Is Turkish hard or easy to learn..?

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greetings_losers

It's definitely not easy to learn but since u had attempts to learn other languages before, you are gonna like Turkish. Unlike the other languages u tried to learn, Turkish is very agglutinative, meaning for almost anything that may change or vary the meaning of a particular word, u gotta add the inflection to the end of that word. In English it's almost always to the beginning as a seperate word.

Also the nature of the language is much different than those of indo european ones. There are 18 tenses, where Slavic languages have 3-5, Latin has 6 or English has 12 and some tenses have more than 1 meaning. The vowel harmony is also extensive where no other indo european language has it. The worst for a foreigner is gerunds and gerundials. I dont think any non Turk is able to make use of gerunds and gerundials fully nor they can understand it. Those were the bad news. The good ones are, there r almost no exceptions, where Latin-based, Greek or Russian languages are infested with them. Also unlike French or Spanish, there are no genders and like English the adjactives are not conjugated. I think Turkish is easy to start but gets harder (and i mean it) in time. Also tendency of Turks to speak fast may confuse u.
Btw Turkish is ALMOST written like it's pronounced, not fully.

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I suppose it must be very complicated for non-natives, especially because the sentence constructions may seem to be sometimes confused due to the word-to-word agglutination system. Even myself I feel sometimes some difficulties to make some long sentences without a little mistake, especially when I try to speak fast, because of my having grown up abroad ( french speaking background)...

Greeting-Losers gave you a very accurate answer...
Some voyels make it a little more complicated because they don't even exist in the european languages...

I agree also with Totally Blunt and Trostky&Kerenski.
Turkish language is very fun to learn and talk, indeed...

And it's a very beautiful language which sounds really sensual, doesn't it?...

Totally Blunt

I think you may find it difficult at first. Foreigners who live a long time in Turkey get the hang of it, though.

Try singing Turkish songs. It will help your pronunciation, help you familiarize with the language and help you become fluent in time.

Good luck. And enjoy.

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It isn't easy. I know a German who speaks 6 languages fluently and she says Turkish was the most difficult to learn. But in the end, when you get to speak the language you'll see how fun it is. Yes, some languages are "fun" to speak and Turkish is one of them :)

in luv wid turkey

Turkish is a bit easy and a bit hard and i am learning the language

Tanju

Hi,

My advice :

http://www.seslisozluk.com/ -> Turkish For Foreigners

Please check it ...

Good Luck

Topher

I think that like any language it is hard to a certain extent. You can probably learn it by either going to the library and looking up how to speak it but also through the internet and CD's also.

Earthbound

you know it depends on how much you would like to learn. so I may try to help you about learning turkish. I can spend some time over the internet. Ä±f you would like to get in touch with me you can add my e-mail address albayrak1983@hotmail.com. so we can talk by microphone. as you know the best way of learning is by speaking. it is much more useful than other ways. when you were learning your own language did you family teach you any gramatic stuff. probably they did not. your learn by speaking that is the same case for another language. god luck. I open to knowing new people. to me that is the only way how we are gonna make difference between each other. knowing you would be luck for me in many ways.

Ã‡etin

hi ,
at the beginning ,this link maybe help you ...
http://marmaris.org/Marmaris_blog/blogs/common_turkish_phrases/archive/2007/09/02/turkish-greetings-phrases.aspx

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never really heard anyone speak that so far.

Ipek K

Here is some brief information about the language and a foreigners opinion about the difficulty level of learning;

"The Turkish language belongs to the Ural-Altaic group and has an affinity with the Finno-Hungarian languages. Turkish is written in the Latin alphabet and is spoken by about 150 million people around the world.

The Turkish language is spread over a large geographical area in Europe and Asia; it is spoken in numereous dialects, namely in the Azeri, the Turkmen, the Tartar, the Uzbek, the Baskurti; the Hogay, the Kyrgyz, the Kazakh, the Yakuti, the Guvas, the Kurdish dialects and others. The Turkish which is spoken in Turkey represents that of the Turkish language group coming from the southwest branch of the Uralic-Altaic language family. The oldest written records of Turkish are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in the Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions within the boundaries of present day Mongolia, and belong to the years 725, 732 and 735 A.D. After the formation of the Turkish Republic in 1923 and following the achievement of national unity, a Latin alphabet using Turkish phonetics was adopted (in 1928) and the Arabic alphabet was abolished in Turkey.

It is important to add that Turkish can be a difficult language to master both in grammar and in pronunciation. The language is very phonetic and is read exactly the way it is written. Do not give up, for once you get the hang of the verb conjugations and learn how to pronounce a clean "softened g" in a word, you're on your way to chatting yourself silly!

Turkish is very easy to read since it is read as written. If you know the sounds of the letters you can read but not understand! And finally the well known Language Courses in Istanbul and Ankara are listed in our yellow pages"

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