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Conversational Turkish: Learn to Speak and Understand Turkish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur)

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- Pimsleurs Language method
It's good because it keeps on repeating itself- can be easily used in an MP3 player in the train. The course is built logically, and is easy to follow (assuming you listen to each lesson a few times). However, it is unfortunate that there is no book to accompany the CD-Rom, as I would like sometimes to see what I'm hearing.

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- Excellent program!!!
I recorded this into iTunes and listen to it on my iPod. It's an excellent learning tool! My only wish is that there was a booklet with the phrases written in it so that I can tell if they're saying r or v and whatnot. Still, with a little effort, I can find out how to spell the words.

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- Good for listening to in the car
I am supposed to be going to Turkey to teach there for a year, so a few months ago I bought this program to start learning Turkish. I chose Pimsleur over Rosetta Stone for a few reasons: 1. It's much cheaper. 2. I can listen to it in the car while driving around instead of having to find time to sit in front of the computer. 3. Pimsleur teaches useful phrases whereas Rosetta Stone really does not in its whole language approach.

Overall I am pleased with Pimsleur. There are sixteen 30-minute lessons. I find I need to listen to a lesson at least three times before moving on. There is plenty of review though; each new lesson also reviews old material. They do explain some of the grammar but do not overwhelm you with it. It seems to me that some lessons introduce more new material than others. For example, I got through lesson ten rather quickly, as there was not much new, but I am now on lesson eleven which seems to introduce quite a bit of new material.

One thing I don't like about the audio program is not knowing how to read and write what I am learning to say. It is a good idea to purchase a Turkish grammar book and study that to supplement Pimsleur. Unfortunately there is no text or phrasebook included with Pimsleur, just the CDs in their own little case. I also bought "Teach Yourself Turkish" and although it is good, I just haven't devoted the time to it that I should.

As an experienced language learner (I speak French and some Spanish) and language teacher, I find Pimsleur great for an audio-lingual program. It helps teach proper pronunciation and intonation whereas simply studying a grammar book would not. However, I think it is best to purchase both Pimsleur and a book and devote time to both. The most effective language learning and teaching should involve not only listening and speaking, but also reading and writing.

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- Easy to learn
I'm convinced that with this teaching style, any one can learn any launguage. Having said that, I find myself needing to SEE some of the words. It would be nice to have a small vocabulary guide included with the software. I went to the library and picked up several Turkish language books so that I can visualize what I'm saying. Overall, this product is very good and I'd recommend it to anyone who needs to learn basic Turkish conversation.

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- Worth The Wait
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!

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