Turkish: Hardest Language Ever? Watch This Before Starting!

[@carolinemcauliffe-gg4tf]

I started learning Turkish on a whim, and fell completely in love with it. The grammar is totally absorbing and I can spend hours lost in my grammar books. I have a holiday to Türkiye in the summer and plan to visit some bookshops so I can take some books and magazines home

[@Nicolas-h1u]

@@carolinemcauliffe-gg4tf also, it will make Azerbaijani and Central Asian languages easier, those are pretty good languages too!

[@sandrainthesky1011]

I became interested in Türkiye 3 years ago when visiting there to take an acrobatics/safety paragliding course. Since then I have brought my partner and we have visited three more times, bought an apartment inland in a more traditional, less touristy (yabancılar değıl!) area and plan on going back again in the spring (Kanada'dan) so really want to learn to speak better with the locals. Turkishle seems pretty good so far, but using other resources like TV, flash-cards (big help), everyday speaking even to myself, and just going out and conversing with people while in Türkiye is also required so dig in and have fun with it!

[@boltontrotter]

Turkish is not impossible to learn but it is difficult that's for sure but I'm sticking at it.

[@Nehauon]

Turkish can be easy with good resources and consistency, like any language

[@amjan]

Turkish is very easy and fun. The sound system is simple and the grammar is very clear and systematic.

[@LosInmortalesGallos]

I can read some of it and I understand a bit when I read it, but I'm having problems understanding spoken Turkish.

[@roxanavictoria1819]

You must be a kazak or from one of those tan countries whose languages come from türk languages 😂

[@amjan]

@ No, I'm a Slav :)

[@Nicolas-h1u]

As an English speaker, I agree and disagree, it's definitely harder than Romance languages and German, but easier than Russian or Vietnamese

[@ТалгатОспанов-п8щ]

Turkish is a beautiful language and that helps learning a lot.

[@leo240-p5i]

For now it's very difficult to me to begin to understand live speech in Turkish language. It seems too fast for me and to separate words from each other is difficult enough.

[@halimah7164]

Is not hard to learn and I love it but it takes time to understand and I am learning from UK

[@lorenamiranda8506]

Çok teşekkürler, Kolombiyalım ve Türkçeyi seviyorum 😊

[@berniemeehan8928]

lovely language to learn with its own particular difficulties

[@iZABUNBii]

I've just been learning the meanings of the Turkish songs I listen to. I am dyslexic and I've found listening helps me when it comes to these things (though i love how Turkish words are spelled).

[@hobinabi]

Turkish is not difficult, but very different from Indo-European languages. It's an agglutinative language, so everything is the other way around. No grammatical genders, free word order, suffix after suffix, vowel harmony, etc. 😊👋🌸

[@LosInmortalesGallos]

As I’ve tried to learn Turkish, I have come across a few words that sound or look very similar to Spanish words. Here are two examples I remember: Spanish: Pantalón / Turkish: Pantolon Spanish: Camión / Turkish: Kamyon In the second example, Kamyon, the spelling is different, but the pronunciation is so similar that I could say camión in Spanish, and I’m sure a Turkish person would understand it, or vice versa. However, the different pronunciation of the letter "C" in Spanish compared to Turkish might make it tricky for a Turkish speaker unfamiliar with the Spanish "C" sound, which is more like the "K" sound in Turkish.

[@andreabrs0931]

This happens most of the time when they are borrowed from French.

[@Nicolas-h1u]

Also “para”, just in Turkish, it’s “money” and “for/by” in Spanish

[@LosInmortalesGallos]

@ Yes, but I meant words with the same meaning in both Turkish and Spanish that either have very similar pronunciation and or spelling.

[@Nicolas-h1u]

@ Ah, in that case, there's "payaso" and "palyaço" which both mean "clown"

[@LosInmortalesGallos]

@@Nicolas-h1u Ah nice. Didn't know this one. Need to find a way to use with my Turkish friend in a playful way without offending.🤡

[@ibisriver]

Is very difficult when trying to learn with no prior exposure to the language. I find that even if I know most of the the words in a sentence I still can’t grasp the meaning right away 😥

[@momijiso9535]

Same! It‘s so frustrating!!

[@recarioca]

Turkish is NOT 100% regular in terms of spelling and pronunciation. Just look at the future tense congations and how they are normally pronounced, but there ae other words too, like dakika - the I is not normally pronounced. There are many many words like that in Turkish. Burada, orada, buyurun etc.

[@adeeltahir2685]

I don't think Turkish is all that hard once you get over the agglutinative concept. Also, i am grateful that the language is phonetic and very logical... for the most part anyway.

[@martinnoffke54]

ș is the same in Romanian.

[@junaidbaghdadi-dd1eb]

Absolutely Hungarian, Hungarian 🇭🇺❤ could be easy if someone become fluent in Turkish. The question is that how to become fluent in Türkçe 😅

[@hobinabi]

@@junaidbaghdadi-dd1eb Are you studying Macar, as well? 👋🌸

[@junaidbaghdadi-dd1eb]

@hobinabi Ígen, most tanulok magyarul, mert sok sok szeretem ❣

[@hobinabi]

@@junaidbaghdadi-dd1eb May I ask about your first language?🌸

[@junaidbaghdadi-dd1eb]

@hobinabi For sure :) I`m a native Urdu speaker and Turkish is my first foreign language...

[@hobinabi]

@@junaidbaghdadi-dd1eb I'm Magyar 😀

[@philiptait1478]

Turkish is NOT hard: it IS impossible. I can say this after 20 years of trying.

[@Kakdiiqgshsjskjsj]

I think it will be so hard to learn Turkish just by rules. You have to watch movies and listen people talking in Turkish

[@citizen102266]

I started learning Turkish in 2022 and I gave up , the vocabulary is wayyy too complex : (, Aglutination is not for me : (

[@sandrainthesky1011]

You'll come back I'm sure. It's probably like anything, one day it will just "click"

[@umniyyaaisyah6244]

I think Turkish is like arabic language. So many grammar but it's really help me a lot for understand.🎉 But if dialect, i'll surrender it 😅

[@tarzabnm]

Ya like I'm from Iraq but Arabic isn't my first language but it's one of my country's national language so I decided to learn it and I also travel to turkey a lot so i learned Turkish and Arabic together and now i mix up the words idk what to do 😂