The Turkish Language: The Magical Story of a 5,000 Year Old Language

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0:00 - Turkish is Full of Surprises
0:31 - Ancient Origins
1:15 - Old Turkish
1:34 - Mid-Turkish
2:22 - New Turkish
3:40 - Where is Turkish Spoken?
4:03 - Turkish Dialects
5:11 - Let's Speak Turkish!
6:31 - The Turkish Alphabet
8:12 - Is Turkish Hard to Learn?
9:35 - Why Learn Turkish?
11:15 - Learn Turkish Today

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Special thanks to Nuriye from Turkish Coffee for recording authentic Turkish examples for us. Subscribe to her YouTube channel here 👉🏼 @LearnTurkishWithTurkishCoffee

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[Bladingmom]

I lived in Turkey for seven years. Wonderful culture, warm, loving people, and a beautiful language.

[kevinp]

Turkish is by far the most rewarding language I’ve ever studied so far.

[joohokim]

Chicken in:
Korean: Dak
Manchu: Tiaku
Mongolian: Takhia
Kazakh: Tawiq
Turkish: Tavuk
Hungarian: Tyuk
Greetings to our distant Brothers! 🇰🇷 🇹🇷

[berkbuyan]

Gönül is one of the most impressive word in Turkish i guess. It means "a place in the heart where love comes from"

[jennaholly]

Türkçe çok güzel bir dil! Neredeyse bir yıldır Türkçe öğreniyorum :)

[alienlatino]

My respect for Turks, I love your ancient culture and history, we study it in my school here in my country. You guys have fought everybody LOL. "Hi" from El Salvador (Latin America).

[Bobbybadger]

As a Scottish person I am truly in love with Türkiye. The scenery, the culture and the most beautiful people. I so wish I could live in this stunning country 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷

[RussianwithAnastasia]

As a person who is learning Turkish now, I can say it's a marvellous language! I'm absolutely in love with this language! ♥️

[raouf.atabeg]

as a fellow Turkic speaking person(Turkmen to be exact) I appreciate how you shed some light on the Turkic language as a whole! Usually this language family branch doesn't get as much noticed even though its filled with rich history.

[mafia_gamer_official]

*Salam olsun Türk Millətinə !!!*
*Hello to all of the Turkic Nation !!!*
*Привет всех Туркецких Народов !!!*

[APlusRussian]

I love Turkish!! When I first came to the US, my roommate was from Turkey and I really enjoyed listening to the sounds of her conversations, even without understanding a word 😍

[merveozer]

As a native Turkish speaker, I would like to explain the importance of the harmony factor. I noticed that when speaking English, my mouth and tongue get a little tired, but Turkish words flow effortlessly through my tongue like a river. I love this feature of Turkish. I think it's a very special language. 💖

[madlad]

All of the Turkic languages sound so gorgeous. I've been obsessed since I heard Tarkan's songs when I was younger

[curious]

My husband is Turkish and my intermediate Turkish has been dead in the water for a while. Your video has inspired and renewed my enthusiasm to learn the language. çok teşekkür ederim

[Overlycomplicatedswede]

Hungarian, Turkish, Russian and and my native language of Swedish

Are the most beautiful languages in the world in my mind

[robertberger]

Azerbaijani is basically the same language as Turkish with some differences in dialect . Dialects in eastern Turkey are very close to Azerbaijani .

[TheIlustrado]

Rather a coincidence that I'm learning Turkish at the moment as you uploaded the video. A bit of a smooth but long ride since I already have a native background on two agglutinative languages, Japanese and Tagalog. Hoping to be fluent in the future!

"Umutsuz durumlar yoktur. Umutsuz insanlar vardır. Ben hiçbir zaman umudumu yitirmedim."
- M.K. Atatürk

🇵🇭🤝🇯🇵🤝🇹🇷

[almilahak]

As a Turkish subscriber of yours, I appreciate the effort you put into this video. Thank you very much! 😄 Incredible as always. 👏

[johnlastname]

I'm currently learning Kyrgyz (another Turkic language) and it's always fun to see the similarities with Turkish.

[georgios_]

Merhaba arkadașlar! Turkish is a really cool language! I want to focus on one thing I like most about it: it's very, very agglutinative! My mother tongue is Greek, which is traditionally considered one of the most synthetic languages in Europe. So Turkish for me is pretty much a world turned upside down! Greek puts one suffix which combines numerous attributes while Turkish adds numerous suffixes upon suffixes with each different one adding a little snippet of information! You can have things like evidentiality, mood, voice, time, person and more for verbs, and case, number, possession and "to be" with nouns! This is why I like Turkish, unlike languages like Finnish and Hungarian, which have a lot of cases instead of prepositions, Turkish combines numerous suffixes the one on the other! I think that's pretty cool.