Elementary Turkish (Dover Language Guides)
by Lewis V. Thomas
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Author: Lewis V. ThomasEditor: Norman Itzkowitz
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1986-04-01
ISBN: 0486250644
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Book Review: excellent introductory grammar book, advice for using it
Summary: 5 Stars
This book teaches the fundamentals of Turkish grammar to the beginner in a very logical order. Most of the sentences in the exercises are not what you'd be saying when you arrive in Turkey, but they are very well chosen to illustrate the grammatical points, and review the grammar of previous chapters. Answers to all exercises are in back.
Since there is no audio, you should do a few chapters in a book with CD such as Teach Yourself Turkish to acquaint yourself with the sounds before beginning this book.
As well as doing the Turkish-English and English-Turkish exercises, I translated my English translations of the Turkish-English exercises back into Turkish. This allowed me to learn thoroughly, and now, after six chapters, I find vowel harmonization comes naturally.
I typed my answers, which required representing the special characters of the Turkish alphabet with my keyboard. On the Mac, ç is c with the option key pressed at the same time (probably the alt key on a Windows machine). ü is option key together with u followed immediately by u alone. ö is option key together with u followed immediately by o alone. For the i without a dot and the soft g I could find no exact representation, but for i without a dot I print î, option key together with i followed immediately by i alone, and for soft g I use ^g, i together with option followed by g alone.
For learning vocabulary, I use mnemonic devices: I think of a memorable English sentence with combines the sounds of the Turkish word together with its meaning. For instance, the stem of the verb meaning find is bul. I think, "I found the bull in its pen." The stem of the verb meaning see is gör. I think "I saw Al Gore on television." The word meaning glass is bardak. I think, "I took the glass for the daiquiri from the bar." It is well worth spending time thinking up these sentences.
There is no English-Turkish vocabulary, so a dictionary is useful (though you can find the words in the answer keys in the back). A few words are missing from the Turkish-English vocabulary, but missing words have occurred with every language text I have used. More importantly, a virtue of the book is that grammatical features that have not yet been taught do not appear in the exercises.
Summary of Elementary Turkish (Dover Language Guides)
Proven from years of success at Princeton University, this comprehensive grammar and exercise book yields maximum results in 23 lessons covering all essentials of grammar from alphabet to progressive verb forms. Enables students to quickly understand and use basic patterns of modern Turkish. Full glossary.
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