Pimsleur Conversational Turkish (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur)|Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur

An excellent aid to learning to speak Turkish. As I know some already I think it would be difficult to learn using this pack alone. If you are really serious back it up with some structured grammar.

Used this method previously for learning other languages. Absolute must for beginners and using the correct pronunciation.

I love Turkey, I stayed there during 2 years,Turkey is truly an amazing country, the people are very good,very very kind and lovely. While I was there, I have learned, understanding many words,I began to talk with them. But I have a question? The Turkish language is not so hard to learn...but phonetic spelling and gruelling grammar are very difficult What's the best audio player you listen to learn turkish language? Please help me because I'm lost? i didn't find anything good Pimsleur Conversational Turkish [With Free CD Case] (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur)

Brilliant! Techniques really worked for me

Very easy to use and follow. It takes you through slowly and gives you time to repeat and learn the phrases.

Excellent

brilliant - sadly not the first CD i bought. easy learning style and its sticking. Now trying to locate somewhere that sells stage 2 in the uk

Einfach nur kurz und knapp erklärt: EIN SEHR GUTES LERNMATERIAL!!!!!! Bin total begeistert von der Lehrmethode und von der Qualität!

Turkish has been a pretty glaring hole in the Pimsleur catalog for some time now. It always seemed a bit strange that a company that takes the trouble to make programs for Irish, Ojibwe and Lithuanian would overlook a language with over 60 million speakers in such an important part of the world. Further, Turkey does everything it can to reach out to the West, economically, culturally and politically. But after studying Turkish on my own for a while, I came to see why it may have gotten pushed to the back-burner. It is not a terribly difficult language to learn, but it is quite different in its structure to languages that have previously been produced by Pimsleur. Like Hungarian and Finnish - other popular languages that don't have Pimsleur courses - Turkish is an agglutanized language, which simply means that sentence structures are formed in large part by building on the base word. For example, they don't use prepositions as we do in English, they merely add a suffix on the word. "Sut" means "milk", "sutlu" means "with milk." School is "okul" - from school is "okuldan." And so forth. While this concept alone doesn't make Turkish improbable for the Pimsleur format, bear in mind that words can become quite complicated when you begin adding attachments for possessive cases, plurals, location, tense, etc. It is not uncommon for words to eventually grow into the size of small sentences. And note negation; "I understand" is "biliyorum" but "I don't understand" is "bilMIyorum." So proper listening requires you to catch agglutinzed portions of the word in the middle of the sentence, otherwise the meaning is completely the opposite of what is understood. Ok, with that out of the way it must be said that Pimsleur did a superb job of comporting Turkish into the script format that has remained pretty consistent through the various languages. Unlike Spanish or Italian, the pace is a little slower to make sure you "get" what is being accomplished as the vocabulary is built up and key concepts are explained. But the pace does keep up, which I found to be very satisfying. One of the great assets of Pimsleur (as opposed to say, the "Rocket" audio programs) is the lack of pointless chit-chat in English, and the steady pace to keep you focused on the target language. The Turkish script not only navigated the tricky points of Turkish quite well, but also happened to give among the most clear and concise introductions into the points of grammar as they came. Again the voices are good, the speech is clear, and the vocabulary is useful. This one is a winner. Turkish is a great language, and very easy to speak with regards to pronounciation (say, compared to Arabic, Chinese or Russian). A month invested in this program would be all you would need to have a fantastic time in Turkey. Though I have not yet visited, my Turkish friends say if you know a little of the language, the hospitality is overwhelming and you will never be lacking for an invitation for dinner. I imagine with this program under your belt you'd eat like a king in Turkey!

I've wanted to learn Turkish for a long time now. My wife is Turkish, and I can't communicate with her family (yes, I know, to some that would be a problem not worth fixing). This is an excellent audio course, and it has no fluff in it whatsoever. You start playing the CD, and GO! I use it during my 1 hour commute each way in the car. As others have said, I sometimes need to rewind because I can't always think as fast as they want me to, but I transferred it to my mp3 player, and it's easy to go back a few seconds and try it again. I've tried Rosetta stone, but basically it just sat there because I had to dedicate the time to sit in front of a computer and do it. For me, this is much better. Be forewarned, however, that you need to repeat things out loud constantly, and if you are not in a private place, it's not going to work out. In the very first lesson, they start by saying, "Listen to this conversation in Turkish." Only 30 minutes later, you listen to the exact same conversation and you understand it! 5 stars.

I am planning a trip to Turkey in a few months and wanted to learn turkish ASAP. This is an 8 CD set. There are two lessons on each. They are tagged so no need to name tracks when importing to iTunes etc. If you have 2-3 weeks this 8 CD set is the way to go. If you have longer ...go for the next set which is 16 CD's. There is no written material and this is "spoken" turkish only. Bottomline....this set is for those who can listen to 30 minutes of material daily.If you commute daily...dont think twice and just buy it. I would recommend listening to each lesson 2-3 times before proceeding to the next ( hence the 2-3 weeks). Also , I found it very helpful to supplement the learning process by spending a little time on learning the alphabet and phontics ( it is straight forward and I used youtube videos!) along with using a phrase book

Let's start with the good. I thought the lessons were pretty good and enjoyable. I liked the method, and I found that I retained more of the content from the CDs than I thought I would. The lessons covered the very basics of greeting people, setting meetings, ordering food and shopping. I felt that the CDs gave me a good foundation to start learning the Turkish language. After I finished the CDs, I was able to start picking up things things here and there on my own. My friends were fairly impressed with the rate that I was picking up Turkish. However, there was a lot missing from the CDs that I wished they would have covered. The method is built on the premise that language is primarily spoken, but I would like to know the letters of the alphabet, how to spell the words I'm saying, and how specific letters are pronounced. The CD leaves out a lot of information and phrases which I would have found useful. For example, the CDs teach you how to ask where something is, but they don't teach you how to understand or give directions to the place. The CDs teach you how to order food, but not how to ask for the check, receipt or say that the food was good. Overall, I would say it was a decent product for the money. It gets you started on Turkish, but don't expect to be fluent once you are done. If you are traveling to Turkey, buy a Turkish-English dictionary, and have a list of useful phrases and words handy.