Conversational Turkish Dialogues: Over 100 Turkish Conversations and Short Stories: 1 (Conversational Turkish Dual Language Books)

Great easy to use guide to fluently read and write the Turkish Language.good start for conversations

A great way to read and learn conversational Turkish.

have bought various books to help with learning Turkish and this is one of the best. Each dialogue is one page, with a translation on the next page. The dialogues are often, not always, in fairly every day settings, a haircut, looking for a parking space, apologising to a friend, meeting up for a drink or a barbecue, but many of the mini-stories are not really very everyday: finding a frog in a city, visiting an aquarium, etc. The problems: first: the dialogues are clearly translations of a generic set that they're using for different languages: there's nothing at all Turkish about the names or the kind of things you're likely to be doing in Turkey. They're all set in the USA, and basically about life in the USA. Turkey is very different. second: the translations are VERY loose, and all in US idiom. Non-literal translations are very helpful, but I know enough Turkish to know that these are often not really close; in a social context they function in similar ways, but again, in a US context: Turkish is very different, especially around basic everyday greetings. And like every single English-language book the dialogues use versions of everyday greetings that Turks barely ever use, particularly when talking to people you already know. and third: the grading is erratic. The dialogues supposedly start at grade A1 and gradually work to B2. But some of the easiest are late in the sequence. You're thrown in with verb forms, right from the first dialogues, that are hard to work out, and way beyond A1. I'm around A2 / B1, and while I could get the gist of the dialogues, the grammar was often way too complex for me. Because the translations are often too loose to help you work out what' s going on in the Turkish, you're left guessing. This all sounds a bit negative but, given the lack of good English language materials for Turkish, this book is well above average. I learned German to near-fluency and English language books were a big part of my learning: the general standard there was way higher. I guess the problem is partly that Turkish has a structure that is very unlike European languages, and it's often hard to explain: different books discuss Turkish so differently you can barely correlate what you learn in one with what you learn in another. You will pick up a lot of useful vocabulary, and vocabulary learned in context of a story .or conversation always sticks better in memory. Parallel texts are an invaluable part of learning a new language, so the book is giving you that. My copy is now very well used and dog-eared (it's an unusually large page size which is a bit of a nuisance; clumy to travel with, for instance) and I'm re-reading the dialogies. The advice about how to use a parallel text is excellent (basically read and re-read, pick up a little more each time, don't worry about not getting everything, following the gist is the main thing) and very clearly explained. A solid three stars where most English language materials struggle to reach two stars.

90% of unusable phrases. Should have returned

I previously found Turkish difficult to learn but after reading this book I have become quite good (so my Turkish friends tell me) the tips on pronunciation and the small conversations are so useful as they cover things I will definitely be able use.

This book is so well thought out! Turkish is a difficult language and these proficient learners/teachers have addressed s many of the issues. It is so important when learning turkish to get in to the mindset of the native speaker They have done that! Amazing!

This is a great book to learn Turkish. Very useful phrases and fun. If you plan on learning Turkish you need to consider this book. Its GREAT. You will learn quicker and more enjoyable than studying rules of grammar in traditional language lerning. Get straight in and start learning, speaking.

Very Satisfies there is Turkish and English translation so useful . I wish they have CD on it will more helpful

unterhaltsam und mit wirklich brauchbaren, alltagstaugluchen Dialogen. sehr zu empfehlen.

And yet again Lingo Mastery has come to the rescue, allowing us to make Turkish more accessible to a wider population. In the Introductory Note the goal is stated well: ‘Turkish is one of the languages widely spread across the globe around 200 million people speaking it. With this book you can make this number bigger by at least one point! …many students choose – or are provided with – the wrong means of study, with professors giving the boring textbooks full of rules they’ll never learn or need in a real-world situation…Our goal with this book is to allow you, the reader, to encounter useful, entertaining conversations that adapt very well into dozes of real-life situations that you can and certainly will encounter in the Turkish-speaking world, giving you a chance to fend for yourself when you come across them. Vocabulary is crucial to learning any new language, and the conversations in this book will guarantee you pick up plenty of it and watch how it is applied to real life.’ After their success teaching Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, now they turn to teaching Turkish! And it works. The authors take for granted that the reader has started with their earlier Turkish language books and this book extends the learning process by providing excellent short conversations dealing with real ideas that could easily be encountered. The conversations are first related in Turkish followed by the English version, making the comparison between the two versions a facile mode to learn Turkish! The technique is solid and the lessons well taught. This is a very fine introduction to Turkish vocabulary that may arise when you visit Turkey or simply conversing and understand the Turkish population here at home. This book is appropriate for all age levels, and a book much needed at this time in our national status! Grady Harp, May 21

I dialoghi sono anche carini ma è davvero vergognoso che il testo non sia a fronte ma sul retro della pagina...parliamo di dialoghi pensati per persone completamente a digiuno di turco quidni è impensabile richiedere al lettore di girare la pagina per ogni parola...davvero uno stupido errore utente..

This is one of my favorite resources to complement my other Turkish books. I like to read one dialog each day to warm up before studying other material, and they are all natural conversations one might have in real life. I think this book is underrated.