Turkish Language Course for Beginners - A1

Discover the logic behind Turkish suffixes and the phonetic, gender-free grammar, with easy-to-understand lessons that explain rules and note that 10% of vocabulary comes from English, French, and Latin.

Learn the Turkish alphabet, a 29-letter system with 21 consonants and eight vowels, including ç, ş, ö, and ü, noting there is no q, w, or x.

Learn essential Turkish greetings for informal and formal situations, including selam, merhaba, tanıştığımıza memnun oldum, teşekkür ederim, güle güle, görüşürüz, iyi günler, günaydın, iyi akşamlar, iyi geceler, nasılsın/nasılsınız, iyiyim.

Master Turkish 2 way vowel harmony by identifying back and front vowels, then apply the correct plural suffixes lar or ler to words.

Learn four-way vowel harmony in Turkish, classifying vowels as back unrounded, back rounded, front unrounded, and front rounded, and apply the correct suffix vowel for without, with many examples.

Explore the Turkish consonant alternation rule across dative, accusative, and genitive cases, where explosive consonants change when a suffix vowel is added, with two- and four-way vowel harmony.

Explore Turkish consonant alternation, focusing on voiceless consonants and how locative and ablative suffixes alternate from -da/-de to -ta/-te and -dan/-den to -tan/-ten.

Learn how to say this, that, and these or those in Turkish using bu, şu, o and bunlar, şunlar, onlar, with proximity rules and how plural nouns affect form.

Master Turkish directional expressions by using burada, şurada, orada with the right suffixes -da, -dan, -a; learn burası, buraya, buradan, and orası, oraya, oradan through practical examples.

Explore a Turkish language course for beginners, focusing on how to say where you are from and what language you speak using -lı/-li/-lu/-lü and -ca/-ce suffixes with practical examples.

Master Turkish possessive adjectives and the suffixes that follow them, guided by four-way vowel harmony. Apply forms like benim evim and senin evin to build correct, natural phrases.

Learn Turkish existence and possession with var and yok through examples like bahçede bir köpek var and garajda araba yok, plus possessives benim kedim and senin köpekler var.

Explore Turkish compound nouns formed by two-noun compounds with possessive suffixes and buffer letters, and by genitive constructions, with examples like washing machine, school bag, and my friend's father.

Learn how buffer letters prevent vowel clashes in Turkish by inserting e or c between nouns and suffixes, including possessive and accusative forms in compound nouns.

Learn Turkish personal pronouns (ben, sen, o, biz, siz, onlar) and how to attach suffixes to verbs, with Turkish word order placing the verb at the end.

Learn how to form noun sentences in Turkish using personal pronouns and possessive suffixes, and express positive, negative, and interrogative forms with vowel harmony.

Learn the Turkish present continuous tense, including the -iyor suffix and vowel harmony, and use personal pronoun forms to make positive and negative continuous sentences.

Explore Turkish present continuous forms, including positive and negative questions, suffix placement, vowel harmony, and buffer letters, with examples like am I writing and are you joining.

Explore the definite past tense in Turkish, and learn how vowel harmony and consonant alternation shape past tense suffixes for statements about actions we did or saw, with pronoun suffixes.

Learn definite past tense questions in Turkish, including positive and negative forms, using four-way vowel harmony and suffixes -d-/-t- and -m-/-mi with examples like ben yazdı mı.

Learn Turkish past tense to be with personal pronoun suffixes, four-way vowel harmony, and buffer letters. Practice positive, negative, and question forms across singular and plural nouns and pronouns.

Master the Turkish future tense, using acak or ecek with two-way vowel harmony, plus personal pronoun suffixes; practice with examples like ben yazacağım and siz silmeyeceksiniz.

Master Turkish future tense questions, including positive and negative forms, using two-way vowel harmony, buffer letters, and personal pronoun suffixes in practical examples.

Master Turkish suffixes for dative, locative, ablative, and accusative cases using vowel harmony rules, with practical examples like okula, kütüphanede, sinemadan, and kitabı.

Learn Turkish question words such as what, who, which, when, how, and why, with example questions and the Turkish dative, locative, and ablative cases.

Learn to form yes and no questions in Turkish with the question suffix mu mi and personal pronoun suffixes, covering noun, verb, and there is/there are constructions.

Master Turkish comparatives and superlatives using daha for more or less, and en for the most, with examples like daha guzel and en caliskan ogrenci.

Learn to tell time in Turkish using saat, express minutes past or to, half past and quarters, and use phrases like Sabah (morning) and the accusative suffix e.

Learn how to form Turkish sentences with the verb want, using infinitive suffix mak/mek and present continuous tense with vowel harmony, pronoun suffixes, and the negative istemiyorum.

Learn to use the suffix ki to form relative clauses with locative phrases and time expressions, including possessives and the ku form after yesterday or today.

Master Turkish prepositions of place, including on, under, behind, in front of, next to, between, and in, with practice using the genitive suffix and four-way vowel harmony.

Explains how to use and, or, and yoksa in Turkish, with practical examples of going to the supermarket, traveling, and forming positive, negative, and question structures.

Learn how to express love, liking, and hate in Turkish using sev for love and like, nefret for hate, and the present continuous tense with vowel harmony suffixes.