Teach Yourself Beginner's Turkish (Teach Yourself Languages) Accompanies Book |
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Author:
Asuman Celen-Pollard
By Teach Yourself Books
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: £15.99
Our Price: £8.41
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 420
EAN: 9780340845370
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 0340845376
Label: Teach Yourself Books
Manufacturer: Teach Yourself Books
Number Of Items: 2
Publication Date: 2003-09-01
Publisher: Teach Yourself Books
Studio: Teach Yourself Books |
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Let down by the audio CD, 2008-08-11
The text provides a decent introduction to Turkish for the total beginner, but it is let down somewhat by the audio CDs. The conversations on the CDs make no allowance for the beginner and the speakers speak at breakneck speed right from the outset. Because Turkish is an agglutinative language and words can become very long through adding various elements together, this makes trying to follow the text while playing the CDs extremely difficult indeed. The speakers should have started speaking more slowly and gradually picked up the pace throughout the lessons. Fine for learning to read a bit of the language, but poor for the spoken part and thus loses several stars.
An excellent start for this difficult language, 2007-09-29
This is a well written and attractively packaged guide for those starting with absolutely no background in Turkish. Its a difficult language for those more familiar with European / Romance languages - an alien grammar with agglutinative word-building patterns. This book and CD set focuses on set piece conversations which are naturalistic and (as the book progresses) increasingly witty, and the emphasis is thematic and logical, making the lessons easy to grasp. The goal is to equip the reader for interaction in modern professional Turkish; slang is kept to a minimum.
I heartily recommend it, but even this "diet guide" required a struggle (from me!) to learn and secure in memory the necessary vocabulary; for this reason, I am not sure if it is really possible to have a "play in the car" CD that can be useful in raising people to a functional Turksih standard - this is not a "Turkish in a day" summary of a few keywords but actually a grounding in Turkish grammar (maybe I am merely a little slow?). The material in this book covers roughly the first 5 or 6 chapters of the more comprehensive Teach Yourself Turkish book - the next stage for people who master this material. DO get this if you need a strong introduction to Turkish.
Not for casual study, 2006-09-27
I thought I could use this CD set to learn basic Turkish on my commute to work (by car). It's not designed for that type of study - you launch into conversational Turkish immediately after the alphabet.
I gave up after only one listening as it did not meet my needs. This is not a reflection on the course itself - so make sure you know what type of course you want before you buy!
Disappointing, 2008-08-05
I found this pack quite hard to work with. I really wanted usable every day language for holiday situations and so I probably should have researched what I was buying a little better.The conversations didn't seem relevant and I found the pronounciation indistinct. The recommneded book for a local Turkish class, I am thinking of joining, is by the same author and so I'm not sure I'll get on with that either.
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