how long it gonna take for me to speak and understand turkish
2006-12-23 15:15:41 · 19 answers · asked by Gucci-Princess 2 in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Turkey
Ixinxs has not a bad answer for you, but is wrong on a crucial point. The pronounciation contains every sound made in European languages, including the unlauted o and u (found in German), the undotted i (found in English), the soft g (found in French and Italian) and the sedilla on c and s ( found in French).
Nor are the sounds agluttinated. It is the sentences which are agluttinated. That means that the sentence is constructed by adding one word to another at the end (the word agluttinate is from the same root as glue) , If you speak English natively, you will find that a Turkish sentence is consturcted in an almost opposite manner.
Example: "I am going to school. " will be Okula (school to) gidiyor ( going am ) um (I). Put together it looks like this: "Okula gidiyourum." Two words. That is why it is called agluttinative. Not the sounds at all, but the structure of the sentence.
The sounds you can learn in one minute. They are pronounced in English almost exactly phonetically as you see them on the page.
But the cases may give you a problem unless you speak Romanian, which has 7 cases.
Turkish is a very efficient language and a beautiful one.
2006-12-27 08:27:25 · answer #1 · answered by beentheredonethat 2 · 8⤊ 3⤋
Is Turkish Easy To Learn
2016-12-08 19:02:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Starting from an English speaking background Turkish is hard to learn because it is so different in it's grammatical structure, word order etc.
One of the problems in learning Turkish is that the early stages are the most difficult. Getting to grips with agglutination (the addition of suffixes to words), vowel harmony, a new alphabet and different pronunciation can take a considerable time. However, once you've got to grips with the basics, Turkish is a very logical language and you can make faster progress.
Good luck!
2006-12-27 08:16:25 · answer #3 · answered by fidget 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Actually it is my mother language and it is hard to say whether it is easy. The only thing I can say is the one who started to learn Turkish have some problems with the pronunciation. There are some basic sentences you can learn and use it in a daily life they are not too hard. But the problem is, what you learned from books are slightly different than we use in our daily life.
2006-12-26 07:07:03 · answer #4 · answered by The EMA 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-05-30 15:51:00 · answer #5 · answered by Nancy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-17 16:29:45 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know quite a few foreigners who could learn Turkish enough for daily life in around three months.
The grammer is quite easy and logical and the vocabulary is quite limited (about 1500-2000 words used in daily life).
Good luck!
2006-12-25 09:28:02 · answer #7 · answered by cordial 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
depends how well you pick up on it... The hardest thing for you will probably be the pronounciation because they have different letters from the english alphabet (ç ş ı ğ ö)
which might be a bit new to you... But once you get the hang of it and practice you'll be fine...
2006-12-23 18:52:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a very easy language to learn because spelling etc. are very phonetic. Pronunciation may be a little difficult though... Personal motivation and ability are also important though
2006-12-24 08:58:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Very easy I'm sure, since Turkish children can speak it at the age of five?
No seriously, there are no "easy" and "difficult" languages. It depends on several factors: your own talent is one, but more important is: where are you from? What is your native language? Have you learnt a foreign tongue before?
Example: Spanish is easier to learn for the Portuguese than for the Flemish, since Portuguese is close to Spanish already, and Dutch is not. However, for a Fleming Spanish is easier than for a Japanese, since Dutch and Spanish both use the latin alphabet, and a lot of similar grammar.
Turkish uses the latin alphabet, but its pronunciation is different from other languages in Europe (agglutinate sounds). And then the grammar: six noun cases! German has four, and that makes it "difficult" for Flemish (and English) students. Wikipedia has a good entry on "Turkish".
2006-12-23 18:58:42 · answer #10 · answered by ixlnxs 2 · 9⤊ 6⤋