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Title: Elementary Turkish by Lewis Thomas ISBN: 0-486-25064-4 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 April, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: out dated
Comment: I've lived in Turkey for two years now and have a collection of books on Turkish. This one I would rate at the bottom of the list due to several things. 1) The Turkish it teaches is out of date, most Turks who I show this to (including my teacher) agree on this and find many things about the book laughable. This shows itself in both the vocab and in the conjugations (the future negative is condugated as "-miyecek" for example). 2) The descriptions are incredibly obtuse and technical and I was only able to understand them based on a few months of private lessons about the same concepts. If I had tried to learn on my own from this book I can't imagine how long it would take. The only positive thing I can state about it is there are a lot of exercises at the end of each chapter, something missing in every other book I've found... but even the answer keys to these exercises are sometimes wrong, use outdated words and forms, and ask you about concepts not yet taught. Perhaps for linguists this might be useful but as a begining and intermediate student I have found it incredibly frustrating. Many other books such as Teach Yourself Turkish are much easier to understand and explain the concepts so much simpler.
Rating: 3
Summary: You have to be smart
Comment: It's a Turkish grammar, rather than a primer for a complete beginner.
It was written for Princeton students who must be a very intelligent bunch. Sometimes the English is hard to follow and you have to be smart to understand it.. It's full of sentences like "the infinitives - common or light- may govern the objective definite suffix , or other appropriate suffixes, on preceding substantives, just as do finite verb forms." and "the common infinitive with the following combinations of two suffixes (1) the ablative suffix (2) the conditional suffix, means....."
It may be a little out of date. It says the lira contains a hundred kurus. Maybe things move slowly in Princeton.
I think it might be helpful for someone who had learned to talk Turkish in an ungrammatical way - maybe lives in Turkey- and wanted to become more correct. There are no tapes.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not very recommended .
Comment: I have bought this book so my wife could learn Turkish.Turkish is my native language and from what I saw, there is no way to learn Turkish properly from this book. The example sentences make no sense. It looks like a computer translated the sentences to Turkish and nobody edited them. It definetly needs a native person's editing so the sentences make some sense.
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Title: Teach Yourself Turkish Complete Course by Asuman Celen Pollard, David Pollard ISBN: 0844237159 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Langenscheidt Turkish Pocket Dictionary by Langenscheidt Staff, Resuhi Akdikmen, Langenscheidt Publishers ISBN: 0887290906 Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishing Group Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: In-Flight Turkish : Learn Before You Land by Living Language ISBN: 0609810952 Publisher: Living Language Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Just Enough Turkish by D. L. Ellis, Roderick Conway Morris, Passport Books ISBN: 0844295183 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Colloquial Turkish Pack : The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series) by Ad Backus, Jeroen Aarssen, Albert Backus ISBN: 041515748X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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