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Elementary Turkish (Paperback)

by Lewis Victor Thomas (Author), Norman Itzkowitz (Editor)

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.; New edition of Revised edition edition (28 Mar 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0486250644
ISBN-13: 978-0486250649
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm

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3.0 out of 5 stars Academic but thorough, 2 Mar 2005

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I used an edition of this book back in 1987, in preparation for my first trip to Turkey. Some of what I learned from it has stuck ever since, but don't use it unless you are comfortable with the structure of language and grammatical terms. It is an academic approach with new grammatical constructions introduced in each chapter. Written exercises reinforce learning, but the examples will sound old-fashioned to a Turkish speaker. Turks get very impressed with your efforts, but you will be speaking the Turkish equivalent of the Queen's English, rather than useful phrases like "gorusuruz" ("see you later"). I would recommend a good audio course for collequial Turkish coupled with this so that you can read about how it all fits together.

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4.0 out of 5 stars for the low price you get alot of value, 24 Mar 2009

By	Richard Almasi "TheHunn" (Europa) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is more difficult to use than books like Hugo and Teach Yourself, but on the other hand it covers alot more ground. So there is a trade-off when using this book.

Compared to TY and Colloquial, the language used in this book is quite technical, from the field of linguistics.
Some esoteric expressions the author conjures up include: present optative-subjunctive verb forms, ablative suffix on preceding substantive...
These examples are abit extreme, but you should get the idea that this book contains alot of linguistic jargon.
However, the book does a good job at explaining them in "normal" terms, and I had no major problems understanding what they meant - you can also get the idea by looking at the examples.
But they do slow you down a bit.

The strength of this book is its very thorough coverage of grammar, it is far superior on this than TY, Colloquial and Hugo.
I would even say that the grammar covered goes well into the intermediate level.

The weakness of this book is that some of the expressions are abit old and too formal, this is not a book on colloquial Turkish for sure.
That said, the majority of vocabulary is still relevant today.
It would be smart however, to do a more colloquial book either after or before you do this book, such as Turkish (Teach Yourself Complete Courses).

Each chapter is very short, around 8 pages, but they are filled with grammar and vocabulary.
There are two excercises for each chapter, they are both translation excercises: Turkish -> English, English->Turkish.

The vocabulary covered is very broad: business, family, weather, culture, every-day practical words...you learn abit of everything.

Personally I really like this book, it is something I will use for a very long time, especially for referencing and revision.
For the low price of this book, you get alot of value.

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