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Turkish: Learn to Speak and Understand Turkish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Simon & Schuster's Pimsleur) | 
 enlarge | Author: Pimsleur
Publisher: Pimsleur
Category: Book
List Price: $345.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 942999
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 16
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 13.1 x 11.4 x 2
ISBN: 074353381X
Dewey Decimal Number: 494
EAN: 9780743533812
ASIN: 074353381X
Publication Date: December 12, 2006
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Product Description
Comprehensive Turkish includes 30 lessons of essential grammar and vocabulary -- 16 hours of real-life spoken practice sessions -- plus an introduction to reading.Upon completion of this Level I program, you will have functional spoken proficiency with the most-frequently-used vocabulary and grammatical structures. You will be able to: * initiate and maintain face-to-face conversations, * deal with every day situations -- ask for information, directions, and give basic information about yourself and family, * communicate basic information on informal topics and participate in casual conversations, * avoid basic cultural errors and handle minimum courtesy and travel requirements, * satisfy personal needs and limited social demands, * establish rapport with strangers in foreign countries, * begin reading and sounding out items with native-like pronunciation.
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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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