Pimsleur Turkish Basic Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-10 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Turkish with Pimsleur Language Programs (1)

This is the first Pimsleur CDs that I try.Before studying Turksih using the Pimsleur, I tired Rosetta stone for one or two week for learning it. However Rosetta stone was not as good as I had expected. It seems hard for me to squeeze time to sit in font of computer, and moreover,frankly speaking, it wasn't interesting to learn it using Rosetta sone, because it is hard to measure your progress. Well let me expalin it in this way. In Rosetta stone, at the very first part, you will learn how to say(and read) boy, girl, jump and so on in Turkish. But, this is not something you might use when you go to Turky. It is more probable to say, for example, "hi", " how are you", "Thank you". "No, I don't want it", and so on.Disappointed by Rosetta stone, I stopped studying it for six months, and re-started it with Pimsleur. Now I'm just middle of Turkish I comprehensive CDs, and I'm happy with my progress I've achieved in such a short time. To me, it makes perfect sense to learn a lanuage,at least at the beginning, using only sound. And moreover, it is very convient to listen while commuting!I'm very satisfied, but at the same time, I started to worry about the next course after Pimlseur I. I contact via Email to Simon&Schuster to ask whether they have a plan for publishing CD 2 and 3. Disappointingly, they replied me that "no" due to the lack of demand.I thought, it would be helpful to leave my experience of Pimsleur in order to encourage someone hoping to learn Turkish to use Pimsleur, and eventually it would increase the demand and change the publisher's mind. Because I really don't know how to continue my Turkish learning after Level 1.Anyway, in a nutshell, it is good program, and only regrettable thing is there is not level 2 and 3.

We have the Pimsleur series for Spanish. We recommend it to everyone we meet. Now we are traveling to Turkey and picked up this set. The method works for us. We can remember basic phrases after just a few weeks. I remember listening to some of the phrases the first time and thinking I couldn't recognize everything. Just keep listening and talking. It is easy to pick out what they are saying now. I recommend moving on even if you don't get everything on a lesson. It gets you exposed to new things and you always have practice. Go back later to brush up on the early lessons.You won't have a big vocabulary with this, but you will be able to ask a few questions. It is a great starting point.I just wish they had a series on Bulgarian. We go there after Turkey.

As someone soon going to Turkey for the first time, I appreciated the chance to hear spoken Turkish and to get a sense of the sounds and rhythms of the language. However:1. Learn Turkish in 30 minutes a day strikes me as misleading. I know several other languages, but Turkish is not at all easy. I had to repeat most of the lessons two or three times to get the words in my head.2. I agree with others who say this course would be twice or three times as helpful with a written transcript of the lessons. (It would cost pennies--why not do it?) Not having a written record makes it much harder to memorize the sounds--an M" can sound like an N"--and to understand the logic of how longer words are built out of shorter ones.3. The course is also intent on teaching relatively complex sentences early on (Would you also like to have some coffee? let's eat something later at the restaurant, etc). I think many people would find it much more helpful to learn the basics of "survival Turkish" in the first few hours of the course, including counting to 5, the words for toilet, telephone, water, ticket, help, etc. I'm currently at the end of lesson 8--it's taken me several weeks to get this far--and have only just learned the word for please! There's not much point in learning how to formulate complete sentences as a beginner, given that you wouldn't be able to understand a native speaker's answer anyway. Survival fundamentals first please, more complex sentences later.

If you're a beginner learning Turkish, I think this program is very good to help you as you begin to listen to and produce speaking in the Turkish language. It's a big help for the one who is a little shy to just "go out and practice" speaking. For me, it gave me more confidence to not be so shy to use Turkish when I was out and about. It is a practical investment in my opinion.

Pimsleur's new Turkish program is very good. However, it comes in three sizes. 1) a basic program of 10 CD's. 2) a conversational program of 16 CD's. 3) A full program of 30 CDs.Each program, however, repeats the revious program. So, If you bought Conversational Turkish, you have a 10 CD repeat of Basic before you get to six CD's of new material. If you buy the full Turkish program, you get 16 CD's of repeat and 14 new ones.I found Basic and Conversational to have a good foundation of the basic language necessities to get by in Turkey.As for the method; I found it very good. You practice a new lesson for a half hour every day. You can review, if you need to or wish, but only one new lesson a day.Having worked at Turkish for several years, I have tried several programs. Pimsleur is quick, efficient and natural. A good program for the beginning student.However, if you are seriously interested in Turkish, buy the 30 disc program, "Pimsleur's Turkish." You save money in the long run and, really, the Basic and Conversational courses don't quite give you enough.So, for a Turkish learning program, I would give the lessons 5 stars, but, since this (Basic) and the following program (Conversational) are not quite enough, 4 stars.As a footnote, if you are a person with a busy schedule, I believe Pimsleur is the method for you.

Pimsleur Turkish is a great course, I’ve done it many times over the past few years and highly recommend it to any English speaker learning Turkish. I just wish Pimsleur would make a second and third level.

I don't know how this works. It's no better than being plunked into downtown Istanbul and told to start a conversation...in Turkish, which is like nothing I've ever heard before. Save your money.

Excelent

In vista del mio secondo viaggio in Turchia, ho voluto provare questo metodo per imparare almeno qualche rudimento della lingua turca.Il corso e' totalmente audio:non vedrete mai come e' scritto quello che vi fanno dire.Ogni frase viene ripetuta molte volte nella stessa e nelle successive lezioni, e se parlate ovviamente inglese, e' facile venir guidati alla comprensione di strutture sintattiche sempre piu' complicate ( naturalmente sempre nell'ambito di un corso di base).Per aver comprato il corso troppo poco tempo prima del viaggio ho ascoltato solo i primi 3 Cd su 5.Devo dire a posteriori che a qualcosa mi e' servito, se non altro a stupire i turchio che sapevo dire qualcosina,naturalmente specificando subito dopo che il mio turco finiva li'!Il pregio principale del metodo e' che la pronuncia e la velocita' di pronuncia delle frasi che sentite sono quelle realmente usate da un turco. questo rappresenta anche un difetto, perche' le parole in turco vengono legate assieme e fuse in una specie di marmellata, che via via che le cose si fanno piu' complicate, diviene inestricabile ( grazie anche all'ampio udo di suffissi che alterano il significato della frase). Inoltre per che come me ha un udito non perfetto,risulterebbe utile vedere anche scritte le parole e le frasi, perche' spesso confondevo una conconante con un'altra udendo gli speaker turchi.Comunque il tutto e' stato molto divertente : potete anche ascoltarlo in macchina mentre andate al lavoro e alla fine anche se userete ancora l'inglese, come ho detto, ai turchio faranno piacere i vostri sforzi per avvicinarsi anche in questo modo alla loro affascinante culura e alla loro bonomia cosi' piacevole.

Einfach nur kurz und knapp erklärt:AUCH EIN SEHR GUTES LERNMATERIAL!!!!!!Bin auch total begeistert von diesen CDs und der Lehrmethode/Qualität!Kann auch Turkish Conversational empfehlen!!!!

Pu skier Turkish is checked method to learn any language, so why do not give it a try and start today

Speedy delivery, excellent course.Thank you