Product Description

This stand-alone, all-audio course can be used by those who have little or no knowledge of the language, by those who want to learn or brush up basic conversation skills, and by more advanced learners who require extra audio material to complement their current courses.

The ten units or 'conversations' cover the situations you are most likely to find yourself in while on holiday or on business abroad. They are divided into two parts, with a dialogue in each part. The dialogue in Part 2 reuses the vocabulary and phrases from Part 1 in a slightly different context. Both parts start with an introduction to the words and phrases you'll need, followed by the dialogue. Finally it's 'Over to you': you take part in the same dialogues following the English prompts, playing all the roles in turn. So you get lots of opportunity to practise! Frequent track markers divide the CDs up into short, easy-to-use clips.

Vocabulary and phrases in the first two CDs are kept to the basics and are introduced gradually with lots of opportunity to repeat and practise, to improve your confidence in both speaking and understanding. The third CD concentrates on helping you improve your understanding, so that you will be able to hold two-way conversations with people who speak very fast or use words and phrases you do not know.

The course comes on three 75-minute CDs and has an accompanying 48-page booklet which gives the dialogues and the translations of the dialogues, for those who like to see the written word or want additional practice. The booklet also provides a basic glossary of the words and phrases used.

This is the perfect complement to 'Teach Yourself Turkish' and 'Teach Yourself Beginner's Turkish'.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53293 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-29
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Binding: Audio CD

Review
"I am a big fan of this series. Commercial packaging, simple concept and a competitive price make these well worth trying....One to watch." (The Bookseller )

About the Author

Sultan Erdogan is a qualified teacher and teacher-trainer in both English and Turkish as second languages, and holds a PhD in language studies from Warwick University.

Customer Reviews

Fills a definite gap in the market.
For anyone wanting to learn enough Turkish to impress (and get special treatment) as a tourist, this is superb. Having said that, it doesn't really stand alone if you want to really get to grips with the structure of the language; for that you'd also need the traditional "Teach Yourself Turkish" as well as this.

However, as anyone who's trying to learn the language will know, the main difficulty is not so much constructing a simple sentence to say, it's understanding the ANSWER that's the real problem, given the wholly alien word order and the plethora of ever-lengthening word endings.

This is where this item scores highly. The conversations are pretty much exclusively geared to areas of conversation which you might engage in on holiday, and the spoken Turkish starts off slowly before building up to a natural speed. The fairly small booklet contains a surprising amount of information, and most of the necessary explanations are given in the CD tracks between the conversations.

All in all, a very versatile package which can either be used by itself, or as a most useful corollary to more detailed studies.