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.

Discover the Turkish alphabet: 29 letters, 21 consonants and 8 vowels, with seven modified letters and 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 consonant alternation rule in Turkish across dative, accusative, and genitive forms. See how explosive consonants soften and how two-way and four-way vowel harmony determine suffix vowels.

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.

Learn to express near, far, and in-between locations in Turkish using burada, şurada, and orada, with the dative, locative, and ablative suffixes buraya, burada, buradan.

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.

Master Turkish existence and ownership by using var and yok to express there is or there isn’t, and practice possessive forms like benim, senin, and onun in everyday sentences.

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.

Master the Turkish present tense to be by using personal pronouns, noun and adjective forms, and suffixes, with buffer letters. Practice positive, negative, and question forms using 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.

Learn how to form present continuous tense questions in Turkish, including positive and negative questions, with iyor/uyor endings, four-vowel harmony, and mu or mı suffixes and buffer letters ya.

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.

Explore Turkish past tense of to be, with suffixes di/dı/du/dü (or tı/ti/tu/tü), four-way vowel harmony, buffer ye, and examples of positive, negative, and question forms.

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 future tense questions in Turkish by learning the -acak/-ecek and -mı/-mi suffixes, two-way vowel harmony rules, buffer letters, pronoun suffixes, through positive and negative 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 Turkish yes-no questions using the question suffix mu/mi/mu/mü with vowel harmony, for noun and verb sentences, including yes/no answers and there is/there isn’t patterns.

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.

Learn Turkish prepositions of place and the genitive suffix with vowel harmony, mastering phrases like üstünde, altında, önünde, yanında, arasında, içinde, and dışında.

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 to express love, like, and hate in Turkish using sev, hoşlan, and nefret et, with present continuous forms (iyor) and vowel harmony, plus practical examples.