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by Ad Backus (Author), Jeroen Aarssen (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (19 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415157463
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415157469
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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‘If you want to get to grips further with any of the [European] languages, Routledge’s Colloquial series is the best place you could start.’ Rough Guide to Europe



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Colloquial Turkish is the ideal introduction to the language, offering a step-by-step approach to Turkish as it is spoken and written today and requiring no previous knowledge of the language.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Could be better, 21 May 2002
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This book gives a basic insight into Turkish, but it has a lot of faults. The dialogues are mostly very uninteresting and often downright silly. My Turkish girlfriend informs me that there are many mistakes in the examples given, both grammatical and lexical. As a language teacher myself, I always try, even when teaching grammar, to give examples that incorporate useful language, things that people might one day need to say. This book has many examples of phrases that no one would ever need to say (for example; 'In summer my grandfather takes his sheep to the meadow.' Am I really going to need to say that the next time I am in Turkey?).

The grammar explanations are reasonably clear, but a language course should really be focussing on useful, practical language.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Just another Turkish language book., 8 Dec 2000
This review is from: Colloquial Turkish: The Complete Course for Beginners (PB + CD) (Paperback)
I'm reasonably happy with this book but I think it's just another run of the mill language text. I did find a mistake in an early dialogue but this should be obvious to anybody who is paying attention. Other than that this book looks like it is well put together. The level of detail as far as grammar is concerned cannot be compared to that of Hugo's Turkish in 3 Months and the level of colloquial phrases and forms cannot be compared to that of the previous version of Colloquial Turkish. I think this book makes a nice compromise. I think some readers might have a bit of trouble with this book. Many, as yet unexplained, grammar forms are used in example sentences and the reader has to wait until quite a bit later in the book before they can understand the whole sentence. This means you would have to do alot of guessing or just ignore whole chunks of these example sentences. Maybe there is some pedagogical reason for this. I also think this book was written with a lack of imagination. I've seen grammar points explained graphically in other books (Teach Yourself Turkish is one) and it really helped me with some points, e.g. words for location and direction. None of that here.

To sum up, I give it three stars cause it's pretty average but it did have some things that were new to me and quite useful.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars best of the bunch!, 20 Jan 2004
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First of all, depsite the details on the Amazon page, this is not the old Bayraktaroglu edition but a completely different book by Backus and Aarssen. I've worked all the way through it and I think it's excellent. Good grammar explanations and lively interesting dialogues. As for the girlfriend of one of the other reviewers saying the Turkish was wrong - well, I saw that and checked with several Turkish friends of my own, all of whom gave it the all clear. So maybe it's a dialect thing. I can't believe the Turkish in a book like this wouldn't have been carefully checked before publication in any case, can you? By far the best self-teacher I've come across for this fascinating (and tricky!) language.
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