Colloquial Turkish


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First Published in 1992.




Colloquial Turkish


Book Description

Colloquial Turkish provides a step-by-step course in Turkish as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Turkish in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features include: • progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills • structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar • an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises • realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios • useful vocabulary lists throughout the text • additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Turkish will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Turkish. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.




Colloquial Turkish


Book Description

Colloquial Turkish provides a step-by-step course in Turkish as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Turkish in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features include: • progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills • structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar • an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises • realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios • useful vocabulary lists throughout the text • additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Turkish will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Turkish. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.




Colloquial Turkish (eBook And MP3 Pack)


Book Description

Colloquial Turkish is the ideal introduction to the language! Written by experienced teachers of the language, Colloquial Turkish offers a step-by-step approach to Turkish as it is spoken and written today. No previous knowledge of the language is required. What makes this course your best choice for language learning?* Ideal for independent study and class use* Varied, dialogue-based exercises with thorough answer key* Up-to-date vocabulary, including computer terms* Jargon-free grammar notes* Extensive Turkish-English, English-Turkish glossariesBy the end of this lively and accessible course,




Colloquial Turkish (eBook And MP3 Pack)


Book Description

Colloquial Turkish is the ideal introduction to the language! Written by experienced teachers of the language, Colloquial Turkish offers a step-by-step approach to Turkish as it is spoken and written today. No previous knowledge of the language is required. What makes this course your best choice for language learning? * Ideal for independent study and class use * Varied, dialogue-based exercises with thorough answer key * Up-to-date vocabulary, including computer terms * Jargon-free grammar notes * Extensive Turkish-English, English-Turkish glossaries By the end of this lively and accessible course, you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Turkish in a broad range of everyday situations. Two 60-minute cassettes are available to accompany Colloquial Turkish. Recorded by native speakers, they will help your pronunciation, listening and speaking skills. For the eBook and MP3 pack, please find instructions on how to access the supplementary content for this title in the Prelims section.










Turkish Delight


Book Description

The story of a tempestuous love affair—and the basis for Paul Verhoeven's Oscar-nominated film—Wolkers's controversial masterpiece comes alive in a new translation. Upon its original publication in 1969, Turkish Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was its frank, colloquial style. The more straightlaced critics condemned the book, but readers saw a novel that reflected the way that they spoke, thought, and felt. Turkish Delight opens with a screed: a sculptor in his studio, raging against the love he lost and describing, in gory detail, the state of his life since she left him. Our narrator alternates between the story of his relationship with Olga—its passion and affection, but also its obsessiveness and abuse—and the dark days that followed, as he attempts to recapture what they had when they lived together, “happy as beasts.” The two only reunite during Olga’s inexorable and tragic decline into cancer—the chemo having taken her hair and rotted her teeth, she will only eat the soft, sweet Turkish Delight that her ex-lover brings to her bedside. In a new translation by Sam Garrett (Herman Koch’s The Dinner), readers get a sense of Wolkers’s revolutionary style and musical prose, Turkish Delight’s particular balance of naked impulse and profound longing. Tin House Books gratefully acknowledges the support of the Dutch Foundation for Literature, whose generous subsidy made this new translation possible.




Turkish


Book Description

Turkish is spoken by about fifty million people in Turkey and is the co-official language of Cyprus. Whilst Turkish has a number of properties that are similar to those of other Turkic languages, it has distinct and interesting characteristics which are given full coverage in this book. Jaklin Kornfilt provides a wealth of examples drawn from different levels of vocabulary: contemporary and old, official and colloquial. They are accompanied by a detailed grammatical analysis and English translation.




Learn Turkish Language


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ONLINE AUDIO: 'Learn Turkish Language: Colloquial Turkish Phrasebook for Friendship and Love' is a unique phrasebookthat comes with online audio recorded by native speakers of Turkish residing in Turkey. It is a powerful Turkish language learning tool that gives you a headstart in real, conversational Turkish,particularly if you plan to settle and live in Turkey, or visit Turkey for business or pleasure, orif your significant other is Turkish. The section 'Turkish for impressing' is jam-packed with expressions you can use to impress your Turkish friends or business associates. These are expressions that lend fluency to your speech (surprise, astonishment, politeness, anger, slang, etc.).When using them, you appear to know more than you might actually know, because a lot of these phrases are notof the kind you find in a regular Turkish grammar book that most foreigners start studying from - they arecharacteristic of everyday Turkish speech, the living Turkish language. Your Turkish friends will definitely be amused and impressed with your use of the kind of active vocabularyyou can acquire through this unique resource. The section 'Turkish for love' gives you the linguistic power to deepen your existing romantic relationship, or to forge a new one in a unique way. The phrases cover different important categories, such as Compliments, Pick-up Lines, Requests for Love,Marriage Proposals, Wrapping up Conflicts, and much more. Learn to ask for a kiss or a hug in Turkish. Learn how to tell her/him how sexy she/he is. Learn how to askfor forgiveness when the going gets tough. Learn how to attract her/his attention with one of our pick up lines.Give a fresh boost to your love life. There is also a section on vocabulary building with properly categorized essential words. It would be dubious to only know pick up lines but not know the numbers or the days of the week, wouldn't it? Who is this book for? People studying Turkish who are fed up with the typical, boring textbook style People with a crush on a Turkish colleague or friend People already in a relationship with a Turk People who have Turkish friends and would like to pepper their speech with a few jaw-dropping Turkish phrases People travelling to Turkey for business or pleasure People planning to visit Istanbul or the Turkish Mediterranean sea resorts Turkish soap opera fans Any student of the Turkish language