Pimsleur Turkish Basic Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-10 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Turkish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur)

Pu skier Turkish is checked method to learn any language, so why do not give it a try and start today

Speedy delivery, excellent course.Thank you

CDs were great but went on to buy conversational Turkish to discover that the first ten lessons out of 16 were the exact same ones as basic so i felt cheated. We should have just naught the conversational set and saved ourselves money

I am not an American, neither do I want to go around asking people when travelling in Turkey whether they are Turkish or not. Generally I can assume that they are. I would not recommend.

I've tried learning but cannot retain the information

Excelent

In vista del mio secondo viaggio in Turchia, ho voluto provare questo metodo per imparare almeno qualche rudimento della lingua turca.Il corso e' totalmente audio:non vedrete mai come e' scritto quello che vi fanno dire.Ogni frase viene ripetuta molte volte nella stessa e nelle successive lezioni, e se parlate ovviamente inglese, e' facile venir guidati alla comprensione di strutture sintattiche sempre piu' complicate ( naturalmente sempre nell'ambito di un corso di base).Per aver comprato il corso troppo poco tempo prima del viaggio ho ascoltato solo i primi 3 Cd su 5.Devo dire a posteriori che a qualcosa mi e' servito, se non altro a stupire i turchio che sapevo dire qualcosina,naturalmente specificando subito dopo che il mio turco finiva li'!Il pregio principale del metodo e' che la pronuncia e la velocita' di pronuncia delle frasi che sentite sono quelle realmente usate da un turco. questo rappresenta anche un difetto, perche' le parole in turco vengono legate assieme e fuse in una specie di marmellata, che via via che le cose si fanno piu' complicate, diviene inestricabile ( grazie anche all'ampio udo di suffissi che alterano il significato della frase). Inoltre per che come me ha un udito non perfetto,risulterebbe utile vedere anche scritte le parole e le frasi, perche' spesso confondevo una conconante con un'altra udendo gli speaker turchi.Comunque il tutto e' stato molto divertente : potete anche ascoltarlo in macchina mentre andate al lavoro e alla fine anche se userete ancora l'inglese, come ho detto, ai turchio faranno piacere i vostri sforzi per avvicinarsi anche in questo modo alla loro affascinante culura e alla loro bonomia cosi' piacevole.

Einfach nur kurz und knapp erklärt:AUCH EIN SEHR GUTES LERNMATERIAL!!!!!!Bin auch total begeistert von diesen CDs und der Lehrmethode/Qualität!Kann auch Turkish Conversational empfehlen!!!!

This is the first Pimsleur CDs that I try.Before studying Turksih using the Pimsleur, I tired Rosetta stone for one or two week for learning it. However Rosetta stone was not as good as I had expected. It seems hard for me to squeeze time to sit in font of computer, and moreover,frankly speaking, it wasn't interesting to learn it using Rosetta sone, because it is hard to measure your progress. Well let me expalin it in this way. In Rosetta stone, at the very first part, you will learn how to say(and read) boy, girl, jump and so on in Turkish. But, this is not something you might use when you go to Turky. It is more probable to say, for example, "hi", " how are you", "Thank you". "No, I don't want it", and so on.Disappointed by Rosetta stone, I stopped studying it for six months, and re-started it with Pimsleur. Now I'm just middle of Turkish I comprehensive CDs, and I'm happy with my progress I've achieved in such a short time. To me, it makes perfect sense to learn a lanuage,at least at the beginning, using only sound. And moreover, it is very convient to listen while commuting!I'm very satisfied, but at the same time, I started to worry about the next course after Pimlseur I. I contact via Email to Simon&Schuster to ask whether they have a plan for publishing CD 2 and 3. Disappointingly, they replied me that "no" due to the lack of demand.I thought, it would be helpful to leave my experience of Pimsleur in order to encourage someone hoping to learn Turkish to use Pimsleur, and eventually it would increase the demand and change the publisher's mind. Because I really don't know how to continue my Turkish learning after Level 1.Anyway, in a nutshell, it is good program, and only regrettable thing is there is not level 2 and 3.

We have the Pimsleur series for Spanish. We recommend it to everyone we meet. Now we are traveling to Turkey and picked up this set. The method works for us. We can remember basic phrases after just a few weeks. I remember listening to some of the phrases the first time and thinking I couldn't recognize everything. Just keep listening and talking. It is easy to pick out what they are saying now. I recommend moving on even if you don't get everything on a lesson. It gets you exposed to new things and you always have practice. Go back later to brush up on the early lessons.You won't have a big vocabulary with this, but you will be able to ask a few questions. It is a great starting point.I just wish they had a series on Bulgarian. We go there after Turkey.