LEARNING THE LANGUAGE

[andiescottie]

Hi all!

Just a quick thankyou to all who have replied to my previous messages and have made me feel welcome. I was already excited about going to turkey, indeed Icmeler, for the first time. Now I cant wait to see and experience the place that you all love so much.
Ok now to the question part. I fell that when you go to a different country, although many speak english too, it is important to learn a little of the local language, rather than be a selfish tourist.

Does anyone know of a website or any free downloads that would help me to learn a few words?

Or can you recommend a decent language guide book that can help me learn a little of the social and holiday niceties and necesseties?

Many thanks!

[Lynn m]

Try the BBC's website it gives you about 10 words and audio on how to pronounce them

Hello, goodbye that kind of thing

[madnesstiger]

Hi there,

I have recently hired out a CD/book package from the library at work.

It is the Linguaphone package as shown here on Amazon's website:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linguaphone-PDQ-Turkish-4-CDs/dp/0747308705/ref=sr_1_1/202-7442465-6518248?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186077244&sr=8-1

I have been playing it on the way home from work (around 35mins each day) and have picked up quite a bit - it is fairly easy to pick up as far as foreign languages are concerned!

The course also has a 'school'-type textbook to go along with the CDs which lists all sorts of handy vocabulary.

If you can also get this from your library, it is worth it I think, or you could even buy yourself a copy - especially if you're planning on visiting Turkey regularly.

[juneflo]

I found a free downloadable package of keywords and phrases - it's called "Before You Know It" (sorry lost the website but jus search for it) - several languages so good for basics - the words are on screen and read out.

There's several books with translations in them - the only difficulty you'll have a using more than work - the syntax is different to english language. My daughter got an RAC book from one of those cheap book shops and that has full sentences in - with questions and how to answer. Well worth looking for.
A general search for learn turkish on the net will give you some standard words too.

Try searching on the site too, you might find some words already posted.

[daviemc]

I found a free downloadable package of keywords and phrases - it's called "Before You Know It"

thanks for the info juneflo found it and downloaded it and its excellent

http://www.byki.com/FLSIndPage.pl?Lang= ... ne=adwords

[andiescottie]

Thanks to all above who left me a reply. I feel that it is only fair to try to learn a little even though I shall probably make a fool out of myself at some stage.
After god loves a tryer and my boyfriend tells me that I am very trying!

Thanks again!