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Title: Two Hundred and One Turkish Verbs Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses by Talat Sait Halman ISBN: 0-8120-2034-0 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: April, 1981 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Useful book
Comment: Turkish has the wonderful distinction of being one of the few languages I've seen with completely regular verbs, unlike Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and most of the world's other major languages that I've seen books on. Japanese and Chinese are the only other ones I know that come close, as the number of irregular verbs can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
It would be interesting to know how many are like this, and perhaps some of the other Uralic languages like Turkish are too. As I said, Japanese is the only other one I know like this, and in fact there are only two irregular verbs in Japanese. Chinese, if I remember right, is also very regular since it doesn't even inflect for person or number, and I suspect the other Han Chinese family languages are similarly regular because of this, but I can't speak for the other tonal languages such as Thai and Vietnamese, but I assume Cantonese and Hakka are very regular too like Mandarin.
I also don't know how the other southeast Asian family languages compare, such as Mon, Khmer (Cambodian), Burmese, or the many other language groups and dialects in southeast Asia such as Hmong in the Mon-Khmer group. The other groups are the Bahnaric group, which includes languages like Sedang and Halang; the Senoic group, which includes Semai and Temiar; Nicorbarese, which includes Trinkat and Bompaka, Munda, which includes Juray and Remo, and the north Munda group, which includes Kork and Sora.
Actually, come to think of it, Arabic is pretty good. It has ten different verb conjugation categories, and once you know those, you're all right. In fact, they're so regular the dictionaries actually refer to them by numbers I-X.
But getting back to this book, as someone noted previously, because the verbs are completely regular, this book could probably have been about 15 pages long. The only other thing to learn is vowel harmony in Turkish, which isn't that difficult and fans of linguistics will recognize this concept from other languages where it occurs, such as in Hungarian, where it's very important. In phonetics, vowel harmony is a type of assimilation which occurs when vowels take on features of contrastive vowels elsewhere in a word or phrase. Once you know how this works, it's very difficult to misspell a word in Turkish, so even that's not really a problem. So overall, a fine book on Turkish verbs despite all the wasted wood pulp. :-)
Rating: 3
Summary: Somewhat helpful
Comment: It's not as much help as such lists are for Indo-European languages, but with Turkish you need all the help you can get. I've been working through the Pollards' "Teach Yourself Turkish" (and by the way, to get the tapes for that you have to go to the U.K. Amazon.com) and it was helpful in recognizing strange words that are not glossed and turn out to be unfamilar verb forms that a dictionary would not give you.
The problem is that Turkish is so completely different from French or German in its entire structure that you have to learn completely different concepts. As a simple example a verb is changed to a negative form by putting a syllable in the middle of it. I haven't yet figured the vowel harmony thing. I'm still planning my trip to Turkey for October.
Rating: 2
Summary: Confusing explanations, too few examples
Comment: The book describes the tenses, but fails to give enough translated examples of most of them. I frequently had to go to other texts to find out which tense to use. What do the terms "Indefinite past, Necessity, Optative, Conditional" etc mean? I can guess, but I can't be sure. This book might be useful as a spelling aid, because the manner of adding endings to verb roots can be difficult at first, but it leaves the student with almost as many questions as answers. The explanation of vowel harmony is too brief, and lacks sufficient examples. You will need to read about vowel harmony elsewhere,
Also missing are the common idioms which are found on each page of the "501 Verbs" books published by Barrons Educational Series.
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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: Turkish Grammar by Geoffrey L. Lewis ISBN: 0198700369 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Elementary Turkish by Lewis Thomas ISBN: 0486250644 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 April, 1986 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Redhouse Buyuk Elsozlugu/the Larger Redhouse Portable Dictionary: Ingilizce-Turkce, Turkce-Ingilizce/English-Turkish, Turkish-English by S. Bezmez, C. H. Brown, R. Blakney ISBN: 975817603X Publisher: Milet Publishing Ltd Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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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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