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Basic Turkish: Learn to Speak and Understand Turkish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur) | 
enlarge | Author: Pimsleur Publisher: Pimsleur Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating: 11 reviews Sales Rank: 262004
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged Media: Audio CD Edition: Unabridged Number Of Items: 5 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7 Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.5 x 2.1
ISBN: 0743533798 Dewey Decimal Number: 494.3583 EAN: 9780743533799 ASIN: 0743533798
Publication Date: December 12, 2006 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand new item. Over 3.5 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Few left in stock - order soon. Code: S20080723011226S
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Product Description This Basic program contains 5 hours of audio-only, effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.HEAR IT, LEARN IT, SPEAK ITWhat is the Pimsleur difference? The Pimsleur Method provides the most effective language-learning program ever developed. The Pimsleur Method gives you quick command of Turkish structure without tedious drills. Learning to speak Turkish can actually be enjoyable and rewarding. The key reason most people struggle with new languages is that they aren't given proper instruction, only bits and pieces of a language. Other language programs sell only pieces -- dictionaries; grammar books and instructions; lists of hundreds or thousands of words and definitions; audios containing useless drills. They leave it to you to assemble these pieces as you try to speak. Pimsleur enables you to spend your time learning to speak the language rather than just studying its parts. When you were learning English, could you speak before you knew how to conjugate verbs? Of course you could. That same learning process is what Pimsleur replicates. Pimsleur presents the whole language as one integrated piece so you can succeed. With Pimsleur you get: - Grammar and vocabulary taught together in everyday conversation,
- Interactive audio-only instruction that teaches spoken language organically,
- The flexibility to learn anytime, anywhere,
- 30-minute lessons designed to optimize the amount of language you can learn in one sitting.
Millions of people have used Pimsleur to gain real conversational skills in new languages quickly and easily, wherever and whenever -- without textbooks, written exercises, or drills. The 10 lessons in the Basic Turkish are the same as the first 10 lessons in the Pimsleur Comprehensive Turkish Level 1. The 10 lessons in Basic Turkish are also the first 10 lessons in the 16-lesson Conversational Turkish edition. Pimsleur learners progress from either the Basic or the Conversational to the Comprehensive Level 1, and not from Basic to Conversational edition.
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great price - easy to use/understand/learn June 6, 2008 I've never been a fan of learning languages by book or tape but recently starting using podcasts to learn languages (for free) and see that repetition and speaking out loud can be helpful in learning new sounds and getting used to hearing your voice speak another language. This system is very different and at first I wasn't too sure about it. After listening to the first few CDs I get the benefits and understand how helpful it is - Turkish is a rather difficult language to learn and each syllable is so important. This system actually teaches you the syllables backwards...they tell you the word and then they break it down into syllables starting from the end to build the word - genius! I makes you pay attention to each sound and learn to say each sound - which is vital to learning a new language, especially where a slight change in sound can be a completely different word! The narrator's voice is pleasant and the sound quality is superb. I have this on my iPod and listen as much as I can - the key is that you MUST be somewhere where you can repeat the words out loud...this is the only way to learn. IMO you have to get used to your mouth forming different sounds and how it sounds with your voice - this helps to build confidence to speak to another in this new language. The price is very good compared to other systems
Learning turkish May 13, 2008 These 5 CDs included in the package give the learners a good start. The materials are pretty easy to follow. There are many repeats in the CDs to allow the learners to practice. The learning experience has been pretty good. However, I feel that the speakers in the CDs speak too fast. They should also repeat at least once and break down the sentences into the smaller parts for students to catch up. Another improvement needed is that the speaking material is not printed. The students can only rely on their memory and CDs but nothing to visualize. There are also no number counting in the CDs - maybe it is in the advanced ones. Anyway, the CDs give good tutorial to the first time Turkish learners.
If only a booklet was included... April 12, 2008 Although it is a very good course I believe I would have learned twice as fast if a booklet was included. The pronunciation of the speakers is sometimes not very clear and being able to read some of the words would have made it much easier. This course is the best for a total beginner. Then one should proceed with the Linguaphone PDQ course which includes an attractive 64 page booklet plus 4 cds. The best book for grammar is Teach Yourself Turkish (those paragraphs discussing grammar in each unit).
Solid Purchase. Go with Pimsleur! January 24, 2008 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I went through a lot of reviews on language instruction courses and the consenses seemed to be that Pimsluer was a easy and solid way to learn a language. I bought the Basic Turkish because I didn't have more than a month before my departure. I was so pleased with how much I learned even after the 1st lesson. It's very straight forward, focuses on actually learning how to communicate through conversations, and the method is effective (especially if you use it everyday). I encourage using Pimsluer. The Basic was great, apparently the 16 lesson is the Basic plus 6 more lessons, and the package is worth getting if you're willing to put in the time.
Best introductory course March 27, 2007 4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I learned some Turkish a number of years ago but then had to do other things and didn't carry on. I recently started to study it again and bought the comprehensive course as soon as it came out to 'kick-start' my studies. I can only say that if it had been out when I learned the first time things would have been much easier and I wouldn't have had to relearn mispronunciations.
I like Pimsleur courses as a method for language learning. I don't know of any books that teach in such a way that one can easily use conversational phrases in a natural way. Maybe one or two obvious words in this course have too many repetitions and could usefully have been interspersed with others; we all know what 'dollar' means for example, but that's just a small point in a course that is excellent.
One piece of advice which I found, but isn't stressed enough in my opinion, is that although the lessons are 30 minutes each, it is best to allow more time to enable frequent use of the pause button. I don't think the gaps are long enough, but that is good: there's no point in paying for empty spaces in the CD. One learns best when given enough time to think of the correct answer, even if it takes a while at first, rather than having the recording play the answer while one is still working it out.
Pimsleur bring out the three levels, Basic, Conversational and Comprehensive so that one can choose between them. The two shorter courses are advertised as being part of the longer one. I think we should all email Amazon and ask them to stop advertising them as though they are three separate products.
Now, how do we persuade Simon & Schuster to bring out levels II and III??
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