- Hardcover: 494 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press (1 Jan 1976)
- Language English, Turkish
- ISBN-10: 0262210061
- ISBN-13: 978-0262210065
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,961,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Geoffrey Lewis's Turkish Grammar is without doubt, the best grammar book for Turkish. Note, however, that it is a reference grammar not a study book. This is not the book to buy if you want to actually learn Turkish, instead it is useful to dip into for the beginner, and to study for a more advanced students. Do not use this book on its own, use it as a supplement to a study book.
For those beginning, a good place to start is Turkish in Three Months, by Bengisu Rona (published by Dorling Kindersley / Hugo). This is clear, concise and straightforward and cheap (if it is not available from Amazon, try DK direct, or second hand with ABE, or you can buy it in Istanbul).
You will also need a good dictionary, you can't go wrong with a Redhouse (which are much cheaper if you buy them in Turkey).
Probably the best and most comprehensive grammar is Turkish Grammar by Geoffrey Underhill, but it is unecesarily expensive for the beginner.
For the beginner Bengisu Rona's Turkish in Three Months is best. Once you get through it you will know where you want to go with the language (if anywhere) and what your needs are.
For those beginning, a good place to start is Turkish in Three Months, by Bengisu Rona (published by Dorling Kindersley / Hugo). This is clear, concise and straightforward and cheap (if it is not available from Amazon, try DK direct, or second hand with ABE, or you can buy it in Istanbul).
You will also need a good dictionary, you can't go wrong with a Redhouse (which are much cheaper if you buy them in Turkey).
Probably the best and most comprehensive grammar is Turkish Grammar by Geoffrey Underhill, but it is unecesarily expensive for the beginner.
For the beginner Bengisu Rona's Turkish in Three Months is best. Once you get through it you will know where you want to go with the language (if anywhere) and what your needs are.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I used this book while I was a visiting professor in Turkey. I needed to learn enough of the language to get around off campus (lectures were in English). I used language tapes and CD-ROMs, but soon ran into their limitations. I needed to learn the grammar of the language, so I could look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary. The book was very helpful in its intended purpose of allowing the English-speaking reader to learn the grammar of the Turkish language: how the various forms of words are built out of their roots, and how sentences are put together. Word order in Turkish is not like that in English, and Turkish uses infixes as well as suffixes, often making it impossible to find the root of a word in the dictionary unless you recognize the infixes.
The only shortcoming of the book is that it looks like photocopied typescript rather than print. However, this is a minor consideration when you need to learn the language.
I highly recommend it for those spending an extended stay in Turkey.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Very useful if you want more than Phrase-Book Turkish
25 Feb 2000
Format:Hardcover
I lived in Turkey for seven months, and after establishing a vocab for a few hundred words, decided I needed verbs. I used several good beginner Turkish books such as Teach Yourself Turkish but needed more indepth grammatical knowledge as my Turkish improved. This book gives more background information into grammatical structure, and as an English teacher I found it very useful for comparing the different structures of both languages; it helped me understand the language better, and why my students consistently made the same mistakes as they tried to translate from Turkish to English. This is very difficult to do as the tenses, modal verbs etc are quite different to English structures, not to mention word order, definite articles, modal verbs etc etc etc. I would recommend this book to anyone who is beyond beginner Turkish level, and may be working alone or with a tutor.
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Good book for those who want to get beyond language tapes
26 Aug 1999
Format:Hardcover
I used this book while I was a visiting professor in Turkey. I needed to learn enough of the language to get around off campus (lectures were in English). I used language tapes and CD-ROMs, but soon ran into their limitations. I needed to learn the grammar of the language, so I could look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary. The book was very helpful in its intended purpose of allowing the English-speaking reader to learn the grammar of the Turkish language: how the various forms of words are built out of their roots, and how sentences are put together. Word order in Turkish is not like that in English, and Turkish uses infixes as well as suffixes, often making it impossible to find the root of a word in the dictionary unless you recognize the infixes.
The only shortcoming of the book is that it looks like photocopied typescript rather than print. However, this is a minor consideration when you need to learn the language.
I highly recommend it for those spending an extended stay in Turkey.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
very good
9 Feb 2005
Format:Hardcover
very good. It worths the money. Clear and explanatory. It clarifies points that some other grammars that I have seen don't. Very easy to understand. It also has exercises. No answer key, unfortunately
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