Language

If you can speak French, and want to learn Turkish, some stuff in French will be better for yout Turkish study than in English or in another language. There is a blog in French for Turkish learners:

Le blog de Laprof

You can find basic things about Turkish. I hope you enjoy!

When you want to say your opinions, you may use "I think" or "in my opinion" in English. In Turkish, this is a bit different from literal translation of them. I will give you a table to use them:

As you see, we don't use -ce suffix for third person. They can be also used with "düşünce".

Let's see the examples; Read more »

Learning a foreign language is a fun! At least people should see it as an enjoyment. When you find things about Turkish enjoyable, you can learn them easier than ever. Actually, everything about learning is same, I think. For that reason, I think we should make things easier by seeing funny examples.

In this site, I'll try to write Turkish lessons by giving exmples from Turkish songs, movie quotes, cartoons and something more which we can enjoy.

I am open for all critics and contrubutions here. I would love to hear something good or bad what I wrote. Thank you very much for your interest.

Çılgınlar gibi Türkçe öğrenmeye hazır mısınız? :P
Are you ready to learn Turkish like crazy? :P Read more »

According to the Hudson Turkish American Cultural Association website Hutaca.org, there are classes in Hudson.

Click for details:
www.hutaca.org

If you are interested in learning English, Ebaby site may help you:

English Baby
http://www.englishbaby.com

If you are not from Turkey, probably, your keyboard doesn't have special letters of Turkish. For that reason, you may be in a trouble during your learning and practice sessions. There is a nice website to help you for putting Turkish characters on the internet. This website is: Typeit.org

The main site of Typeit.org is: http://www.typeit.org

You can find more languages which has special letters and characters, such as Romanian.

By the way, I want to remind you the special letters of Turkish alphabet:

ş ı ğ ç ö ü
Ş İ Ğ Ç Ö Ü Read more »

I have just found a free English to Turkish translator website. It is a very surprising thing for me because I have never heard that there could be a website like that. Here is the web address of this translator:

www.hemencevir.com

As it is an automatic translator, it may fail anytime. If you need a serious translation, I advise you a real one. I hope you enjoy it! Read more »

I was very tired after a whole semester and I needed vacations in order to relax. For that reason, I went to a beach village, and "kafamı dinledim".

kafa dinlemek or (in other words "kafayı/kafasını dinlemek") means "to get relaxed". kafa means "head", and dinlemek means "to listen". When you put these words together, it means "to listen to (the/your) head". But as you can see, this is a special phrase. It also means that you need a quite/silent atmosphere. If someone disturbs you by making noise during your relax session, you can remind him that you need some silence by using it.

When you use this phrase, you should be careful about the personal possesive pronouns:more Read more »

I have a new cousin. The son of my uncle was born a couple of weeks ago.
In Turkey, when we hear that someone has a new baby, or meet someone that he has children, we say Allah bağışlasın

bağışlamak is a verb. It means "to excuse" or "to forgive" or "to have mercy". Allah bağışlasın is a saying something like "God bless him/her". Or you may think it as "May Allah (God) forgive him/her to you" (let the baby live with you), because of the belief that he/she is a gift from Him.

There is also one more saying for the babies: Allah analı babalı büyütsün. It means, "May Allah let the baby grow with the parents". Read more »

I would like to write some greetings in Turkish. I hope it helps Turkish learners. Read more »