Help me find out what my girlfriend was trying to say please!!! So I am german and my gf is turkish and she rearranged the words in a sentence so that I wouldn't understand what she said cuz she was too embarrassed haha

She said:nednesmuroyınalşoh

Merhaba, ben İngiliz türküm ve İngiltere'de yaşıyorum. Ben genelde elektronik kitaplar okuyorum benim android telefon yada tablet'le. Ben baktım google play'de, kobo'da ve kindle'da, ama Türkçe'de kitaplar bulamam. Siz nereden Türkçe elektronik kitaplar alabilirsin? Benim problemim yok kitaplar için odemek, sadece okumak istiyorum.

Herkese merhaba! 👋

Most of my Turkish learning until now has focused on reading only (I don’t know my level - but I started 6 months ago). I want to train the “generative” or “creative” part of my brain to find Turkish words more easily :)

So, I have decided to write about my day in Turkish. Please let me know if I have made any mistakes, or if anything sounds “unnatural”.

Of course, if you want to try the same for your English, please feel free to write to me and I will help you or correct any mistakes I find.

Çok teşekkür ederim!

My diary entry for today:

Bugün cok erken kalktim. Biraz hastaydim, bu yüzden kalktim. Benim en sevdiğim kafeye yürüdüm. Orada arkadaşlarim calışıyor. Onlar Türk. Vardığımda herkese “merhaba” dedim, ama sesim kaybettim.

Uç kahve içtim, ve kahvaltim için yumurta ekmeği yiyedim. Her zamanki gibi lezzetliydi.

Her zaman şaka yapmaya çalişirim, ama bugün sesimsiz oldukça zordir. Bir şey daha - benim için çok hızlı konuşuyorlar.

Sonra evime yürüdüm ve Türk dizileri ızleyordum. Daha dınlemem gerekıyor.

I was surprised to see so many people interested in learning turkish. Whats your reason? Just curious

I want to watch something with simple language that I am familiar with, but that I can hear Turkish and read in Turkish at the same time. Something like Shrek or Ice Age. Thanks for your help.

Hey everyone, I've been learning and using turkish for 3 years now, i can say im pretty comfortably above C2. Even though i talk turkish ALOT almost everyday, i still face these problems:

• i still sometimes mess up the suffixes especially if im talking quickly or saying something i never tried to explain or discuss before.

-i still can't properly understand people who dont talk properly, which isn't really my fault but it seems that native speakers understand them so i should too. -i stil have a very hard time understanding literary texts. i can read official, educational and casual turkish with nearly no problems but understanding novels is so hard.

In conclusion, how to keep improving once you get past the advanced level of turkish (or any language really) ?

Someone explain this in a easy way so that can be easily catchable.

Is there a PDF version of Dilmer's Yabancı Dilim Türkçe 2 available anywhere? I've just finished book 1 and it's a helpful additional resource alongside my actual coursebooks. However, I don't want to have to carry another book around so was looking for it electronically. TIA

Hi all, I’m a total beginner with Turkish but I’d love to put in the time and effort to learn it since it’s my boyfriend’s native tongue. He teaches me lots of slang and swears he loves, and I’d love to be able to surprise him with my improving understanding of the language!!

Any advice on where to potentially find tutors or people who are also interested in studying together? Having some sort of accountability measure could help me bunches, and I’d love having people to ask questions of and practice my skills with. Are there specific apps or subreddits to find any opportunities? Thank you!!

Merhaba everyone,

I am a turk born in a western country and 31 years old atm. When growing up I spoke some turkish with my parents and when becoming older I only started speaking other western languages with them. My spouse is also not turkish which leads to me almost never speaking turkish. My turkish is basically on the same level as maybe a 4 years old child.

I have a busy work family life and in my free times I play games and watch english series.

Is there a way to slowly but steadily increase my turkish grammar, vocabulary etc without putting too much effort? I am not expecting to be fluent within months but is there some basic stuff I can do which are very low effort but increase my turkish slowly? Thanks for reading

I could use some motivation from someone who has gotten pretty far with self study. How did you jump over hurdles and slow periods? What worked for you best?

Can someone explain to me what this grammar is? Like what do we call this tense and how do we make it?

For example:

Eğer İngilizce konuştuğunu bilseydim, seninle İngilizce konuşurdum

I pretty much developed my English by reading books (romance books) so I kinda want to do the same to learn Turkish and I am looking for a website that has that genre of books translated to Turkish.

When is the different variations of old such as eski and yaşlı? I’ve been learning on duo lingo, I think it’s useful but it often dosent provide context so was wondering what the context is for both :)

Merhaba!

I'm a native English speaker (and I also speak Romanian). I've been learning Turkish for a while but I really need to start speaking after avoiding it for so long!

I know a fair amount of grammar but I have absolutely no practice speaking.

So, does anyone need a language partner? I can help you with either English or Romanian :)

Hi guys it’s been a few years i am learning turkish but without anyone to practice with i feel i am not progressing at all, if anyone would like to practice sometimes to explain me some rules it would be very appreciate !

Hi everyone! For work I am translating a cooking show by a Turkish lady who lives in the Netherlands. So, the show is in Dutch, I have the English translation, and I need to translate it from English to my mother tongue (Italian) without knowing any Dutch or Turkish. I solely rely on the template created by the English translator. I know, I know... you'd be surprised to know this is how all of Netflix non-English content is localized!

So she talks mainly in Dutch but sometimes she says some Turkish phrases and words and explains them in Dutch. So far, the English translation seemed reliable, but now I'm having a hard time understanding this: Evde kalmadın.

She is making Turkish coffee and the says that in Turkey when a woman serves a foamy Turkish coffee people will say Evde kalmadın, and then she translates it to Dutch and the English translation is "You didn't stay at home". She then explains the meaning and the template translates her explanation like this: "It means that as a woman, you can make your husband a great cup of coffee, so you will take good care of him, you can take good care of him. It's a metaphor".

I'm struggling to understand how this metaphor works. Why would saying "You didn't stay at home" imply that she will take good care of her husband? Is it a mistranslation? Searching for the phrase online I found mostly "Just stay home", which seems the opposite meaning – and still it wouldn't make much sense.

Could anyone help me here with the correct English translation and the explanation of this metaphor? Thank you so much!

On an emlak website they have different style of places ,one listed as "Residence " and the other one is "daire". what is the difference?

Title is a little confusing, but it's difficult to explain as I've only started learning recently.
I was wondering if there is an online dictionary (or other tools) to look up and learn the different parts (suffixes, etc.) that make up Turkish words. Like picking the word apart and giving a translation for each suffix and word.
For example: explaining word "terbiyesizlik" (just an example I found on the internet) by taking it apart and giving a translation/explanation for each "terbiye" - "siz" - "lik"

I probably just explained something very basic in a complicated and weird way, but I hope you understand what I mean and I would really appreciate some help. If there is no dictionary or any similar tool, could you at least give me some tips to learn these agglutinative wordstructures easier?

Thanks in advance.

Honestly, I have always been fascinated by how many common words we have between Turkish and Mongolian. Although it has been centuries since Mongolic and Turkic tribes neighbored one another, I am happy to share with you :) Thank you