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0:15 - What does Turkish sound like?
0:56 - Turkish Alphabet and Pronunciation
3:13 - An Easy Structure
4:13 - Suffixes: Harder, But Fun
6:44 - Vowel Harmony
9:04 - Verb Conjugation
9:28 - So… What’s The Verdict?

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[kwangjinchai]

As a Korean I want to say Turkish people have the most perfect Korean pronunciation when they learn Korean. Strangely even better than our neighbors Chinese and Japanese.

[EnesAslan]

Türkçeyi öğrenmeye çalışan insanları görmek aşırı mutlu hissettiriyor

[ipekayaz]

Bir Türk olarak insanların Türkçeyi öğrenmeye çalışmalarını okumak/izlemek çok keyif veriyor bana kalırsa Türkçe gibi zor bir dili öğrenmek gerçekten emek istiyor
Edit: Ben sadece kendi fikrimi söylemek istemiştim tutacağını da düşünmedim herkes istediğini düşünebilir benim kastettiğim Türkçede ğ, ç gibi harfleri telaffuz etmede insanlar zorlanabilir ya da bir kelimenin birden çok anlamı oluyor genelde ya da Arapçadan Farsçadan geçmiş çok kelime var

[mdhadi]

Ben hala Türkiye gitmedim... belki kısmet olmadı bilmiyorum... ama canımdan, içimden, Türkçeyi seviyorum...özellikle türk halk müziği çok dinliyorum ve zevk aliyorum.. Ben kendi kendime türkçeyi öğrendim. Kusuruma bakmayın lütfen ❤
Herkese iyi gün/geceler😊

[HuaweiY-ntgb]

Videoyu seyrederken ana dilimin Türkçe oluşundan ötürü kendimi samimi şekilde şanslı hissettim ve refleks olarak zaten soluksuz şekilde telaffuz edebildiğim dilimi sonradan öğrenmenin hakikaten meşakkatli olabileceğini fark ettim.

[jenniferodonnell]

I've lived in Turkey for 13 years and I'm married to a turk. I have learned Turkish through immersion and a little bit of studying. I still have more to learn but the suffixes and vowel harmony eventually become automatic. I still struggle with the different vowels! My daughter, who is a native turkish speaker, unlike me, says my pronunciation is like nails on a chalkboard to her, but I usually get compliments from strangers. Not many foreigners learn Turkish as a second language, so they are always very delighted and flattered that you made the effort.

[DoraEmon-xfbr]

I started learning Turkish a few months ago as a Native French Speaker who knows kinda fluent Japanese (lived in Japan for 10 years).
I expected it to be more challenging. Not that I’m especially good at Turkish but I ‘‘quickly’’ managed to understand basic song lyrics.

I think it’s thank to my prior knowledge of Japanese, in the way that word order, agglutination and suffixes aren’t that ’’exotic/strange‘‘ to me anymore.
Most of the time, if I learn a suffix or morpheme, I can use it straight away.
My biggest concern is actually learning the vocabulary and retaining the amount of nuances these suffixes bring.

Learning Turkish opened to me the world of Turkic languages like Azerbaijani or Turkmen. It’s like I opened a Pandora box with infinite marvels.
Turkic languages are awesome.

[ays]

Turkey is beautiful, Turkish language and Turkish people are fascinating. What a bridge between east and the west! Love from London.

[TravelsWithTony]

My son learned Turkish some years ago while on an NSLI-Y state department scholarship. He was fluent in less than six months. He loved how structured and strict it was. And since he is musical he found the vowel harmonies really nice. The language really sounds great !

[zhandauletduisen]

Turkish is indeed a beautiful language! And for me, a Kazakh guy, it's a bit easier to learn, cuz our language follows most of these rules. I'm planning to learn Turkish soon

[socialservice]

Turkish is one of the most beautiful languages in the world. Phonetics and grammar are similar to Japanese and Korean.

[beslinoztekin]

I think the most unique feature of Turkish is the "inferential part tense (-mişli geçmiş zaman)".
There is a regular past tense but the inferential one has a completely different meaning.
He called--> "O aradı" is the regular past tense,
but if you say 'o aramış', you still mean that he called, but you either heard this from someone else, or you have some clues and you conclude it, but you haven't actually seen that he called.

[marian]

İngilizce anadilimdir. İyi derecede Urduca konuşuyorum ve orta düzeyde Fransızca biliyorum. Fonetik olması, nadir istisnalar dışında tutarlı gramer kuralları olması ve Fransızca, Urduca ve bazı İngilizce'ye benzer pek çok kelime içermesi nedeniyle Türkçe'yi öğrenmeyi oldukça kolay buldum. Türkçeyi resmi olarak öğrenmeye çalışmadan önce birkaç yıl Türk dizileri izlediğim ve Türk müziği dinlediğim için sesli harf uyumunu bile kolay buldum. O noktada içgüdüsel olarak biliyordum.Türkçenin zor yanı bazen ekler nedeniyle kelimelerin çok uzun olabilmesidir.

[Okyanusun_Melodisi]

Vay canına bizim ülkemizde genellikle ingilizce almanca ve fransızca öğrenmeye ilgi vardır ama bu insanlarında bizim güzel dilimizi öğrenmeye çalıştığını görmek çok güzel

[tayron]

As a Turk, it makes us very happy that you spread our language to the world with videos like this 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

[krslnenes]

As a person who speaks Turkish, you may not believe it in Turkish, but words in Turkish can go on forever by adding suffixes, if you don't believe it, you can search.

[o.]

Best thing about Turkish is it is a very rule based language. When you learn a rule you can generalise it and understand a new word even when you hear it the first time.

[joaninha]

Türkçeyi öğreniyorum ve çok ilginç bir dil. It is so logical and fun to add on lots of suffixes, each with its own vowel harmony rule. Every sentence is like an algebraic equation! I love ❤️ it, and was influenced to learn it by you and Elysse Speaks.

[lixionadonis]

1 yaşımdan beri almanyada yaşıyorum ve alman olmayıp almancamın kötü olduğunu her zaman hissettim. Almanlar bu salak saçma 'artikel'leri yanlış dediğinde arkandan gülüyor söyleniyor ediyorlar. İlk okula giden çocuk halimle bu tür şeyleri yaşamama almanca konuşmakta psikolojik travmalar yaşamamdan sonra bu tür bir videoya denk gelip türkçenin aslında güzel bir dil olduğu ve diğer dillerden özel olması beni kısmende olsa mutlu edip özel hissettirdi

[gamyeong]

I think Turkish language is so logical. It's like mathematics. Almost all rules make sense. If you get the logic, you do it well. Also I love that it sounds so kind. I think it sounds like Korean + Japanese. Most people near me do not understand why I find them similar but sometimes I notice the sentences I make and say "Wow, this really sounded like Japanese." For example: "O çayı sen taze san." Even "çay" in Japanese is "oça" and Korean is "ça"