Tips for Learning a New Language - Turkish

[@lincolnclay8261]

Steve loves pushing his brain to the limit! Amazing.

[@tidesox2828]

I’m addicted to your videos. Thank you.

[@MiguelLopez-rc9gh]

Excellent choice!! I'm learning Turkish too and I love how the language works.

[@slappywhite2084]

This was such a helpful video Steve, thanks so much. I, for one, am very excited to follow your progress in Turkish, as it is extremely motivating.

[@z906090]

Turkish has a different concept. There are no prepositions in Turkish, only word endings shows everything. I am native speaker of Russian, Turkish and Azerbaijanian, thanks to my family I grew up with 3 languages from childhood. Good luck, Steve!

[@alexdesouza3986]

Amaranth Loren Nice but I wouldn’t say that Azerbaijanan is a language rather a dialect

[@erologuzhut6546]

We have prepositions in Turkish though...

[@thereaderofbooks6383]

@@alexdesouza3986 It is a debate. İt is said Turkish and Azerbaijani are dialects of old Turkish while some claim that Azsrbaijani is different language. Azerbaijani was same with Turkish very long time ago but now, it has different suffixes. However i can say that a Turkish can understand nearly every thing which is said in Azerbaijani:)

[@nito.59]

Turkish does have postpositions though, which are like prepositions, but come after the word insted of before; e.g. gibi, için, doğru etc

[@zafer9708]

Native Turkish speaker here , Turkish has prepositions of course 😂 Turkish has pretty much everything that English has , except with different order

[@cristhianmartinez8821]

This kind of video in which you demonstrate how you learn are invaluable, by far the most motivating ones. Keep it up. Every time that I am in doubt about what to do and how to approach language learning I just watch one of your videos and remember that everything can be (and is, in fact) more Zen than expected. Thanks Steve.

[@throine]

As a Turkish native speaker, I wish you good luck in your journey! İyi şanslar!

[@attilathehun2298]

Learning Turkish introduces you to beautiful Turkish culture. Good luck! Türkçe öğrenmek seni güzel Türk kültürüyle tanıştırır. İyi şanslar!

[@Eric-le3uu]

For me, I started reading LingQ's Japanese mini stories and gradually moved on from there. Starting out in Japanese is a bit tricky because of the characters but over time, things start to make sense.

[@NexEscape]

Please continune producing videos on your journey with Turkish, its always interesting but also motivating to watch someone start a language from scratch.

[@zaisant1502]

Awesome work Steve! This video went by so fast I didn't even feel it was a 15+ min video! Lol Really enjoyed it. Keep it up Steve!! 多谢了！

[@hasancingoz1911]

You can listen to TRT it's kinda like BBC's English. it's clear

[@resulkaragoz1867]

Hey Steve I am a follower of you from Turkey. I am so surprised and kind of excited that you started learning Turkish, looking forward to see your progress. Your pronunciation sounds natural to me even though you are a beginner :) I am a native Turkish speaker and I can also speak English if you consider to practise your speaking with me via Skype I’d be happy to help you in anyway I can :)

[@Thelinguist]

Thank you very much. Before I connect with anyone in Turkish, I have to increase my vocabulary and comprehension level in the language. That will take a while yet.

[@memphis8427]

Your pronunciation is remarkably good for a beginner. Good luck, Sir.

[@ugur76]

Finally, here we go... I am super happy :)

[@alexfg2178]

My next new language is going to be Turkish as well. Happy to ear you are starting Turkish.

[@merralin6730]

Steve, I'm delighted that you are starting Turkish and am very interested in following your progress. Like your wife, I love Turkish dramas on Netflix. Historical dramas, like Kurt Seyit ve Şura and/or Dirilis Ertuğrul might interest you. I've been studying Turkish on LingQ but it's going slow and I'm hoping LingQ Turkish will eventually get more compelling content. I've tried importing newspaper stories but they are still beyond my competence level. In the meantime, following your example, I'm going back to the mini stories. Pronunciation is easy, I find, but word order and multiple word endings are quite challenging Thanks for inspiring me to continue!

[@andrewbond5349]

I'm also trying to learn Turkish using LingQ, so I'm interested to see your progress and how you approach all the different aspects of Turkish

[@a7pers]

Türkçe'nin diğer dillerden en büyük farkı sondan eklemeli olmasıdır. Örneğin ingilizcede 5-6 kelime ile kurduğunuz bir cümleyi Türkçe'de tek bir fiilin sonuna eklemeler yaparak tek kelime ile ifade edebilirsiniz.

[@Muberra_oz]

Turkish is easy aspect of reading and pronounciation but it is difficult in grammer because of suffix. For a good learning you can learn reflexive prounun,vowel harmonies (like "kaynaştırma harfleri" (instead of 'araba ile', use arabayla-"y" is kaynaştırma harfi) in Turkish),suffix,(not muc prefix,only a few)and syntax of course. Take it easy Steve Kauffman

[@jeanthejohn6243]

When I see your videos, the moment when you're about to start to learn a new language it's like the moment when you're about to leave your house to take the plane. You have that beautiful anxiety and excitation.

[@andrepiester9718]

Hey Steve thanks your videos. I have been learing turkish for 2 years and I tried lingq one mouth but the language was only in beta and it was good enough for me so I hope now that you are learning turkish and think is a diffencult language. Good luck :)

[@cppower1]

Definitely continue with the updates! I think sometimes I struggle with this first 3 months idea because I simply don't know what to do. The intermediate stage is much easier for me because I have a much clearer idea of what I need to do! Would love to follow along as you improve your Turkish.

[@albertmousquetaire4128]

Hi steve, I really look forward to see your progress in turkish. It's, in my opinion, such a beautiful language. Bravo steve continue !

[@poodalful]

This is so informative thank you! I’m just starting to learn a 2nd language & find it very challenging, will definitely look for this site. Cheers.

[@europeanengineering16]

Tebrik ederim. 👏

[@88lilalola69]

This is so interesting. I am now starting to learn French again after years... I was so good at French and now I only can say a few words and sentences but I am highly motivated as I am working with nice French guys and girls at my workplace so I can check my French with them while getting a coffee or so.

[@BerpikirDuaKali]

Love you Steve, thanks so much for sharing. You're awesome!

[@merrh8819]

Gosh! I'm 24 andI'm still struggling either I improve my french or I start learning English seriously because doing the two simultaneously would not be possible for my type of personality as a learner but you Sir you're looking for your maybe 60th language to learn and that's amazing! you're such a motivation Steve 👍

[@DontTouchEt]

Please continue with updates. I'm curious!

[@deaddyz]

Hi Steve, since you are mentioning Arabic and Farsi a lot, I feel like to let you know that there is only burrowed nouns, no grammatical connection, no verbs between them and Turkish.

[@Adam-fs8zw]

Thank you so much for this Steve. I knew how you generally started your languages and your tips on starting a new language, but it was even more helpful to get a demonstration with a new language that you are learning now. I recently started learning Spanish and I've been mixing Duolingo with LingQ. My approach used to be use Duolingo for a bit and then move onto LingQ when I felt comfortable, but the thing is I feel like I get a lot more out of LingQ (my vocabulary and reading/listening comprehension in Russian has greatly improved thanks to LingQ), although it is challenging for me to solely use LingQ from 0 knowledge. Perhaps I'm trying to rush my progress, who knows. Any other kind of advice you have would be useful if you can think of any. Thanks and good luck with learning Turkish!

[@SP-dr1hf]

Hello Steve. Are you fluent in Türkçe now?

[@Tom-bs3zh]

Turkish is a hard nut to crack. I'm also learning Coptic, Persian as well as dabbling in Slovak, but Turkish is a very different language from anything I've ever seen.

[@oguzhan4792]

I am Turkish i speak english, learning spanish and tried to learn russian three years ago and i totally agree with you but its not that hard for japanese and korean people

[@PimsleurTurkishLessons]

You can try pimsleur Turkish in my channel

[@g1t1a1]

Great project. I'm interested to see you explain how one tackles the suffixes. I speak a bit and found comfort in the fact that there are very few exceptions

[@mustafaatalay212]

aksanı çok şirin

[@osamahabbas3443]

one of my dreams is to speak Turkish

[@PimsleurTurkishLessons]

You can try pimsleur Turkish in my channel. (No ads

[@joemuis23]

hehe I'm way to stubborn to use ministories so I immedeatly head for what interests me.

[@benalexender3046]

Thanks from Egypt

[@siirhanem9509]

Keşke biraz Türkçe konuşulsaymış videoda. Farklı diller öğrenmek, farklı kültürleri tanımak çok güzel dilimizi ögrenceklere başarılar dilerim.🌸

[@DKMaester]

Please document what you do every day. Even if its just a daily five minute video, I'd really like to see it. Thanks!

[@aliemreazgn3634]

Hello sir! I am a 19 years old Turkish, i know English and studying Japanese. If you are still learning Turkish and have spare time, i can help you practice Turkish

[@Elythia]

I believe this could also be a very efficient method to handle difficult materials with a lot of unknown words! :)

[@NetAndyCz]

3:40 Just a suggestion for LingQ improvement, it would be nice to see percentage for yellow (unlearned) words as well as the blue (new) ones. Anyway great video, I love the mini-stories.

[@Eric-le3uu]

If you look closely, you can see under the courses how many blue words there are and how many yellow ones there are. Beside the blue image, there's a percentage of blue words shown... the higher, the more difficult. Not sure if this is what you are looking for but hope it helps. Also, these stats show under lessons too.

[@NetAndyCz]

@@Eric-le3uu I am looking for similar things for yellow words, I have imported a book and converted all the blue words into yellow ones but I would like to see my progress, i.e whether there is 50% or 10% or only 2% of the yellow words left to learn. I mean, if I saw the total number of words in the course/lesson in addition to blue and yellow ones, I could count the percentage myself. But if blue words are on 0 I am bit clueless about my progress.

[@Eric-le3uu]

@@NetAndyCz I think I understand. I found a solution. Open your lesson. At the top right (desktop) underneath the green status bar, next to the "full text" image, there are 3 dots (aka settings). Click that button and in that window it should tell you the total amount of words (Words: X). You can then divide the number of yellow words by that number and you should get your percentage.

[@JulieStudies]

“I’m starting a new language” - Woohoo! 🎉🤸‍♂️🥁🎈Doesn’t even matter what language you do, we’re in for a treat! ❤️

[@anldemeli4560]

Bol şanslar

[@anarchsnark]

Oh Turkish? Iyi şanslar!

[@darrylxyz9171]

Yes sir you should try to study it after Arabic and Farsi :) you are my inspiration anyway

[@basilbajkovlog89]

Steve you are the best

[@EmmaShadyLilly]

I immmediatly looked at LingQ for vietnamese. Unfortunately it's not on their list.

[@RockawayCCW]

I read somewhere that Turkish has no irregular verbs. That has to help at least a little.

[@PimsleurTurkishLessons]

You can try pimsleur Turkish in my channel. (No ads

[@Samsam-wf8py]

Hi steve Can u do video that explain suffixes and prefixes and does work about every words .thanks

[@andrepiester9718]

I am learning turkish and can help you with danish or english :)

[@PimsleurTurkishLessons]

You can try pimsleur Turkish in my channel. (No ads)

[@mustafaatalay212]

how is it going dude , did you make remarkably progress after more than 4 years

[@marietrini7784]

Hi Steve the program looks interesting definitely better than Duolingo, for me. I just started learning Russian so my questions to you are: when should I expose myself to LingQ which was created by you, right ? 2nd question: if and when I sign up with LingQ can I pay for a whole year up front ? Thanks.

[@Thelinguist]

I start all of my languages on LingQ. Never too early although you may want to combine it with other resources. Yes, paying up front for a year makes it quite a bit less expensive.

[@Coboloco052]

Steve he estado siguiendo tus videos y me he hecho premium en lingQ. Espero seguir viendo tu progreso con el turco porque, no sabía muy bien como utilizar la aplicación para mejorar mi chino, y este video me ha sido muy útil. Saludos y gracias.

[@abdelazizarkouk397]

Thanks.

[@akg2062]

Adam ya adam türkiyeden sevgiler baya zor bir dil ama başladıktan sonra çorap söküğü gibi geliyor

[@billywade7794]

Steve. I'm reading at about a B1 level maybe B2 on occasion. I'm not understanding at that level though. My active words are a little limited. Passive, quite larger. Is it ok for me to read advanced books on lingq.com if blue reads 41% new words?

[@Thelinguist]

I find 41% to be a little difficult. It depends on your motivation and interest in the subject matter.

[@moussabsb5178]

Hi Mr Steve can you tell me what are the best free( accessibles) resources to learn Turkish , German, and Russia ? Especially audio. Vielen Danken de Antenmano .

[@Thelinguist]

I really don't know. I suggest you look at what we have at Lingq. You can also ask on our forum.

[@reneluis]

Steve, you got me hooked on the stories. Thank you for sharing. I’m very interested in learning Turkish as it influenced another language based on historical facts - Bosnian. Unfortunately you don’t have any Slavic languages on your platform. Is there a chance you can get Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian stories onboard? I have personal interest as I travel often to the region and I see more and more Turkish and Arabic speakers coming to Bosnia for example. I’m starting with Turkish and Arabic at the moment but my main interest would be Bosnian. Please keep adding more languages. Thanks! By any chance is the Netflix series called Resurrection? It’s awesome.

[@Thelinguist]

We have six Slavic languages at LingQ and will soon add Serbo-Croat.

[@ibrahimakay728]

Hi, Steve. My wife is a Turkish tutor and she's pretty damn good. Let me know if you're interested and I'll put you in contact with her. I speak Turkish competently myself actually, but I don't give lessons. One thing I'd like to tell you though is that the "linqs" you're creating are not entirely accurate, and you may find it helpful to change some of them. For example, "altıda" shouldn't be "six", but "at six", because there's a case ending there. Similarly, "kahvaltısını" and "kahvesini" shouldn't be "breakfast" and "coffee", but "his breakfast" and "his coffee", because both of those words contain both a possessive suffix (si = his) and a case ending (ni = accusative). Breakfast is actually "kahvaltı" and coffee is actually "kahve". I know you said that you're not bothering with subjects and objects and what not, but still, I think you could change those linqs to include the possessive element and make them a bit more accurate.

[@Thelinguist]

Thank you very much. But connecting with the tutor is still a ways away yet.

[@tschewm1353]

Ibrahim Akay, of course, You are right. But it doesn't matter on this stage. I am Ukrainer, and I started learning Turkish more than 2 years ago. My first dialog was Bu güzel bir etek Beğendın mı? Evet, çok hoşuma gidiyor. (This is a beautiful skirt Did you like it? Yeah, I love it.) I didn't understand not a single word then, to say nothing of the grammar. I understand all the grammar now. (In this sentence, of course :) ) I understand what a difference between beğendın (beğenmek - beğentmek) and hoşuma gidiyor (hoşuna gitmek, hoşuna gitti) and so on. I have read and listened Satranç by Stefang Zweig. And 4 another books. I am reading and listening Dr.Jekyll ve Mr.Hyde now. I don't read any textbooks. This is my experiment - to learn a language by reading and listeningthe texts only, for which I have a translation (Russian, German, English - the languages know) For me, e.g. there is no problem to understand the grammar and the meaning of the sentence Sizden duymanızı ama duyulmamanızı rica ediyorum. I am not so good in speaking and writing Turkish, but I am sure I will understand Turkish without a dictionary in time.

[@ibrahimakay728]

@@tschewm1353 I just don't see the point in making the task more difficult than it needs to be. Because Turkish doesn't have prepositions and usually doesn't use possessive adjectives, you lose a lot of important semantic information if you ignore the suffixes. Sure, most people would figure it out in time, but if you already know the suffixes are there why not just try try to learn them? Surely forcing yourself to guess is just making a long and difficult process longer and more difficult. Şöyle bir şey de var: Türkçe'nin eklerini ezberlemeden konuşmaya çalışırsan herhalde eksiz bir şekilde konuşacaksın, öyle olunca konuşman çok zor anlaşılacak çünkü Türk dilinde her şey ama her şey eklerle yapılır. Peki, belki ilk başta hepsini tek tek ezberlememek daha iyi, ama en azından bu kavramla ilgili temel bir farkındalık geliştirmek kesinlikle şarttır. Yani, coffee "kahvesini" değil "kahve" diye öğreneceksin. Düşün, Steve Bey Türkiye'ye gidiyormuş, Starbucks'taki elemana "kahvesini isterim" diyormuş. Oradaki çocuk şaşırmaz mı? Tamam, basit şeylerle başlasın ama bari o basit şeyleri doğru öğrensin.

[@tschewm1353]

Ibrahim Akay, thank you very much for your answer. The matter is, I don't need Turkish in my life completely. But I like learning everything about languages. So I decided to test if it is possible to learn a langugage without textbooks. I choose Turkish for some reason. And I liked Turkish very much. I continue on reading and listening original texts, translate them, pronounce them, creating Anki cards and using SRS system. I don't know any liguistical terms in Turkish, except they are met in the text I read. I don't ignore suffixes, but I know them now from my experience (teçrübem, benim teçrübem). It is very interesting to explore the language. I understand now without looking into dictionary, that konuşmaya çalışırsan means if you try to speak. çok zor anlaşılacak - will be understood with much difficult or something like. Steve Bey usally doesn't try to speak during the first 3 to 6 months. That's why it will not happen, as you have said Düşün, Steve Bey Türkiye'ye gidiyormuş, Starbucks'taki elemana "kahvesini isterim" diyormuş. He will not ask for breakfast instead of coffee and vice versa. We both have a good chance to follow Steve's progress in learning Turkish. Umarım Steve altı ay içinde oldukça iyi konuşacaksın.

[@tschewm1353]

And one another interesting moment. English original: many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; Turkish translation: kapı eşiklerinde sarmaş dolaş oturan bir sürü pejmürde çocuk ve sabah kahvelerini içmek üzere ellerinde anahtarlarıyla dışarı çıkan, farklı milletlerden pek çok kadın ilişti. "sabah kahvelerini içmek üzere" and "to have a morning glass" seem to be rather different things. In any case, it was in Russian: множество детей в лохмотьях, жмущихся по подъездам, и множество женщин самых разных национальностей, выходящих из дверей с ключом в руке, чтобы пропустить стаканчик с утра. I like reading a story in three languages very much. In any case, it is much more interesting than reading any grammar, any textbook.

[@goodlife8060]

When will there be more mini stories in Swedish?

[@Thelinguist]

I will ask and let you know.

[@goodlife8060]

Thank you!

[@marietrini7784]

How do I sync the program in all my devices from IPADS to Computer?

[@Thelinguist]

The program automatically syncs it on all of your devices.

[@herr_k69]

Steve, how do you split your time between working at a computer versus using the iPad to study?

[@Thelinguist]

I much prefer studying on the iPad. I really study on the computer. I just find the iPad more comfortable.

[@bryancorbett537]

Hey Steve! I’ve been learning french for the past 2 and half months now..I study each day for a half hour to an hour, sometimes more. Is it normal for me to only be able to understand a couple words here and there when I’m listening to podcast, audiobooks etc.?

[@black-shiip1323]

Yes, very normal... You'll improve with time

[@Thelinguist]

Absolutely normal. It's all about motivation and time.

[@spanishconconsciencia23]

Hi Steve!! how many languages can you speak? It is amazing how one language helps the other when learning. isn't it?

[@tschewm1353]

Turkish is 21st. 10 languages - very well, almost native, 10 languages need warm up.

[@AlexanderJohnLee]

love your site but it is way too expensive

[@jimmlygoodness]

I disagree. I think for all the content they have it is a very fair price. People are used to getting everything for free now.

[@AlexanderJohnLee]

@@jimmlygoodness a netflix subscription is cheaper and it is arguably a better language learning tool... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@jimmlygoodness]

@@AlexanderJohnLee I don't think Netflix is a better learning tool. You can't highlight words and phrases in the Netflix subtitles and have the definition automatically pop-up. Whatever content you are using,looking up words is always the worst, most tedious part of the process, which is basically why he invented Lingq.

[@mrsstore2023]

Hi mr steve, I've decided to learn Spanish some weeks ago and I'm using your method( totally input ) and I can tell the improvement in less than a month, of course that half of it is due to the fact that i'm Brazilian and Spanish is pretty close. I'm using lingq but at the moment i can't afford to purchase it and the words I can't see the meaning, how it's conjugated.. do you think due to it should I search the meaning of the words I don't know one by one or just keep it going ? Thanks, you motivate me to be a polyglot.

[@bladimirrojas2712]

Hi, I'm native spanish speaker and I'm looking for English learners pretty much higher intermedia level.. since you're studying spanish we can interchange language.

[@SamiP-ik7vj]

Not a language I see myself having that many future dealings in (unfortunately) - but forgoing all the inescapable facts glued to its zones of usage, Turkish is nonetheless something I always return to play with creatively (in a way which possibly even advances one's learning of the morphologically proper version of it!) and to draw ideas from, due to all the semidefinable traits which make it a fitting co-inspirational source for con-/art-langing. I'm a big fan of Hippocrene's Turkish Dictionary/Phrasebook (by Charles Gates) which alongside the Lithuanian one (at least) really stands out from the bulk of that series, due to the punch-packing representation of grammar at the beginning of the two books. P.S. - [ bit do / basic-turkish-verb-suffixes ] [ en wikibooks org / wiki / Turkish / Cases ] [ turkofoni org / tr / basics-of-turkish ] !

[@UAANC]

Feels like a Lingq advertisement

[@a7pers]

Yardımcı oluruz kanka. Sen de bize ingilizce öğret

[@bilingualsecrets]

Is this really tips for learning a new language or a 17 minute LingQ advert?

[@Thelinguist]

Many of my viewers are users of LingQ. Most are well aware of my association with LingQ. If my reference to LingQ really bothers you, why do you watch my videos? What do you perceive as my obligation not to mention LingQ? I really don't understand some people.

[@tschewm1353]

Both. But no harm at all. I do not use LingQ personaly, but I always watch Steve's videos. He explains how to use the program for learning a language at his own example. Step by step. Adım adım. I personaly learn Turkish using the Anki and listening-reading, of course. Or vice versa. Not as effective as LingQ but nevertheless. If you, Aj Tutor, have something more effective, please tell the public about it.

[@justaperson324]

Your arabic and persian languages wouldn’t help you sir. Don’t get me wrong but there six thousand word comes from arabic-persian to turkish language and the nouns and names is inclueded in this ratio. And those word even basic ones, most of them about religion, law and medical stuff. Not adjectives, not verbs, not adverbs. And those words became to turkish i must say i didn’t know the majority of them, ‘cause they were using by urban population. any ordinary turk wouldn’t understand an arabic world if it wasn’t about simple worship or law of city. Just french has six thousand word by itselfs, and i didn’t even tell words from greek, words from italian language, words from other balkanian languages. Turkish has more western (actually i’d prefer to say european) words than arabic or persian. Thats just a fact, i don’t wanna seem as a racist but that things you mentioned up there just isn’t correct that you think it is.

[@sajidmushfikrahman4085]

হাহা, আপনি এখনো কিন্তু বাংলা ভাষা বুঝতে পারেন না।

[@ozgurkaya6523]

As a Turkish native speaker, if you learn this language and can speak fluently I really consider you as a genious cause to learn this language might be one of the hardest one. I always say if I wouldn't be borned as a Turkish I really would learn it. I'll follow your every step when u share videos you're helping us every moment I want to help you too. GL dear Kaufmann.

[@ugur76]

Cause değil kardeşim o because Ayrıca if li cümlen yanlış olmuş If I hadn't been born as a Turk, I would not have learned turkish . Demek istedin sanırım

[@Eruptor1000]

another language? ur still busy with Persian and arabic.

[@Thelinguist]

Yes but I thought I would include Turkish as well. I will be learning all three for quite a long time.

[@Eruptor1000]

@@Thelinguist Fair enough.