited knowledge on the subject.
Here is a basic how to about using turkish verbs. It’s pretty simple, oh yeah, I said “to swim” wrong, it’s actually “yüzmek”. By the way, I might make some mistakes and pronounce things badly, so be warned, I’m no language professor, I just hear these words a lot and my tiny brain interprets them the way it wants to!
Here are some of the question words in Turkish.
Ne? — What? “O ne?” means “What is that?”
Kaç? — How much? How many?
Ne Kadar? — How far?
Saat Kaç? — What time is it?
Ne Zaman? — What time (will it happen)?
Kim? — Who? “O Kim?” means “Who is that?”
Nasıl? — How?
Nerelısın? — Where are you from?
Adın Ne? — What is your name?
Hangı? — Which?
Hangısı? — Which of these?
Niçin?, Niye? — Why?
These are the basic question words in Turkish. Remember, repeated exposure is the key to learning words, not spending a lot of time trying to memorize them. Keep in mind that question words in Turkish usually come after the thing that they refer to. In other words, in Turkish, you don’t say “where’s John?”, you say “John where?” — “John nerede?”. See you next time.
Güle Güle!
This is a basic introduction to the Turkish alphabet. Here are the special characters:
C — “jeh”
Ç — “ch”
Ğ — “Yumashak Geh”, not pronounced
I — I with no dot (note that I with dot has dot even when capitalized), pronounced “uh”
Ö — “er”
Ş — “sh”
Ü — “ew”
Once you get used to the special characters, you will love the Turkish alphabet, it rocks! It was created by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk when he founded the Turkish Republic. He was not only a military genius and a true statesman very similar to our founding fathers, he was also a linguist, who had a deep desire to modernize Turkey. He decided to simplify and standardize the language, and abandoned the use of arabic words and arabic script. He modified the roman alphabet slightly to suit the Turkish language, and assigned one unique character to each sound found in the language. The result is that once you get used to using this script, you will never have trouble spelling a Turkish word that you hear, or pronouncing a Turkish word that you have read! In english we are used to learning exceptions to rules, and learning how to spell words in weird ways, but thanks to the diligent work of Ataturk, you will never need to do that in Turkish.
Güle Güle!
This is the first installment of my “Turkish Language Lessons” series. Here, I will give a little introduction to my series and provide a basic description and history of the Turkish language. Turkish is spoken by approximately 70 million people in Turkey, and some of the former Soviet republics. Hoşgeldiniz!
It is a project of the Literature Course on Schiller Hight School in Münster.