Icmeler Online Holiday Forum & Reviews - Turkey

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!

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

Hello, goodbye that kind of thing

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.

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.

juneflo wrote: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

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!