Colloquial Turkish : The Complete Course for Beginners
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2000
ISBN: 0415157463
Number of pages: 352

Format / Quality: PDF- zipped(from word)
Size: 1,52

I think that this Turkish textbook has been unfairly reviewed by-and-large. It is not your ordinary language text. The authors are trying something new. And the new thing they are trying is, in my opinion, a good thing -- heavily dialog-centered learning. Each chapter has several dialogs. After each dialog, there is a vocabulary list, an expository lump about the dialog and what it is trying to teach you, and then maybe a few exercises to nail things down. Finally, each lesson has a hard bit of dialog at the end to make you reach for it and then some stuff about Turkey. It's a clear, fresh, speaking-based approach. Kind of informal. I like that. I enjoy using this book. I have been studying Turkish steadily for about a year, at this time, and I learned a few things from the first lesson in this book. I don't have the audio -- CDs or cassettes -- so I can't speak to those. But the book is quite good and well worth your time and money.