Turkish Language Course for Beginners - A1 Level

Learn the Turkish alphabet (Türkçe Alfabe) with 29 letters, its Latin-script origins, and two example words per letter, including Arabic and French loanwords for reading and writing.

Explore vowel harmony and how Turkish forms plurals with suffixes that depend on front and back vowels, including the -lar/-ler suffix and related vowel patterns.

Learn Turkish numbers from zero to billion, including general numbers and specific groups like passport, phone, and ID numbers, with practice for dates and emergency numbers.

Master Turkish greetings for formal and informal contexts with dialogues, learn to say hello, ask how you are, and introduce yourself using benim adım and possessives.

Learn how to express the weather in Turkish, including hot and cold, sunny and cloudy, rainy and snowy, and ask what's the weather like in different places.

Explore Turkish nominal sentences with personal pronouns ben, sen, and o, attaching the appropriate person markers to predicate nouns or adjectives, and form positive, negative, and question statements using mi.

Explore how the Turkish first-person marker Ben forms affirmative and negative statements. Use examples like I am tired, I am American, and am I?

Learn how to form Turkish nominal sentences in the second person singular with sen, using da/de markers. Explore how to form are you questions and negate with sin.

Practice Turkish nominal sentences with ben, sen, and o, answering 'are you' questions while learning to express likes with severo and describe Canada and colors.

Learn Turkish nominal sentences with the first person plural (biz), mastering conjugation and positive and negative forms through examples like we are hardworking and we are not in the hotel.

Learn Turkish nominal sentences using the siz form for formal or plural you, with conjugation and vocabulary like guzel, plus how are you and are you okay.

Learn Turkish nominal sentences and the third person plural (onlar) by mastering subject endings, conjugation patterns, and how to omit the subject when it's clear.

Learn Turkish basics for identifying parts of a house and asking what's this place or where you are, with vocabulary for living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, entrance.

Learners practice there is and there isn't in Turkish using var and yok to describe items in a room, such as furniture and everyday objects.

Master Turkish fruit and vegetable vocabulary, learn to shop at a greengrocer and market, and distinguish kiraz (cherry) from vishna (sour cherry).

Master how to ask how many and how much in Turkish, form ordinal numbers, and use singular versus plural for countable and uncountable nouns through practical examples.

Explore Turkish present progressive tense for describing ongoing actions, habits, and future plans with third person singular, including verb stems, endings, and common examples.

Explore the present progressive in Turkish for the first person singular ben, with conjugation examples like I am making coffee, I am getting up, and I am going to work.

Practice present progressive tense through reading and listening with Turkish daily routines and location phrases. Build vocabulary, sentence structure, and conjugation to write your own Turkish text.

Practice present progressive with second person singular (sen) by conjugating verbs and building everyday sentences like you are making tea, getting up at eight, or going to Istanbul.

Practice present progressive conjugation in the first person plural (biz) through readings, with focus on Turkish sentence structure, accusative case, and everyday topics like breakfast, food, travel, and tea.

Conjugate Turkish verbs in the present progressive for the second person plural (siz) using personal pronouns, with sentences like you live in Istanbul and you are reading.

Conjugate Turkish in present progressive for third person plural (onlar) using proper markers and context. Explore everyday life examples—food, sports, travel, and conversations—to reinforce usage.

Explore the negative form of Turkish present progressive tense by applying the negative marker with pronouns and tense markers, with examples like 'I am not smoking'.

Learn the Turkish present progressive tense and how to form yes-no and interrogative questions using the question particle after the verb, with special handling of the plural marker la.

Learn Turkish vocabulary to describe physical appearance, including hair color and type, eye color, height, weight, age, and glasses.

Explore the Turkish locative case (-de/-da) and how it marks 'in, at, on' with examples from Istanbul and university contexts, including pronouns, possessive and compound nouns.

Explore the dative case in Turkish, showing how direction shapes meaning and how verbs require the dative. Learn examples like giving to someone, going to a place, and directing actions.

Explore the Turkish ablative case, marking from or off and vowel-based endings, with verbs that take ablative, such as to hate, to be afraid, to leave, and to run away.

Explore how the Turkish accusative case marks direct objects, makes them definite in transitive verbs, and governs usage with pronouns, proper names, demonstratives, and relatives.

Explore genitive and possessive constructions in Turkish, attaching possessive markers like benim, senin, and bizim to nouns, and express possession and existence with var and yok.

Learn Turkish family members and possessive genitive forms, including how to say my husband, my wife, and my children, and build a family tree for practical conversation.

Learn how Turkish forms language names with suffixes -ce or -ca, guided by vowel harmony and consonant assimilation. See examples like English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese.

Learn Turkish body parts and how to say pain with the verb to have, and grasp the vowel-dropping suffix rule that affects possessive and case forms.

Learn to tell time in Turkish using saat, including past and to, half and quarter hours, the 24-hour clock, and how to ask or state movie and meeting times.