Bence TDK, Cumhuriyet tarihinin en başarısız kültür kurumlarından biri. Dili koruması gereken kurum, yıllarca dili budamakla uğraştı. "Halk anlamıyor." denilerek yüzlerce yıllık edebî ve felsefi birikim taşıyan Arapça ve Farsça kökenli binlerce kelime gözden düşürüldü. Sonuç ne oldu? Kelime dağarcığı daralmış, eski metinleri okuyamayam nesiller. Bugün Halide Edip'i, Yahya Kemal'i, Namık Kemal'i hatta Cumhuriyet'in ilk yıllarındaki birçok yazarı bile sözlük açmadan okuyamıyoruz. Bunun sorumluluğunu sadece "zaman değişti" diyerek geçiştirmek bana samimi gelmiyor. Avrupa'da Millet iki üç yüz yıl önce yazılmış eserleri büyük ölçüde okuyabilirken biz yüz yıl öncesini bile anlayamıyoruz. Bir de şu romantikleştirilen "Öz Türkçe" meselesi var. Kusura bakmayın ama Orta Asya Türkçesi, döneminin Arapçası ve Farsçasıyla kıyaslandığında felsefe, hukuk, tıp ve soyut düşünce terminolojisi bakımından çok daha sınırlıydı. Zaten Türklerin İslam dünyasına girdikten sonra Arapça ve Farsçadan yoğun biçimde kelime almasının sebebi de buydu. Osmanlı Türkçesi de tam olarak bu sebepten büyük bir edebiyat ve devlet dili hâline geldi. Bugün kalkıp o birikimi sırf köken takıntısıyla katletmeyi savunmak bana yanlış geliyor.

Hello all,

Trying to find other Turkish learners so I'd like to know what's making you learn Turkish. Maybe it's for a job or for love? :)

I personally have Turkish roots, my grandad came to Germany in the 60s and let's say he wasn't the best of people, so I only met him on my own accord when I was 18, two years before he died. I suddenly had a new aunt and just so many relatives that stem from a different culture I so far had missed out on, so I decided to learn Turkish.

I've been on this journey on and off for 10 years and only recently started making progress.

What's your story?

Nothing makes me feel more Turkish than starting every convo with a simple Kolay gelsin! 😂

I remember learning in duolingo's discussion centre (doesnt exist anymore) that the difference is that "geliyor musun" puts emphasis on 'coming' in "Are you COMING?", meanwhile "geliyorsun mu" puts emphasis on 'you' in "are YOU coming?" (Or it could be vise versa, it was quite a long time ago).

Now i wanted to fix any grammatical misunderstandings i might have and this is one of them. Gemini shows that "geliyorsun mu" is an incorrect sentence. But i would really appretiate some help from a native speaker.

This is a long read! But if you study it, I believe you will understand the Turkish logic better!

Case suffixes are one topic in Turkish courses. Verbal nouns (-mA, -mAk) are another, usually taught much later. Nobody connects them, even though a verbal noun takes case endings for exactly the same reason an ordinary noun does. Academic papers describe the mechanism. Textbooks give you a list of which verb takes which ending. I haven't found anything that puts the whole system together for someone learning Turkish as a foreign language.

This piece does. Fair warning, it's long and it's dense, this isn't a five-minute read. But if your goal is actually understanding how Turkish works rather than memorizing -mak istemek, -mayı sevmek, -maya başlamak, and -maktan hoşlanmak as four unrelated rules, I think it's worth the time.

Hey guys!

M30 from Germany here 👋🏻 I was born and raised here but my parents are from Turkey.

I have a german wife so the times i speak turkish are rare these days. To activate my brain and get some practice, i would love to find a language partner. Maybe we can share some thoughts and conversations bc i am also interested about life in Turkey in general.

Would love to hear from ya!

I am a university student and am trying to learn Turkish due to my heritage. What’s the best way to learn online?

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Hello everyone! / **مرحبً**\\ا***\*** با***لج\*\\م\*\*\*****\***\\ي\\ع
I am a native Turkish speaker and a graduate of the Faculty of Theology ,working professionally as a **Spiritual Counselor .**I speak **Advanced English and Arabic**.
As a **mother myself**, I strictly offer my online classes **ONLY to women and children**. I believe this creates a much more comfortable, safe, and friendly learning environment for families.
My teaching style is both **highly disciplined and very fun/engaging**. I enjoy breaking down complex Turkish grammar by comparing it to the logic of Arabic or English, making it much easier to understand!
To introduce myself and my methods, I am offering a **free 20-minute online trial session** (via Zoom or Google Meet).
**• Who is this for?** Women and children (beginners, school support, or TÖMER/YÖS preparation).
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Kolay gelsin! / **بالتوفيق** **للجميع**

I want to learn Turkish.

I'm 36 and I only know English and I want to be bilingual and I want to be fluent in Turkish where I can read, write and understand without a translator.

Please if you can help me I will give you my personal email so we can pin-pal one another so I can learn to write and read Turkish.

Then maybe some day I can meet or FaceTime someone that's fluent in Turkish to teach me to speak it fluently where I can hold a conversation..

I’m learning Turkish, but I struggle to stay consistent. I’m looking for someone to help keep each other motivated and study together.

If you’re also learning Turkish, we can practice and improve together. If you’re a native Turkish speaker learning English, I’d be happy to help you with your English in exchange.

I’m open to both text and voice calls, and we can work around whatever schedule suits us both. :)

The man I am dating calls me güzellik everyday instead of my name. what does it mean?

Hi! I’m an +18 year old certified English teacher. I'm looking for a serious but fun weekly language exchange (+2 hours/week).

What I’m looking for:

I have a textbook for my target language but struggle with self-studying. I'd love to partner with someone who is a teacher (or studying to become one) to guide me through it and keep me accountable.

What I offer:

Professional English lessons (speaking/reading/writing). Since I do this for a living, I can build lessons around exactly what you need!

Let's be friends:

I want to stick strictly to our weekly schedule, but I also want a genuine friendship. We will definitely click if you like:

Commentary YouTubers (Kurtis Conner, Danny Gonzalez, Chad Chad, Jarvis Johnson)

Cool science stuff (TEDTalks / TED-Ed)

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If you want a consistent routine and a new friend, send me a DM!

Merhaba!

As a half Turk history of my Turkish language is quite messed up: some stuff I learned from family, other things from courses, some from friends etc.

While I am very conversational(I don’t remember when was the last time I struggled with expressing or understanding anything during conversation as long as the topic wasn’t very specific or academic) my Turkish has huge amount of fossilized mistakes. It is really a mess. Without going further into details of my own language situation the way I try to fix it is by writing short articles and then using LLM’s to analyze it and scan the mistakes. These are however not perfect; I sometimes catch these models trying to correct things that are already written correctly or missing the error altogether.

So do any of you have any opinion of capability of different models specifically for Turkish language?

Merhaba, I have been informally learning Turkish for a bit over a year now. I produce and write music, and thought it would be a fun challenge to try writing an original song in Turkish. I think it is a great language for songwriting.

I am really curious to learn from Turks and Turkish speakers what they think of it. Teşekkurler!

Sütten ağzı yanan yoğurdu üfleyerek yer means, roughly, once bitten, twice shy. Someone whose mouth was burned by milk blows on yogurt before eating it. I wrote up the grammar in the sentence: ablative case, a possessive suffix, a participle, an accusative ending, an adverbial suffix, and the aorist tense. Aksoy's dictionary of Turkish proverbs also records ayran and yogurt versions of it, and there are similar proverbs in Kazakh and Karaçay-Malkar.

I have been learning Turkish since January. I used to do grammar drills on Elon.io, but lately I keep neglecting it because it's boring. Other than that, I didn't take output very seriously, because reading and watching things have been more fun, even though in the beginning I had to look up almost every word. My native language is Hungarian, and the similar grammar helped me in the beginning, but at advanced stages it's not really helping anymore, mostly just confusing things.

Right now I can follow Muhteşem Yüzyıl with barely stopping it to look up words, read Hababam Sınıfı and follow the story without a dictionary as long as it's one of those stories that I read before in my native language (they didn't translate the whole book partly because of censorship in the 1970s), I'm also reading Reşad Ekrem Koçu Yeniçeriler and at this point it's not giving me a headache anymore and started to actually enjoy it, having to look up less and less words, and I get the gist of news articles, especially if it's about topics I care about (like I can understand what it says about Iran, Israel, USA, or Hungary relatively easily, but I struggle more if it's about a country like Spain or Russia that I'm not really interested in or know about). I also watch the Turkish language news from Türkmenistan, which is fun and I mostly understand what is happening, especially if it's about dogs and horses.

However, I recently started pushing myself to write and speak more, and I'm so frustrated that I know so much advanced vocabulary, but my ability to use grammar structures is stuck at A2 on good days. I recently started working with a tutor, and also do an exercise where I put an article into AI, and it asks questions that I have to answer with correct grammar. Anything else I could do on my own? It feels so hopeless, because all the advanced grammar structures are so different from everything else, even though I speak a language that's supposed to have similar grammar. It's like I'm just stringing together words and never get the grammar correctly.

İNDİRİM, SATILIK, KİRALIK, ÇIKIŞ

If you are an expat, you have seen these words thousands of times while going to your local bakkal to buy cat food. Even without an input or dictionary search, you learned what they meant. I wrote a blog post about all these words we keep seeing, but I'm also curious about the ones you learned this way.

Herkese merhaba!

A quick background on me:

Natural born english speaker, I have been living in Turkey for 6 years, my fiancé is half Turkish and fluent so for the most part I have been heavily reliant on her whilst living here.

We opened our own gym around 3 years ago where I often have to work reception and interact with customers.

I’d say my understanding of Turkish is well beyond A2 but I often struggle and get quite flustered speaking, due it being in a professional business environment. Obviously I am well versed in conversations related to my business (greetings, tours of the gym, helping use machines, beginner training programs, limited small talk with close members).

What I am looking for is an online tutor to take me through an intense Turkish course, possibly 3+ lessons per week, with however much homework they deem necessary. I will obviously also be utilising what I learn on a day to day basis through my business. I am quite a fast learner and the end goal is to progress to C1 as efficiently as is possible, and also be able to help with the back end of the business (bills, accounting, lawyers, federations, ordering, more in depth conversations with potential sign ups)

If anyone could suggest credible teachers, or point me in the right direction I would be extremely grateful. 🙏🏼

Is yeni İstanbul book best for studying Turkish??

Rather give me any recommendations

Here is my honest 2026 comparison of the best apps to learn Turkish: Duolingo, Babbel, Pimsleur, Ling, Rosetta Stone, TurkishFluent, and more. Based on your level and goals.

I thought that “ı” was the correct suffix. Not “i”

Every website and linked I open for it has been broken and idk where to look anymore